Posted on 08/19/2019 6:00:04 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Hmmm.... what is taco bell stock going for these days?
Just tonight I sliced up an onion, some mushrooms, a little garlic and a pound of sausage. Coated the skillet with olive oil and tossed in the ingredients with a little pepper and hot sauce.
So good and so easy to make.
Cast iron skillet rinsed clean under just a little hot water and a bristle brush and now it's ready for some eggs and bacon tomorrow morning.
I live in the country. I have to cook and I enjoy doing it.
Just remember the bachelor cook’s motto: Hot grease kills germs.
Also, a dog can help with the cleanup. Usually happy to, in fact.
I don’t like to cook, I’m in the 90 percent unfortunately. If it were just me, I’d make a big pot of home made soup and get 3 to 4 dinners out of it.
Mr. Roo Roo isn’t into soup or leftovers. For a while he was actually cooking at least 2 to 3 dinners per week. He doesn’t cook anymore which is irritating—He’s retired and I still work full time. Mehhhhh
I think a lot of this is habit. You get use to buying meals out so that’s what you do. You don’t have to be a chef to fry a hamburger and cook some veggies. I probably spend less than 30 minutes a day cooking breakfast and dinner combined.
To make it even easier, one can microwave a TV dinner. That takes a few button pushes and that’s it. Truly the stuff of sci-fi when you think about it.
There’s already a cooking thread on FR.
I’ll ping you the next time I see it as I cannot remember the name of the list holder.
The dog enjoys me cooking for her.
She is ailing from cancer and some other things that have suppressed the desire to eat. Chicken and rice with kibble and a appetite stimulant help.
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That pooch is well loved.
I cook from scratch most days and healthy things are on the menu. We'll have a big salad with bbq’d chicken breast and fresh produce from the garden, easy on the dressing.
The older we get, the less our appetite for food. My two weaknesses are Szechuan food and Vietnamese bahn mi. It's a trek for those items so we stay slim and trim. :)
Whole Foods has a good frozen food section. Can also buy single serving desserts that are prepared there. Have been craving a piece of Hummingbird cake with cream cheese frosting but the closest store is two hours away.
Cooking is at least good because you know what you are eating.
I like to cook, but I can’t say that cooking for one - for dinner particularly - costs me more than going out. I can get a good meal with meat, fresh vegetables, starch & soup or salad at a local diner for about $15. But the portions are such that it almost always serves me for two to three more meals as well (doggie bag). That comes to $5 or less per meal, and no initial use of my gas or electricity. That’s not even counting the utility energy in cleanup of the means of production and serving of the meal.
Most home dinner meals I cook (other than pork chops) are batches - chili, soups, casseroles, spaghetti sauce and the like - where I get one meal initially and then the rest goes in pints or quarts into the freezer for future use. Pork chops are frozen in single zip lock bags and taken out and thawed as needed - usually one at a time. Chicken is similarly frozen immediately, or cooked immediately, Either way, when cooked there are leftovers I must religiously consume on a timely basis.
My biggest food losses are with fresh fruits and vegetables - salad greens most of all. My consumption rate never seems to match what is needed for the quantity bought before part of the purchase spoils - most of the time something spoils before I use it.
But if I am purchasing things things in a dining out fashion, I eat what I bought and nothing is leftover or thrown away.
If I were a household of 3-4 persons, I think cooking at home more often for dinner would be more efficient. In my single case I think it sometimes is not.
Actually since I went Keto, I wanted to take more charge of what I eat, and the only way is to cook yourself, and I’m finding that I actually enjoy it.
Do you go to the diners in the mornings for breakfast?
ude!
You got it right.
Cook big batches on the weekends and put it up properly for the week’s work.
On weekends I cook LARGE and I have those good plastic containers (glass is better) so I can freeze or refrigerate for the week ahead. I’ll also chop a big container of lettuce for salad.
I do a lot of things wrong.
But I eat right and I sleep right.
Best decision I ever made.
“Do you go to the diners in the mornings for breakfast?”
Sometimes but not most of the time.
Any time you see an article implying something bad about America or Americans, it’s likely fabricated by people who don’t like this country.
Having retired and relocated, I am pressing my largely untapped cooking skills like I haven’t since college. Enjoy it? Not really but I figure I will get better with practice.
I can cook soup, fry eggs, make toast, pop things in the microwave, etc. It’s not much but it’s a start.
As I’ve said before, those who don’t like this country have shown a lack of mental capacity to articulate, and probably to understand, why they have such an opinion.
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