Condoms and Cooking

Last night, my 9 year old daughter, husband and I were watching Hell's Kitchen. I have no idea why I continue to watch because Gordon Ramsay's voice and yelling makes me cringe and makes my heart beat so fast it feels like it is going to explode. In grade school, I had a gym teacher like him minus the swearing. He was always angry, always yelling, and just plain out of control. Anyway, my daughter thinks he is funny, probably because she has never seen anyone behave that way in real life and realizes it must be an act. I knit while she watches. We talk about what he must be saying under the beeps, and she asked why his mouth gets blurry when he swears. We talked about how he isn't a very nice guy on the show, but that in real life he must be nicer. We talked about the fact that he has a bunch of little daughters, and my daughter said if he acts like that at home she feels sorry for them.

I was knitting and not paying too much attention to the show at all until there started to be statements that cracked me up. "He was focusing intently on his meat" was one of those statements. And another was "while someone tried to impress Chef Ramsay with his meat". I am sorry but I just laughed out loud, which made my daughter question why I was laughing. We said something about the swearing and beeping was making me laugh. She bought it for now, but I just realized since my mind that works the way that it does, she will eventually catch on. She is way too young to understand why the word "meat" makes me laugh when they talk about showing it to people, etc.

On a different note but still about cooking, last night for dinner I planned to make pasta with peas that I have made before. I made the sauce, cooked the pasta, and when I went to grab the frozen peas I realized that we didn't have any. We did have spinach, so I substituted. After all, they are both green vegetables so it should be fine, right? It turned out ok, but none of the kids would touch it. I ate it to prove a point while my husband claimed he had had a big lunch. As much as I love to bake, cooking meals makes me tense. If we could all just stop eating and just take a pill I would be much happier (I'm not sure if he still feels this way, but I know at least at one time Delton felt the same way).

P.S. why does Chef Ramsay's name always make me think of condoms? My husband has no such word association with his name. Every single time they say it though, a picture of a condom pops into my head. That combined with all the talk about the meat made for a very entertaining show even with all the screaming and name calling.