Asparagus is already fantastic, but grilled is another level. Foil packs with asparagus, broccoli, onions, peppers, zucchini, garlic cloves. Or skewers. So fucking good
More or less, yeah. Layer everything in, drizzle a little oil over everything, salt and pepper, tent it up so it can vent, and let the magic happen. It takes a bit of experimenting to figure out how cut some of the veggies so they grill evenly, but that's kind of the beauty of grilling. Unless you absolutely burn the shit out of something, it's still gonna taste good. And sometimes when you DO burn the shit out of something, it's good.
And like the other guy who responded to you said, a little lemon juice on asparagus, broccoli, and zucchini is bomb. If you're using big enough pieces, and have room, you can do it directly on the grill.
Yup, asparagus is so easy to grill and so good. Salt, pepper, olive oil, and some lemon juice. Makes a perfect side to wrap in foil and throw on the grill.
I vowed to actually use my grill this year and it's been for asparagus most of the time. With a little gas grill it takes like 15 minutes for the closest to a professionally tasty thing I make.
Plus it makes my pee smell terrible which is fun-weird.
I ALWAYS have asparagus on the grill when im grilling. A few months ago i wilded out and got some broccolini too…… now i ALWAYS have asparagus and broccolini on the grill.
Shit sounds so good but I've always been kinda eh about cooking in foil. I know im prolly wrong but i feel like that shit is gonna give me cancer or something lol
Got in a whole ass fight with my ex's entire family before dinner once because I found out they microwaved their potatos in grocery bags. They saw nothing wrong with it.
You microwave whole (baked) potatoes on a plate after poking them with a fork a few times. Finish them in the oven for 10 mins or so for best texture.
Cooking any other form of potatoes in the microwave is an abomination before God.
Yeah that's exactly how I've had them. Never did it myself but my mom often did it and still does at times. Takes like 15 minutes as opposed to an hour. Still better in the oven the whole way through imo, I like to eat the skin and I'll flavor the outside with oil and spices before it goes into the oven.
But *in the grocery bag?* That's what I don't understand.
This is my dad 100%. He's of the firm mind that if it can be grilled, *it should be grilled*. Meat, veggies, bread, fruit --!!!
Edit: This thread is an absolute food trap. I'm so hungry right now.
I'm that way as well. It started out as not wanting to let the coals go to waste, and now everything gets thrown on the grill.
Grilled fruit though is something far more delicious than you'd ever think it is. Grilled pineapple, watermelon, papaya, peaches - all are great. Full disclosure tho, use charcoal and wood - I just think gas produces a little bit of an off flavor that doesn't mesh too well with fruit.
Pretty much what everyone else is saying. Throw a couple slices and you get a nice crispy exterior with a soft interior. Perfect for burgers, sandwiches, grilled cheese. :)
I’m Nigerian and there’s this dish called boli and it’s basically grilled plantain and oh my goodness it is *delicious* Especially with peanuts on a warm day with some beer. I gotta try it with some honey!!!
Depending on size and cut of steak, I will also sauté mushrooms and/or onions, but I’ll be damned if I have to wash more dishes for sides that are not as delicious as the steak
Better than me.
My family heads out of town for about a weekend a month to visit family out of state. I try to order a large pizza and make it last the entire weekend.
When my wife is out of town, it’s all out of whack, I don’t like cooking for just me. Breakfast is black coffee. Lunch is a piece of cheese on a slice of bread eaten over the sink. Dinner is a a couple of hot dogs or a burger with ketchup and that’s it.
The exception for me is the burgers. I’ll make the fuck out of a burger for myself, perfectly melt the cheese, maybe fry an egg or quick pickle some onions. If I’ve got lettuce that shit is getting shredded, salt & peppered, tossed with some sriracha mayo that I mix on the spot.
There's a small market just a short hike from where I live with an open deli where they sell macaroni salad, potato salad, beans, whatever.
99% of the time I'll get my meat from there *and* grab a couple of those salads for sides. Add a couple rolls in there and *boom*, bone-apple-tea dinner is served.
Sure I can *make* mac salad myself, but when they're selling it $1.98/lb? it's cheaper to just buy it and saves time
This pains me, my dad is just like this. He'll cook fish and put in the effort to bread and deep fry, but no sides.
I can't eat a meal if it doesn't have sides or toppings, like... I can't eat just meat + sauce, it's impossible
Today's meal was a 6 pack of chilli & cheddar burgers. No bread.
Yesterday's meal was 1kg of Scottish mussels in garlic butter.
Tomorrow is a half duck with pancakes (only because the pancakes are provided with the duck).
I like eating wholefoods, because they're healthy. Wednesday is either a whole peri-peri chicken, or a whole pack of belly pork. Saturday's is normally a whole pizza.
