Many years before there was a dot or a com, I labored all lday over a soybean casserole which, when finally served with pride in a lovely Mexican bowl, was ridiculed and gagged at by my kids and husband. Casserole went into dog dish. Dog took one sniff, stuck his nose in his dish and slammed it into the wall like a hockey puck. Casserole went out on the roof feeding station of the cats. Cats ignored it. Then it went to racoon feeding place. Racoons knocked on door indignant, hands on hips. "You expect us to eat THAT?" Finally it went over the edge, tossed out over the mountainside where we lived. By morning, it was gone. No wild animal carcasses, so it agreed with someone(thing).
So, yes, I understand about women who cannot cook. I've ALWAYS been one of them. So was my mom and her mother before her. It's a proud family tradition. Stick that in your microwave and nuke it!
Same here .. typical Irish Family .. We boil EVERYTHING ... LOL
She is now grown and has children. One day a few years ago, I was at her house for dinner. I got to witness the whole thing. She took some chicken thighs out of the package, plucked them in a baking dish, without even washing them, not to mention the lack of any seasoning. In the meantime, she was boiling brocolli. The chicken thighs came out of the oven after 15 minutes, while the brocolli had boiled for an hour. The meat was raw inside, and the brocolli was a pale mush. I declined my plate telling her I really wasn't hungry. Yuck.
I think some people just don't like to cook, and have no sense of cooking. However, many young women have grown up with busy parents and mothers who work, so they have grown up on fast food, and never learned to cook, unless they went out of their way to learn because they wanted to.
I think I see the problem. See, the words "soybean" and "casserole" should never, under any circumstances, be used in the same sentence, much less in the same dish. LOL!!! It was probably not a problem with your culinary skills, but more likely some slick huckster fooled you with a pretty color picture (faked) in the recipe book, and a description of mouth-watering bliss and high praises that would be yours if only you would make this dish for your family.
Actually I got quite a good chuckle from this article, since my wife and I have had the arrangement ever since we've been married (almost 16 years) that I will do all of the cooking for our evening meals (breakfast and lunch are on your own). I am an excellent cook (no brag, just fact) and she can't cook to save her life (and doesn't have any desire to learn). She can, however, bake quite well and so is in charge of cakes, brownies, breads, etc. I don't really care to bake (although I can) since it usually requires that I follow directions too closely and measure things too precisely. For me, that takes all the fun and creativity out of cooking. I really don't care to know the exact amount of spice I put into something as long as it turns out to be the right amount.
I feel so much better knowing I'm not the only woman on FR that can't cook. My mom can't either.