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Seriously Meatless: Tortilla Casserole
I've made a version of this for many years, because I love enchiladas but was too lazy to individually roll them. It was inspired by a dish at a mexican restaurant where I went to college. I usually sautee broccoli, green peppers, onions and garlic, with some chili powder and cumin, then add the black or pinto beans before layering. It's easy, fairly quick to put together and pretty good for you.
If You Smelled Like Any Food...
Rosemary, grapefruit, or basmati rice as it cooks. I don't know why someone doesn't make a perfume that smells like rosemary. And I've spent a small fortune on grapefruit scents. Some smell great, like the Jo Malone perfume, but none smell truly like grapefruit.
Summer reading and food: Anyone read these two or suggestions?
C. Trillin and J. Steingarten are my two fav food writers, though there are many books listed here that I also love. There are also many I haven't read, and I'm excited to have so many great suggestions.
I don't know if he only has one book, but the Alan Richman book that I have is called Fork It Over. I liked it alot.
Michael Pollan's writing literally changed my life. The Omnivore's Dilemna convinced me that it was time to start buying as much organic food as possible, even if it costs more. I'm the self proclaimed Cheapest Woman on Earth, so this was huge! Plus I think he's a great writer.
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I think this may depend on what food means to you and how you feel about cooking. I'm in the "food is love" camp and although I like cooking, I don't love it, but I do it bc I DO love my own cooking and feel better physically when I eat it most of the time, rather than eating out. Under those circumstances, if I'm cooking dinner at least 5 nights a week for someone who doesn't appreciate it, or confines me to blah meals that take some effort but don't taste that great, I'm going to become resentful, bc I'm either getting a negative response to my love offering (my food) or working pretty hard for a product I don't particularly like. But that's ME. That isn't you.
You're going to have to decide what his pickniness does to you emotionally, and how much positive energy you get from him in other areas. Also, if he were willing to hang out with me in the kitchen and help with meals or clean up, that would be a plus. And you can always get creative, I guess and find ways to cook for him and make sauces, chutneys, side dishes, etc. that you can add to your food to amp things up. So if everything else is good, it could be do-able. But if you're going to resent it every time he rejects your offering (and I'm not saying this judgmentally, I would have a hard time myself feeling otherwise) then your relationship will be stressed about every day of your life and you're going to need to really have good things going on in other areas of it.
I was married to a man who ate everything I made silently, and seldom said anything about it, positive or otherwise. My current husband (the keeper) still raves about my cooking after 12 years. It's just one more wonderful thing about him, and it sure helps to make up for the inevitable annoyances that come with a long term relationship!