On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 3:34:38 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "A Moose in Love" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 4:32:37 PM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:
> > "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > >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?
> > >
> > > Jill
> >
> > There were times when I was younger when I went straight from work to some
> > other activities and I might not get home until the wee hours, then, I
> > didn't do a lot of cooking at home although the cooking that I did do was
> > usually brought to work as lunch.
> >
> > These days I only dine out when I have to. I don't like dining out.
>
> i just got invited to a chinese buffet place for my friends birthday. i
> mentioned before here that i get sick when i eat there. i'm going, but i
> will only eat the 'north american' type foods such as ribs, wings(just
> breaded; no sauce), shrimp cocktail etc. i'm not touching any of the
> 'chinese' type foods. no soup.
>
> ---
> Ugh those are the worst! Chinese food is not the kind of stuff that should
> be on a steam table. It either dries out or goes soggy depending on what it
> is. I used to get furious with my ex because he loved to go to an Asian
> buffet in Alameda. The cost was $20 per person. No cheaper prices for kids.
> No way to go in and not eat. The only drinks were Pepsi products which I
> hate. I don't even recall tea being available.
>
> They had some kind of salad (Daikon?) that I loved but even a bite of it
> shot my blood sugar through the roof. The only thing they had that I would
> eat was some lasagna that clearly came from frozen. It wasn't bad but it was
> pretty carby for me so I could only eat a small amount of it.
>
> The only thing they had that Angela would eat were tiny muffins. She would
> only eat one kind and sometimes they didn't have the kind she liked. And if
> they did have them, there was never more than two. Angela loved fried rice
> in those days but theirs was always dried out to the point where it was so
> crispy you could break a tooth on it. So was the regular rice.
>
> I have no clue why people liked eating there but they did seem to like it..
> The place had sushi and purportedly crab. I never saw the crab though. What
> I did see was pan after pan of food that seemed decrepit. Mostly what I saw
> people eating was the sushi but they had to keep going back again and again
> for that. They seemed to only put out about 8 pieces at a time. As such,
> people would spend hours in there, eating because it took them so long to
> get enough food to fill them up.
I'll have to check out the local Chinese buffet scene. I saw a lady that had eaten at a place called "Maple Garden" yesterday. She said it was good. She ought to know - she's an actual Chinese lady. The joint is kind of a dump so it could be kind of risky but it could be rewarding. When she said "hot and sour soup" I knew I had to go there.
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/maple-garden-honolulu-3