What are you cooking tonight?

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  1. iowawriter

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    Made a couple of cheddar Johnsonville cheddar brats for lunch at home today. Tonight, I'm back at the supper blub for my plate of french fries.
     
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    Puddin' chips'n gravy.

    Although not cooking, buying, and I'm not going to even try and explain what this is to our transatlantic members.
     
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    Made an alfredo sauce with cashews for some fettuccine, and I've got rye bread in the oven. Made chicken salad with soy curls earlier for my lunches this week.
     
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    I ordered a pizza bread to go from one of the pubs and brought it over to the high school garden with me. Enjoyed it very much.
     
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    this looks very interesting. Can you share the recipe?
     
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  8. Hummus with stick salad and black olives for lunch yesterday.
     
  9. Laurin Kelly

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    Oven roasted halibut with yellow tomato & plum salsa, and honey Dijon carrots.
     
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    That is a beautiful meal right there. I would only make very minor alterations.
     
  11. Laurin Kelly

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    I'm very underemployed right now (10-12 hours per week, all remotely from my home), so one of the things I've been doing that's relatively safe to stay sane is hit up the local farmer's market every week. I basically buy whatever catches my eye and plan meals around whatever I get. It's resulted in a lot of vegetable forward meals over the past few months!
     
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    The fresh vegetables and fish recipes are always the best because they make you feel so lively and refreshed afterwards. I try to do meals like that at least twice a week just to feel healthy, and they taste great as well. Usually I steam whole fish though and do more Asian recipes, but I know what you mean with having to stay home and cook. Improving a lot thanks to lack of service calls at work.
     
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    Chips and gravy, I understand. It's the puddin' I had to look up. You get yours from the shops? It strikes me as that sort of thing.)

    (I make my chips from Delia Smith's recipe, btw.)
     
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    I'm deciding between steaming some parrot fish over onion and garlic and giving it a bath of Chinese fish soy sauce and peanut oil, which is like my go to "break the nornal heaviness of dinner trends" food

    ...or finishing this god awful left over packet curry I made yesterday...

    I know i should finish the fucking watery curry...but but...parrot fish...

    First world problems
     
  15. It's Thursday, which means a "ham on white with a ton of mayonnaise" sandwich from the 7-11 on the way to work :(
     
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    I was always partial to the "Jalapeno Tuna Super Triangle" on my road trips for work when I needed a snack that wouldn't slow me down too much.
     
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    Lord I hope Japanese 7-eleven's are cleaner than the ones in Providence.
     
  18. EFMingo

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    I've been to some horrendous ones in Japan and especially South Korea. I don't think they're great anywhere.
     
  19. I dunno, the ones around here are pretty clean. They throw out tons of food (literally, 2000lbs/1000kilos) on a regular basis because it might be just a little soggy or stale around the edges.... in a few hours.

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    It's just in the last few years that they've started slapping discount stickers on food that's due to "expire" in a few hours, but the shelves still get combed through multiple times a day.
     
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    Kind of funny, but I forgot to eat dinner at work, stopped off at 7-eleven to grab smokes at midnight, realized I was hungry and crushed a can of Pringles on the ride home.

    The ride home was maybe 2000 ft.
     
  21. Walking drinks. No open container laws here, so if I'm on foot I stop at the conbini and get a tall-boy for the walk home.
     
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    Guys, you both living what I need right now. A couple cigarettes and a beer on a nice long summer walk. Miss the little things sometimes. I can't tell you how many times that was my "dinner" in the Marines.
     
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  23. Back before I got married a bunch of us gaijin used to hang out in front of the local conbini and drink every night. Pack of smokes, beer is kept cold inside the shop, a pizza-mang when you feel hungry...
     
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    What's stopping you? Have you seen anything about 2020 that suggests that better times are ahead?
     
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    All that gets chucked? That's awful.

    When I was a student in Oxford I loved how the Sainsbury's up the road would mark down the produce and meat due to reach its Sell By the next day. Wonderful for a restricted budget.

    I often hit the Day Old bakery rack at the local Walmart, but I probably shouldn't. Doughnuts! Croissants!

    Yeah.
     

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