How Do/Will You Eat at Home?

[Jenn! 918]

We never use the kitchen/dining room table either. Always the coffee table in the living room (while watching TV of course ). In Morocco they would sit on the couches that wrapped around the room while eating at the table in the center. I can't wait until we can get one of those!

[RAKASA 0]

We never use the kitchen/dining room table either. Always the coffee table in the living room (while watching TV of course ). In Morocco they would sit on the couches that wrapped around the room while eating at the table in the center. I can't wait until we can get one of those!

*this is how we do it*... (song in my head)... but it is... we eat at the coffee table in front of the tv. We are also searching (& saving) for our "Moroccan Salon". My dH's family home also has the wrap-around couches w/ low tables where we'd eat (usually w/ the tv on). They also have a "fancy salon" more for entertaining, but we'd eat in the other room if it was just the immediate family.

[honeyblonde 0]

We have our computers side by side on a table made from an old door covered in immitation leather laying over two 2-drawer file cabinets. We normally eat dinner there because we only have two barstools and a normal height dining room table, so eating at the table is awkward.

If we have my son and his girlfriend and their kids over, we eat at the coffee table in our bedroom in front of the couch in there.

I wanted a Moroccan dining room but now it looks like we'll be moving overseas in the next few months so unless we can find a place wherever we end up that has one I doubt I'll get that for a while. I had already designed it and planned the addition to the house but I guess that's not gonna happen now.

We don't usually eat with our fingers unless it's finger food. I tend to prefer a spoon while he almost always uses a fork except for soup. We usually drink something different most of the time so have separated cups, but he does drink my water a lot. That drives me nuts because he'll empty the glass but not go refill it sometimes, or he'll drink it after a smoke so then it stinks.

[MrsAmera 41]

Moving overseas? humina what?!?!

[aya*abouelnasr 0]

My hubby and I eat communally, tho it was a hard habit for me to get used to at first. Now, if we visit other Arabic people and happen to eat with them, they naturally assume that because I am American I need my own plate. Imagine their surprise when I forgo the plate and dig into the communal plate with ZEST. I LOVE>> Mid Eastern cooking!! My husband also feeds me, especially if he thinks I am not eating enough for his satisfaction.

[caybee 21]

In the medinas in Morocco there are traditional earthen drinking vessels that everyone shares, and they're painted with black patterns. They have a strong smell. Hubby told me the smell is from a traditional sort of disinfectant. Is that in the black "paint"? Anyone know what it is?

[tammy2688 1]

See these little tales of eating habits show how much love we have in our relationships .

Ya my husband and I ate together during my trips there. I always gave him the first bite of my food. Our wedding video shows him feeding me but me just eating like a greedy child...lol.

But ya its really nice to have such sweet intimate meals, really brings the love back every time.

I can't wait to double dip and not feel guilty for it.

[Aymsgirl 0]

I always lay our own plates out and somehow my husband finds his ways to the common bowls. Last night we had all of the ingredients for tacos and also rice, beans and a salad. He ended up eating out of the salad bowl, meat bowl and rice and bean bowl. I thought to myself I better join in if I want any so we ate out of them together. Once I made mozzerella cheese sticks and he put the plate in front of himself and the kids said so cute and quietly...may we have just one cheese stick. He just kind of took over! It is according to the place and who is eating with us how we eat our food.

[Hanna&Mohamed 0]

In Egypt We also ate on a small table.When I first went there Mohameds mother made sure I had my own plate to eat with .Always she has been that way. Now the last time I was there MOhamed and I ate off the same plate. When I went to his aunts house they always made sure I had my own plate and his grandmothers would never let the plate be empty.

[sara..... 371]

WOW this tread has brought back some really happy memories for me when we were in Kashmir.......The first meal we had with Perviz family his mom gave us all plates and glasses and just my mom and i a spoon...

so the first meal everyone looked uncomfortable but we all ate sitting on the floor with a plastic cover put on the floor to sit the food on and they kept saying im sorry it is not like ur home (after living in pakistan this was normal for us lol) so when the second meal came.......as soon as perviz had served me i looked at his plate and at mine very nicely took his piece of chicken off of his plate and started eating it while my mom was using her fingers to eat rice just like they were he sat there stunned everyone had stopped talking then perviz started laughing so hard i thought tears would fall........that was the very last time we were treated any different ahaha but i did notice that towards the end of our stay he started making sure he got to his chicken piece before i could lol

[ayesha4akram 0]

Individual plates, but sometimes I'll take something from his plate, and vice-versa

[Krissy! 0]

Will probably use individual plates/bowls because that's how we ate at his family's.

I WOULD not mind eating communally since I alway think that definitely would save on washing dishes! (I tend to eat right out of the cooking vessel anyways)

This topic brought back great memories: the first meal was a little awkward (because I wasn't feeling well), but the second, third, etc meal was great -- they were smiling and laughing I guess when I started taking things and eating certain ways. Later the SO said that the family has been talking about it, being reminded "ah, K's mansaf" awww (now I get envious whenever SO mentions they're having mansaf!)

My SO also from time to time feed me, makes me go all yaya-gaga

I often wonder if he'll actually LET me cook an entire meal for us. (the entire time I was with him, he insists to do the prepping and cooking while I direct him... eeh). Actually I don't mind neither way

My own family half of the time eats at the coffee table, so I'm pretty sure that'll be a habit that'd continue to carry on. I bet we'll have a nice formal dining table too (I would insist on it since I enjoy entertaining). I'm curious about those Moroccan wrap around couches... anyone got a picture of those?

[Jenn! 918]

I'm curious about those Moroccan wrap around couches... anyone got a picture of those?

It's like this:

[Krissy! 0]

I'm curious about those Moroccan wrap around couches... anyone got a picture of those?

It's like this:

Thanks Jenn! Those are kind of what we sat on at his family's. Never gave them a term.

*pondering if such furniture will be in our future home too....*

[amal 4]

Here's what we do.

Mansaf goes on a platter and we both eat off the same platter.

If its soupy, we get our own dish

sandwiches, we have on our own plates

Fries and things like that, we usually have on 1 plate and share

Bread, share

Salad (chopped up veggies with lemon juice etc) 2 spoons but eat from the same bowl.

Salad (lettuce salads) our own plates

Maftoul goes on a platter and we both eat from it

Ma7she we both get our own plate

so i guess the best way to say it is .. casserole type dishes and french fry type stuff we share

soups and sandwiches we get our own...

drinks..any drinks... I don't have a problem if any of my family drinks from my glass as long as they're not sick and don't backwash. Problem is that I usually drink it all before anyone has the chance to ask for a drink. A lot of times, hubster will give me whats left of his drinks if he doesn't want them anymore.