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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 21, 2019 23:25:31 GMT
Thursday, 08/22
At home are there foods/recipes from other countries and/or foods/recipes from different areas of the US that you fix? What are they? What do you fix that is local to your area of the country?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 21, 2019 23:28:01 GMT
I don't really cook anymore so I don't do any of this. I'm trying to think what is local to SE Connecticut, guess seafood. We have a lot of ethnic restaurants in town though we usually go to a pub when we eat out.
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Post by MarieL on Aug 22, 2019 0:14:12 GMT
Judy,
This caught my eye. What do you mean "I don't cook anymore??" Please explain how you do that! Would love to know
Marie
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Post by surfgirl on Aug 22, 2019 1:00:44 GMT
Judy, This caught my eye. What do you mean "I don't cook anymore??" Please explain how you do that! Would love to know Marie Yes, this caught my eye as well bbbearsmom! What do you eat?!?
As for me, I cook some Mexican, which is prevalent where I live, and from my travels I like cooking Asian dishes, Italian, Indian...but for Asian and Indian I cheat and use sauces because to make from scratch would require a huge amount of time and prep work. But overall I love cooking.
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Post by cathygeha on Aug 22, 2019 7:41:05 GMT
I cook Lebanese: Hummus, baba ganouj, tabouleh, and other dishes
I also cook:
Italian (spaghetti)
Oriental (stir fry) American (burgers and such) Mexican (burritos, taco salad, enchiladas (sometimes)), refried beans, spanish rice
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Post by lani on Aug 22, 2019 15:14:12 GMT
My cooking is almost entirely from my multiple years of issues of Clean Eating magazine. They do a lot of Asian and Latin recipes. bbbearsmom, we're waiting for your secret food sources!  I guess you are eating out a lot? |
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 22, 2019 16:43:34 GMT
lani, cathygeha, surfgirl, MarieL, I do cook some but I don't do recipes. I make my oatmeal, and heat canned soup in the microwave, and make meat and starch meals three times a week. I will say if I think of it we do either beef stew or pot roast, consider that a recipe. I use to make my own bean soup and two different vegetarian stews but one year as my winter depression started in the fall that idea went away. I have no food imagination and most recipes have too many ingredients most of which I might not use again. On the off nights I have leftovers in my salad or beans. I also have canned tuna twice a week. For lunches I have PNB a lot. My husband eats salads with tuna, sardines, or anchovies. He also makes hamburgers and hot dogs and eats lunch meat. His diet isn't healthy but I have no oomph to fix it.
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Post by borntexan on Aug 22, 2019 21:45:02 GMT
bbbearsmom I don't use recipes either and on the nights we cook we make sure it's enough for dinner for usually 3 nights.I have my salad with grilled chicken at lunch.My DH doesn't eat salads but does eat vegetables.
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Post by cathygeha on Aug 23, 2019 4:42:52 GMT
It seems that cooking is something that takes less priority as one gets older. We have all been in the kitchen and cooked and tried new recipes and in my case had to teach myself how to cook many things in my first kitchen. I also had to learn substitutions for foods unavailable here for foods I took for granted in the USA. I have lost my interest in learning "new" things but do have easy ways of fixing a variety of easy meals. Hubby also doesn't "trust" eating out so we eat at home more often than not.
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Post by lani on Aug 23, 2019 15:14:04 GMT
I didn't cook when I was a working stiff, so I guess I am not burned out from it yet. I have a few things I make without a recipe, but I enjoy trying new ones. I liked chemistry in school, so it's like that for me. You follow the formula and get the predicted result.
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Post by surfgirl on Aug 23, 2019 18:04:30 GMT
I don't really follow recipes per se, I am good at tasting something and figuring out how to recreate that at home. So to me, while I don't follow a recipe per se, I cook a lot of different dishes. I can do that with savory things but when it comes to baking I've been absolute shit because I always add a dash more of this or that, and you can't do that with baking because, well, it's SCIENCE! I learned 'the best southern biscuit recipe ever' two years ago and follow that recipe to the letter and the biscuits are out of this world. Ditto a Blondie recipe a friend gave me, it's amazing as well. But I have learned I cannot adlib with baking, at all! In fact, this weekend I need to bake some stuff to send to my nephew, who just went back to college. I bake and ship to him and his friends so I don't eat it!
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 23, 2019 19:50:08 GMT
surfgirl, I could bake but I would eat it. I get a little weird when I bake I begin to feel like an "earth mother" and want to feed the world. I also enjoyed it when I made the vegetarian stews because of all the chopping done.
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Post by surfgirl on Aug 24, 2019 2:51:18 GMT
surfgirl , I could bake but I would eat it. I get a little weird when I bake I begin to feel like an "earth mother" and want to feed the world. I also enjoyed it when I made the vegetarian stews because of all the chopping done. Have you tried using an InstaPot? You can make all kinds of things with it and you set it and forget it. It might be something you can have fun with without all the hovering in the kitchen! |
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Post by lani on Aug 24, 2019 16:31:19 GMT
Yes, my baking is strictly confined to Thanksgiving and Christmas. I give most of it away, but I do relax my starch restrictions for sure at those times of the year. DH is getting better. He used to eat 6 cookies in a row. You know, hot out of the oven- yummm.
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I guess you are eating out a lot?