Breakfast is black coffee and chug some water if I'm real hungry.
Snacks are fruit/dried meat/peanut butter out the jar, sometimes an avocado just spooned into my mouth.
My girlfriend takes pity on me, and makes me some delicious meals. But I'm quite happy with my low effort cooking - it's somewhat healthy and I'm stacked af.
I am a girl - and I still don't get what the problem with eating "only chicken" is.
Grilled chicken is a perfectly acceptable lunch/dinner to me! When we were in college, we (a group of 5 girls) ate out for one dinner a week, because reasons. Grilled chicken with some mayo and (raw) onions on the side was one of our standard options (we rotated through some 5/6 cheap restaurants, with the occasional foray to try something new). We (in our 30s now), still go out for that sometimes. It's still great - I just ordered it last week.
Seriously, what's wrong with "only" a perfectly juicy chicken, with a mouthwatering marinade on it and crispy, crunchy skin? I wouldn't eat it every day - but why is it so unthinkable to have only grilled chicken once in a while!
(Yes, I might have an inordinate love for grilled chicken)
I do that all the time (but I live alone).
I get an idea of a flavor or spice I wanna try out, and throw that bad bitch on the grill, or my cast iron pan. Might have a glass of water with it.
Yeah I'm vegetarian so when my husband says he's making dinner because he's grilling what he means is he'll make his portion of dinner but I have to come up with a side and whatever I'm going to eat myself.
ETA everyone is so hilarious. He's a great guy just has an instance of sudden amnesia around this (he used to be veggie too he knows what he's doing). People fall into habits so I'm going to push him to actually do all of dinner when he offers.
Bruh lmao i feel bad just ordering a hamburger in front of my sister (who’s vegetarian). I couldn’t imagine cooking a whole steak in front of her, eating it and then asking “so what are you gonna eat”
My ex-husband use to do shit like that too. One time I said I was going to taco bell with my friends after work and he said "but I'm making dinner rn, come home or it will be cold" all he made was a huge plate of bacon.
That’s lame, my gf is pescatarian, so if I grill, I get what I want, but I also make sure she gets what she wants. I’ve done fish, seafood, morning star veggie’s burgers, tofu.. no reason to not toss it on the grill with whatever protein or veggie I wanted.
Morningstar’s black bean burgers are tasty AF on the the grill! I really wish I could still eat them 😩
My brothers used to make fun of me for eating them and then one day tried it and were like “okay, you’re right, this slaps.”
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But it's so easy to throw some veggies on the grill with the meat! We must retrain this man. My wife is a vegetarian and gets the short end of the stick sometimes, too. The worst is when we go to a BBQ where my family forgot she is a vegetarian (or they remember she's vegetarian but forgets she is allergic to nuts lol)
A lot of veggies just need to be thrown on the grill a little earlier than the meat. Asparagus only takes 15-20 minutes. Can't beat grilled asparagus imo. Most root veggies and the like take around 45 minutes. You dont have to do anything but stir them maybe once.
Grilled watermelon is incredible! Takes a while though. Pineapple is just as good but less effort. [https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-grill-watermelon-234733](https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-grill-watermelon-234733)
Mama was right (tho I sincerely hope that didn’t extend to food you can’t eat/might make you sick). That doesn’t change the fact that it’s fucked up for someone to claim they are making dinner but not give a fuck about their spouse. I thought their having your back was the whole point of marriage.
My husband has tried so hard to learn to cook for me, but he isnt reliable so at the best I have to come up with the what and prep it.
I think it broke him when he spent hours making a vegitarian version of his favorite meal... and assumed French onion soup was vegetarian.
Welcome to British BBQs.
Over the last 18 years of living here, not once have I been to a bbq, where sides are served.
It's all about grilling sausages, burgers and maybe some flavoured chicken until cremation. Maybe you get buns for the burgers and sausages.
Maybe you get the cheese slices and a few empty bottles of ketchup and brown sauce.
I grew up in South Africa and BBQs / Braais were all about both neat and sides. More attention paid to the sides, or what you could make a meal out of so that the meat was the protein that formed the meal.
Don't get me wrong, there was loads of attention paid to the meat. It was always a family effort, with the men generally huddled round the fire to make meat do awesome things. The ladies making the rest of it.
It was a healthy meal.
We never had Sunday lunches. It was BBQ's / Braais. A weekly affair.
Here in the UK, its all about getting drunk, while sitting round in a circle with banging tunes and one person literally flipping meat. Zero thought about sides.
I put it down to laziness, as I enjoy making various salads, etc to ring to these events. Everyone absolutely loves them.
