What’s your favorite meal to cook at home?
That’s assuming you cook at all…or that your favorite meal involves no cooking but opening a box or a bag.
I find that in this house, I have been cooking less. This is largely due to the crappiness of the kitchen. I think counter space really determines the quality and frequency of my cooking. Oh, and of course, time, energy, and ingredients. Like many folks, I go through various cooking phases: pizza, calzones, casseroles, peanut sauce, phad thai, bread baking (which I still manage to do twice a month). I have a crock pot and all the ambition in the world and yet it remains untouched. There was a brief period where I thought a fondue pot might be cool, but realized it would be one more thing lying around.
Josh is a willing recipient of anything that I come up with…but after multiple tries he usually tires of one (if not perfected) dish. If it were up to Josh we would probably eat typical German fare every night: Meat and potatoes. (I, myself, was raised on a solid pasta diet). The two of us do not eat at the table, we eat while watching the Simpsons. Actually, we don’t usually eat together. All of the above are bad, we know this. When we eat at the table, we usually end up reading magazines instead of talking. I suppose there’s little to no ceremony about dinner for us. This is why we love going out to eat, because than we’re completely relaxed, someone is serving us, the menu is good, and it’s like a date.
Did you go out to eat a lot as a kid? Neither of us did…and when we did it was to very memorable (at the time) but unimpressive places….like The Holland or Wendy’s. No offense to my Mom’s cooking, but we LOVED going out to eat. Therefore, if Josh and I had the choice to be true urbanites and go out to eat all the time, I think we would.