What's for Dinner? - Page 83

lumberjim · 03-09-2014, 03:25 PM

This is my 10 gallon stock pot.

Sundae · 03-09-2014, 03:30 PM

LJ I can't deny that looks and sounds gorgeous, but despite your beard you are not Jebus.
So why are you trying to feed the 5,000?

Seriously, does that freeze?
Or are teenage appetites a factor here?

Please send some using Bruce's secret helicopter which he "liberated" when he retired...

lumberjim · 03-09-2014, 09:42 PM

It's really only 10 quarts. But yeah. I sent a big tub home with the kids, a large chinee take out soup container with Amanda, and I still have about a gallon left. I'll take half to work and share it.

Undertoad · 03-09-2014, 09:45 PM

i'll be right over

orthodoc · 03-09-2014, 09:56 PM

Do you ship?

limey · 03-10-2014, 07:42 PM

Internationally?

Sent by thought transference

Sundae · 03-11-2014, 03:42 AM

Jim says he's going to come cook for us in the UK.
He really will.
He didn't type this or anything, he just projected it into my brain, so I know it's true.

I told him he can leave out the okra though, and he was okay with that.

orthodoc · 03-11-2014, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae

I told him he can leave out the okra though, and he was okay with that.

Oh, good. I need okra-free seafood delight.

Sundae · 03-12-2014, 03:52 AM

You have to get here first, Ortho

Beef stir-fry tonight.
I'm worried about the amount of beef available.
I may sneakily have mine veggie, so there's enough meat for the 'rents.

Seafood risotto on Friday - Catholic household of course.
Dad doesn't have to observe due to age and health, but does out of habit. Mum is most likely to shrug it off, but then she goes to Mass for Stations of the Cross every Friday, so I think she feels she evens things out with Him.

She's going to defrost some extra prawns for me to put in it. Which makes it a luxury meal in my eyes. I'm making an effort to prepare and cook meals for the three of us these days. The prawns are her way of saying she appreciates that. Frozen prawns of love.

And no okra.

Undertoad · 03-17-2014, 06:31 PM

Do I cook something that I have in the fridge? Do I order pizza from the place I can walk to? Do I drive a short distance and get different cheap restaurant items? Do I drive further to the supermarket and get similarly-priced ready to eat meals with real veggies? I am stuck. I have pasta and sauce. I have beans, I have frozen veggies. I have eggs. All that is nutritious. I even have fresh broc. I might even have a frozen salmon chunk, but I don't know how old it is. Maybe if I looked at it, I could tell. But maybe I don't want frozen salmon. All I do with it is broil it and eat it. I could make a sauce. But now we're into over a half hour of preparation, when the local burrito place puts a wide variety of things into one big burrito, and it's always very tasty. I could go get that and be back in less than a half hour. But now I've been thinking about it for a half hour when I would already be eating anyway. How late do those places stay open anyway? Oh you know you can get a burrito up until 10 pm, but after about 8 pm you know all the burrito fillings are getting pretty gross, I don't know if you should order from them after about 8 pm, maybe I should just get a cheesesteak from the place up the street, what time is it now?

Undertoad · 03-17-2014, 07:12 PM

Griff · 03-17-2014, 07:19 PM

Lil Griff made these awesome burgers tonight. Avacado, onion fries, monty jack cheese, with a homemade chipoltle mayo on a toasted roll.

orthodoc · 03-17-2014, 07:20 PM

I get it, it's hard to eat healthy when you're up early and busy all day and tired at night. But it's easy to take the shortcut when you have dozens of options in fast food, so you put off the planning and wait until the next crisis.

How about cooking on Sunday afternoon, making up a grain dish, a bean dish, and chopping some veggies ahead of time? Assembling supper after a long day becomes easy. Or make a couple of dishes in large amounts, divide into portions, and refrigerate or freeze for the week.

Fast food companies count on us feeling that we're in crisis.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-17-2014, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orthodoc

I get it, it's hard to eat healthy when you're up early and busy all day and tired at night. But it's easy to take the shortcut when you have dozens of options in fast food, so you put off the planning and wait until the next crisis.

