On 2014-02-07 15:47:00 +0000, Cheri said:

> "ImStillMags" > wrote in message
> ...
> 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.
>
> =====
>
> We have been retired for going on 4 years now, so we do have time.
> These days I really don't care to spend a whole lot of time with it
> either, so I do look for things that are fairly simple but tasty, but
> if I wanted to try a really time consuming recipe, I would, most
> recently was the zwiebelkuchen around Christmastime which turned out
> great.

Same here--it's not a holiday staple. This alone would prove the value
of rfc for me, but there are a number of others.

> I do remember when I was working outside the home that I did a lot of
> weekend cooking too, and some of the weekday meals were pretty thrown
> together simply because I was cooking all day at work and I was tired.
> :-)

I feel quite certain that with the wife's impending retirement we'll do
a lot more cooking, and likely a lot more eating-out. There are so many
great restaurants/bars in our area but the density in OC is such that
any really nice place gets too popular in a matter of a couple of
months. Then Fridays and Saturdays are a mad house and we prefer to
stop by places on a whim, rather than making reservations in advance.
As such our Tuesdays and Thursdays will become our old Fridays and
Saturdays and we figure we can get into any hip new popular place in OC
or LA with impunity!