Has your significant other ever surprised you by not knowing how to do something you think is normal? Well Chris shocked the hell out of me on our first get-a-way in 2012.
My family has rented a large house down at Hood Canal once a year for a weekend for several years (the last three years we haven’t been able to make it happen sadly). Anyway, I decided this would be a great way for Chris to meet the majority of my family (thank God he’s a trooper!). As I suspected, he fit right in.
Everyone signs up for a meal or two – meaning we are responsible for making a meal for the whole clan. Chris and I signed up for breakfast – bacon, eggs, sausage, pancakes, waffles, fruit, the works. Things are moving right along, and I asked Chris to cover the bacon & sausage for a moment…. well, he decides to tell me at that point he doesn’t know how to cook bacon. Wait…WHAT??? In my surprise, I yelled “what do you mean you don’t know how to cook bacon”!!?? Ok, so maybe yelling it wasn’t good form for me, but I was floored!! Family members who were in the house came rushing into the kitchen wanting to know what the commotion was. Once the story came out, they all started laughing and immediately left the kitchen. At that point, Chris got a crash-course in cooking and it worked out great!
A little back story here: everyone in my family cooks. EVERYONE (except the wee ones of course). I don’t know that I’d ever met someone who made it to 40-something without knowing how to cook the basics…. like bacon. So, you can see my surprise was somewhat warranted…right??
Flash forward to present day: Chris knows how to cook many things now (including breakfast food) and he’s GOOD at it! We even did HelloFresh for a while and he really got into it. Now, we just do most of the cooking together and it may not always be “gourmet” but it’s tasty!
What “normal” thing did your significant other not know how to do that surprised you? How did you react? Did you teach them? If so, how did it go?