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| For Those Who Don't Like To Cook; What are your best dishes? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 4 2005, 07:16 AM (342 Views) | |
| Heathertee | Mar 4 2005, 07:16 AM Post #1 |
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No, I do NOT mean reservations at your nearby chili parlor! If you don't like to cook, or have no time, how do you feed your families? Do you have a special cookbook you rely on? I have a dear aunt who relied mainly on roast chicken to raise her four lovely children. She really HATES to cook. I love to cook as you all know, but some of my favorite recipes came out of Peg Bracken's "I Hate to Cook Book". |
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| mychrissy | Mar 4 2005, 11:17 AM Post #2 |
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Heather, Maybe you could post your recipe for the vegetable side dish we enjoyed so much at your house. Also, how to cook a rib roast, temperature, etc., how many people it serves. Thanks |
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| Kate and Ed | Mar 4 2005, 11:22 AM Post #3 |
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On my way out for lunch with friends so will make this short...NOT a problem on this subject My menu: Pasta or rice with grilled pork chops, grilled breasts of chicken, hamburgers, salad. Eggs and/or pancakes sometimes for dinner. Roasted chicken from grocery, well known for its flavor and moistness. Pizza, Chinese take-out, Mexican and yes we like to go OUT to eat too. Ed is the grillmaster so on most weekends we have steaks, ribs, great very hot chili , and blackened catfish. All the boys can and will cook. Kate |
of Kate and Ed ![]() "Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country." Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the US | |
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| Trailblazer | Mar 4 2005, 11:39 AM Post #4 |
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Most of the time I prefer to cook really easy, simple, fast stuff, even if I am home all day and have plenty of time to cook. Maybe because when I get hungry, I don't want to wait very long to eat! I like chicken best just pan fried, no oil, no Pam, just salt. I like the full flavor of the chicken, don't usually use any chicken recipes. Same with turkey, just oven bake it. I don't usually even use recipes or follow them. (Except fancy desserts, and I rarely make them) I use recipes for ideas, then do my own thing. I rarely measure out anything, I just throw it together. If I do follow a recipe, my husband is shocked. I have lots of cookbooks from yesteryear but rarely use them. They were from the era many moons ago that I did enjoy making tofu, tempeh, gluten, granola, yogurt, bread, etc. Cooking then was more like an experimental laboratory!
I like to invent or create stuff out of left overs, and there's no recipe for those. My mom used to enjoy this too (that's probably where I learned to enjoy this) and liked the challenge of making dinner from left overs, or figuring out what to fix out of nothing, before she got a grocery check from my Dad. (They never had a joint account.) There's a few things I want to learn to try to make: tiramisu, croissants, tamales, chocolate roll cake, but I just don't make the time to do so. I have recipes for them, but keep putting it off. Someday... The one thing I really enjoy the most is decorating children's birthday cakes. I will have to post some pics of the cakes the kids and I have invented. And gingerbread houses. Love decorating those, especially a gingerbread 2-story haunted house with a flashing light inside of it. I like the creative decorating side of cooking, more than cooking over the stove and oven itself. I'm in awe of really good cooks, like my Mom, who can cook huge wonderful meals for large crowds, and everything comes out perfectly. (She and my sister run a B&B on Orcas Island in Washington state.) I would never undertake something like that. I like taking a few simple things to a potluck. My husband loves to cook; his ex really didn't want him in the kitchen. Her loss, he is a great cook and doesn't hesitate to fix all the meals if I'm busy. If the kids are visiting, we all fix the meal together, steaks or casserole thrown together, or my son BBQ's, salad (with avocados, red onions, shrimp, mandarin oranges or grapefruit, black olives) or veggies cut up and served with homemade ranch dressing, baguettes and real butter, and steamed fresh veggies. Very simple, very fast, and everyone enjoys helping. Sorry this is so long.
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| TexasShadow | Mar 4 2005, 12:39 PM Post #5 |
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I don't enjoy cooking, but I like good food and a variety of it because Mom did and I got used to it
so I've learned to do a variety, too.my favorite meal is broiled short ribs seasoned with lemon pepper and garlic powder, a baked potato, and a salad or green beans. or fried catfish, onion rings, and crusty french bread. DH likes the catfish but not the ribs. He prefers pot roast with potatos and carrots and onions. Both of us like a good steak, grilled or broiled, with salad and hot bread. Comfort food: macaroni and cheese for me, macaroni and tomato sauce for him. or spaghetti/meatballs made with frozen meatballs and mccormick dry mix. or homemade beef/vegie soup with potatos, corn, carrots, green beans, celery, onion, canned tomatos, and a little cabbage if I have it. No bell pepper for him. we both like chicken, but prefer it fried or as chicken salad. turkey is okay, but not my favorite. ham is okay, but not his favorite. both of us like smoked sausage and both of us like pinto beans cooked with bacon or ham and onions. I like pork ribs, country style, but he doesn't. So you can see I cook a few, two-entree meals around here. When the boys were home, it was sometimes like a restaurant, with each getting something we liked. |
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| passinthru | Mar 4 2005, 01:14 PM Post #6 |
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BBQ from Sonny's, from Backyard, from Sonny's, from Terrell's...
