Do you have a favorite meal you don't get to prepare often because your SO doesn't like it?

My husband does…bean soup. He just made it a couple of days ago, but it was probably 6 months since he’d last made it. He loves it, but I am not a fan.

Duck with orange sauce. I’m the only one who eats it so I lose the motivation to cook it.

It’s not so much a meal as certain ingredients—I like spicy stuff, I would like to use turnips, parsnips, fennel, mushrooms and a bunch of other things that my wife or children don’t like. I make a dish with tuna and cheese and mushrooms that I can’t make any more.

Steamed clams or mussels are a favorite of mine. I have them now and then, but not usually with my SO.

I don’t eat sweet potatoes, and my wife doesn’t eat creamed corn.

We have them both once a year…on Thanksgiving Day.

Turduken, not because no one likes it, but because it takes so dang long to prepare it correctly. My girlfriend is allergic to peanuts, so I don’t eat peanut butter anymore.

Shepherds Pie with peas and carrots (although to my mind, if it doesn’t have these, it is not Shepherds Pie).

Aw – just get rid of the guy. That’ll solve the problem. :-P

I love making Chinese food at home, but neither my hubby nor my kids really like Chinese.

Tuna noodle casserole! Yumm. But I haven’t had it in years :(

Yep. Fish and anything with veggies.

He also doesn’t like Chinese takeout. Freak of nature.

@janbb What if the guy is the one doing the cooking?

@WestRiverrat Sadly, then you don’t get to eat all his good cooking any more.

Poultry. I love chicken and turkey, but my wife doesn’t eat it. This is why I usually order chicken if I eat out.

Also, bar-b-cue. My wife doesn’t like this either. Also a favorite if I eat out.

Anything with shellfish. My husband won’t eat it. So what do I have at restaurants? Oysters, shrimp, lobster, scallops, calamari!!! Yumm!!! If he goes on a business trip I cook it at home for myself.

HA! You’ve hit on the very reason I don’t have an SO. ;-)

@janbb The only reason why I wouldn’t mind being single. I can eat whatever I want! ;)

I make a bbq chicken my wife hates, and my kids love.
I made it about once a week, but now that the kids are gone, I don’t get to any more.

This thread is funny…it makes me think of something my friend Lucy said when she was a newlywed. She told me that her attitude with cooking was “Eat it or wear it!!!”

@jonsblond Yeah – I actually eat what I want and have lost weight and kept it off.

There isn’t really anything I can think of. She is a vegetarian and I’m not, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to cook myself up a nice steak or some other meat.

Anything with cheese. No matter what kind or how delicious, he’s not a fan.

He’s an AMAZING cook, though. Totally makes up for it.

Since there is only two of us it isn’t often that it is inconvenient to cook us both something we like. I don’t really eat nuts anymore because my SO is allergic.

@Haleth I feel so sad for you….no cheese, for me there is no life without cheese. But like you said at least he is a good cook.

Tons. My husband is the most finicky person I know, I find it hard to manage to keep or prepare foods that I like very often, because he won’t touch most of it.

Takeaway, any fucking takeaway…the wife’s favourite cooking ingredient is napalm, bless!

My husband is not a fan of meatloaf, so I don’t make it. Or at least not often. I also let him make the marinara because his is excellent and I know he wouldn’t like mine.

@Earthgirl GA! I have a friend who has a sticker on her refrigerator that says:

Todays Menu – Take it or Leave it.

@rojo That’s good too, slightly less aggressive , but then, Lucy was a feisty little redhead and I am not sure she was just joking,lol. At any rate, she wasn’t into subtlety!

In the movie Today’s Special the chef puts a sign in the window saying “Todays Special: TRUST ME!”