Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 27, 2022

Killjoy

Arlo is the “hand grenade in the kitchen” type.

♬And she’ll promise you more than the garden of Eden / Then she’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding♬ — Billy Joel

No just wash the dirty ones for Him

That’s why I refuse to cook at home if I can avoid it!

I looked it up. All this time, I thought ratatouille was only an animated movie about rats.But I now have learned that Ratatouille niçoise is a French dish featuring assorted vegetables!

I am with Janis. How can you cook in a cluttered kitchen? I would hate for anyone to leave my kitchen in such a state in the name of “cooking”!

BTW, I am a middle-aged man – just to forestall any misogynistic comments.

Time to visit “W”

If I’m making something complicated, I wash things as I go along.

Mark Twain once said that French cooking was an elegant way of preparing garbage.

ka-zing

She has a point.

Zing

Yeah – having been a bachelor – - I’d say that “one pot” meals are a lot more of the course than getting every utensil in the kitchen dirty

I have a few recipes, that when done right by the instruction, seem to use every pan in the house. Chicken Tetrazzini was he first of those recipes I tried. The meal was a success, even the kids loved it. Others, like my Marsala Chicken are real simple, takes one pan for the meal, sides do not count.(only 1 more pan for steamed asparagus). I spoil my wife, by being the cook(easy when you work at home).

My wife cooks on the weekends, I spend Monday morning cleaning up.

Whoever cooks at our place has to wash whatever doesn’t fit into the dishwasher, after the not cooking ones filled it with the glass-, dinner- and silverware.

I usually reuse pans and bowles while preparing and time my cooking so I can finish that while something simmers or is in the oven.

I leave them dirty for monday morning when the cleaner comes

Two points:

1. I won’t eat anything that begins with “rat,” even if it is actually all vegetables. Bad karma.

2. As I have before, why cook? God made restaurants for a reason.

By the way, I thought this strip seemed familiar. I just checked. It’s a nugget from the gold mine of 2019.

If a rat can do it how hard could it be?

It’s a guy thing!

The last family on the block without a dishwasher.

Good cooks also clean up while they’re cooking…..

“Yes, six more please.”

(well, she DID ask)

I don’t recall anything in ratatouille that requires whisking . . . .

Maybe a rat chef to cook it right…

Sarcasm at its best. Go, Janis!

I would not clean up after a cook like Arlo. He can clean up his own mess.

That’s what my dad said when I tried to cook in his kitchen. And to make matters worse, nobody except me liked what I made!

My brother used to cook this way at the family cabin, and the kids dreaded having dish duty when he cooked; all dishes had to be done by hand at our cabin.

Since I hate zucchini, when my mom made it, we called it “rata-phooey”…

Ratatouille? Why are you beating something then? All you need is a good knife, a cutting board, olive oil, herbs, a 4, 3, 2, 1, 1 (four tomatoes, three courgettes, 2 aubergines, 1 red pepper, one onion) salt, pepper, and a good cooking pot. What the heck are you doing, Arlo? Heretic! (Yes, I am Southern French, where ratatouille was born).

A rerun from July 2,2019. I enjoyed it both times, at least.