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So, on the subject of food...
I have no idea how people do it.
I mean, part of me is going: Yes you do. Other people aren't living on office-slave wages with a temp agency taking a cut of the money. Other people aren't walking everywhere they go. Other people don't spend two hours a night talking (on a corded land-line!) with their respective sweethearts when they could be (a) in the same house or (b) talking on a phone that lets them move around and do stuff at the same time[1].
So, basically, the Other People in question have more time and/or more money than I do.
Which is at least a small part of why they can make delicious (gourmet, even), from-scratch, whole foods meals with all sustainable/organic/local/ethical ingredients and I "can't".
Note, I put the "can't" in quotation marks for a reason.
See, I like cooking, but I hate cleaning. And I generate a lot of dishes when I cook.
Which I then don't wash.
Also I feel like going to all the trouble of cleaning, prepping, cooking, and then cleaning again, just isn't worth it for one person worth of food.
So, basically, I miss making good-quality food - or even reasonable-quality food - but I feel like it takes too much effort.
Hell. Making soba-shrimp-and-seaweed is a monumental undertaking these days. It's awful and ridiculous, but it's how I've been feeling lately.
Part of me is going: Amazon, why don't you do that thing where you make a vat of macaroni and cheese or a vat of three-bean salad, or a couple of other things that (A) keep/freeze well, and (B) are tasty and delicious and HEALTHY and filling.
The kind of stuff that will keep for a week without turning to mush or sludge, and without starting to collect mould.
FYI: One-pot recipe suggestions are seriously welcome. Vegan-friendly would be ideal. :-)
Part of me wants to extend the whole "berries and baby-tomatoes" idea and get a bag of organic baby carrots and a bag of miniature potatoes and a few other odds and sods like that and make stuff like yoghurt-parsley-garlic-romano!beans-potato salad.
Or a couscous and chickpeas and tomatoes and Stuff salad with lemon and peppermint.
Raynedaze has a wonderful bean salad recipe that involves garlic, cilantro and balsamic vinegar plus as many different beans as you want.
<*ponderponderponder*>
I've got the ideas, but will I actually do anything *with* them?
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
[1] If I upgrade my phone, I'm getting something with a speaker phone option and good volume. Even if I'm leary of the cordless kinds in terms of how fast they stop working, a speaker phone would allow me some freedom of movement while still being able to talk.
I have no idea how people do it.
I mean, part of me is going: Yes you do. Other people aren't living on office-slave wages with a temp agency taking a cut of the money. Other people aren't walking everywhere they go. Other people don't spend two hours a night talking (on a corded land-line!) with their respective sweethearts when they could be (a) in the same house or (b) talking on a phone that lets them move around and do stuff at the same time[1].
So, basically, the Other People in question have more time and/or more money than I do.
Which is at least a small part of why they can make delicious (gourmet, even), from-scratch, whole foods meals with all sustainable/organic/local/ethical ingredients and I "can't".
Note, I put the "can't" in quotation marks for a reason.
See, I like cooking, but I hate cleaning. And I generate a lot of dishes when I cook.
Which I then don't wash.
Also I feel like going to all the trouble of cleaning, prepping, cooking, and then cleaning again, just isn't worth it for one person worth of food.
So, basically, I miss making good-quality food - or even reasonable-quality food - but I feel like it takes too much effort.
Hell. Making soba-shrimp-and-seaweed is a monumental undertaking these days. It's awful and ridiculous, but it's how I've been feeling lately.
Part of me is going: Amazon, why don't you do that thing where you make a vat of macaroni and cheese or a vat of three-bean salad, or a couple of other things that (A) keep/freeze well, and (B) are tasty and delicious and HEALTHY and filling.
The kind of stuff that will keep for a week without turning to mush or sludge, and without starting to collect mould.
FYI: One-pot recipe suggestions are seriously welcome. Vegan-friendly would be ideal. :-)
Part of me wants to extend the whole "berries and baby-tomatoes" idea and get a bag of organic baby carrots and a bag of miniature potatoes and a few other odds and sods like that and make stuff like yoghurt-parsley-garlic-romano!beans-potato salad.
Or a couscous and chickpeas and tomatoes and Stuff salad with lemon and peppermint.
Raynedaze has a wonderful bean salad recipe that involves garlic, cilantro and balsamic vinegar plus as many different beans as you want.
<*ponderponderponder*>
I've got the ideas, but will I actually do anything *with* them?
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
[1] If I upgrade my phone, I'm getting something with a speaker phone option and good volume. Even if I'm leary of the cordless kinds in terms of how fast they stop working, a speaker phone would allow me some freedom of movement while still being able to talk.
