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Ok. I'll start.
Random questions post.
HMonkey, I have always wondered this. I know that you are a good cook. So, what do you eat for lunch? I don't notice you posting in the "What's for lunch post often.
Do you eat leftovers?
Please add your random "I always wanted to know questions."
Re: Ok. I'll start.
dh makes lunch; i make dinner. i eat what he makes for lunch; he eats what i make for dinner. each week before grocery shopping, we plan out what we would like to eat, agree on the decision and then head to the store.
we eat a lot of leftovers. in cooking, it's just as easy to make one as it is to make two. the freezer is a magical place: there a whole frozen lasagna in it, a couple of tubs of various sauces, and a few tubs of soup. if we are short on time, don't like what came out of the oven, or feel like "something else," we take a look in the freezer and in the cabinets. it may be a weird meal -- bowl of peas, some meatballs over coucous and a mango -- but it will get eaten.
i'm a big believer in not wasting anything. if i have to buy an ingredient for one recipe, i have to find some other way to use it. i needed just a stalk of celery for a recipe, and was tempted to buy just a snack size pack. but those things could be just the tasteless inside bits, so i bought a full pound. i pulled the one stalk for the recipe, and then cooked the rest into cream of celery soup, which went into the freezer and then back out a few months later into a casserole. walla.
when we travel, i like to hit the local grocery store. i brought back a suitcase of food from london, bermuda and california. i like to see what locals eats.
and it's not a big deal -- it's just food! i eat it three times a day, so if i don't like something, i don't have to eat it again and i can try something else. i feel the same way about recipe disasters -- just one less thing i can make. no big deal.
... sorry, that was long.
Wow! Thanks.
I feel like I know you some much bettetr.:)
I've moved from level 2 to maybe level 3. I stick with the same meals.
I did make a pasta dish that I printed from the net, but it wasn't smack your mama good. Ha. Baby steps.
i like kids' cookbooks. there are always lots of pictures and they teach basic skills.
the thing with cooking shows is that they always show someone going though an onion in ten seconds. you can do that -- after 15 years of working in a professional kitchen. i'm still at slice, slice, slice, turn, slice, slice, slice, OW MY THUMB WHY GOD WHY IT BURNS IT BURNS.