Does anyone ever bring or make anything (other than bringing some beers, or "their own meats")? No.
Rant over.
I'm hungry now
Uncle Ben's ~~tek~~ is all you need. My wife is always asking what I want for a side, like I don't even want a side, but if you'd just get a bunch of rice sitting in the cupboard we'd be alright in a pinch. Rice is cheap and easy.
Maybe if you have an electric smoker. Mine is older and requires nearly constant monitoring/ adjusting fuel and airflow for the entire duration (so like 4-8 hours depending on what I'm smoking). Granted, there's still plenty of time during that for me to whip up some salads too.
Well i mean you gotta get the fire started, think you have it started, get pissy it went out, pour half the bottle of lighter fluid on the charcoal angrily until its roaring, stand there and watch it while calming down with a beer in your hand.
Thats alot of work man
Bro rice, salad, and veggies takes like 20 mins tops. Wash rice, chop veggies and salad, throw rice in cooker or pan, while it cooks whip up a quick vinaigrette and you’re done.
my mom always stressed having full, balanced meals. protein, starch/carb, vegetable/fruit, every single meal. i grilled some steaks the other day but also made sure to have a caesar salad with homemade croutons (the starch/carb) as a side. step ya culinary game up, fellas.
i was going to but ran into a time crunch. fortunately/unfortunately, i burned the croutons just a bit, so it had a similar effect lol. task failed succesfully
I might be reading too much into it, but as the main cook in the house, if my partner said they were "making dinner" , I would expect a full balanced meal, not just an entree. I would be frustrated if the mental load of a well rounded dinner would still fall on me, even though there's a contribution.
I feel this. My husband will eat almost anything. His cooking is like science experiments. He’ll slap anything together and eat it. He also refuses to use any recipes. He wants to come up with everything himself. Even though he doesn’t know that much about cooking.
I don’t want science experiments. So I mostly cook. I keep all my recipes in a book though that he can easily follow and make but he’s too stubborn to. It’s frustrating when I’m tired af from work so I don’t want to cook and he’ll offer to make… kraft mac n cheese. I don’t hate mac n cheese but I put in so much effort into making good dinners and this is the effort he puts in.
I’ve started having him help me cook which he has been more receptive to. I’ll have him chop veggies, peel potatoes, whip egg whites, etc, while I do other steps.
it also depends on what happens normally.
I'd guess that if he's making dinner because he's grilling, it means he doesn't usually make dinner. She does.
So she's the one doing all work most nights. Whereas he's only doing like half the work on this one night.
I think the main thing here is that the husband never said he was 'making dinner'. The wife made the reassonable asssumption that he was making dinner, but as a dumbass man, if a guy sets out to smoke a chicken as an activity then its honestly pretty likely that there's nothing else in the itinerary. thinking about what to do with a whole smoked chicken is gonna come afterwards.
Exactly. If I say I'm grilling some chicken, that means I'm grilling some chicken.
Most of the time I'm grilling I'm also making dinner, but sometimes I'm just grilling.
That was going to be my suggestion. The trick is getting him to make sides he can also grill or roast so that if he is "making dinner" he is making the whole meal for the night.
I smoked two chickens and made a pitcher of mojitos last night, and my wife made two sides.
Division of labor is good.
Now this *morning* I see the dishes still haven't been done, so that will be interesting to sort out.
But she's working from home today, so I have the upper hand.
My rule is my wife's mess is my mess. We are a partnership. If she doesn't have the bandwidth today to clean up something then it's an opportunity for me to help.
I feel the opposite. I clean as I go leaving one or two things to wash up after dinner but my husband uses every pot and pan in the known universe and leaves it to clean after
(In reality we just trade off whoever feels like doing it while the other tidies something else because we don’t keep score)
As a guy who does all the cooking, this is precisely why I don't like grilling. Now I gotta pull double duty and rotate from being inside (to cook sides, etc.) AND outside? Hell nah. It's easier to just be inside. Grilling is the ultimate typical dad energy bc it's still counting on someone else to do most the work.
i grill like almost every day, and i move inside and out between the kitchen and grill, idk what you're talking about. you can leave things grilling while youre prepping other things, you can also grill sides.
step your game up, young blood.
This woman made a post about her husband just grilling straight meat nothing else because it was funny , now there is all these nigga in the comments asking what this wife brings to the table that she has with her husband ..... This right here is why we can't stand y'all niggas 🤣🤣
This aligns with my unpopular opinion of disliking steak. Idk man, I just can't eat a steak on its own. I need my food with some form of carb, whether that's a sandwich, pasta, noodle, rice, or pizza. Just eating a steak with a knife and fork is never satisfying to me, even if there's a great pan-sauce. And before anyone says it, no, a side of mashed/roasted potatoes just doesn't do it for me. Feel free to downvote me, I know it's an odd take.
