For Those Of You Who Are Living Alone....Do You Find You've Gotten.... / myLot

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November 20, 2009 8:38pm CST

...Lazier about cooking? I happen to be a very good cook. I can cook just about any kind of food, any nationality but specialize in French, Italian, Mexican and Oriental cuisine. Now when my grandmother and mother were alive, it was like a virtual French restaurant since I'd be making crepes, souffles, quiches etc...or Italian like homemade pizza, lasagna, manacotti, and so forth. I'd even made homemade breads, pies, flans--you name it. But now that I live alone I have to confess I've gotten a tad lazy about cooking. Oh, sure I still cook, but now very simple foods without much fuss--the only time I go all out are special occasions like my birthday in which I make the very first French dish I ever cooked over 25 years ago (Beouf Bourgnignon) and is a tradition for me or holidays, like Thanksgiving that is coming up. But even with Thanksgiving coming up next week, I'm thinking of having my Beouf Bourgnignon since it's kind of dumb getting a whole turkey (or even just he breast meat) when there would be so much leftover. Although just might get something simple like a chicken breast so I can still fix up the homemade stuffing, etc. to go with it. I have to admit I kind of miss cooking the way I used to even though it's now just me, and to cook the way I used to I would have too much leftover..For instance when I made my Beouf Bourgnignon for my birthday dinner yesterday I halved the recipe and I STILL have a lot leftover. And yes could probably freeze the leftovers but some foods just plain don't freeze well So anyway...for those who are alone, do you fuss with cooking? Or are you like me and have gotten just a tad lazy and maybe only fix something special for an "occasion" or Holiday?

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mentalward

@mentalward (14690)

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21 Nov 09

Happy Belated Birthday, Pye! I hope you had a good one with many more to follow. I think that cooking for others is always a lot more enjoyable than just cooking for ourselves. I lived alone for a long time. Even after I had my kids and was divorced, I almost always cooked two different dinners, one for the kids and one for myself. (Trying to get a 4-year-old to eat broccoli or peas is like asking them to write a Master's thesis! It just ain't gonna happen. LOL) I have to admit that I hardly ever got fancy when I lived by myself, except on special occasions like you mentioned. Christmas dinner was always at my house and I'd spend 3 days cooking that meal! I was in Heaven! My sister loved my Country Chicken and Dumplings and I would make that for her on her birthday every year. That took 5 hours to make and I relished every minute of it. I've always loved cooking and experiment with new things whenever I get the chance. That's not often these days unless my sons come over to visit. (They've learned to like broccoli and peas. LOL) My husband is a stick-in-the-mud about the "tried-and-true" foods he grew up with. He doesn't like to try new things. To give you an idea, whenever we go to a Chinese restaurant, he orders Beef with Broccoli, never anything else. So, cooking for him is rather boring. You know, I made a chicken dinner that I thought was my own idea, at least until I saw a recipe for Chicken Cacciatore in a recipe book. I was just playing around with it, adding this and that, and loved it. When I saw that I was actually making chicken cacciatore, I had to laugh because I probably would have screwed it up if I had been following a recipe.

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