More than that, for some people cooking is not fun, it's fucking drudgery. Even simple stuff that cooks throw together in a jiffy, are a pain in the ass to people that don't cook enough to have much of the kitchen dance become second nature.

Well the more you do it the easier it becomes.
Same with mountain climbing and triathlon, but they don't appeal to me either.

glatt · 03-17-2014, 07:25 PM

Sloppy joes, salad, cut up apples.

03-09-2014, 03:25 PM	#1
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	This is my 10 gallon stock pot. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

03-09-2014, 03:30 PM	#2
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	LJ I can't deny that looks and sounds gorgeous, but despite your beard you are not Jebus. So why are you trying to feed the 5,000? Seriously, does that freeze? Or are teenage appetites a factor here? Please send some using Bruce's secret helicopter which he "liberated" when he retired... __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-09-2014, 09:42 PM	#3
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	It's really only 10 quarts. But yeah. I sent a big tub home with the kids, a large chinee take out soup container with Amanda, and I still have about a gallon left. I'll take half to work and share it. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

03-09-2014, 09:56 PM	#5
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Do you ship? __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

03-10-2014, 07:42 PM	#6
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Internationally? Sent by thought transference __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

03-09-2014, 09:45 PM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	i'll be right over

03-11-2014, 03:42 AM	#7
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Jim says he's going to come cook for us in the UK. He really will. He didn't type this or anything, he just projected it into my brain, so I know it's true. I told him he can leave out the okra though, and he was okay with that. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-12-2014, 03:52 AM	#9
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	You have to get here first, Ortho Beef stir-fry tonight. I'm worried about the amount of beef available. I may sneakily have mine veggie, so there's enough meat for the 'rents. Seafood risotto on Friday - Catholic household of course. Dad doesn't have to observe due to age and health, but does out of habit. Mum is most likely to shrug it off, but then she goes to Mass for Stations of the Cross every Friday, so I think she feels she evens things out with Him. She's going to defrost some extra prawns for me to put in it. Which makes it a luxury meal in my eyes. I'm making an effort to prepare and cook meals for the three of us these days. The prawns are her way of saying she appreciates that. Frozen prawns of love. And no okra. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-17-2014, 06:31 PM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Do I cook something that I have in the fridge? Do I order pizza from the place I can walk to? Do I drive a short distance and get different cheap restaurant items? Do I drive further to the supermarket and get similarly-priced ready to eat meals with real veggies? I am stuck. I have pasta and sauce. I have beans, I have frozen veggies. I have eggs. All that is nutritious. I even have fresh broc. I might even have a frozen salmon chunk, but I don't know how old it is. Maybe if I looked at it, I could tell. But maybe I don't want frozen salmon. All I do with it is broil it and eat it. I could make a sauce. But now we're into over a half hour of preparation, when the local burrito place puts a wide variety of things into one big burrito, and it's always very tasty. I could go get that and be back in less than a half hour. But now I've been thinking about it for a half hour when I would already be eating anyway. How late do those places stay open anyway? Oh you know you can get a burrito up until 10 pm, but after about 8 pm you know all the burrito fillings are getting pretty gross, I don't know if you should order from them after about 8 pm, maybe I should just get a cheesesteak from the place up the street, what time is it now?

03-17-2014, 07:12 PM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423

03-17-2014, 07:19 PM	#12
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Lil Griff made these awesome burgers tonight. Avacado, onion fries, monty jack cheese, with a homemade chipoltle mayo on a toasted roll. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-17-2014, 07:20 PM	#13
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	I get it, it's hard to eat healthy when you're up early and busy all day and tired at night. But it's easy to take the shortcut when you have dozens of options in fast food, so you put off the planning and wait until the next crisis. How about cooking on Sunday afternoon, making up a grain dish, a bean dish, and chopping some veggies ahead of time? Assembling supper after a long day becomes easy. Or make a couple of dishes in large amounts, divide into portions, and refrigerate or freeze for the week. Fast food companies count on us feeling that we're in crisis. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

03-17-2014, 07:25 PM	#15
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Sloppy joes, salad, cut up apples.

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