Tonight Is National Men Make Dinner Night
"Rule #3: Man, completely unaided, chooses a 'published' recipe from any source, or Internet. Getting the recipe from 'her' cookbooks is allowed, but man gets bonus points if the recipe isn't already somewhere in the house." May we suggest the Serious Eats Recipes archive? [menmakedinnerday.com]
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22 Comments:
It's so nice to have a man around the house! (I would guess)
SavtaShayna at 1:05PM on 11/06/08
My man frequently makes dinner and even packs some for my lunch the next day. He's the best!
papas fritas at 1:06PM on 11/06/08
Dang. I read it as National Make Dinner for Men Night.
Raphael at 1:12PM on 11/06/08
I make dinner every night so, is this women hight for me?
nhfoodie at 1:13PM on 11/06/08
Um, is this, like, 1960 or something?
Fillippelli the Cook at 1:14PM on 11/06/08
So what happens if I cook the meals everyday?
jpolk at 1:25PM on 11/06/08
Nah, don't need this one. My hubster makes dinner, or we make it together, most every night.
But when is National Teenagers Make Dinner Night? Heck, I'd even settle for National Teenagers Do the Dishes and Take Out the Garbage without Complaining Night.
Dee at 1:55PM on 11/06/08
no thanks, I don't think I'd eat anything my husband attempted to make.
*cough*Italian mother-in-law never taught her sons to cook*cough*
Southern_bella at 2:10PM on 11/06/08
@Fillippelli: Yeah. I know. I think this is aimed at 1950s dudes. And, heck, even my own parents, who are more '50s/early-'60s than late-'60s, even with them, my dad makes dinner on occasion.
@papas fritas: Yeah. I think I made dinner the other night the GF was over and then sent her packing to work with leftovers.
Adam Kuban at 2:16PM on 11/06/08
Damn! Husband is out of town.
dhorst at 2:23PM on 11/06/08
Dee--you said it, sister. I'd tell my husband he has to make dinner tonight, but he just spent two days baking his little heart out to provide goods for the election day bake sale at our son's woefully underfunded public school in Berkeley. (It costs $1,000 to rent a bus just so the little rugrats can take a field trip.) So after a few days of chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin pie scones, cherry scones, coconut marshmallows, etc., I'm gonna cut him some slack.
maered at 2:35PM on 11/06/08
My partner makes dinner at least 2/3 of the time. Does he get the night off tonight? (Also, doesn't this just perpetuate the idea that men aren't generally expected to know how to cook for themselves? I don't know about the rest of you, but I considered lack of willingness to cook to be a giant dealbreaker in a man.)
serpentine at 2:37PM on 11/06/08
Haha - my husband never, ever makes dinner ... luckily, I love to cook for him! He would probably panic if I asked him to make dinner. :)
mrsbao at 3:13PM on 11/06/08
Guess I divorced too soon? My daughters tell me my ex buys a rotisserie chicken every day he isn't taking a date out for dinner. We ate out a couple of times a year!
PerkyMac at 4:06PM on 11/06/08
I'm in the "I cook most to every night crowd". I'm cooking tonight actually - comfort sort of thing - my lovely wife is more than a bit under the weather.
renoles at 5:14PM on 11/06/08
Why is this so small and not under a bigger headline? I barely saw it. Good try Adam!
JerzeeTomato at 5:21PM on 11/06/08
@Jerzee: You saw right through me! Tonight is my league bowling night. It's post-season finals tonight. I didn't want the GF, aka "Girl Slice" to see this post! Heh. Not that she doesn't get dinner on other nights ... ;)
Adam Kuban at 6:12PM on 11/06/08
I cook 80% of the dinners we eat as a family already. I applaud the sentiment (its pitiful if one spouse NEVER makes dinner) but it's pretty out of touch.
steveray at 7:29PM on 11/06/08
My husband has never cooked dinner in his life, other than to grill meat or fish I have already prepared. He likes my cooking so well, he has no interest in learning how. He is happy to wash the dishes as I cook. I am totally and completely fine with this.
buffy at 1:36AM on 11/07/08
I'm not sure if my wife knows how to cook.... oh wait, there was the one time she poured cream of mushroom soup over chicken breasts and baked them until ... well, bless her heart..... until we had to go out for dinner. Yep, I'd say tonight will be another national man make the dinner night.
Pavlov at 11:11AM on 11/07/08
I called my boyfriend [a butcher] at work yesterday afternoon, informing him of the holiday. "Awesome!", he said - "BLATs and jalapeno chips?!"
It was very good, indeed. He's good with meat.
sakuraa at 5:17PM on 11/07/08
Heh... that's coincidence; my boyfriend decided early today to make a pizza (recipe courtesy of 'Cook's Illustrated'), and has had it in the works since this morning. True, we're not in the US, but I'm American!
mongoose at 1:55PM on 11/08/08