I eat out almost every meal. I probably eat at home 2-4 times a year at best. Probably closer to 2 though.
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I eat out almost every meal. I probably eat at home 2-4 times a year at best. Probably closer to 2 though.
You never get sick of it? Proper restaurant meal might be ok but take away junk food its hard to repeat two days in a row.
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Why would I get sick of it? The variety available is staggering. Last week I ate Korean BBQ, ramen, Argentinean steakhouse, Greek food, fish tacos, pizza, etc.
Healthier maybe, but certainly not cheaper. If I were to spend my time making meals, it would cost me several hundred dollars per day in lost income.
But not tastier.
As @Zenithal points out, quorn does not offer much by way of a recommendation when discussing food or culinary choices.
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Plus the cost in time.
Sorry but this doesn't make a sense , how long does it take to fry/grill fish, Steaks ...?
All you need is one hour to cook unless you have large family.
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Actually, I have always found (as did my mother) that the planning took longer, and, if you planned properly, the actual time taken in the preparation and cooking of the meals was a lot shorter.
Exactly , day before if you organize time and prepared food its a lot easier.
I am not sure how Madoka is losing hundreds per day for cooking ?
Time obviously matters, and not everyone likes to cook.
Personally, I find it - cooking and the preparation of meals - relaxing, but can only relax cooking if I am able to switch off, (personally and professionally) and I will admit that I would find it tedious to have to cook every day.
Simplest foods such as pasta aglio e olio is going to take about an hour for prep, cooking and serving. And that's using a high quality dry pasta. I suppose one could eat cheese and bread, or nut butter and bread, et al. every day but that's monotonous. And if you were to cook an authentic Thai or Indian curry, well, godspeed trying to do that as quickly as other nationalities' dishes.
On days when I cook, I barely have an idea of what to make that morning let alone the night or day before. And if you have small children, you also have to consider something they can eat, too. My penchant for spicy foods doesn't translate well to children, I'm afraid.
Cue one of my sons picking a ripe pepper a few months ago and eating it. That initial cry for help nearly stopped my heart. Then I realized what had happened.
Oh, agreed.
My pasta and gorgonzola (and cream) sauce dish will take around half an hour, and I can do a pasta dish with roasted tomatoes (and other bits and pieces, garlic, onions, pancetta, perhaps chorizo or some other sausage) in around 45 minutes.
But, point taken, most decent dishes will take anything from an hour to two, even the wonderful one pot dishes that take care of themselves once assembled and puttering away for several hours.
I usually have a rough idea over a number of days, but must leave myself open to being flexible if the need arises.
However, I fully take your point about spicy foods not translating to children (or elders). I was obliged to partake of a far blander cuisine than I personally cared for while my Mother was still with us, as she had lost her liking for spicy foods, and, one of the very few positives I can take from her demise last December is that I can now cook the sort of robust and spicy dishes that I personally like whenever I choose to do so.
If memory serves me right, after she had her stroke she lost her appetite for robust tasting food and took on a robust liking of sweets, correct?
She had dementia, (actually, it was thought that she had vascular dementia with elements of Alzheimer's), and, a symptom of that condition was the development of a pronounced sweet tooth, (which was something she never had - she used to like all fruit, especially tart, sour fruits - gooseberries, red currants, black currants and cooking apples, and s on, as do I) within an extraordinarily short period of time.
The real tragedy is that she was very adventurous; she loved to travel and explore the culture (food, art, history, music and so on) of the places she had visited, and would eagerly sample new dishes (or cuisines) whenever she came across them, especially if they had been strongly recommended by locals.
Anyway, she also had cardiac issues (a few stents and a pace-maker), high cholesterol and blood pressure, and was on a veritable cocktail of medication for almost two decades before she passed away.
And thus, she lost her taste (and liking for) spicy or strongly flavoured (unless they are sweet) foods. Which meant a choice of either cooking a special dish separately for her if we were treating ourselves to something flavoursome, or joining her in the bland foods she had come to prefer.
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I love cooking, and like to think I'm quite good at it. This is a good thing, as restaurants in Switzerland tend not to be friendly, value for money places. There are exceptions, but as the lazy option of grabbing a quick Asian dish or a cheap takeaway don't really exist here, we don't eat out so much. However, I can cycle over the border into France in 10 minutes and find good restaurants there.
When I lived in London, I estimate we ate out a few times a week. When I lived in China, I ate out two or three times a day. I'm surprised the amount of salt I consumed didn't kill me, but wow did I eat well.
I like the mix of cooking for myself/friends (we do a lot of "potluck" meals here) and eating out. It's varied.
Oh, and Quorn. My God do I hate Quorn. Many years ago, at University in the Midlands and when that Quorn micro-protein fungus slime first came out, I saw in my local supermarket "Quorn Pie". ooooo yummy I thought, as Quorn was a nearby village with decent farm produce. Mistake. I've never forgiven them despite the fact it's apparently improved over the years. For slime.
When I lived in London, I estimate we ate out a few times a week. When I lived in China, I ate out two or three times a day. I'm surprised the amount of salt I consumed didn't kill me, but wow did I eat well.
I like the mix of cooking for myself/friends (we do a lot of "potluck" meals here) and eating out. It's varied.
Oh, and Quorn. My God do I hate Quorn. Many years ago, at University in the Midlands and when that Quorn micro-protein fungus slime first came out, I saw in my local supermarket "Quorn Pie". ooooo yummy I thought, as Quorn was a nearby village with decent farm produce. Mistake. I've never forgiven them despite the fact it's apparently improved over the years. For slime.
The first time he posted about it I genuinely thought he was making a joke. I've learned he rarely jokes about anything, much less food.
I suppose I shouldn't really complain about the slime texture as I like all the various types of tofu. Even the slimy ones.
Was that breakfast , lunch and dinner or just any time of the day ?
[doublepost=1566307071][/doublepost]I find it a bit hard eating principal meals more than once a day if i am eating out. I am the type who really miss home food and can't stay away from it for too long.
Mainly breakfast, lunch and dinner. Beijing have these excellent breakfast pancake/crepe things called jianbing (煎饼) which was a lovely, crunchy, eggy, spicy start to the day.
I had access to a kitchen, but I was only there for 6 months and eating out was so unbelievably cheap (this was in 2006/7) that it was cheaper to eat out than in. Sure, in China one can never be sure what one is eating, and I'm sure some of the baozi/dumplings I ate from little hole-in-the-wall stalls mixed teir minced pork with cardboard, but ... cardboard soaked in soy sauce, and steamed then served with a soy, chilli and vinegar dip ... still tasted good. And good for the environment too!
Kind of. Imagine a crepe with an egg, deep fried dough stick, spring onions, and a spicy sauce (sometimes fermented broad bean paste) folded up to eat with your hands. Now I want one. Damn.
Can we just decide it's a jianbing which may have similarities in other cuisines?