On Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 12:38:31 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
> Dr. Bruce wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 07:24:36 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday, April 2, 2021 at 9:43:49 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> > >> Bruce wrote:
> > >> > Gary wrote:
> > >> >> I watched a 30 minute show last night about the traditional
> > Hawaiian >> >> food. Australian chef, Curtis Stone, went to Kaui to
> > be educated. >> >> Good show.
> > >> >
> > >> > Curtis Stone is a prostitute chef.
> > >>
> > >> lol. You must have seen his old shows, "Take Home Chef."
> > >> I used to watch that. What a player he was.
> > >>
> > >> He'd go into a grocery store and pick one woman shopping alone. It
> > was >> always a very pretty woman. Then he would approach her,
> > explain his show >> to them, and offer to cook a gourmet dinner for
> > her in her home for free.
> > >
> > > Like Door Knock Dinners. I fondly recall the episode where two
> > > of the original Iron Chefs (Morimoto and Michiba) had to make
> > > dinner out of whatever they found in some American family's
> > > kitchen. I seem to recall they family had just come back from
> > > vacation, and the cupboard was pretty bare.
> >
> > All a setup, no doubt.
> No doubt but probably fun to watch! Here's a real example though I'm
> not that level of 'chef' and actually a pretty basic cook at that time
> of late 70's or very early 80's.
>
> I did that once at my bosses house. I was working fast food and he was
> the manager who'd gotten hurt in a car accident and was out from work
> for 2 weeks. I lived real near by and he called and asked if I could
> make a shopping run for him. Keeping it completely on the straight up,
> he'd pay and he needed some things that were 'fast to fix' as he had
> limited standing capability just then and left arm in a cast.
>
> I went over and surveyed the situation and he did actually have quite a
> bit there, but didn't really understand it the way I did. I looked at
> his grocery list then made some suggestions. The method later got
> named 'cook once, eat many' by someone famous but it wasn't me.
> Microwaves didn't exist yet in the home.
>
> For the next 2 weeks, he ate some things he wasn't as familiar with but
> liked. Like, I browned up 3lbs ground beef and froze 2lbs of it in
> empty cleaned plastic butter tubs in smaller 1/2lb amounts. I took out
> his small frozen porkbutt and loaded it in my crockpot and returned
> about 4lbs of shredded pork, some with BBQ sauce added and some plain
> to be spiced later (all in more butter tubs).
>
> He had spagetti, various quick wraps, lots of canned tomato products
> and canned veggies common to the era. Lots of pasta.
>
> I got flour tortillas, a tub of margarine, bag of onions, and some
> spices he didn't have. A thing of Icecream, and a few TV dinners.
> Told him to save the trays and next week they would be reloaded with
> frozen meals for more TV dinners after adding some of his canned
> potatoes (they do not freeze well so have to be added just before
> cooking). A jar of Mayo, and a case of his preferred beer. Oh, hot
> dog buns as his left arm was in a cast so that was an easy one handed
> bread. Next week he needed more beer and hot dog buns. I loaded the
> trays up from the previous week. He was still eating up the meats that
> were prebrowned.
>
> He had spagetti, various quick wraps, chili, carnitas, hotdog bun
> garlic bread, an odd dish common to that part of the south that might
> be called 'pork stew' (a little bit like a brunswick stew).
>
> It was a minimum wage 3.25hr era if I recall. He paid for the
> groceries (had called the store to let them know he had a presigned
> check with me and his DL so it was ok). He paid me 20$ which was more
> like 5$ an hour over the 2 weeks.


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Greg