I have cooked a big pot of chili or something and after a week or so I am
pretty damned sick of chili.

Also, I prefer fresh food. Some stored foods, especially cooked dishes
quickly become rubbery, hard, mushy, gamy, off, rancid, green, white,
grainy, or whatever. Frozen, uncooked steaks, burgers, shrimp, and many
other foods can be prepared after almost a year with no detectable
difference from fresh. Most frozen-uncooked foods store much better than
frozen-cooked.

I go to the market often and buy small quantities.


"Sheldon" > wrote in message
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Mitch Scherer" wrote:
>
> I have invested some time and energy into learning to cook. It takes work
> and is also more expensive to
> buy the ingredients, but it is a relatively cheap endevor.
>
> It is a great disapointment to get restaurant dishes such as "alfredo
> sauce"
> made of flour, milk, and artificial
> flavoring, or gravy made of flour, milk, and artificial flavoring.
>
> ...Steaks that are sandwich thin planks of wood. ...etc.
>
> By the way, cooking for one is an order of magnitude worse!

Then don't cook for one. Any person who lives alone and cooks for one
hasn't a clue about cooking, they'd be much better off heading for a
local drive-thru. I rarely cook less than for four... left overs are
often better than the original, they taste better and take no time or
effort, they're all ready to eat with virtually no clean up... I mean
like only a pinhead boils just two eggs, bakes just one potato, cooks
just one serving of stew... I wouldn't dirty a pan or light my grill
for just one meal worth of steak, cold sliced steak is excellent, can
be used to make many dishes that are even better than the original.
The smallest omelet I make contains ten eggs. A lot of great meals
can be prepared, and prepared quickly with left over fried eggs... I
would use the entire dozen but typically hold two back just in case I
decide to prepare something that calls for eggs, even if just an egg
wash for breading a half dozen pork chops... come home too tired to
cook just pop a brewskie appetiser and zap a couple cold breaded chops
smothered under a can of baked beans, pop another brewski and dinner
in your undies in front of the tube is more gormay than at any snooty
fine dining dive... yeah, we got dessert too, a double slab of left
over pineapple upside down cake with a scoop of nilla is as fine as it
gets... oh, why not, there are six left over cherries.

Sheldon