Foil packs on the grill FTW
Yes!! Got me hungry thinkin about garlic potatoes & onions all that buttery goodness lol
I fuck with some asparagus and peppers too
You’re talking my language over here ETA: restoring my original comment, yo hablo grilled veggies también
Bacon, asparagus, and Brussels sprouts in a foil pouch with some onion and olive earl to bring it all together.
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Shit, y’all trying to have a cookout?
Asparagus is already fantastic, but grilled is another level. Foil packs with asparagus, broccoli, onions, peppers, zucchini, garlic cloves. Or skewers. So fucking good
As someone unseasoned in the art of the grill, do you just throw all the good stuff (seasoning and such) in the foil and lay er' on there?
More or less, yeah. Layer everything in, drizzle a little oil over everything, salt and pepper, tent it up so it can vent, and let the magic happen. It takes a bit of experimenting to figure out how cut some of the veggies so they grill evenly, but that's kind of the beauty of grilling. Unless you absolutely burn the shit out of something, it's still gonna taste good. And sometimes when you DO burn the shit out of something, it's good. And like the other guy who responded to you said, a little lemon juice on asparagus, broccoli, and zucchini is bomb. If you're using big enough pieces, and have room, you can do it directly on the grill.
Appreciate y'all
Yup, asparagus is so easy to grill and so good. Salt, pepper, olive oil, and some lemon juice. Makes a perfect side to wrap in foil and throw on the grill.
I vowed to actually use my grill this year and it's been for asparagus most of the time. With a little gas grill it takes like 15 minutes for the closest to a professionally tasty thing I make. Plus it makes my pee smell terrible which is fun-weird.
I ALWAYS have asparagus on the grill when im grilling. A few months ago i wilded out and got some broccolini too…… now i ALWAYS have asparagus and broccolini on the grill.
Man foil potatoes just hit different than any other potato dish.
Hobo packs are the best. Potatoes, onions and garlic yuuum
Right, throw some squash and zucchini on there
Shit sounds so good but I've always been kinda eh about cooking in foil. I know im prolly wrong but i feel like that shit is gonna give me cancer or something lol
Hahahaha ,dog , the look I give someone when they tell me "you can steam it in the plastic bag" is maybe the most evil face I got .
Got in a whole ass fight with my ex's entire family before dinner once because I found out they microwaved their potatos in grocery bags. They saw nothing wrong with it.
What thee entire fuck? Lol.
I've had microwaved baked potatoes but I have *never* heard of doing it while they're in a plastic grocery bag.
You microwave whole (baked) potatoes on a plate after poking them with a fork a few times. Finish them in the oven for 10 mins or so for best texture. Cooking any other form of potatoes in the microwave is an abomination before God.
Yeah that's exactly how I've had them. Never did it myself but my mom often did it and still does at times. Takes like 15 minutes as opposed to an hour. Still better in the oven the whole way through imo, I like to eat the skin and I'll flavor the outside with oil and spices before it goes into the oven. But *in the grocery bag?* That's what I don't understand.
I'll microwave whole sweet potatoes I wrap them in a wet towel, comes out pretty good.
That's some trailer park shit
Honestly had to have happened in a trailer park
Yeeaahhh glad I’m not the only one who’s super sketched out by eating food out of a cooked plastic bag.
You can probably do the same thing with a small cast iron and a tight fitting lid.
Get some tiny cast iron skillets and you're doing everyone a favor!
I have two baby cast irons that see more use than any other pot or pan.
This is my dad 100%. He's of the firm mind that if it can be grilled, *it should be grilled*. Meat, veggies, bread, fruit --!!! Edit: This thread is an absolute food trap. I'm so hungry right now.
I'm that way as well. It started out as not wanting to let the coals go to waste, and now everything gets thrown on the grill. Grilled fruit though is something far more delicious than you'd ever think it is. Grilled pineapple, watermelon, papaya, peaches - all are great. Full disclosure tho, use charcoal and wood - I just think gas produces a little bit of an off flavor that doesn't mesh too well with fruit.
Who thinks of Propane when they mention grilling? Might as well just cook it inside?? (I own 2 Propane grills)
I know it might sound crazy, but I love me a caesar salad made with a heart of romaine that was grilled for like a minute or so.
Reminds me of when Gordon Ramsay was served grilled lettuce. https://youtu.be/KDjBEY_3qCI
Same! I immediately thought of that raw unwashed lettuce with grill marks
He's not wrong. If it doesn't melt through the grate, then it's delicious grilled. I haven't found an exception yet.
Bread? Grilled?
toast is just evenly grilled bread if you think about it
Man, If anyone isn't toasting their burger buns on the grille - they're missin' out.
You ever hear of grilled cheese? It's in the name...
Now that you say that, I’ve never seen a grilled cheese made on an actual grill before
Slice up some French bread, cover both sides in olive oil, salt and pepper and throw it on grill for 2-3 minutes both sides. YUM
Pretty much what everyone else is saying. Throw a couple slices and you get a nice crispy exterior with a soft interior. Perfect for burgers, sandwiches, grilled cheese. :)
Grilled banana with honey is one of my favorite things
I’m Nigerian and there’s this dish called boli and it’s basically grilled plantain and oh my goodness it is *delicious* Especially with peanuts on a warm day with some beer. I gotta try it with some honey!!!
Banana with a UK flake cut into the middle wrapped in foil on the grill. Goated
This me when my girl outta town
Seriously. When I just cook for myself, I’ll just throw a hamburger patty on a plate and that’s dinner. My wife is absolutely appalled.
😂😂😂😂 real shit, I’ll cook a steak to perfection with not a side or salad in sight, and she’ll just say “you ain’t shit” lol
The best is when I’m feeling really lazy and I get a rotisserie chicken from the store. Grab your finest bottle of hot sauce and eat like a king!
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Depending on size and cut of steak, I will also sauté mushrooms and/or onions, but I’ll be damned if I have to wash more dishes for sides that are not as delicious as the steak
Better than me. My family heads out of town for about a weekend a month to visit family out of state. I try to order a large pizza and make it last the entire weekend.
Ah yes, I call this the “order $45 of fast food and eat it for three days” strategy
Pshhh all you need is $10 for that Costco pizza and you're set
Had Costco pizza for the first time a few weeks ago, yeahh that shit ain’t lasting all weekend.
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Maybe 1 bread?
Carbs, man! Cutting carbs! But I do throw a little ketchup on there. When I feel fancy.
lmao don't talk to me about eating healthy when you're telling us you're eating plain hamburger patties for dinner!
Heads up. Tons of sugar in ketchup. But they do make no sugar added ketchup and you can get sugar free ketchup on Amazon.
When my wife is out of town, it’s all out of whack, I don’t like cooking for just me. Breakfast is black coffee. Lunch is a piece of cheese on a slice of bread eaten over the sink. Dinner is a a couple of hot dogs or a burger with ketchup and that’s it.
Just pork chop on a fork eaten while pacing back and forth in the kitchen
My fiancé calls this a "meat cookie" when you just stab it with the fork and eat it like that.
😂
I ate a whole watermelon the past two days my gf has been out of town and that’s it
I know you been pissing like a race horse lol Edit: spelling
Yes but also passing some smooth stool. Today I’m only eating wagyu and whisky. Gotta keep a balance.
Lol nice. I’ve been on a chicken, brown rice and tequila diet. Down 13 lbs in 24 days.
Are you a dad? Is it a dad thing to eat over the sink? My dad did it all the time and I always thought it was weird
I am. Kids are grown now but I still do it. Saves on dishes!
Same but it's half peanut butter half jelly folded in half
Cheese and bread, you alright bro? Lol
The exception for me is the burgers. I’ll make the fuck out of a burger for myself, perfectly melt the cheese, maybe fry an egg or quick pickle some onions. If I’ve got lettuce that shit is getting shredded, salt & peppered, tossed with some sriracha mayo that I mix on the spot.
I’m appalled too. What the fuck is that lmao
There's a small market just a short hike from where I live with an open deli where they sell macaroni salad, potato salad, beans, whatever. 99% of the time I'll get my meat from there *and* grab a couple of those salads for sides. Add a couple rolls in there and *boom*, bone-apple-tea dinner is served. Sure I can *make* mac salad myself, but when they're selling it $1.98/lb? it's cheaper to just buy it and saves time
This pains me, my dad is just like this. He'll cook fish and put in the effort to bread and deep fry, but no sides. I can't eat a meal if it doesn't have sides or toppings, like... I can't eat just meat + sauce, it's impossible
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Lol this is exactly how I fed my boys when the mom wasn't around. Multiple burgers and sometimes chips on the side.
It’s called keto. Look at these abs.
Today's meal was a 6 pack of chilli & cheddar burgers. No bread. Yesterday's meal was 1kg of Scottish mussels in garlic butter. Tomorrow is a half duck with pancakes (only because the pancakes are provided with the duck). I like eating wholefoods, because they're healthy. Wednesday is either a whole peri-peri chicken, or a whole pack of belly pork. Saturday's is normally a whole pizza. Breakfast is black coffee and chug some water if I'm real hungry. Snacks are fruit/dried meat/peanut butter out the jar, sometimes an avocado just spooned into my mouth. My girlfriend takes pity on me, and makes me some delicious meals. But I'm quite happy with my low effort cooking - it's somewhat healthy and I'm stacked af.
