re: The worst meal your significant other has cooked for you

My husband and I have been living together since we were quite young so neither had any real cooking experience in the beginning. I'll never forget the first meal I cooked for him. It was supposed to be spaghetti sauce. I had seen my mom put a little bit of sugar in her sauce so I decided to do that. Instead of measuring out a tablespoon or so, I decided to just pour it in the pot directly from the canister. I think I must have dumped about a pound of sugar in that sauce. I panicked and decided to add a ton of salt to cover up the sweetness because that made perfect sense at the time. I will never forget the look on his face when he took a bite. I thought he was having a seizure. He never said a word and we ate a lot of sandwiches after that until my skills improved.

Thankfully, I never made anything even remotely as toxic as that ever again.

I wouldn’t argue with that idea... it’s the ruining the beanie weanies that would qualify.

That is just one of the reasons I have three ex-significant others :-)

Red, white, and blueberry pie that somehow turned into a soup.

A vegetarian stir fry

Tuna casserole. Canned tuna and canned onion rings with noodles?

Why would someone cook such a thing when you live in south Louisiana?

We have shrimp,crab meat and other good ingredients.

When we got married 36 years ago my wife truly couldn't boil water. My family, immigrants from Italy, her's, Irish. When we got back from our honeymoon she wanted to make our first dinner. She baked a chicken. She put the chicken on the table and asked me to cut it up. No BS, the chicken was completely raw. God love her, she told me she had cooked it for a half an hour at 200 degrees. We had pizza that night and I cooked for the next 18 or so months while she learned to cook from me, my mom, nonna, and zias. My wife is now a phenomenal cook (has been for years) and an even better baker.

My wife is a horrible cook!! Zero concept or seasoning or amounts to use. Only time in our entire relationship I ever said anything was when she cooked a frozen pizza, and failed to take the cardboard off the bottom. Top looked great, but the raw dough was too much to handle..

Now that we have children, I don't have to say a word. My 11yo daughter will tell her straight up if something she makes is putrid. Bless my baby girls heart!!! She saves her daddy a lot of doghouse visits.

Hubs doesn't cook but occasionally will grill for me.

First time I cooked for him when we were dating I grilled burgers with Angus beef (so fancy lol). I shaped the patties really big, but since they were lower in fat than the chuck I usually used, they didn't shrink.at.all. He still teases about those Mega Burgers.

After we married, we lived in Baton Rouge, but I still worked in NOLA so I had the longer commute. I tried doing Once a Month cooking, which was a lot of casseroles, all 9×12, that he could pop into the oven when he got home, but they took forever for us to finish. Duh. Second time around, I split recipes into two 8x8 pans. Third time around, I said dinner time's gonna be later from here on out and went back to cooking as I normally do.

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We did have a couples party a few moths ago and her friend brought over asparagus casserole.
Canned asparagus
Cream of mushroom soup
Cheddar cheese

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Some variation of this was standard fare at pot luck dinners in the 70’s and 80’s when I was a kid. My mom made it every now and then, though she used the green can of Parmesan cheese and I think Ritz crackers.