Posted on 08/19/2019 6:00:04 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
I love to cook my own meals. I know everything in them and know they are properly cooked.
I’m so sorry for you and your dog. I went through this with TWO Black Labs, and then my Yellow ended up with Lyme’s Disease, which attacked her kidneys.
I know all about cooking for the dogs and ‘trying to get the dog to eat.’
I LOVE the breed, but I will never have another Lab. It’s too heartbreaking!
Healing prayers for you all.
Haven’t we had this ‘chicken conversation’ before? LOL! :)
I'm sure the Dems will pass new laws and regulations to make sure people cook and eat two-thirds of their meals at home. It's no different than the argument for car fuel mileage standards -- "You are spending too much on gasoline and you need a high-mileage car. The price of new cars will go way up to save you money."
It's the same for home energy efficiency standards -- "You spend too much on electricity to cool your home. The price of new houses will go way up to save you money."
Leftist busy-bodies all know how you should live your life, right down to how many times you should eat out.
Just to chip in here:
I do 95% of the cooking in our home. Every now and again, I’ll screw something up, maybe 15% of the time. No shame in that. So, on those nights we’ll send out for a rescue.
But depending on take out/delivery most nights? No wonder there’s so many fat Americans.
I have both an instant pot and a cast iron skillet. I make extensive use of both. I have done pork roast in the instant pot, and I love it. Use the saute function to sear the pork roast on all sides, about 4 minutes a side. Add about a cup and a half of chicken bouillon to deglaze the pot. Put the seared pork roast back in, put on the lid, about 30 minutes or so and you have an excellent and tasty pork roast. And you can use the drippings to make a delicious pan gravy.
My biggest downfall is the fact that I cook for a living. Some days, after I come home from work, I don’t want to cook anymore. Thankfully, our economic situation does not allow me to go out or to buy stuff from a fast food place very often, so whether I’m tired or not, I have to cook.
I also have a little bit of a restriction in that two of my kids cannot process iron enriched food, like pasta. It kind of limits things sometimes, but we deal with it.
Liz! You are needed over here, STAT! ;)
Love the trend.
My wife and I never eat out unless we are on the road. Glad others do every day. Great for our business. I always recognized that we were not only competing with other businesses but with Kraft Mac and cheese or Romain noodles.
Now people aren’t even cooking those.
What drives me crazy is the snowflakes are paying some idiot to deliver food to them from a fast food joint. That’s just about as lazy as you can get, IMO.
And unless you’re cooking something very basic, or in very large quantities, it isn’t that much cheaper to cook at home.
“Cooking is at least good because you know what you are eating.”
That’s true, but also what makes Keto difficult, as people do like to eat out once in a while.
Hopefully that will start changing and Keto-certified meals will show up, just like you see heart-killing options.
I cook for Beau & I at least 360 days out of the year.
We will go to our local Steak House (superb) for special occasions and we’ve started a Summer Tradition with my Mom to try new Supper Clubs around our state each summer.
An occasional stop at Culver’s for a Fish Sammich if we are running errands in town, but other than that. Nope.
And those ‘meals’ that you can order and cook at home? I cannot believe the price that people will pay for that ridiculous ‘convenience.’
I get burned out on cooking from time to time, but I can’t imagine eating out for meals this many times a week! As another poster pointed out, it might be time to adjust my portfolio if restaurant sales are becoming that lucrative! ;)
I have NO problem taking advantage of the stupidity of others. And...what happens when the music stops and people can’t feed themselves? Yikes!
(TIK: May be of interest to your ping list?)
And get this.......D/I/W not only cooks her own meals......she grows the ingredients herself.
I’m going to have to remember your pork roast instructions. I haven’t made one of those in the instant pot just yet. I usually cook my pork roasts in a crockpot overnight.
Love love love my instant pot though. Less than an hour for cooked whole chicken + fixings. What’s not to love when you’re tired at the end of the day. Plus, leftovers!
“Cast iron skillet...
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.”
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Olive oil doesn’t coat my cast iron skillet, it just rolls around not sticking. OTOH, butter does coat my skillet. ;)
Sorry, when cooking for 2 or 3, youlose much of the economy of scale, that’s a simple fact.
Me too. Cooking can be really easy given all the prepared food you can buy at the grocery store. Its also cheaper and healthier. It doesn’t have to be anything terribly elaborate to be good.
For example last night I had a chicken breast I had marinated for a day in lime salad dressing. Just take it from the tupperware in the fridge and pop it in the oven. Delicious.
“... her expertise is creative leftovers.”
I make a pretty good rotting vegetable skillet.
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