Shocked that a meal and a small side (bread or salad) is winning. Especially since bread and salad are polar opposites and do not belong on the same thing.
Does a brick if cheese count as a small side? Need more info
One of my favorite go to meals is a grilled ribeye (three minutes per side on an open grill on its highest setting after it it comes up to temp while closed) with asparagus, a kale and avocado salad, and if I’m not on keto, a baked potato and toast.
In bulk! On sunday I made six quarts of chili (one pot and one pan), and ten quarts of chicken soup (pressure cooker and pot) then freeze a bunch of each. Wednesday I defrosted a vacuum sealed package of spiral sliced ham from Easter time when they are on sale, heated pirogi, brussel sprouts, and fried onions in butter (microwave, pots, pans, and previously oven). Had soup for lunch a few days and salad for dinners.
@lseeber Guilty as charged! (Package deal with the OCD, I guess) I just reread my comment and was concerned that someone (not necessarily you) might go off on a wrong path when they saw a somewhat obscure word that starts with ped-. IYKWIM
I mostly cook eggs. I like eggs, they’re easy to cook and don’t take too long. I have ADD, and I’ve absolutely forgotten food was on the stove if it took too long.
I hate to cook. Burned out when raising my family. Two breakfasts, one at 4:30 included bacon, eggs, home made biscuits and gravy, 6:30 oatmeal and toast. Hot lunch when the kids were out of school because my four always had a couple of friends each in the yard all day, most of whom stayed for meat-and-three suppers. I’d rather live on pop tarts and Campbell’s soup.
The extent of my cooking is warming up usually-frozen food. Weekday breakfasts are a bagel or toast with cream cheese/peanut butter, weekday lunches are some sort of frozen entree, and I eat out the rest of the time. It’s great not wasting time in the kitchen and eating fresh, tasty, highly variable food for most meals.
I EAT ALL OF MY MEALS RAW!!! COOKING IS JUST A LIE THE ESTABLISHMENT TELLS US WE MUST DO THAT PREVENTS US FROM ABSORBING ALL THE NUTRIENTS FROM FOOD AND ENABLING OUR BRAINS TO IDENTIFY THEIR LIES!!! I EAT NOTHING BUT MEAT AND CHEESE, ALL OF IT RAW!!! BUY SOME EMERGENCY FOOD KITS AT MY STORE!!! THEY’RE GUARANTEED NOT COOKED!!! IT’S NOT JUST FOR THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE ANYMORE!!!
DHS takes a dim view when you don’t cook for your children. So I cooked. I hate to cook, I have no interest in cooking - now eating what someone else has cooked - I have no problem with that . Trouble is I am only interested in food when I am hungry and then am unwilling to spend a long time cooking. Have to go to the grocery store either with a list or when I am hungry to come home with enough.
Mom said she was a failure as a parent as none of her girls liked to cook, sew, etc. We all know how to do these things. We do them when necessary. I told her no she succeeded as a parent because we didn’t feel like we had to just because we were female; that gender did not make it our job.
Breakfast all year round. In the summer, I pretty much avoid the kitchen, which is on the west side of the house, for later meals, too hot in the late afternoon/early evening.
I grew up in a home where mom cooked meat and two sides. So, that’s what I do. Meat, rice or potatoes, and a veggie.
Tired of sandwiches at night (he makes them, they’re really good) or fast food, I made a meatloaf in the Ninja cooker (I got from the meh birthday party last month) last week. OMG, it was the best one I’ve made in years and didn’t heat the house while it was cooking, but it smelled damned good. Just heated up a can of beans as a side. I would have done corn on the cob as well, but fuck this heat.
@lisaviolet do corn on the cob in the microwave. You leave the husk on (protect your hands when you pull it off as the husk is HOT!!). I do about 1.5-2 min with one ear in a 1100 watt microwave. You’d have to google how long to do more ears at once.
When I cook it usually turns into some weird (but edible) form of faux stir fry… Or fried rice. Or something…
Where is the option for microwaving?
@spitfire6006006 That! I demand my rights!
Hamburgers.
… when I am hungry. Though sometimes I just like to eat.
Food. I cook mostly food.
Shocked that a meal and a small side (bread or salad) is winning. Especially since bread and salad are polar opposites and do not belong on the same thing.
Does a brick if cheese count as a small side? Need more info
@unksol I voted for that one and almost never eat salad, and rarely eat bread with dinner.
Usually the side is a plain vegetable.
Salad sucks. Demetri Martin has a great bit on it, but I can’t find it in thirty seconds.
A meal with a regular side, I guess? Or the side happens to be the main dish such as stir fried zucchini.
All of the above, except pressure cooking.
@RiotDemon What are you doing up at this time? A better question is, what am I doing up?!
@mfladd I fell asleep on the couch. Now is the time when I’m awake, but trying to get sleepy again.
