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Help! I can’t cook any more!

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PJN1952 Sun 16-Feb-20 18:31:44

Help! I seem to have lost the knack of cooking tasty hot meals somehow....I am 67years old, widowed many years with a “gentleman friend” of 82 yrs who is diabetic. I cook for us every day but recently I seem to be struggling to put a good meal on the table.... drab plates of dull food. We try to eat healthier now, many foods are out (red meat, pies, fatty foods) so we eat a lot of vegetables and fish but the meals I cook are boring. Have I been cooking too long? (Since I was 18 at college) or is it the constraints I am putting on the food we should eat now? Any help would be welcome...

henetha Tue 18-Feb-20 10:22:15

Adding a little hot chilli powder to all stews and casseroles makes them so tasty. Also, stir frying is one of the best ways to eat vegetables and you can add almost anything to give it flavour, and even add a stir in sauce at the end of cooking.
Adding a teaspoon of mustard to cheese sauce makes it so much tastier.

Nanny41 Tue 18-Feb-20 15:51:00

I have almost forgotten how to cook, as my Husband has completely taken over that roll.He cooks things he has heard about, some are good some not, I often think if I was cooking I would make different things, but he isnt keen on giving up his "job", he tends to stck to the same things, which arent always nice but he likes them.Sometimes I long for a good old fashioned English dish, simple, like Macaroni cheese. We dont live in the UK and things are so different,I often think how nice a meat pie would be, but they dont excist here, I am looking forward to being in the UK in two weeks,and then I will eat pies galore!

anxiousgran Tue 18-Feb-20 18:25:39

Cabbie21 I’m with you on Guardian Feast, sometimes I find the ingredients needed laughable.
A well known cookerywriter once described the seasons mangos arriving in their green grocer - fragrant in their wooden box, wrapped individually in tissue paper and sprinkled with tinsel.
? as if, in Lancashire.