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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so weird. OP, your husband really wants to ban his parents because he doesn't get meat grilled the way he likes? Is that right? If it is every Saturday then I get it. But once a month? [/quote]

Agreed. This is ridiculous, OP, and now you're off on a tangent about your tasty soup and your apricots and cheese....Please go post on cooking web sites instead for that kind of detail.

I don't think you can even see past your perfections to realize how much both you and your husband utterly come off in your posts as valuing your perfectly cooked foods over your relationship with FIL. As someone else noted, let him grill burgers and dogs.

You set yourself up for this dilemma, do your realize that? Prepping for 36 hours for a meal for JUST your family and the in-laws, when you already [i]knew [/i]that FIL would do a bad job, was basically setting yourselves and him up for failure. Can you possibly recognize how passive-aggressive THAT action was on your part? Cut it out. Stop the extensive prep for meals when he's coming, and let the man have his fun. Save the gourmet stuff for yourselves and give FIL a break and treat him like a relative who deserves some respect -- not like some lousy sous-chef you just cannot quite bring yourself to fire from your perfect kitchen.

Those of us whose parents are dead, like me, or whose parents are far away and too ill to ever visit again, like my husband, would LOVE to have a dad or FIL come here and burn some food. Please, OP, get some perspective here. Will your husband be happier when his dad [i]can't [/i]come visit any more and you can have all your perfectly cooked food never again ruined by him? Yeah, that'll fix the problem![/quote]

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