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Haha, this is too funny!! :)
You could still use the rest of the noodles, very simple recipe:
cook onions with a bit of garlic and ground meat; pour tomato sauce on it... pour this on the noodles, put cheese and bake in the oven...
I have the same problem sometimes with with my husband! I have to tell him exactly what to do and sometimes he zones out and doesn't listen so he ends up forgetting what I told him.
@cannotwait LOL I guess so! our oven is out so egb's idea wouldn't work lol Good thing we both like pasta salad. My silly man.
Awesome, sounds like something my husband would do too!! You could make alfredo or pasta salad. 
How about some homemade mac and cheese? I guess I'm fortunate that my FI can follow directions and is capable of assembling if I do the prep.
Mine is slowly learning... how do you get through 2 years of post-college bachelorhood without learning how to make pasta???
Haha! I have to very clear in my note about specifying the time to put it in the oven and the temperatur to cook it at. Sometimes he skims and reverses the two! Yeah... a meal that was supposed to go in the oven at 4:45 at 350 degrees doesn't work out so well when it goes in at 3:50 at 445 degrees!!!
Macaroni salad!!! Mix elbow noodles with mayo, pickles, onions, etc. Sounds kinda nasty but it's one of my favorites =]
@worcesterbride, I don't care for pasta, and I just cooked it for the first time a few months ago. Surprisingly it came out well, but I can see how it's possible to not know how to make pasta. It was a harrowing experience, if I may say so myself.
BF is actually pretty good about cooking for himself. Then again, he worked in a dining hall freshman year, and lived off campus after that. I only took up cooking after he started working.
That said, I don't let him peel potatoes. We were at Thanksgiving one year, and his mom gave him some to peel, and he commented on how I wouldn't let him peel potatoes anymore. I didn't remember banning him from peeling potatoes, it didn't sound like something I would do, but he insisted that he wasn't allowed.
So after a bit, I watch him peel potatoes, and more or less say "no wonder I don't let you peel potatoes!" and take them away to peel myself. He got to chop them instead.
I don't even thing my FH can boil water. I will probably have to teach him a few things when we get married. So when we have kids it might be a little better.
My ex boyfriend in college once boiled spaghetti noodles for nearly 30 minutes. Needless to say, it was a soggy, mushy mess.
How hard is it to follow simple directions on a box? Sometimes I think they do stuff like this on purpose to make them look like they are totally helpless in the kitchen....because they want us to do everything for them!
omg, this story could have easily been my husband as well....ahhH!!
@Tuplip LOL I've thought about that before too!! It's just so simple sometimes, and yet they can't do it, but I know they aren't dumb or anything so they HAVE to be faking, right??
@goodart That's what I'm worried about! I know I won't be able to be a stay at home mom, or what if something comes up and I can't be home until late (parent teacher conferences? since I'm going into teaching) or have to be away for a couple of days, how are the kids going to be fed? lol McDonalds? His famous "ambrosia" (take all the leftovers in the fridge, throw it into a pot of boiling water to make it a soup, add noodles, and thats it...)? I want him to learn not just for the sake of him, but for our future children. He has made pasta before so I didn't think I needed directions.
Too funny! My hubby LOVES tri-colored rotini noodles. He wants to use them in everything. I'll still never forget the time I let him make spaghetti and he used mustard seeds to season it (and TONS of them!). Every bite you took it was like *crunch*
Hehe, and last night he said he really wanted baked potatoes and he offered to make them. So he just took them right out of the bag and started cooking them. He had no idea that you need to wash them off and you need to poke a hole in them so they don't explode :P (He also thought they would cook in 10 minutes)
Maybe you could just make more sauce to use on the noodles with for tonight's dinner?
That's cute - Cam thankfully loves to cook and he's darn good at it! There are other little things I have to write everything out for ... but he's a darn good cook!
Being somewhat progressive minded, is there some reason why men are incompetent at cooking? i think i would be equally sexist if he were to post, "don't let your wife drive. she's always putting on her makeup in the rear view mirror, and then she's always thinking about what shoes to wear. She's slowly learning how to drive, so i let her drive in the driveway." with all due respect, that post set women back about 40 years. I'm sorry, this isn't intended as snarkiness, just frustration! cooking is a skill like any other, if someone doesn't care to cook they wont remember anything about it and will be bored with it entirely.
Pretty sure this post didn't set anyone back at all. SO's that don't normally cook do funny things. Cute story, JoesWifey.
Oh my. I have a similar story.
I usually make dinner for the DH. And I had a late night at work and he knew that. Well, I come home and ask him what he had for dinner. He says he had some chips and dip! I asked him again, what did you have for DINNER? I thought maybe he heard me wrong. He said it again, chips and dip! I ended up making him something small to eat. Aye Yai Yai.
