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10-12-17, 08:38 AM
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We travel enough that it only takes me a sec to pack. I did forget my medications recently, though, and had to make a panic trip to a CVS in Dayton, OH. Thank God for computer networks. It all worked out.
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10-12-17, 08:41 AM
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10-12-17, 08:42 AM
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Well gingerbread porridge is just oatmeal with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Sweetened with molasses instead of maple syrup (which is what I use for my usual apple cinnamon oatmeal). It's really not very complicated.
Likewise carmelized pears: sliced pears sautéed in butter, then sprinkled with vanilla sugar and lemon juice. Takes 5 min max and when you're the only one in your household who likes pears, it's a great way to preserve them so that one pear can top 4 days oatmeal (or in a green salad with blue cheese and chopped walnuts, tossed with some fruity vinagrette, or even just oil & vinegar & salt). Simple stuff.
Vanilla sugar: stick a used vanilla bean pod in a jar of sugar and let it sit a few weeks.
Likewise carmelized pears: sliced pears sautéed in butter, then sprinkled with vanilla sugar and lemon juice. Takes 5 min max and when you're the only one in your household who likes pears, it's a great way to preserve them so that one pear can top 4 days oatmeal (or in a green salad with blue cheese and chopped walnuts, tossed with some fruity vinagrette, or even just oil & vinegar & salt). Simple stuff.
Vanilla sugar: stick a used vanilla bean pod in a jar of sugar and let it sit a few weeks.
10-12-17, 08:42 AM
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Our latest thing is that I never want to go anywhere on an airplane anymore on account of bikes. Pleasant unexpected side effect of that is more relaxed departures from home. Twenty minutes late is no biggie nowadays.
Now I really have to pack. The porridge was worth it though.
10-12-17, 08:47 AM
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Haha, I forget how a lot of people cook nowadays.
10-12-17, 08:55 AM
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10-12-17, 09:06 AM
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I often think of the meal well in advance, but standing in the kitchen chopping up **** is just not my idea of fun.
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10-12-17, 09:11 AM
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https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/b...utch-oven.html
4 ingredient bread cooked in cast iron dutch oven. Mmmmm.
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10-12-17, 09:19 AM
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Also, sounds complicated.
10-12-17, 09:19 AM
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My healthy lunches are almost all produce. Chopping in a giant rush before is now my ritual. Almost always includes the following fresh stuff to be chopped: pear, apple, celery, cucumber (gotta peel that one, too)... I've got all that down to about 4 minutes now. I should probably start uploading the chop heavy meal preps to strava, for good measure.
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10-12-17, 09:31 AM
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Heh. I was just out with the lady last night and we got to talking about how my mother used to cook. I told her that mom made a lot of recipes that came from places like the labels of soup cans. And, of course, there was Hamburger Helper. I am thankful that my dad exposed me to more elaborate fare. I think that's were my love of cooking came from. I made my first carrot cake from scratch before I was a teenager.
10-12-17, 09:36 AM
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Well gingerbread porridge is just oatmeal with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Sweetened with molasses instead of maple syrup (which is what I use for my usual apple cinnamon oatmeal). It's really not very complicated.
Likewise carmelized pears: sliced pears sautéed in butter, then sprinkled with vanilla sugar and lemon juice. Takes 5 min max and when you're the only one in your household who likes pears, it's a great way to preserve them so that one pear can top 4 days oatmeal (or in a green salad with blue cheese and chopped walnuts, tossed with some fruity vinagrette, or even just oil & vinegar & salt). Simple stuff.
Vanilla sugar: stick a used vanilla bean pod in a jar of sugar and let it sit a few weeks.
Likewise carmelized pears: sliced pears sautéed in butter, then sprinkled with vanilla sugar and lemon juice. Takes 5 min max and when you're the only one in your household who likes pears, it's a great way to preserve them so that one pear can top 4 days oatmeal (or in a green salad with blue cheese and chopped walnuts, tossed with some fruity vinagrette, or even just oil & vinegar & salt). Simple stuff.
Vanilla sugar: stick a used vanilla bean pod in a jar of sugar and let it sit a few weeks.
For example, I whip out a pork chop, or chicken parts, or steak, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and spicy paprika, throw it under the broiler and boom, it's done in 10 minutes. Of course I steamed a chopped head of fresh broccoli, takes minutes. If I want to add a starch to the meal, hopefully there's a pre-cooked sweet potato that I just need to zap in the MW for 90 secs and boom, meal is done. Put a pat of butter on the hot broccoli and the hot sweet potato, sit down and eat it.
I WILL chop some fresh garlic for broccoli raab or fresh spinach or swiss chard, but for most other things it's powered garlic or powered onion or pre-prepared rub (made fresh by the wife).
However I will admit, some of Heathy's recipes sound quick if you pre-prepare stuff.
I get it, many people love the creativity that cooking offers and enjoy spending the time to create something different. However I prefer to make meals and meal prep as quick as possible so I can get to other things that I enjoy much better.
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10-12-17, 09:39 AM
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No seriously, pulling out a very high-quality knife and plowing through a big board of ingredients is fun. Working a cheap dull knife through them is a chore. It’s like riding a Walmart bike vs a nice road bike.
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10-12-17, 09:41 AM
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10-12-17, 09:48 AM
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10-12-17, 09:50 AM
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10-12-17, 09:54 AM
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Even to make a fresh garden salad, you have to wash the lettuce even if store-bought and "pre-washed", peel & slice the cucumber, wash & slice the tomato, wash & slice the bell pepper, peel and slice the onion. Avocado is the least labor intensive of all salad fixings. Yaaay! And how many times have you sat down only to find you forget to grab the salad dressing?
There's times I wish we didn't have to eat at all.
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10-12-17, 09:55 AM
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10-12-17, 09:57 AM
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10-12-17, 09:57 AM
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I have a cheap knife (well, not bottom run, but I'm sure anything one can buy at bed bath and beyond you consider cheap), but I keep it reasonably sharp. Works fine. Cooking is about the food for me, not the toys.