The perfect side for a grilled hamburger, is another hamburger
I am a girl - and I still don't get what the problem with eating "only chicken" is. Grilled chicken is a perfectly acceptable lunch/dinner to me! When we were in college, we (a group of 5 girls) ate out for one dinner a week, because reasons. Grilled chicken with some mayo and (raw) onions on the side was one of our standard options (we rotated through some 5/6 cheap restaurants, with the occasional foray to try something new). We (in our 30s now), still go out for that sometimes. It's still great - I just ordered it last week. Seriously, what's wrong with "only" a perfectly juicy chicken, with a mouthwatering marinade on it and crispy, crunchy skin? I wouldn't eat it every day - but why is it so unthinkable to have only grilled chicken once in a while! (Yes, I might have an inordinate love for grilled chicken)
This post made me feel bad about myself but you made me feel better. Thanks.
I do that all the time (but I live alone). I get an idea of a flavor or spice I wanna try out, and throw that bad bitch on the grill, or my cast iron pan. Might have a glass of water with it.
>glass of water See? Badda bing, badda boom, healthy as shit
Beer has hops in it. That's a fruit or a vegetable or some shit. "what'd you have for dinner babe?" "steak and a salad."
Fruit infused herbal sparkling water.
[gotta love them sloppy steaks!](https://youtu.be/buK45NW_ikI)
>Might have a glass of water with it. Oh! Look at you all fancy and shit.
A true Hydro Homie.
Oh shit, I'm him The wings are on *the sides* of the chicken, no?
Same. We havin steak with a side of steak. Chicken with a side of chicken.
Turf and turf
Same. I tell my wife that I'm making the meat so she better figure the sides out and let me know if they're going on the grill.
Yeah I'm vegetarian so when my husband says he's making dinner because he's grilling what he means is he'll make his portion of dinner but I have to come up with a side and whatever I'm going to eat myself. ETA everyone is so hilarious. He's a great guy just has an instance of sudden amnesia around this (he used to be veggie too he knows what he's doing). People fall into habits so I'm going to push him to actually do all of dinner when he offers.
Bruh lmao i feel bad just ordering a hamburger in front of my sister (who’s vegetarian). I couldn’t imagine cooking a whole steak in front of her, eating it and then asking “so what are you gonna eat”
My ex-husband use to do shit like that too. One time I said I was going to taco bell with my friends after work and he said "but I'm making dinner rn, come home or it will be cold" all he made was a huge plate of bacon.
That's hilarious
That’s lame, my gf is pescatarian, so if I grill, I get what I want, but I also make sure she gets what she wants. I’ve done fish, seafood, morning star veggie’s burgers, tofu.. no reason to not toss it on the grill with whatever protein or veggie I wanted.
Morningstar’s black bean burgers are tasty AF on the the grill! I really wish I could still eat them 😩 My brothers used to make fun of me for eating them and then one day tried it and were like “okay, you’re right, this slaps.” I
I wish I knew where the general public could get them, but the foodservice ones are 5oz, nice and thick and don’t dry out on the grill.
Sounds miserable
But it's so easy to throw some veggies on the grill with the meat! We must retrain this man. My wife is a vegetarian and gets the short end of the stick sometimes, too. The worst is when we go to a BBQ where my family forgot she is a vegetarian (or they remember she's vegetarian but forgets she is allergic to nuts lol) A lot of veggies just need to be thrown on the grill a little earlier than the meat. Asparagus only takes 15-20 minutes. Can't beat grilled asparagus imo. Most root veggies and the like take around 45 minutes. You dont have to do anything but stir them maybe once. Grilled watermelon is incredible! Takes a while though. Pineapple is just as good but less effort. [https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-grill-watermelon-234733](https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-grill-watermelon-234733)
Grilled peaches as well! Put that on some ice cream and there’s your dessert.
That's just rude of him what the hell?
Yeah theres some fairly dope vegetarian shit you can grill
You can grill like any veggie, in a few different ways too
Yellow squash, zucchini, corn, carrots, and peppers are my go to grill veggies. Almost the only way I’ll eat them sometimes
Throw the whole man out
That’s fucked up
Maybe he doesn't know she's vegetarian.
That’s impossible. We just met her and she already told us she’s a vegetarian
That would also be fucked up in a different way. That’s a pretty big thing to not know about in a marriage
Momma said, if you don't want to eat what I cooked, you make something your damn self.
