My husband doesn't care much for pizza or any other kind of food that upsets his stomach. His stomach is for western type of food such as roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, roast chicken, roast turkey with gravy, beef steak grilled on barbecue grill, cold potato salad, coleslaw, vegetable salad,grilled salmon or baked salmon, scalloped potatoes, and if there are Italian pasta it must be the Italian spaghetti with hot spicy sausage and with drop of at least 1/3 cup of wine to simmer the sausage and spaghetti sauce. My husband has extremely expensive taste for food. His family had that kind of food or meals since World War II. Canadian-American traditional family meals and having roast beef, turkey or chicken is just normal no apparent reason but they must have that kind of thanksgiving meal once a week. His family can afford such lavish food even if probably everyday. Can't tell whether there is holiday or birthdays but those food are normal food for them.
Husband doesn't like me cooking a meal mixing small slices of meat with vegetables. He would rather have vegetables separated from meat. Vegetables must be boiled or steamed by itself without combining it with meat (pork, beef, chicken or fish).
Philippines style of food is always mixing the meat or fish with vegetables. Why? Because that's how we cook our food or viands. For us Filipinos, viand tastes better by mixing the veggies with meat in meals such as: Sinigang pork or sinigang fish, caldereta, menudo, sarciado, embutido, stir-fry veggies and , pancit, munggo, curry, all kinds of viands with coconut milk. Every viands are mixed. Why not? Most families in Philippines have at least more than 5 members to 12 members inside their house and to better distribute the food and share evenly to the members of the family the mixed portions of food is just fair. Besides, that's how to economically distribute the food. Less viand more steamed rice on plates. Less expense.
So I'm not in Philippines, I'm here in Canada and I'm married to Canadian and I must cook something to what the breadwinner wants on the stove, counter and table. Most of the time food are served at the island table/counter not on the table. It's only my daughter and I who eats by the dining table. So what? I don't care and nobody cares anyway. Feel your boots.
When husband complains about how much is spent on food? I'm not to be blamed for such expense. I'm not much of a meat eater. I would rather have seafood but we rarely have seafood because crabs, prawns, shrimps, fish, mussels, and other sea creatures are costly.
Everything is costly nowadays that if you see so many malnourished people or people with anorexia or people who are so skinny and thin it's because they value the expensive clothes, shoes and bags instead of food.
No pun intended.
