Bring Back the Calor Kosangas Housewife of the Year

CDfm

Domestic bliss.

" Thats a fine cake there Nora" "sure I only had the one egg a nob of butter and a cup of flour" Wow.

Every women who entered was a domestic godess could out cook Nigella Lawson on a single hob and feed a family of four on 50p.

Thats a hard act to follow.

Where have they gone?

Snowie

why isnt there a house husband of the year award, i feel discriminated against

CDfm

if the housecoat fits.............

Dr Galen

in a way I'd say I agree with you here OP. I think these days it's bot seen as cool to be a housewife, but I say it's a great thing.

Any women who decides to stay at home, raise a family and manage a home deserves mucho respecto in my book. It's not an easy job at all. I know I'd be ok at it, but I also know many women who would put me to shame.

Thats not to say that women who go out and have careers, do well for themselves and make their way in the world should be maligned either. Again, more power to them. It's certainly harder being a women in many fields, so if a girl can make a go of it, I say hats off!

Gran Hermano

Did they not cheapen it by changing the title to a more PC 'home-maker of the year' towards the end?

Otis Driftwood

Lol,I had totally forgotten about this "contest"

What did they get if they won?

Wasnt it a new Stanley range or something ridiculous like that?

Teferi

CDfm wrote: »

Every women who entered was a domestic godess could out cook Nigella Lawson on a single hob and feed a family of four on 50p.

Yeah but can they make fish heads sexy while they're cooking? Because Nigella could.

CDfm

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Did they not cheapen it by changing the title to a more PC 'home-maker of the year' towards the end?

Yes they did but didnt widen the ingredients to include roadkill. I also had reservations about entering a competition against women who have licenced shotguns.

JC 2K3

Mystik Monkey wrote: »

Any women who decides to stay at home, raise a family and manage a home deserves mucho respecto in my book. It's not an easy job at all. I know I'd be ok at it, but I also know many women who would put me to shame.

I don't understand this attitude.

If both husband and wife are working, then who runs the house?

The answer is obviously, both of them when they're not working.

It is often made out to be a hard job etc. But personally I feel this is an insult to those families in which both parents work and manage to raise a family and manage a home. Housework is something which is managed perfectly well by many families with two working parents, and therefore the idea that it is as difficult as a full time job is laughable.

I think they deserve respect for their right to do whatever they want with their life. But I wouldn't go any further than that.

CDfm

My girlfriend can cook a week of meals and freeze em in the time it would take me to go to the chinese and collect a takeaway. She can just look at a kitchen and it tidies itself. Teenage party animals behave and tidy up in the morning. She can discuss obscure cuts of meat with a butcher with the skill of a zoologist. I swear she DNA tests the meat for traceability. She can check fish for freshness by looking them in the eye and tell where it was caught by the colour of the scales.

Really and I can do none of this stuff.

EDIT For Christmas she is thinking of doing a turducken

Euro_Kraut

JC 2K3 wrote: »

I don't understand this attitude.

If both husband and wife are working, then who runs the house?

The answer is obviously, both of them when they're not working.

It is often made out to be a hard job etc. But personally I feel this is an insult to those families in which both parents work and manage to raise a family and manage a home. Housework is something which is managed perfectly well by many families with two working parents, and therefore the idea that it is as difficult as a full time job is laughable.

I think they deserve respect for their right to do whatever they want with their life. But I wouldn't go any further than that.

You are forgetting a tiny element of housework - Children!

If both parents are working they must outsource the most challenging part of housework. Being a housemarker if not about ironing and keeping the house clean (which as you rightly pointed out can be done quite easily by people in full time work)

CDfm

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

You are forgetting a tiny element of housework - Children!

Thats modern life

ChewChew

My sister gave up work, moved waaaay out into the country and is now a housewife. She loves every bit of it but by god is it hard work. She has 2 children and another on the way and when that one is born will have 3 kids under the age of 3.

