A better stovetop toaster?

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Re: A better stovetop toaster?

Reply #75 – May 16, 2020, 11:45:19 am

Quote from: Judie Ashford - May 15, 2020, 10:28:19 pm

With a bit of planning and inspiration, an ingredient can be fixed up and then morph into other personalities to make another meal that is easy, interesting, and nourishing.
If interested in some suggestions, drop me a line and we can do some meal planning for you. ;->

Chris probably would be even more interested in a box of frozen meals showing up at his doorstep once a week.
Many people living by themselves have problems cooking for just one.

Good cooking is something best shared, you have had appreciative consumers of your cooking to encourage you, their love of your cooking has made it worthwhile for you
And from your food photos, it sure looks good.

Getting hungry, it must be breakfast time.
Larry

Re: A better stovetop toaster?

Reply #76 – May 16, 2020, 03:21:29 pm

Quote from: Larry W - May 16, 2020, 11:45:19 am

Chris probably would be even more interested in a box of frozen meals showing up at his doorstep once a week.

For Chris:
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Re: A better stovetop toaster?

Reply #77 – May 17, 2020, 01:24:04 am

"Chris probably would be even more interested in a box of frozen meals showing up at his doorstep once a week.
Many people living by themselves have problems cooking for just one.

Good cooking is something best shared, you have had appreciative consumers of your cooking to encourage you, their love of your cooking has made it worthwhile for you
And from your food photos, it sure looks good."

I've often wondered what it would be like to cook only for myself. On the rare occasions where there has been no one to join me for several meals in a row, there has always been sufficient "stuff" available to do leftover magic. But if I were ALWAYS in that mode? Well, I don't know, really.

My gut (ahem) feeling is that I would do the same as I do now, i.e. cook more than one meal's worth of any given food, and collect a variety of things in freezer and refrigerator containers with an eye to being able to pick and choose at any given meal, while also keeping open the use of the vacuum bottle method of providing a part of a meal with no work involved.

Sort of a Kitchen Rubik's Cube - put things together in a variety of ways that are pleasant to do, a joy to look at, and satisfying to eat, while also being thrifty and conservative with earth's bounty.

The meal kits and prepared meals hold no interest for me; indeed, they look wasteful of resources - to say nothing of exorbitantly priced. I target $6. each day for each of us for all of our food, and from what I have seen, these prepared items can be $10.00, and more, per person, per meal.

And . . . they take all the fun out of it!

Virtual hugs,

Judie

Re: A better stovetop toaster?

Reply #78 – May 17, 2020, 08:52:37 am

Quote from: Chris Horst - May 15, 2020, 12:05:10 pm

Not even fancy cookware helps dispel my boredom with cooking. I often walk in the kitchen at meal time and say, "Is this a meal I can skip?"

Chris

That's pretty much the way I am but my brother who is a fireman in San Jose has become a gourmet cook. It started because they all take turns cooking dinner for the firehouse and he just really got into it. Now he watches all the cooking shows and prepares the meals for all the family get togethers. He even talks of becoming a chef after retiring from the fire department. To each his own I guess.
On a sidenote he once took me on a joy ride in his fire engine and I got to blow the horn and turn on the siren like a little kid. Great fun!

Re: A better stovetop toaster?

Reply #79 – May 17, 2020, 01:43:25 pm

Quote from: HiLola - May 15, 2020, 04:31:50 pm

scrap the burned stuff offRodney, the burnt stuff is the best part. Kinda like when you get coffee grounds in the bottom of that last cup o'joe!