General Discussion

I do almost 100% of the cooking in our house and my wife is vegetarian, almost vegan.

I'm generally too lazy to cook separate meals for us. Sometimes, maybe once or twice a month, I'll cook fish for myself, but it's gotten to the point where I actually dislike having any sort of raw meat in my refrigerator.

When I was growing up meat was abundant, mostly ocean fish my dad caught and a lot of other animals I'd seen alive. As a little kid I was fascinated watching my great grandmothers cut up fish, chickens, and other small animals. They were very skilled with knives and their hands moved faster than I could follow.

My great grandmothers were very critical of their daughters who much preferred to buy meat pre-cut and wrapped in paper from the butcher. I learned how to turn dead animals into dinner from my great grandmas and my dad.

When my mom cooked meat for dinner it was usually ground beef from the supermarket. When we weren't eating fish we ate meat loaf. My dad cooked most of the non-ground beef meals.

One of my brothers is the super-cook in our family and my great grandmothers would have respected his skills.