She does everything in the house and is of the attitude that her hubbie works long hours so when he comes home why should he have to clean the floors or wash the bathroom.

He would do it as he is a very decent man. But she just has it all done by the time he gets home so he spends the evenings with the kids and relaxing.

She also bakes for him every Friday :eek: damn her as I have no intention of every being like that :pac:

CDfm

ChewChew wrote: »

She also bakes for him every Friday :eek: damn her as I have no intention of every being like that :pac:

Am I right in thinking you cant bake and its a source of shame and that you really would love a Waterford Stanley range and to be hobnobing with the likes of Bono's wife on the Late Late if you won.

ChewChew

Oh I can bake. And cook. And clean. And, I can even sew! I just have no desire to do them for anyone but me

CDfm

Have you been snapped up yet or would a competition win under your belt enhance your appeal:D

ChewChew

CDfm wrote: »

Have you been snapped up yet or would a competition win under your belt enhance your appeal:D

I lol'd. It is just me and my purse tucked firmly under my belt and I have every intention of it staying that way :pac: but I do make a mean chocolate cake and here is one I prepared earlier

CDfm

Nice cake BTW. You have the makings of a GC Icon there. Did you know that there is a private members group Mothers of the GC Forum out there with their own version of Rock, Paper , Scissors called "Nurse, Teacher, Guard " -you wouldn't happen to be in one of those occupations would ya?

ChewChew

CDfm wrote: »

Nice cake BTW. You have the makings of a GC Icon there. Did you know that there is a private members group Mothers of the GC Forum out there with their own version of Rock, Paper , Scissors called "Nurse, Teacher, Guard " -you wouldn't happen to be in one of those occupations would ya?

heh. . not quite

CDfm

ChewChew wrote: »

heh. . not quite

Whoops - well I think with chocolate brownies like that you are a winner;)

ChewChew

CDfm wrote: »

Whoops - well I think with chocolate brownies like that you are a winner;)

I'm one of the wonderful public sector employees and white chocolate is baaaaaaad

CDfm

ChewChew wrote: »

I'm one of the wonderful public sector employees and white chocolate is baaaaaaad

Is there no end to your talents:D

ChewChew

CDfm wrote: »

Is there no end to your talents:D

You have to ask? :rolleyes: GTFO

CDfm

Well it looks like Chew Chew exceedded herself with the chocolate cake and is going for the win.

But something tells me there is a challenger out there;)

ChewChew

I am not participating in any challenge.

I am working on my beer gut, I might shave back my hair line to fit in, I eat cake rather then make it (unless I run out) and I enjoy soccer.

Leave me be dammit!!


:P

nedtheshed

nedtheshed wrote: »

Wasnt it a new Stanley range or something ridiculous like that?

Do you know how much they cost?

When it comes to kitchenware lust, they are pretty bloody hot.
Through in as much Le Creuset as I can haul, and I'd happily play lovely Mamie for the TV.

In real life my bloke would have to be fulfilling his traditional role, of honing his bod by toiling endless in the fields like a big manly man. To get the special treatment.

Otis Driftwood

Oh Im aware how pricey they are.

My parents have one.

It was just looking back on it now after all these years made me appreciate what a truly unique contest it was.

CDfm

I am posting this Waterford Stanley link - who knows if the mods will take it down as pornographic

http://www.waterfordcookers.com/

CDfm

CDfm wrote: »

I am posting this Waterford Stanley link - who knows if the mods will take it down as pornographic

http://www.waterfordcookers.com/

Oh puhlease!!

Porn is supposed to be about what is out of your league in real life.

You need to be posting this....

http://www.aga.ie/contentv3/


Goes off to mentally superimpose images from the link on her kitchen.

CDfm

Moonbaby wrote: »

Goes off to mentally superimpose images from the link on her kitchen.

Moonbaby - did you get overly excited at the prospect?