Then another time, I was coming home from work late again and I called him earlier in the day and told him he should make dinner with the chicken I have in the fridge. He says ok and then asks me what he should make as a side. I told him he should make Rice-a-Roni. (He messed up the first time he made it but I told him he needs to read the box. But this time I figure he would read the box because I told him to.) Yeah, he messed it up again. The vermicelli wasn't golden brown enough, he made it in a saucepan instead of a skillet.
I think I have to give him simpler stuff to make and DH and Rice-a-roni don't mix.
Oh in college, my roommate's boyfriend made her spaghetti dinner. Well tried to make her dinner. He cooked the noodles but forgot to take them out of the water so by the time they went to eat, the noodles got all soggy because he left them in the water.
Haha that is too funny!
You can make mac n' cheese with the left over pasta OR you can make this dish that we make with spaghetti but any pasta will do. Add cooked cubed chicken, mixed veggies (canned or frozen) and 1/4 - 1/2 cup of Italian Dressing. Believe me it is very yummy!
I'm truly thankful my hubs is self sufficient so when he is off and I am working I come home to a delishly cooked meal.
@Lea- Sorry you found my post offensive, but it was in jest and I seriously doubt it really sets any woman back. My husband teases about the fact that I can't open jars and containers and such. He doesn't expect me to be in the kitchen cooking, and I didn't mean it seriously that a man should never cook. Um, Emeril anyone?? Wolfgang Puck?
oh this makes me so thankful my FI can cook! The first meal he made me was steak on the grill..which i know like all men can grill, but future hubs can cook in the kitchen to! Yay! lol
Haha i had fun teaching fiance how to tell if the spaghetti is done this weekend... Yes, of course we threw it on the wall! The dogs loved it too, we let them eat the mess of sghetti's that fell on the floor. Of course I told him when it sticks he's good, but the man is very impatient and strained it to early... Goof. Well, it was aldente... to say the least.
Men...
We made spaghetti the other night and he decided he was going to put stuff up. "Do I just put this (half can of sauce) in the fridge?" "Actually can you put it in a container?" "Uh, does a zip lock bag work?" I was a little confused about how clean it would be when we wanted to use it the next time and how much easier it would be if he put it in a bowl but I thought I would let him do what he wanted so I said "Sure". Last night I open the fridge to see the tall can in this small ziplock bag and I LMAO.
Lol. I love it! My husband lived in the dorms his entire time in college and then moved back with his parents until we were married. I've lived on my own for 3 years and learned how to cook before high school. He's eager to learn, I'll give him that. If he's making anything other than breakfast, I sit at the kitchen table and direct. I figure if I do this enough times, he'll learn how to do what he needs to know.
That being said, I'm going out of town for 2 days on a business trip and am fairly certain he'll go eat at his parents' the night I'm gone...or go to Taco Bell. Funny but true. Love him, he's learning.
I'd say make up several casseroles and just freeze them and reheat them later. This way he can make those from now on haha! This way you can make them in all different serving sizes.
I'm so thankful that my FI can cook! Although when we started dating he still liked eating things like mac & cheese and ramen noodles really often (eww). With time he's definitely expanded his cooking though, which is great! I still cook more than he does (but I like to), but he definitely cooks weekly.
My DH went to make Mac N Cheese. He put ALL the ingredients in a pot and tried to boil it. Imagine how hard I was laughing when I saw milk, butter, cheesy powder, and noodles dumped into a pot of cold water on the stove. I about died. He STILL doesn't know to let the water boil BEFORE he adds noodles. Drives me crazy!
@MightySapphire that cracks me up. My FH did the same thing one of the first times he cooked dinner when we started dating. He tried to make KD for dinner and he managed the noodles just fine, but then dumped the cheese sauce, milk and butter into the pot without draining the water. I still ask for his special Kraft Dinner soup for dinner when I'm feeling cheeky once in a while...
HAHA! Sounds like my FH... He spills milk while making cereal... Needless to say the kitchen is off limits to him.
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If you are the one who generally cooks, do not, and I repeat do NOT let your husband feed himself or else he's bound to mess up :p haha, so I had to work late and I gave my husband a few options of what he can make for himself, but, figuring he'd pick pasta, I left the box of elbow noodles on the counter (why he loves these noodles is beyond me lol). The sauce was already made and I told him to just make the noodles and heat up the sauce on the stove. I'm a nanny and since I knew I had to work late, I just ate with the kids. Well I just got home about a half hour ago and he was finishing up eating and I saw that he made THE ENTIRE BOX of elbow noodles!! Even after he ate, there was still a strainer full of cooked noodles. What in the world am I going to do with all of these?? lolol When I cook for the two of us, I'll make maybe half a box of them, a little more if he's really hungry. It was JUST him and he made all of them. Gave me a good laugh, but sheesh lol Literally have to spell out EVERYTHING for him! (He also texted me asking how does he know if the noodles are done lol...) I love my husband :)