Cooking Rut Cartoon
It’s time to get creative again and help get out of any cooking rut you might be in. I have a feeling many home cooks including myself, get into a cooking funk once in a while. (See my blog post here and the Reluctant Gourmet Cooking Community Forum responses).
I thought it would be fun to put RG into a cooking rut situation in this cartoon but I need your help coming up with a funny caption for it. If you have ever felt like you were cooking the same 6 or 7 meals week after week, month after month, now’s your opportunity to comment in the form of a cartoon caption. Just post your response below.
What is RG thinking?
Go to the bottom of this blog and post your reply in the “Leave a reply”. Add as many captions as you like but keep them clean and be respectful of your fellow visitors. Any caption that I feel is inappropriate will be deleted.
This is not a contest but….
This is not a contest but I will pick my favorite caption and the author will receive a free copy of a new ecookbook I’m working on with Chef David Nelson and soon to be released. The eCookbook is all about cooking potatoes and will feature over 100 incredible potato recipes and the secrets to preparing them.
I will also make the cartoon available on various items like tee shirts and cooking aprons at Café Press. This means all entries become the property of The Reluctant Gourmet™. Please read Small Print below.
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on May 8th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Cooking too big of a job? Do down home cooking.
on May 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
You ever get that sinking down feeling?
on May 8th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Help! I think I used the wrong kind of mushrooms!!!!
on May 8th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
(1)If that lobster sticks its head out again, I’ll wallop it!
(2) I wish they’d never heard of Gordon Ramsay (GR) - bloody Sea Bass again!
(3) If my Yorkshire Puddings sagged like this floor, I’d be out of a job!
(4) I always have to cook the same thing - the floor has got a better learning curve than me.
on May 8th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I need to subscribe to the “Reluctant Gourmet” to get above this.
on May 8th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I’ve really got to stop taste-testing my gourmet meals!! I have a feeling I’m gaining too much weight!
on May 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
where the heck did I leave those roller blades?
on May 8th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
1. Rut! what rut?
2. A man designed this kitchen.
3. Okay, I will quit designer school and I will go to cooking school.
4. How am I to cook pasta, if I can not taste the seasoning.
on May 8th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I think I’ll try the high altitude directions for a change.
on May 8th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I was cheering because my souffle didn’t sink.
on May 8th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Why? They won’t eat it anyway.
on May 8th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Help…. I’ve fallen and my souffle won’t get up!
on May 8th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
The newest kitchen design innovation: kitchen skate park. Dual purpose cutting board/skateboard sold separately.
on May 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Maybe a nice roast tomorrow?
Hmmmm, I’ve always wanted to cook in those high heels.
Hmmmm, maybe if I get out some of those old cook books to stand on.
I just HAVE to get one of those short ovens.
on May 9th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I knew I was cooking “over my head” but I didn’t think it was this bad!
Where’s my kitchen step-stool??
on May 9th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Momma warned me there would be days like this!
on May 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Slip, sliding along!
on May 9th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
My mother told me there would be days like this!
Where’s RG when I need him?
on May 10th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
If I don’t start getting more creative with my cooking, I’m going to have to install a new kitchen floor!
on May 11th, 2008 at 9:25 am
All dishes look very delicious! I am interested in the food culture of your country. And I support your site.
on May 11th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
This is how a jockey cooks???
on May 12th, 2008 at 5:41 am
OOPS` I maybe overdid the reduction
this time.
on May 19th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
it is a cool cartoon with out the caption
what do u think the cartoon caption
sould be RG
<3 maddie jones
on May 21st, 2008 at 11:34 am
This chef is not in a rut, he is in a Dali painting -if he was in a rut he would have been shown in bed surrounded by food, fast asleep with his arm still stirring a pot labelled “The Same Old Stuff”
on May 21st, 2008 at 4:25 pm
“I’m reducing with my sauce.”
on May 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
“What’s this house shoe soup!”
on May 23rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Feel Like a Well-Rounded Cook?
on May 24th, 2008 at 10:18 am
They warned me about a possible sink hole !!!
on May 24th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Now, if only I’d kept last week’s pound cake, I’d have had something solid to stand on…
on May 25th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I told them I wanted a sunken living room, those idiots !!!
on May 28th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I’ve always wanted to double the size of my kitchen, but I didn’t ask for this!
on May 29th, 2008 at 12:39 am
See this is why women belong in the kitchen.
on May 29th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Ever get that sinking feeling, just before the Guest’s arrive?
#2 And I thought it would be fun living on a boat.
on May 31st, 2008 at 8:54 pm
“ggeeezzzzz, seems the older I get the harder it is to do anything. Who lowered my floor?????”
on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 am
Kitchen Ruts- they’re not just for breakfast anymore!
on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 am
Got Creative Kitchen Rut?
on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
Kitchen rut gotcha down?
on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:58 am
Same ole’ recipes got ya in a rut?
Same ole’ meals got ya in a rut?
on June 2nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
“I’m in a cooking rut and I can’t get out.”
on June 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 am
When I told the carpenters that I would like to “raise my cooking to a new level” I didn’t mean to “raise the kitchen” too!
on June 5th, 2008 at 10:24 am
i dont think im a big enough man to be a cook
on June 21st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
“I guess my mom was right, I would be a good short order cook”
on August 30th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Hmmm.. That’s the last time I buy “Portabella” mushrooms from that hippie down the road. Now if only I can find my feet, I can finish this bisque…
on September 9th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Aunty Em! Aunty Em! I’m sinking! I’m sinking!
on October 17th, 2008 at 8:08 am
They told me cooking on a submarine would be hard!
Why you need a subfloor under rubber tile.
on October 19th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
“i ‘ll never Learn, thats the LAST time i trust my brother in law to replace my kitchen floor!!”
on January 22nd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Cool !!, I love the kitchen floor.
on February 10th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
The recipe called for long grain rice.
on April 13th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I think i’m in over my head!