Have you whipped up a menu for the final yet ?

shellyboo

ChewChew wrote: »

Oh I can bake. And cook. And clean. And, I can even sew! I just have no desire to do them for anyone but me

I'm the complete opposite! I can also do all those things but wouldn't be holed doing them for myself. When I'm at home with the parents, I cook and clean like a demon.

I'd actually quite like to be a housewife and be kept in the style to which I have become accustomed. I could write a novel on the side or something to keep my brain from seizing up

limklad

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

why isnt there a house husband of the year award, i feel discriminated against

Put a dress on and you fit right in.

CDfm

limklad wrote: »

Put a dress on and you fit right in.

as if he needs any encouragement

hiya snowie

SugarHigh

shellyboo wrote: »

I'm the complete opposite! I can also do all those things but wouldn't be holed doing them for myself. When I'm at home with the parents, I cook and clean like a demon.

I'd actually quite like to be a housewife and be kept in the style to which I have become accustomed. I could write a novel on the side or something to keep my brain from seizing up

Are you a lady of a certain age?

CDfm

You have to say Boo 3 times and she may answer you

Snowie

CDfm wrote: »

as if he needs any encouragement

hiya snowie

:eek:

pffffffffffft

I've no interest in buying or wearuing womens clothing. besides thats the womans jobs....

tho my kitchen will have one of these in http://www.waterfordcookers.com/Products/Rangecookers/1558.htm

and my gf can have a little electric hob in the corner...

CDfm

What would ya be prepaed to do fo the Waterford Stanley

Snowie

CDfm wrote: »

What would ya be prepaed to do fo the Waterford Stanley

sell my sole to bank of ireland of course :pac:

CDfm

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

sell my sole to bank of ireland of course :pac:

Would you sell your soul to Blaithnid Ni Choffaigh

Snowie

*shivers*

gingers have no soles imagine what eric cartmen would do if he found out :eek: it does even bare thaught....

your sick!!!

Nevyn

CDfm wrote: »

Domestic bliss.

" Thats a fine cake there Nora" "sure I only had the one egg a nob of butter and a cup of flour" Wow.

Mug cake

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Cake_in_a_Mug

trout

Thaedydal wrote: »

Mug cake

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Cake_in_a_Mug

Just the thing to entertain the buzzards on a rainy bank holiday ... looking forward to trying this one out.

Bagsy not cleaning the mugs afterwards though :cool:

CDfm

IT has a certain charm doncha think :eek:

Dr Galen

Thaedydal wrote: »

Mug cake

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Cake_in_a_Mug

Thaed = Legend

CDfm

Dr Galen wrote: »

Thaed = Legend

But would it feed a family of 4 and have enough left over to be produced again at a coffee morning.

The Calor Kosangas Housewife of the Year could do all that while plucking chickens.

Dr Galen

maybe we need some GC awards........

CDfm

ME ME ME ( Im going to regret this)

Snowie

nah kahannie wins or how ever you spell it he dilivered a child, or well helped it break out.,...

CDfm

dangerous territory -did he carry it for nine months.

something more PC the GC Ironing and Vacuuming awaard goes to :eek:

Nevyn

trout wrote: »

Just the thing to entertain the buzzards on a rainy bank holiday ... looking forward to trying this one out.

Bagsy not cleaning the mugs afterwards though :cool:

Just make sure you grease them up before hand, the mugs that is and then afterwards put them in the sink and pour boiling water from the kettle on them,
easy stuff.

banshee_bones

Moonbaby wrote: »

Do you know how much they cost?

When it comes to kitchenware lust, they are pretty bloody hot.
Through in as much Le Creuset as I can haul, and I'd happily play lovely Mamie for the TV.

In real life my bloke would have to be fulfilling his traditional role, of honing his bod by toiling endless in the fields like a big manly man. To get the special treatment.

FACT!!!! Couldnt agree with ya more :pac: