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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 18:01:27 GMT
Every week, we make a list of five or so dinners before I go shopping. My ideas are frequently shot down because they are not seasonally-appropriate. For instance, if I ask for meatloaf in the summer, my wife says, "Oh no, that is a winter dish." So in our household, I can only get kebobs, burgers, coneys, grilled fish, etc in the summer. Likewise, I can only get casseroles, chili/soups, pot pies, etc. in the winter. My wife's the chef, so it's her call, but it always seemed to me like you should eat whatever you're in the mood for. But not her. She's pretty rigid about when certain foods can and should be consumed. I kind of like that about her even though I disagree.
Do you experience this in your household?
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 7, 2018 19:34:38 GMT
Sort of. We live in WI so during winter we tend to have stuff we heat up vs summer cold stuff(a lot of salads, tomatoes are better at this time too). But occasionally we'll be in the mood for something opposite-like last weekend we made my mom's Sicilian potato salad. And at some point during the summer we'll make lasagna.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 21:03:42 GMT
Sort of. We live in WI so during winter we tend to have stuff we heat up vs summer cold stuff(a lot of salads, tomatoes are better at this time too). But occasionally we'll be in the mood for something opposite-like last weekend we made my mom's Sicilian potato salad). And at some point during the summer we'll make lasagna. My wife is Italian, and, while I realize Italian potato salad is supposed to be a light summer dish accompanying something akin to a grilled pork loin, I want that stuff year-round. I wonder what, if any, difference there is between Italian and Sicilian potato salad. |
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 7, 2018 22:41:19 GMT
Sort of. We live in WI so during winter we tend to have stuff we heat up vs summer cold stuff(a lot of salads, tomatoes are better at this time too). But occasionally we'll be in the mood for something opposite-like last weekend we made my mom's Sicilian potato salad). And at some point during the summer we'll make lasagna. My wife is Italian, and, while I realize Italian potato salad is supposed to be a light summer dish accompanying something akin to a grilled pork loin, I want that stuff year-round. I wonder what, if any, difference there is between Italian and Sicilian potato salad. The person making it  My mom made it 3 different ways depending on the season. One way had a little mayo in it. The other two ways used a good red wine vinegar & one of the better olive oils. They all had green olives(not pimento) and sundried tomatoes. I add more sundried tomatoes, because I love them. And red onion, & sweet Vidalia onion. Sometimes the olives are hard to get if we can't get down to Glorioso's. So you can replace with your favorite olive. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 22:46:46 GMT
My wife is Italian, and, while I realize Italian potato salad is supposed to be a light summer dish accompanying something akin to a grilled pork loin, I want that stuff year-round. I wonder what, if any, difference there is between Italian and Sicilian potato salad. The person making it My mom made it 3 different ways depending on the season. One way had a little mayo in it. The other two ways used a good red wine vinegar & one of the better olive oils. They all had green olives(not pimento) and sundried tomatoes. I add more sundried tomatoes, because I love them. And red onion, & sweet Vidalia onion. Sometimes the olives are hard to get if we can't get down to Glorioso's. So you can replace with your favorite olive. Ah, my wife's is different. I think it uses garlic, vinegar, oil and parsley. No onions, tomatoes or olives are included. |
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Post by NJtoTX on Feb 8, 2018 14:34:45 GMT
Only if I'm particularly hot or cold.
I don't understand inflexible people like that, especially when they decide for others. You should at least demand something off season for your birthday,
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Post by Terrapin Station on Feb 8, 2018 14:48:33 GMT
Every week, we make a list of five or so dinners before I go shopping. My ideas are frequently shot down because they are not seasonally-appropriate. For instance, if I ask for meatloaf in the summer, my wife says, "Oh no, that is a winter dish." So in our household, I can only get kebobs, burgers, coneys, grilled fish, etc in the summer. Likewise, I can only get casseroles, chili/soups, pot pies, etc. in the winter. My wife's the chef, so it's her call, but it always seemed to me like you should eat whatever you're in the mood for. But not her. She's pretty rigid about when certain foods can and should be consumed. I kind of like that about her even though I disagree. Do you experience this in your household? If she were my wife, we'd often not be eating the same thing . . . which is the case as things are. My wife and I often do not eat the same thing. And that even includes that we'll get take-out from two different places. At any rate, neither of our menus are at all seasonal. The one thing my wife is sometimes weird about is that her gut reaction is to not eat the same type of food at lunch and dinner, or even two days in a row for dinner. For example, say that we had tuna for lunch. I might suggest salmon for dinner, and she'll initially balk at that, because she had fish for lunch. Or if I ate pizza for dinner the day before, and I say that I'll just have pizza tonight, she'll say, "But you had pizza yesterday." My response is always, "You know that doesn't matter to me. I'd eat pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day of my life if I could." (Pizza is probably my favorite food . . . she rarely eats it, because one of the reasons our menus are often different is that she has problems with any food that's even slightly acidic.) |
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Post by Terrapin Station on Feb 8, 2018 14:51:53 GMT
I usually drink an iced coffee every day, and at home, I get it from the same Dunkin Donuts every day. Sometimes someone working there will say something to the effect of "You're drinking iced coffee today?!?!"--because it's 17 degrees outside or whatever. I always tell them, "It's not like I have no heat at home. It's 72 degrees where I'm going to be drinking it." If I were going to drink it outside, yeah, maybe I wouldn't want iced coffee when it's 17 degrees, but I'm not drinking it outside.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Feb 8, 2018 14:57:01 GMT
Ah--that's one thing I overlooked. There's some stuff we don't tend to make in the summer . . . primarily stuff that has to be in the oven for awhile. That's because our air conditioning kind of sucks--no central A/C, and the window units aren't that great, plus we're on the top floor (heat rises, so we get a heat effect from the rest of the building, including that there's a restaurant on the bottom floor (with a kitchen creating heat all day long), and then we've got the tar roof right over our head, etc.), so if it's 80+ outside, we avoid using the oven, and sometimes we even avoid using the stove if it's really hot outside.
We don't do that because we don't want to eat those other foods in the summer, though. It's just a practical matter.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 15:31:51 GMT
Every week, we make a list of five or so dinners before I go shopping. My ideas are frequently shot down because they are not seasonally-appropriate. For instance, if I ask for meatloaf in the summer, my wife says, "Oh no, that is a winter dish." So in our household, I can only get kebobs, burgers, coneys, grilled fish, etc in the summer. Likewise, I can only get casseroles, chili/soups, pot pies, etc. in the winter. My wife's the chef, so it's her call, but it always seemed to me like you should eat whatever you're in the mood for. But not her. She's pretty rigid about when certain foods can and should be consumed. I kind of like that about her even though I disagree. Do you experience this in your household? If she were my wife, we'd often not be eating the same thing . . . which is the case as things are. My wife and I often do not eat the same thing. And that even includes that we'll get take-out from two different places. At any rate, neither of our menus are at all seasonal. The one thing my wife is sometimes weird about is that her gut reaction is to not eat the same type of food at lunch and dinner, or even two days in a row for dinner. For example, say that we had tuna for lunch. I might suggest salmon for dinner, and she'll initially balk at that, because she had fish for lunch. Or if I ate pizza for dinner the day before, and I say that I'll just have pizza tonight, she'll say, "But you had pizza yesterday." My response is always, "You know that doesn't matter to me. I'd eat pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day of my life if I could." (Pizza is probably my favorite food . . . she rarely eats it, because one of the reasons our menus are often different is that she has problems with any food that's even slightly acidic.) If she were your wife, you might. She's a really good cook. At any rate, I'm not even a lousy cook. I'm no cook at all. So I'm just happy to have good, home-cooked meals, regardless of what the content is. I'm probably more like your wife. While I'll eat the same meal two or three times in a row because of the conservative economic part of my brain that doesn't like to waste money, when all things are equal, I will say no to pizza (which is one of my favorite foods) for dinner if I had any kind of Italian for lunch. When we concept food items for the week's menu, I try to make sure there's one beef, one chicken, one pork, one fish, etc. and that there's one Italian, one Mexican, one Asian dish, etc. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 20:29:55 GMT
Only if I'm particularly hot or cold. I don't understand inflexible people like that, especially when they decide for others. You should at least demand something off season for your birthday, I like it about her because it is distinctly different from me. The longer I live with her, the less "annoying" I find our differences and the more "cute" I find them. She'll make me anything I want for my birthday. It fits right in with her personal philosophy, which is steeped in tradition and having a time and place for everything. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 20:32:23 GMT
I usually drink an iced coffee every day, and at home, I get it from the same Dunkin Donuts every day. Sometimes someone working there will say something to the effect of "You're drinking iced coffee today?!?!"--because it's 17 degrees outside or whatever. I always tell them, "It's not like I have no heat at home. It's 72 degrees where I'm going to be drinking it." If I were going to drink it outside, yeah, maybe I wouldn't want iced coffee when it's 17 degrees, but I'm not drinking it outside. Yeah, that's how I am. If I'm not leaving the house, what difference does it make if I go shirtless in the winter or wear a jacket in the summer? The temp inside is always around 70, so who cares? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 20:37:22 GMT
Ah--that's one thing I overlooked. There's some stuff we don't tend to make in the summer . . . primarily stuff that has to be in the oven for awhile. That's because our air conditioning kind of sucks--no central A/C, and the window units aren't that great, plus we're on the top floor (heat rises, so we get a heat effect from the rest of the building, including that there's a restaurant on the bottom floor (with a kitchen creating heat all day long), and then we've got the tar roof right over our head, etc.), so if it's 80+ outside, we avoid using the oven, and sometimes we even avoid using the stove if it's really hot outside. We don't do that because we don't want to eat those other foods in the summer, though. It's just a practical matter. I think this is actually precisely where my wife's traditions come from. She does not want to "heat the house up" with the stove because she revisits memories of growing up in a house with no AC and how that was a problem. We have central air in our house, but traditions die hard. Similarly, she only wants to use the stove in the winter because the house she grew up in kept the thermostat down in the winter and relied on wood-burning stoves for local heat. Regardless of the reasons, I still like her ideas even if it wasn't what I would do. If I had wanted to do what I want to do all the time, I wouldn't have gotten married. |
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Post by NJtoTX on Feb 8, 2018 20:37:35 GMT
Only if I'm particularly hot or cold. I don't understand inflexible people like that, especially when they decide for others. You should at least demand something off season for your birthday, I like it about her because it is distinctly different from me. The longer I live with her, the less "annoying" I find our differences and the more "cute" I find them. She'll make me anything I want for my birthday. It fits right in with her personal philosophy, which is steeped in tradition and having a time and place for everything. That's actually great. A lot of marriages travel the reverse path. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 20:39:53 GMT
I like it about her because it is distinctly different from me. The longer I live with her, the less "annoying" I find our differences and the more "cute" I find them. She'll make me anything I want for my birthday. It fits right in with her personal philosophy, which is steeped in tradition and having a time and place for everything. That's actually great. A lot of marriages travel the reverse path. I had that exact thought once I reread my post and said a silent prayer of thankfulness. |
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Post by divtal on Feb 8, 2018 21:50:01 GMT
Not really. There are only a couple of seasonal limits on my menu, and they're dictated by Mother Nature and/or "California Fish-and-Game." - The best "globe" artichokes are coming into season, now, and will be widely available for about 3 months. For some reason, they are not among the produce items that are shared/shipped between hemispheres. - The Dungeness crab-fishing season is set by the state, although economics, and Mother Nature, have combined to make it a "bust" this year.  I live in temperate weather conditions, so "heating" the kitchen ... or avoiding it ... isn't a factor. There are some considerations that come into play, by the calendar. In the northern hemisphere, we're about to see the spring veggies. And, there are the summer fruits, and hearty fall squashes. Those are all beautiful to see - and, available at the best prices - in peak season. But, on the whole, my dishes remain pretty constant, throughout the year. |
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Post by goz on Feb 10, 2018 22:56:43 GMT
Our menu is not particularly seasonal except that I obviously prefer to buy what is fresh seasonal and cheap. Having said that, because I live in a temperate climate and a semi-tropical micro climate where the seasons are not very pronounced, AND I live in a huge country that has every climate at some time of the year, I can purchase most foods year round.
We DO eat more salads and have endless BBQ's ( the grilling kind not the US kind) when the dayas are longer and hotter, and stews and roasts when the days are a bit shorter and cooler.
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Post by johnblutarsky on Feb 11, 2018 1:14:02 GMT
Life is far too short not to eat what your hungry for. Compromise, since there’s (at least) two of you eating......but compromise, IMO.
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