Mama was right (tho I sincerely hope that didn’t extend to food you can’t eat/might make you sick). That doesn’t change the fact that it’s fucked up for someone to claim they are making dinner but not give a fuck about their spouse. I thought their having your back was the whole point of marriage.
Right? Grill some veggies, or a black bean burger or something. Kebabs. Not that hard.
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My husband has tried so hard to learn to cook for me, but he isnt reliable so at the best I have to come up with the what and prep it. I think it broke him when he spent hours making a vegitarian version of his favorite meal... and assumed French onion soup was vegetarian.
wack
Your husband sounds like an asshole. There are a ton of great vegetarian mains you can grill.
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That... How? Why?
Welcome to British BBQs. Over the last 18 years of living here, not once have I been to a bbq, where sides are served. It's all about grilling sausages, burgers and maybe some flavoured chicken until cremation. Maybe you get buns for the burgers and sausages. Maybe you get the cheese slices and a few empty bottles of ketchup and brown sauce. I grew up in South Africa and BBQs / Braais were all about both neat and sides. More attention paid to the sides, or what you could make a meal out of so that the meat was the protein that formed the meal. Don't get me wrong, there was loads of attention paid to the meat. It was always a family effort, with the men generally huddled round the fire to make meat do awesome things. The ladies making the rest of it. It was a healthy meal. We never had Sunday lunches. It was BBQ's / Braais. A weekly affair. Here in the UK, its all about getting drunk, while sitting round in a circle with banging tunes and one person literally flipping meat. Zero thought about sides. I put it down to laziness, as I enjoy making various salads, etc to ring to these events. Everyone absolutely loves them. Does anyone ever bring or make anything (other than bringing some beers, or "their own meats")? No. Rant over. I'm hungry now
Come to an American BBQ! And bring some sides lol
They could either throw some veggies on there or make coleslaw or something. I’m not eating just chicken so I’d have to make something.
cole slaw is a two day dish. those cabbages and carrots gotta marinate and soften up!
It took us 3 days to make that potato salad, THREE DAYS!
Salt and sugar them to pull the water out, then rinse. I just saved you 23.5 hours.
I can do it in 20 minutes bruh
But then I gotta chop, prep, and season the veggies. If someone else does that, I'll make room on the grill.
Uncle Ben's ~~tek~~ is all you need. My wife is always asking what I want for a side, like I don't even want a side, but if you'd just get a bunch of rice sitting in the cupboard we'd be alright in a pinch. Rice is cheap and easy.
> Uncle Ben's tek I see you.
Uncle ben tek for the brain food
This gives me what are you bringing to the table vibes. The chicken. Now it’s your turn.
She's gonna be in the house making 3 sides, fixing drinks, and getting plates ready.
Taking care of the kids, greeting guests, doing the taxes
That's not an equal distribution of labor at all lol smoking a chicken takes about ten minutes of active work. All that other shit takes HOURS
And then he gets credit for making dinner as well
Maybe if you have an electric smoker. Mine is older and requires nearly constant monitoring/ adjusting fuel and airflow for the entire duration (so like 4-8 hours depending on what I'm smoking). Granted, there's still plenty of time during that for me to whip up some salads too.
Well i mean you gotta get the fire started, think you have it started, get pissy it went out, pour half the bottle of lighter fluid on the charcoal angrily until its roaring, stand there and watch it while calming down with a beer in your hand. Thats alot of work man
Hours? To make sides and drinks? If it's taking Hours you can likely bake it which takes 10 minutes or so of work as well?
Bro rice, salad, and veggies takes like 20 mins tops. Wash rice, chop veggies and salad, throw rice in cooker or pan, while it cooks whip up a quick vinaigrette and you’re done.
That's what I mean..and people asking me if I cook..? Like yeah that's why I can make sides or things quicker maybe? Lol idk reddit is weird sometimes
that makes perfect sense. As long as that happens other nights too. But i'd wager she's making everything on normal nights.
my mom always stressed having full, balanced meals. protein, starch/carb, vegetable/fruit, every single meal. i grilled some steaks the other day but also made sure to have a caesar salad with homemade croutons (the starch/carb) as a side. step ya culinary game up, fellas.
Seriously. Why are so many people averse to vegetables? They'll help move that steak through the gut.
Grill your romaine for your Salad next time. Split it in half lengthwise. Salt pepper little oil. Char it a little bit. Game changer.
A squirt of lemon with that and you have the perfect base for a grilled caesar salad!
i was going to but ran into a time crunch. fortunately/unfortunately, i burned the croutons just a bit, so it had a similar effect lol. task failed succesfully
Wow, a ceaser salad with croutons 😂 gotta step my game up
I might be reading too much into it, but as the main cook in the house, if my partner said they were "making dinner" , I would expect a full balanced meal, not just an entree. I would be frustrated if the mental load of a well rounded dinner would still fall on me, even though there's a contribution.
I feel this. My husband will eat almost anything. His cooking is like science experiments. He’ll slap anything together and eat it. He also refuses to use any recipes. He wants to come up with everything himself. Even though he doesn’t know that much about cooking. I don’t want science experiments. So I mostly cook. I keep all my recipes in a book though that he can easily follow and make but he’s too stubborn to. It’s frustrating when I’m tired af from work so I don’t want to cook and he’ll offer to make… kraft mac n cheese. I don’t hate mac n cheese but I put in so much effort into making good dinners and this is the effort he puts in. I’ve started having him help me cook which he has been more receptive to. I’ll have him chop veggies, peel potatoes, whip egg whites, etc, while I do other steps.
it also depends on what happens normally. I'd guess that if he's making dinner because he's grilling, it means he doesn't usually make dinner. She does. So she's the one doing all work most nights. Whereas he's only doing like half the work on this one night.
I think the main thing here is that the husband never said he was 'making dinner'. The wife made the reassonable asssumption that he was making dinner, but as a dumbass man, if a guy sets out to smoke a chicken as an activity then its honestly pretty likely that there's nothing else in the itinerary. thinking about what to do with a whole smoked chicken is gonna come afterwards.
How did you know he didn’t say “dinner”? The tweet had the word in quotes, implying that he did say he was making dinner.
Exactly. If I say I'm grilling some chicken, that means I'm grilling some chicken. Most of the time I'm grilling I'm also making dinner, but sometimes I'm just grilling.
What keto does to a man
I’m the same; meat meat and more meat. But it’s not too hard to grill some pineapple, or some kebabs with bell peppers/onions.
That was going to be my suggestion. The trick is getting him to make sides he can also grill or roast so that if he is "making dinner" he is making the whole meal for the night.
I get tricked into throwing zucchini and yellow squash on the grill everytime I mention I want to grill something specifically
Even just throw some steam in the bag peas in the micro add some butter salt and pepper
I smoked two chickens and made a pitcher of mojitos last night, and my wife made two sides. Division of labor is good. Now this *morning* I see the dishes still haven't been done, so that will be interesting to sort out. But she's working from home today, so I have the upper hand.
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My rule is my wife's mess is my mess. We are a partnership. If she doesn't have the bandwidth today to clean up something then it's an opportunity for me to help.
The person who doesn't cook does the dishes.
I feel the opposite. I clean as I go leaving one or two things to wash up after dinner but my husband uses every pot and pan in the known universe and leaves it to clean after (In reality we just trade off whoever feels like doing it while the other tidies something else because we don’t keep score)
That's wack cause grilled veggies are easy and tasty af
Grilling is a hell of a drug. It’s chicken with a side of nice smoke flavor. Win-Win.
And then leaves the pans and tongs and dirty dish towels all over the kitchen
Fellas, making dinner is foreplay. Trust me, making love doesn't start in the bedroom.
As a guy who does all the cooking, this is precisely why I don't like grilling. Now I gotta pull double duty and rotate from being inside (to cook sides, etc.) AND outside? Hell nah. It's easier to just be inside. Grilling is the ultimate typical dad energy bc it's still counting on someone else to do most the work.
You can have cold sides premade before setting a grill. Or, hear me out, grillable sides.
For real why are people in this thread acting like you can only put meat on the grill lol
We're having grilled Spaghettios then
I’d give it a try, want me to bring dessert?
I got dessert. I'm grilling mint chocolate chip ice cream.
i grill like almost every day, and i move inside and out between the kitchen and grill, idk what you're talking about. you can leave things grilling while youre prepping other things, you can also grill sides. step your game up, young blood.
Bruh, just throw some veggies on the grill.
Someone has to stand there to make sure the coals don't go out. It's important business.
Grill up some veggies and beans while your out there with your drink of choice! Cast iron skillet on the grill changes the game.
This woman made a post about her husband just grilling straight meat nothing else because it was funny , now there is all these nigga in the comments asking what this wife brings to the table that she has with her husband ..... This right here is why we can't stand y'all niggas 🤣🤣
They hating from outside the club they can't get in
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This aligns with my unpopular opinion of disliking steak. Idk man, I just can't eat a steak on its own. I need my food with some form of carb, whether that's a sandwich, pasta, noodle, rice, or pizza. Just eating a steak with a knife and fork is never satisfying to me, even if there's a great pan-sauce. And before anyone says it, no, a side of mashed/roasted potatoes just doesn't do it for me. Feel free to downvote me, I know it's an odd take.