Bad Compliments

Part of maintaining a long term relationship is compliments: letting your partner know how and what you appreciate about him or her. This is particularly true with cooking. When someone has taken time out of her/his busy day to make you food, you should be thankful and complimentary.

That being said, not all compliments are created equally. This is my bottom three list of compliments to give your spouse/partner on his/her cooking.

3. Buttery Rolls
Well, insert any adjective in front of rolls and it's still bad. Yes, a roll is another way of saying bun, but NO ONE wants to hear anything about their rolls regardless of how delicious/amazing/etc. they are.

2. This tastes great with ketchup!
I love ketchup, so this was a hard one for me to learn. Most people make food to be eaten on its own. If they want a sauce on it, it's usually cooked in or served with said sauce. Destroying an original, from-the-heart creation by drowning it in sweet, vinegary, pulverized tomatoes and then complimenting it, is a faux pas of the worst sort.

1. "This is the best X you've ever made!"
This might be a very good compliment, but you need to do some detective work beforehand. If the meal is take out, heat and serve from the grocery store, or--worst--thawed leftovers of something you, yourself, made, you are in big trouble!

Know any other bad compliments? Leave a comment and let me know.

What doesn't go with peas?

Kristin asked what she thought was a rhetorical question tonight at supper: what doesn't go with peas? They have a mild flavour and are sweet. When I started thinking about it, it was hard, but I kept thinking. Here are my top three things that do not go with peas (I guess, this is a bottom three list?):

3. Peas & Squid - the squishiness, the elasticity, the horror!

2. Pea Cookies - Take a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Keep everything the same except substitute peas in for chocolate chips. A sure fire catastrophe!

1. Lucky Peas! - Another substitute method. Take Lucky Charms and swap the marshmallows out for peas. Then add milk. I can feel it curdling in my stomach already!

Can you think of anything worse?