He Left His Wife To Cook Alone For Seven Hours For Their Dinner Party Just To Prove A Point, And Now She’s Furious At Him Because The Food Turned Out Terrible
This man’s wife works as a neurologist.
They’ve had an ongoing tradition with four of her work colleagues and their families where they all take turns hosting a dinner party once a month.
This month, it was his and his wife’s turn to host the dinner at their house.
His wife is a pretty terrible cook, but she claims otherwise.
So, he usually does the majority of the cooking when they eat at home.
Whenever his wife has tried cooking, she turns up the heat on the burners full blast, telling him that the food cooks quicker that way. She doesn’t think that it makes the food taste different, but he thinks it does.
On Friday night, he was prepping the vegetables, and he was planning to cook for about seven hours the following day.
While he was doing this, his wife entered the kitchen and immediately started telling him that he should be helping her take care of their children instead of prepping the food. She told him it was a waste of his time.
“I got annoyed. We’ve had this fight for years. If I cook something simple for the next four months, she will nag me for weeks after each dinner with her friends about how I embarrassed her. This time, I wasn’t in the mood for fighting, so I wrote out the entire menu with the schedule of when each dish had to be cooked,” he said.
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Included on the menu for the appetizers were bread made from scratch, four different dips (roasted bell pepper, cream and mushroom, sour cream and caramelized onions, and roasted eggplant), and two whole platters of cured meats and sausages.
“For the main course, there was lasagna and chicken skewers with an Indian marinate, with two salads (green salad and cabbage and carrots). For dessert, there was a New York cheesecake and a lemon tart with Swiss meringue,” he explained.
Since one of the husbands is lactose intolerant, he made sure to have two options available to accommodate him.
According to his wife, if they only provided one option, they would have appeared “cheap.”
After he finished jotting down the menu and cooking schedule, he called his parents and requested for them to pretend that they had an emergency.
“Two days ago, they called and said that a pipe burst and wanted my help. Since my wife is competent and can do everything by herself, I took the kids with me to fix the pipe and let her cook. I spent the day resting while pretending to fix the pipe, and my parents were playing with the kids,” he shared.
He and their children came home an hour and a half before the dinner so that they could all shower and be ready for the guests to arrive.
As he predicted, his wife didn’t do a great job cooking the meal. All of the food was raw, burnt to a crisp, or both.
He assumed that his wife’s work friends had to go to McDonald’s afterward because there were a ton of leftovers.
After the dinner party, his wife blamed him for leaving her to cook all by herself. She said it wasn’t fair since he’s the one who knows how to cook, and she isn’t good at it, which is much different than what she’s said in the past.
She said that this was all his fault, and while she doesn’t know that he made up a reason to leave the house for the day so that she was forced to do the cooking, he doesn’t think he’ll ever come clean.
Now, he’s not sure if he did the right thing because his goal had been to get his wife to realize that she isn’t a good cook and that she needs to be more appreciative of all the time and effort he puts into making meals.
But instead, she didn’t take any accountability and blamed him.
No matter what, he always feels like his wife thinks he’s the one at fault for all of their issues. Yet even when he allows her to do what she wants, somehow, she still finds a way to pin her mistakes on him.
What would you have done if you were in his shoes?
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