Cooking vs Restaurants

[Spongebob]

Many people think that that shit is cute. If I lived alone, I wouldn't even have a TV in the house. I didn't, before I was married. Beyond public broadcasting, most TV programming is just a wasteland, afaiac.

I couldn't disagree more.  Now, more than ever before, there are vastly more and better quality scripted shows available.  Now I'm mostly referring to streaming services.  Network TV has improved greatly since I was a kid but it is not even in the race compared to streaming.  Ironically, though, my two favorite shows and what I consider the best TV dramas ever created were carried by a small network called AMC.  I'm referring to Breaking Bad and Mad Men.

[Astreja]

Tonight's dinner was a classic example of why we prefer cooking to restaurants: Lamb chops with a fresh mint and red wine reduction, and carrots with ginger and honey. Four herbed lamb chops, about $12. Had half a bag of carrots in the fridge and some ginger root in the freezer. Picked the mint from the front garden and deglazed the frying pan with a splash of some wine I already had. Total cost for a gourmet supper for two people: Maybe $15-16 CDN.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Tonight's dinner was a classic example of why we prefer cooking to restaurants:  Lamb chops with a fresh mint and red wine reduction, and carrots with ginger and honey.  Four herbed lamb chops, about $12.  Had half a bag of carrots in the fridge and some ginger root in the freezer.  Picked the mint from the front garden and deglazed the frying pan with a splash of some wine I already had.  Total cost for a gourmet supper for two people:  Maybe $15-16 CDN.

Abusing the overworked, underpaid waitstaff: priceless.

Boru

[Spongebob]

Tonight's dinner was a classic example of why we prefer cooking to restaurants:  Lamb chops with a fresh mint and red wine reduction, and carrots with ginger and honey.  Four herbed lamb chops, about $12.  Had half a bag of carrots in the fridge and some ginger root in the freezer.  Picked the mint from the front garden and deglazed the frying pan with a splash of some wine I already had.  Total cost for a gourmet supper for two people:  Maybe $15-16 CDN.

That sounds nice.  That's a $20 per plate meal at my favorite Greek restaurant.  Plus you have to deal with whatever nonsense is going on at the restaurant.  Lines, noise, crappy music and my least favorite of all, TV's everywhere all tuned to Faux Newz.

I hadn't mentioned this before but my favorite fast food joint is Bojangles.  I do like their food but the most attractive component is they play classical music only.  I don't think they need music at all but if they're determined to play music, let it be classical.

[Astreja]

Tonight's dinner was a classic example of why we prefer cooking to restaurants:  Lamb chops with a fresh mint and red wine reduction, and carrots with ginger and honey.  Four herbed lamb chops, about $12.  Had half a bag of carrots in the fridge and some ginger root in the freezer.  Picked the mint from the front garden and deglazed the frying pan with a splash of some wine I already had.  Total cost for a gourmet supper for two people:  Maybe $15-16 CDN.

Abusing the overworked, underpaid waitstaff: priceless.

Boru

 The main abuse *this* waitstaff suffered last night was the sore-knees slog up the staircase to advise my daughter that dinner was ready.  We really should get an intercom between the first and third floors.

[Angrboda]

Abusing the overworked, underpaid waitstaff: priceless.

Boru

 The main abuse *this* waitstaff suffered last night was the sore-knees slog up the staircase to advise my daughter that dinner was ready.  We really should get an intercom between the first and third floors.

Two Echo Dots and you don't need to do any wiring. All they need is WiFi.

[Spongebob]

Its interesting how people can be so emotional about what they eat. I can understand not liking the taste or texture of something, but I know people who get violent when certain foods are suggested. It's irrational, but what provokes such outbursts?

Speaking of, I recently ate at a Japanese place my daughter took us to. I got a bowl of soup with several things in it, including fish cakes. Fish cakes sound appetizing; they sort of invoke thoughts of crab cakes, but they aren't anything like crab cakes. I wouldn't call it objectionable, but it wasn't altogether pleasant either. I suppose I could try them again, as foods tend to grow on me after a while.

[Fireball]

There is some sort of fish sauce that the Thai place several of us went to in Florida when we were working there. It made that soup absolutely inedible for me. I can and will eat just about anything. Having said that, I can no longer eat onions or tomatoes (for example) due to them aggravating my reflux issues. Crazy, huh?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Its interesting how people can be so emotional about what they eat.  I can understand not liking the taste or texture of something, but I know people who get violent when certain foods are suggested.  It's irrational, but what provokes such outbursts?

Speaking of, I recently ate at a Japanese place my daughter took us to.  I got a bowl of soup with several things in it, including fish cakes.  Fish cakes sound appetizing; they sort of invoke thoughts of crab cakes, but they aren't anything like crab cakes.  I wouldn't call it objectionable, but it wasn't altogether pleasant either.  I suppose I could try them again, as foods tend to grow on me after a while.

I don’t outburst when someone suggests pizza. I do, however, get a little cranky when they try to pressure me into it, by saying things like, ‘But you haven’t had it from [insert name of their favourite pizzeria here]’ or ‘But I make it [an interminably dull recitation of their own special pizza recipe]’.

‘I don’t like pizza’ seems to be one of the hardest English sentences for people to understand.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

I admit freely that I am a picky eater by most standards. My parents (especially mom) didn't think anyone should be a picky eater. I swallowed a lot of food whole with great gulps of milk when I was still at home. The one time I was forced to try spinach (about age 9) I gagged and was threatened with a beating if I threw up. Maybe it was the texture, maybe the taste...I don't ever intend to find out.

In a conversation with my mother when my younger daughter was in her early 20s, I mentioned that she wouldn't eat lasagna becuase she didn't like Ricotta. Mom blew up about that and wanted to know how daughter knew she didn't like it. I had been making lasagna since that daughter was a baby and using Ricotta in the recipe. Pretty sure she knew she didn't like it because she had tried it.

Yeah, I don't get why people can get crazed over what someone else will or won't eat.