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| Heathertee | Mar 4 2005, 01:52 PM Post #7 |
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Yeah right, John....I had your pancakes once, remember. I know you like to cook! Seems there is a lot of interest in this subject; more than I thought. And all the letters so far indicate that you all eat as well as or better than I do, and you say you don't like to cook. Maybe the difference is in making recipes or not, as Joanne says. But certainly making something good out of a bunch of leftovers is cooking at its height! and much more valuable than being able to whip up a batch of croissants, good though they may be. Chrissy, I did post the recipe for the zucchini casserole, some time back. I'll have to post it again. As for the prime rib, I refer to the cooking instructions in The Joy of Cooking. None of us is born knowing how to cook a roast, and I NEVER trust my memory regarding cooking times on a chunk of meat weighing in at over $50!!. I prefer to do as little to it as possible, better to savor the taste of the meat itself. Some people like to stud it with garlic, but I save that for lamb or pork. Kate, I love the rotisserie chicken sold at supermarkets. When I'm camping I like to get on at a Wal~Mart Supercenter; then it's my lunch and dinner for the next 2 days. Now I'll go look for that zucchini recipe. |
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| Kate and Ed | Mar 4 2005, 01:54 PM Post #8 |
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John, works for me! Kate |
of Kate and Ed ![]() "Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country." Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the US | |
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| Heathertee | Mar 4 2005, 01:56 PM Post #9 |
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Wow, that was easy. I won't post the recipe, as I've already posted it twice, but here's the link. This REALLY is worth trying. Zucchini Casserole |
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| mychrissy | Mar 4 2005, 04:44 PM Post #10 |
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Thanks Heather, I completely forgot it was zucchini. Oh so good. |
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| jrf | Mar 4 2005, 07:22 PM Post #11 |
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When I was doing the garden thing, I like to take yellow squash, zuccini, tomato and slice it up in a small bowl for one or two, top with a little cheese and nuke it. Might add a bit of onion. Think its sucatash if you buy it in a can. ---- Anything on the offest wood smoker, I get to play with fire and drink beer. Gas smoker is toss the meat on, set it and forget it and drink beer. Big chunk of meat. Lasts a long time. ----- Beans. Beans. Beans. Beans on the smoker in a cast iron pot. --- What made my kids run away from home and learn to cook on there own. Spicy Kraut Dog night. Smoked polish sausage on a bun with kraut. ---- George Foreman Grill anything. Especially premade meat patties of any variety, or boneless skinless chicken breasts from a bag. Sprinkle first with anything from a container with holes in the top. Do not keep Sevin dust in the kitchen. ---- Hamburger or equivelant patties. Thick ones. In a baking dish and covered with mushroom soup on top. Bake in oven till edible. ---- Fried eggs, Fried sausage, fried potatoes all in the same pan. This one is a difficulty level high. Only do this if people expect you to act like you're cooking. ---- Cold cuts and pickles. Take the jars of pickled anything out of the fridge and set on the table.\ Take the cold cuts out of the fridge and set by the jars. Set out the mustards and stuff. Two kinds of bread make supper fancy. Paper towels no plates. Stand over the sink while eating. If you want to get real fancy, put small portions of each on a snack tray, light some candles, make out the hide-a-bed, rent a movie or four, and serve with orange soda or root beer and vanilla ice cream floats all night. Chips and dips work good as sides. Velveeta and rotelle tomatoes, or sour cream and french onion mix. I met a friend's new girlfriend once when she asked me what I liked to do that's what I told her. She told me that she "could really hang with me." He wasn't a very good friend anyway. |
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| jrf | Mar 4 2005, 07:28 PM Post #12 |
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Oh yah, how could I forget. Toast, salami, cheese, and horseradish. If the horseradish brings tears to your eyes, remember that the girls really go for that while watching movies from the hide-a-bed. But you have to get the timing right. |
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| Trailblazer | Mar 5 2005, 01:13 AM Post #13 |
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Mmmmmmmmm! jrf.... I'm HUNGRY!!!!! ![]() If we do a rally, I look forward to your cooking!!!!!!!!!!! I'll bring PLENTY of beer if you cook a little for us!!! Please?!?!
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| Heathertee | Mar 5 2005, 06:41 AM Post #14 |
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| jrf | Mar 6 2005, 12:40 AM Post #15 |
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Toast for beer!!! Let me in!! I'm good at toast. I can do that. We are talking a two slice toaster aren't we? Four slice toasters are a bit advanced. |
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I have lots of cookbooks from yesteryear but rarely use them. They were from the era many moons ago that I did enjoy making tofu, tempeh, gluten, granola, yogurt, bread, etc. Cooking then was more like an experimental laboratory!



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