Kitchen Meets Culinary Clutz

 SouthShoreMan would annoy me to death when I'd rush through the kitchen prepping dinner, while he stood around the kitchen entertaining our guests boasting about how good of a cook he was! *Grr* (See above? Yeaaa... that's me looking annoyed at him.) 

Ok so on New Year's Day, SouthShoreMan and I sat down in the living room discussing our plans for 2011. I griped about how I've been so busy running the kids and myself around for appointments, sports and clubs that I barely have time to get dinner on the table before 6:30 p.m. He griped about how the pile of clean laundry just keeps growing and agreed that dinner is almost always late. *Blah* (He wasn't supposed to agree with me!!)

I shot back reminding him of his promise to help around the house if I went back to work full-time when we reintegrated our kids back into the public school system after 4-years of homeschooling. (Hellooooo in there!! My ship is sinking with my huge work load!! Do I have to make it anymore obvious??) "Oh...yeah...", says he.

So where was I when I started praising "Men Chefs"? Oh yeah, that's right, my husband is an Electronics Engineer, not a Chef! I need to take baby steps to learn him the ways of a Culinary Expert! First-things-first... "This room is called a Kitchen..."

Believe it or not it didn't take long for SouthShoreMan to learn his way around the kitchen. I thought it would take much longer to train him but that was just poor judgment on my part. 

He takes on a good bulk of our dinner prepping these days.  I'm very impressed and relieved that a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders! Tomorrow SouthShoreMan will be taking on the huge task of cooking enchiladas for dinner (They have already been prepped and placed in the refrigerator.) because it's physical therapy day for KtBug. 

I guess we will see how dinner turns out tomorrow. All he will need to do is pour the enchilada sauce over the stuffed tortillas and sprinkle with shredded cheese. We make a great team!  His Tacos, Lumpia, Fusilli Bake, and Chili were fantastic, by the way! (yes, I'm boasting!)

My Ohio Country Boy is not only "Mr. Engineer Man", but he's an awesome husband, father, and definitely can now boast at being a good cook. Like I said before, "The best chefs in the world are men!"

p.s. The mountain of clean laundry has disappeared and I've been very good at remembering to put the laundry away as it comes out of the dryer! *pats self on back* 

CLICK HERE for our Enchilada Recipe!

I hope everyone has a FantaBulous Week!!!