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Hank Rogers[_2_]

wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:55:08 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 1:36:53 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2019-03-21 11:06 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>> A co-worker was surprised when I mentioned I like to cook. "Just for
>>>> yourself?" Yes. "You live alone, right?" Yes. "And you cook. Just
>>>> for yourself." I laughed. Of course I do! You don't think I go out to
>>>> eat every day, do you?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe the millenials go out to eat all the time but I'm not a millenial.
>>>> The idea that people living by themselves don't cook seems to be a
>>>> common misconception.
>>>>
>>>> I explained to her I have a small stand-alone freezer. Cooking for one
>>>> isn't difficult. But with a freezer it's easy to cook some things in
>>>> slightly larger quantities and have leftovers for homemade freezer meals
>>>> for when I don't feel like cooking.
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand why the concept was such a surprise. Your thoughts?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can't get too excited about cooking for myself. I don't have a problem
>>> with baking for myself because my wife rarely eats cookies, pies and
>>> stuff like that. If she goes away for a few days I resort to hamburgers
>>> and going out.
>>
>> When my husband has gone out of town on business I've
>> varied between eating very unimaginatively and making
>> a bunch of things I know he doesn't like. IIRC his
>> longest trip was a couple of months. A week or two was
>> more typical.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
> I've cooked all my life since a young child helping my grandmothers
> and mother and I still cook every day unless there are left overs,
> typically are. We're not fussy eaters, we enjoy left overs., and
> don't mind the same meal 2-3 days in a row. My wife can't cook much
> more than a cup of tea or an envelope of instant oatmeaal. When we
> first met had she been the kind of woman who insisted on doing the
> cooking there probably would not have been a second date. She gladly
> eats whatever I serve so long as there're no onions. Neither of us
> enjoys eating out, not at someone elses house either. We'll accept
> an invite for drinks but not a meal. Whenever she goes to a golf club
> luncheon she comes home hungry, she says they put ionions in
> everything, every salad contains a field of raw onion. walking by the
> salad bar nauseates her from the old onion stench, I don't like the
> stench of woofy onions either... meats are too rare, and baked goods
> are raw, seems around here a few brown spots on baked goods render
> them inedable... we'd much rather have a muffin with a thick crust and
> burnt edges than with raw batter in the center. .. neither of us can
> understand eating cookie dough. There are a lot more people with TIAD
> than yoose think, especially restaurant 'chefs'.... seems they've
> become so used to frozen entrees that they nuke that they've forgotten
> how to cook or they never knew... these days the priciest eaterys
> serve nuked frozen items... may as well dine on TV Dinners. Those
> working in pricey restaurant kitchens who call themself a chef are no
> more a chef than a cub scout on a camp-out.... anyone can nuke breaded
> frozen gulf shrimp from the stupicmarket... WTF would anyone other
> than TIADers want to eat gulf shrimp.... warm water seafood is bait.
>

I know it, Popeye! Yoose ole Mexican woman is sho nuff lucky a handsome
horny sailor like yoose took her in. Else, she'd still be turning tricks
down in honuras. And never even cooked up her own tortillas. Heck, she
wouldn't even have those giant c cups and long thick nipples without yoose!