This article talks about how split sleeping used to be normal. The article is too long for me to read, but the first minute or two sums it up nicely.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
@RiotDemon Omg, that’s me!
@mfladd that’s me 2-3 times a week. Sometimes more. Oops.
Cooking is when you dial the number on the menu and order L25, an egg roll, and wonton soup, right?
One of my favorite go to meals is a grilled ribeye (three minutes per side on an open grill on its highest setting after it it comes up to temp while closed) with asparagus, a kale and avocado salad, and if I’m not on keto, a baked potato and toast.
In bulk! On sunday I made six quarts of chili (one pot and one pan), and ten quarts of chicken soup (pressure cooker and pot) then freeze a bunch of each. Wednesday I defrosted a vacuum sealed package of spiral sliced ham from Easter time when they are on sale, heated pirogi, brussel sprouts, and fried onions in butter (microwave, pots, pans, and previously oven). Had soup for lunch a few days and salad for dinners.
I presume by meal and small side you meant entree and small side (since the side is part of the ‘meal’). That one.
@lseeber Then I guess the pedantry is dessert?
@lseeber Um, just to avoid any confusion:
ped·ant·ry
ˈped(ə)ntrē
noun
excessive concern with minor details and rules.
@macromeh I know what it means. It’s not like it’s never been done on meh before. Seems you might be a little pedantic yourself.
@lseeber Guilty as charged! (Package deal with the OCD, I guess) I just reread my comment and was concerned that someone (not necessarily you) might go off on a wrong path when they saw a somewhat obscure word that starts with ped-. IYKWIM
@macromeh I gotcha… IDKWYM !
I mostly cook eggs. I like eggs, they’re easy to cook and don’t take too long. I have ADD, and I’ve absolutely forgotten food was on the stove if it took too long.
I hate to cook. Burned out when raising my family. Two breakfasts, one at 4:30 included bacon, eggs, home made biscuits and gravy, 6:30 oatmeal and toast. Hot lunch when the kids were out of school because my four always had a couple of friends each in the yard all day, most of whom stayed for meat-and-three suppers. I’d rather live on pop tarts and Campbell’s soup.
@tngrannyd
The extent of my cooking is warming up usually-frozen food. Weekday breakfasts are a bagel or toast with cream cheese/peanut butter, weekday lunches are some sort of frozen entree, and I eat out the rest of the time. It’s great not wasting time in the kitchen and eating fresh, tasty, highly variable food for most meals.
Bunch of rice in a rice maker and buy small side dishes and such to spoon out for dinner. Easy.
I EAT ALL OF MY MEALS RAW!!! COOKING IS JUST A LIE THE ESTABLISHMENT TELLS US WE MUST DO THAT PREVENTS US FROM ABSORBING ALL THE NUTRIENTS FROM FOOD AND ENABLING OUR BRAINS TO IDENTIFY THEIR LIES!!! I EAT NOTHING BUT MEAT AND CHEESE, ALL OF IT RAW!!! BUY SOME EMERGENCY FOOD KITS AT MY STORE!!! THEY’RE GUARANTEED NOT COOKED!!! IT’S NOT JUST FOR THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE ANYMORE!!!
I do all the cooking, my wife burns water.
@somf69 Ha! She figured out how to train you.
DHS takes a dim view when you don’t cook for your children. So I cooked. I hate to cook, I have no interest in cooking - now eating what someone else has cooked - I have no problem with that
. Trouble is I am only interested in food when I am hungry and then am unwilling to spend a long time cooking. Have to go to the grocery store either with a list or when I am hungry to come home with enough.
Mom said she was a failure as a parent as none of her girls liked to cook, sew, etc. We all know how to do these things. We do them when necessary. I told her no she succeeded as a parent because we didn’t feel like we had to just because we were female; that gender did not make it our job.
Breakfast all year round. In the summer, I pretty much avoid the kitchen, which is on the west side of the house, for later meals, too hot in the late afternoon/early evening.
I grew up in a home where mom cooked meat and two sides. So, that’s what I do. Meat, rice or potatoes, and a veggie.
Tired of sandwiches at night (he makes them, they’re really good) or fast food, I made a meatloaf in the Ninja cooker (I got from the meh birthday party last month) last week. OMG, it was the best one I’ve made in years and didn’t heat the house while it was cooking, but it smelled damned good. Just heated up a can of beans as a side. I would have done corn on the cob as well, but fuck this heat.
@lisaviolet do corn on the cob in the microwave. You leave the husk on (protect your hands when you pull it off as the husk is HOT!!). I do about 1.5-2 min with one ear in a 1100 watt microwave. You’d have to google how long to do more ears at once.
@Kidsandliz We buy it frozen and use as needed, so that wouldn’t work. Otherwise it would go bad.