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What do you eat when you eat alone?
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When I lived in the states I use to make stir frys with pasta a lot. Also I make some of the best damn meat loaf you have ever had. But I need a cast iron pan, an oven and a good chunk of ground beef. The prep is easy, let it bake for 20-30 minutes and boom, put it on a sandwich and go to town.
Food mostly,
Oh you wanted a longer answer?
Mostly things that are quick to prepare,
- stir fry's
- pasta
- salads with chicken / oily fish
- ready made pizzas etc
- sandwiches
- (beans on) toast
- soup
- etc
Poutine, sandwich meats - sandwich, way too much coke cola, garlic buttered shrimp, lobster, any sort of fish, raisin bran, soya sauce on rice(fuop), cheesecake.. mini pizzas! Hmm.. Blueberries in milk with sugar! Oh oh oh, poutine with chicken in it! Kraft dinner with bacon and peas, any of those instant soup things type skadoodles, bacon! Ham burgers! Spaghetti + vodka! Wine with anything! BBQ Chips(Humpty Dumpty brand is the only real bbq out there). tuna sandwiches. STEAK!!! Soya fried chicken/pork!
I'm so hungry right now, golly.
Looking at this list I wonder why I'm underweight and not a raging fatty D:
I really enjoy cooking so, at least for dinner, I tend to actually thaw out some kind of meat and make it for myself that night (even if I'm eating alone). I'm visiting a lady at the moment but the last thing I made for myself... hmm.... I believe was breaded pork loin seasoned with basil, cilantro and some other fun things, topped off with a dash of honey. (Honey+Pork=awesome). I'm kind of lazy with my sidedishes. Usually I'll just pop open a can of green beans.
Cooking is a skill, and experimentation can lead to some great discoveries. As such, I don't see cooking for myself as time wasted. I get a great meal and I'm that much more prepared to cook for my friends and loved ones.
"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother."
a "guy thing"? sexist.
With people or on my own though - there will be cupcakes.
Because if I can't eat it then I'm sure as fuck not serving it to company.
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For dinners, if I'm alone and not on a cheese toast/eggo/eggs rotation, I am a slave to my crock pot or chef salads - a pot of taco soup with cheese and corn chips will last one person a week. Chef salads are easy if they involve a bag of salad mix, a bag of pre-cooked italian chicken, cottage cheese and some sort of sesame seeds or even trail mix.
Thankfully, other than breakfast and lunch on weekdays, I have someone else to cook for. Another bonus is next week we're moving into a house that has a company-sized kitchen, rather than the shoebox I currently cook in.
Also I like to bake.
If faith is just a silent tribute, mine is just a desperate act.
The remaining 20% is breakfast stuff (eggs, fried potatoes, & bacon -- preferably all mixed together in a large cereal bowl and covered in pepper and ketchup).
All my fuckin life I lived a normal fuckin life
I do most of the cooking, I'm not a very good cook. She puts a lot more effort into it since she comes from a chinese family so they taught her to cut it all up into strips and cubes and little pieces and stirfry it.
For example potato: I'll cut it up if I'm boiling it for mashing to make it cook faster, just basic four way cut then toss it in. But as a result of her families teaching she cut each potato up into cubes 1cm per side. I was absolutely amazed the first time she put it in front of me. I could never do that I wouldn't have the patience!
The main difference between my cooking with her and cooking alone is I tend to forget the vegetables when cooking alone. I don't think that's a guy thing so much as a me thing. I like eating fruit during the day so I guess I don't feel like I need it as much at night. Dinner is usually the only cooked meal I have.
Breakfast and lunch don't differ at all wether I'm alone or not. Ham, cheese, tomato and mayonaise sandwich no butter.
Sandwiches are the norm if I'm alone and there's sandwich stuff, but I also like doing breakfast-foods for dinner. If there's not sandwich stuff I'll start doing some cooking. Last Thursday I did fried eggs and toast. Monday was a pork chop w/ red beans and rice. Last night I did bacon and pancakes. Tonight will probably be Monday's left-overs. All of those things are quick and easy though: 10, maybe 15 minutes from fridge to plate. I tend to avoid making the more elaborate, time-consuming meals unless I've got someone to enjoy them with.
Mmmmm honey fried egg.
So, we get situations where I'm cooking and he tells me in depth details about all his new roleplay books including character strengths and weaknesses and back plot and how good the art work is. Or he'll explain to me how awesome a new video game he has is, and tell me amazingly funny anecdotes about how he beat a certain boss or whatever. Not so interesting if I haven't played it
This is why I generally either make him help or put him out. I don't have the concentration to keep the conversation reasonable and cook at the same time XD
Really I don't know that any such gender issue actually exists, but it has been, or at least was at one time, a staple of certain "comediennes" to talk about how women only eat a salad, or just taste some of their dates' entree, so as to appear feminine and also put figurative sandbags around their insecurities about weight, but then pig out on doughnuts and ice cream when they get home.
An example of a cultural difference that probably explains our food preferences:
My family cooked tons of boiled vegetables without flavouring. So to me vegetables are basically tasteless yuck.
Her family lightly stirfried and added tasty sauces and stuff. I eat her mothers cooking and I can't stop eating the vegetables. If I grew up in a family like that vegetables would be the bestest ever.
I actually very rarely plan out recipes and sometimes entire meals. I'll just start grabbing shit and start tossing it in and putting whatever I make/find on a dinner plate until it's filled.
yes, but women are dainty about it, whereas men are stabbing at the takeout container.
clearly...
Doesn't leave a mess and close to the garbage and sink to place utensils and dispose of waste since you were going to throw it out anyway.
onion
spinach
salmon fliets
olive oil
1 1/2 cups whipping cream
1/2 cup vodka
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Preheat your oven to 350F and chop up an onion as thin as you can, add some butter and let it cook till golden brown. In the meantime while that is going on, heat up a large skillet with oil and cook the salmon for about 3 mins on each side. When they are done pour some cream and vodka in the same pan and cook for about 4 mins untill it gets thick. Add pepper, butter, and lime and salt if you think it needs it. Take the onions out of the oven and add some chopped spinach if you would like to and cook for an additional 3 mins or just leave that part out out. Put them on the side and there yah go, Easy dinner.
Exactly.
I like cooking, but when I'm alone it seems so pointless. I'm far more inclined to be lazy and eat poorly when alone.
Also, I haven't experimented with pizza but I've made leftovers-soup. The idea is that if you boil the shit out of whatever questionable food your considering eating it will be safe to eat.
I survived but YMMV.
I rarely cook for anyone but myself, but that doesn't mean I'm lazy about it. I kinda wish I did cook for others more often though so I had the chance to just go all out.
One can always refine their technique! When I'm alone it means I have time to tinker with cooking methods and new ingredients, without someone being disgusted with things outside their comfort zone of macaroni and cheese.
Particularly unrefined I am.
My food critic is supportive of culinary experimentation so that's not so much an issue for me. And if I ever have kids I don't intend to let them get away with being picky about their food.
Right on - I do the same thing. Rather perfect it alone then share. I will say I go the extra mile re: presentation with people over.
And eating over the sink is one of the best things in life.
then i can control stuff completely, except for when i'm really lazy
with friends and stuff i am lax and eat badly or eat out or whatever
Same. I usually have time to cook myself when I'm alone, which means eating well. If I'm with friends it's just "yeah I'll have whatever".
Meals alone include some variety of salmon, pasta, pizza, or sandwich.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
This is how I do things as well. That's how I managed to create a salmon pizza thing I now make regularly, and started using portabella mushroom caps as bowls for various stews and such.