I imagine that as the years have gone by, more of us have been doing our own cooking. So, what do we tend to cook?
When I was younger, breakfast was my favorite meal of the day. Not necessarily breakfast as in, "the first meal of the day", but breakfast as in, "any meal that you eat traditional breakfast foods during." So, I liked making pancakes (and to a lesser extent, french toast) or omelettes for dinner. And when I was working in the middle of the night, and got home in the morning, I would sometimes cook myself a breakfast at the normal time for everyone else.
It's been awhile since I cooked any breakfast foods, though.
I used to make mashed potatoes a lot, but I got lazy with it. It just took a long time to skin them and chop them. And they take up a lot of space. I switched over to instant potatoes, not for quality, but out of sheer laziness (or, to put myself in a better light, because I was too tired after work). I only made real mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. Speaking of which, not counting last year, for the past few years I had made our Thanksgiving meal completely on our own. (In 2005, however, I was pursuaded to just pick up a Boston Market meal -- though the turkey is still cooked the same as any other)
Lately, though, I've gone back to making homemade mashed potatoes. I forgot how much better real ones are. I used to prefer the texture of some restaurant's potatoes, but I don't know what the hell I was thinking. Now I'd stack my potatoes against anyones.
Potatoes are extremely cheap, too. For about $3, you can get enough for 3 meals for 2 people.
In the summer, I like to do cookouts. For lunch, we'll usually just do something like burgers or beef dogs, but for dinner, it's usually chicken. I've never done a cookout before living with FO, so it was a learning experience for us, but I think we've gotten good at them.
Lately, our grocery store has had sales on steak, so I've tried making that at home. It's really easy to do, and turns out quite well. I might try some at a cookout when the weather is warmer.
Sometimes I make spaghetti, though that's cheap since I don't make the sauce from scratch or anything.
One thing we've learned is "don't cook fish on a George Foreman grill". It's not that it tastes bad or anything. It's just that it ruins the grill. Even though the grill is nominally no-stick, fish will stick to it. So, now when I make fish, I bake it in the oven.
When I was a little kid, we'd sometimes make homemade milkshakes. I bought a blender so FO and I could do that here, but it's been neglected. I think we've only actually used it twice.
Having typed all this, I realized it's not very interesting. But it would be a waste to then not post it, so...
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
-Orwell
When I was younger, breakfast was my favorite meal of the day. Not necessarily breakfast as in, "the first meal of the day", but breakfast as in, "any meal that you eat traditional breakfast foods during." So, I liked making pancakes (and to a lesser extent, french toast) or omelettes for dinner. And when I was working in the middle of the night, and got home in the morning, I would sometimes cook myself a breakfast at the normal time for everyone else.
It's been awhile since I cooked any breakfast foods, though.
I used to make mashed potatoes a lot, but I got lazy with it. It just took a long time to skin them and chop them. And they take up a lot of space. I switched over to instant potatoes, not for quality, but out of sheer laziness (or, to put myself in a better light, because I was too tired after work). I only made real mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. Speaking of which, not counting last year, for the past few years I had made our Thanksgiving meal completely on our own. (In 2005, however, I was pursuaded to just pick up a Boston Market meal -- though the turkey is still cooked the same as any other)
Lately, though, I've gone back to making homemade mashed potatoes. I forgot how much better real ones are. I used to prefer the texture of some restaurant's potatoes, but I don't know what the hell I was thinking. Now I'd stack my potatoes against anyones.
Potatoes are extremely cheap, too. For about $3, you can get enough for 3 meals for 2 people.
In the summer, I like to do cookouts. For lunch, we'll usually just do something like burgers or beef dogs, but for dinner, it's usually chicken. I've never done a cookout before living with FO, so it was a learning experience for us, but I think we've gotten good at them.
Lately, our grocery store has had sales on steak, so I've tried making that at home. It's really easy to do, and turns out quite well. I might try some at a cookout when the weather is warmer.
Sometimes I make spaghetti, though that's cheap since I don't make the sauce from scratch or anything.
One thing we've learned is "don't cook fish on a George Foreman grill". It's not that it tastes bad or anything. It's just that it ruins the grill. Even though the grill is nominally no-stick, fish will stick to it. So, now when I make fish, I bake it in the oven.
When I was a little kid, we'd sometimes make homemade milkshakes. I bought a blender so FO and I could do that here, but it's been neglected. I think we've only actually used it twice.
Having typed all this, I realized it's not very interesting. But it would be a waste to then not post it, so...
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
-Orwell
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