FINALLY!! Someone with some sense posts in this thread... I, however, don't freaking know what the HELL is the matter with everyone else.. You're suppose to grow and learn to be a self sufficient adult.. how the hell do you excuse being unable to cook, short of a disability, no matter the sex??Role reversal?? To borrow from a post here.. What is this, the 70's? BOTH sexes should know how to cook. period.
My girl and i both know how to cook. We are both not amazing at it. but we can cook eatable food. So yes my girl can cook. Since we are both still students and very busy we both cook about the same amount per week, one day she cooks and the other i cook. I also think everybody should know how to cook.
I do 90% of the cooking at my house. I love to cook and I'm really good at it. I'd even venture to say I cook 70% of all the home cooked meals at my best friends house for his family. They call up, "hey wanna come over, let the kids play and eat dinner?, what do you want to cook?".
Mine is a good cook and she can bake really well also.. Her and I enjoy cooking together, but when I cook by myself I really like grilling/BBQing the best..
In my case, I did it by having "parents" who fed me. Over the last few years, I happen to live in locations where they have this advanced system of exchange called "Commerce" where I can earn "money" from a "job" and use the "money" to purchase edible items that's already cooked by someone else who do this as a "job."
Well, my girl says she can cook, but she hasn't shown me yet. The one date where there was cooking done, I did the cooking. Had her over for dinner a couple of weekends ago. I made poached salmon with a cucumber/dill sauce, steamed chilled asparagus with hollandaise sauce, and portabello mushroom risotto. She was very appreciative!
When I started dating my wife she could not cook, but now, she is not just a good cook but an outstanding one...and I have the girth to proove it. DD
My wife is a pretty good cook, IMO. However, she is usually pretty busy and I don't help by being very picky about what I eat. But she is getting used to that and doing a better job of fixing things that I would like to eat.
My man cooked for me Friday night...some of the best mexican I've ever had. One of these days I'm going to make a kick ass fancy meal for him. These usually take about a week of planning and preparation though...
My wife really can't cook but that doesn't really matter. I get home from work around 4'ish and she gets home around 5'ish. I'll be damned if I'm going to wait for her to come home and cook and then I have to eat late. I don't mind cooking either.
I've found that most 'modern' American (of any ethnicity) are losing the traditional 'woman' skills- cooking, cleaning, sewing, etc. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, but it's something that American men better stop expecting out of American women. The June Clever era is over. All of that said- my wife is a great cook. She can whip up a dish from just about anything. And she can sew too.
Regarding the "Asian thing" comment: my girlfriend is half Japanese. Her mom was born in Tokyo and married a Texas white guy; my girl was born and raised in Houston. While my GF is as American as you and me, culturally she is very much Japanese in terms of traditional this-that-and-the-other. She is by no means a push-over. She is very strong-willed and educated, and can even be downright intimidating at times if you don't know her. Its rather comfortable for me (and for her) in that those traditional roles are present. That said, I help out regularly in the kitchen: I basically ask "What do you need me to do?," she tells me, and I do it. I always do the dishes, clean up, etc. When we go out, I pay for everything and she cooks for me at her place. It all works out pretty evenly. And, of course, trash duty, killing bugs, and anything considered "icky" is my sole responsibility. To answer the original question, though: My girl can hella cook.
That's basically how and why my girlfriend learned to cook. Her mom is NOT impressed with how traditional roles in America have such a negative connotation.
