On 2/7/2014 9:15 AM, ImStillMags wrote:
> I love seeing what everyone cooks and posts here, but most of you must be retired with the meals I see posted on a daily basis. Working full time puts a crimp in my creative cooking cause I'm usually too pooped to mess with a lot of prep or complicated dishes when I get home.
>
> I do most of my cooking on the weekends and then have that through the week.
> One of these days......maybe I'll be able to retire, but not yet.
>
> envious of you guys.
>

Not retired, but we work from a home office. Most of my job is done
through emails or on the phone. I keep my email window open all the
time and read newsgroups or Facebook, etc if I have a few minutes to
spare. Most days it is just a few minutes here and there.

Cooking is easy when you work from home, but we do most of our cooking
in large batches and portion and freeze so that many dinners are the
"heat and eat" kind of thing. Tonight's supper is Thai Chicken Soup
that Becca made a few weeks ago. Defrost, heat and eat. Last night I
had Huevos Rancheros with beans made earlier this week and Mexican rice
made last week. Our freezer always has some beans, rice, spaghetti
sauce, soup, smoked meats, etc so coming up with a fast meal is pretty
easy f we don't feel like cooking.

The nice part about working at home is the flexibility. We are usually
at our computers by 7 AM every morning and we try to "close" the office
for business at 6 PM but we take phone calls after that. Occasionally,
we will have a really dead day and will go to an early movie and lunch
which is a nice break.

We are lucky in that we really love what we do so it doesn't seem like
work. We will probably never "retire".

George L