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To Eat In or To Eat Out, that is the question.
As a typical 20sb, do you find you cook dinner or go out more often? If you cook, what are you cooking? Do you have some sweet, delicious recipes you want to share?
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Permalink Reply by Angela on -
I eat at home more. Not like, REAL cooking, though. I don't bake chicken just for myself and have sides to go along with it. Easy foods, I guess....
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Permalink Reply by cooper on -
I'm not much of a cook though I'm good at salads. I eat out a lot, mostly sushi, but try to stay away from chain restaurants.
Having a friend who has worked in a bunch of restaraunts every summer since high school, and listening to him tell of the horrors of many of the kitchens in even some of the better places really gives me pause.
I keep meaning to lean to cook.
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Permalink Reply by DShan on -
i do cook a lot, although since getting my puppy i've done so a lot less...it's something i've been focusing on very recently because i realized i wasn't cooking enough. i was basically ordering thai and sushi a lot.
i cook all kinds of stuff! steak (a lot), fish, chicken, pasta (i make sauce from scatch like every other month or so)...but i almost never use a recipe. i just sort of experiment, and it usually turns out great.
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Permalink Reply by The Sassy Sexpert on -
Ah, this is a great topic....
I would eat out more often if it weren't pricey/fattening (even "healthy" seeming foods out have way more calories than if you made it at home!).
I find I try to come up with "easy" recipes like baked potato covered in turkey chili or black beans/rice/pico de gallo (Yum). Or wheat pasta, Newman's own spaghetti sauce (I LOVE the onion one) and some veggie meat "crumblers" for protein.
Sometimes I will make a salad (romaine, feta, radishes, onion, tomato, cucumber) and either have a small Trader Joe's quiche with it OR make a veggie gyro with Pita bread (toasted with olive oil), veg. hambuger patty, onion, tomato and sour cream in place of the more traditional tzatiki (or however it's spelled) because I find it's a pretty decent substitute....
All of these are super easy, pretty quick and pretty economical as well.
I hate cooking meat so a lot of my recipes come from that place. Hah.
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Permalink Reply by Maxie on -
I really love to cook,but I'm also quite lazy and when I end up making dinner from scratch it usually costs me more than just dining out. Maybe when I have my own place I will cook in more, but for now I'm all about dining out.
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Permalink Reply by Caroline on -
I usually cook at home, mostly easy stuff. Every so often I make a big pot of some soup or chili or something like that and eat what I want of it, then freeze the rest in single-servings. (Freezing them in a good zip-top plastic bag allows me to drop the whole bag in a pot of hot (not boiling) water and reheat them without the use of a microwave). Thus, I can be lazy most of the time and still eat good food. :)
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on -
My husband and I cook & eat in more than we eat out - we generally eat out about once a week, MAYBE twice. I have a couple recipes to share! :)
For Dinner:
If you're feeling adventurous...
My husband LOVES this for dinner:
Crispy Cado
Supplies You'll Need:
Wheat Tortilla's
3/4 Avocado
2 cups of Spinach (small leaf's)
1 large Tomato
Cheddar Cheese - Mild
Chili Powder
Mrs. Dash
Chicken
Milk
First I started the chicken. I placed thawed chicken in the pan and then poured in enough milk to cover the bottom of the pan. I turned it to medium heat and let it simmer and covered the pan. 5 minutes later I sprinkled Mrs. Dash on the top of each chicken breast and cover it again.
Then I went and started the spinach. Get your steamer and steam the spinach until it's weak/or really soft. Soft enough to put it all in a clump.
Now get your blender or anything that will puree(Pure-'A'). Place your 3/4 of an Avocado and blend. Turn around and go back to your chicken, flip the chicken and re-apply Mrs. Dash to the other side. Cover.
Back to your spinach, by now it should be soft enough, if not go back and get your cutting board and chop up your tomato into really small chunks. Back to the spinach, when it's done put that with your Avocado's that are pureed and add the spinich and puree them together until well blended.
Back to your chicken, flip again. When the chicken looks done put on low heat until ready to slice up. Get your Avocado's & Spinich and put the blended sauce into a sauce pan. Add your chopped tomato in with the sauce and put it on medium heat. Sprinkle your chili powder over sauce (enough to lightly cover the surface of the sauce), and do the same with the Mrs. Dash.
Now is the time to prepare tortilla's. We want them crispy so get a flat pan and pour 1-2 tble spoon's of butter sizzle until lightly brown on each side. Prepare 2 for each serving. (2 people eating = 4 tortilla's).
Shred about 2 cups of cheese.
Slice your chicken into small shredded cubes.
Now's the time to put your Crispy-Cado together!
Here's how you layer:
Tortilla
Sprinkle cheese to cover Tortilla (light layer)
Apply sauce over cheese (semi-light layer)
Apply chicken over sauce
Sprinkle with cheese again
2nd Tortilla
And for the finishing touch sprinkle lighlty over top some parsley flakes.
This meal is filling enough by itself. I had some left over and ate it for lunch the next day - GREAT leftover's! :)
Enjoy!
Our favorite Dessert, my Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies:
These turn out perfectly chewy and oh so good!!!!
2 3/4 cups Organic Wheat Flour
1 Cup Applesauce (No Sugar Added)
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tsp. Salt
12 oz. (2 cups) chocolate chips
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup of ‘Better ‘n eggs’ or ‘Egg Beaters’
1.5 cap (or 2 tsp) full vanilla
1 Tablespoon of Flaxseed (Ground - make sure it’s already been grinded)
Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 - 23 min. What I like to do is mix the liquid and dry ingredients separately and then combine them together. The cookie seems to be better balanced that way when it’s all put together. What is so great is that they are low in fat, low in cholesterol and they taste SO good and pleasantly chewy. They are my husband’s new favorite ;)
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Permalink Reply by Ask Alice on -
I eat out waaaaaay too much for my own good. I love cooking but what's the point in doing it for one? I try to get friends together to make dinners when I can. I love making this jamaican jerk pork with mango/kiwi/red pepper chutney that is yummy in the summer!
Most of the time though I find myself grabbing something on the way home. Luckily I live by a fresh "market" style take-out place so the food is relatively healthy and not super-expensive :)
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Permalink Reply by Jessica on -
Honestly, I love to go out to eat but I can't afford it (living in the city and such) so normally during the week I eat at home.
And sadly, what I make would hardly constitute a solid or creative meal. I'm a bad cook. But on Fridays I always buy lunch at work and generally go out to eat during the weekends so I'm not eating random stuff at home and have leftovers ;)
My mom makes a really good black-bottom cream cheese cupcake. Lord that stuff would make you cry it's so good.
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Permalink Reply by Nat on -
I hardly ever eat at home. In fact I am hardly ever at home. Currently I survive on a veg foccacia during the working day and usually hot chips later on. Ha ha. I am completely un healthy at the moment.
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Permalink Reply by Erin on -
I eat at home a lot because it's cheaper. I cook a lot, which is good on the days when I do cook, but it usually means that I eat the same thing all week.
I think the good thing about cooking for myself is that I've finally gotten my weight under control because I don't eat a lot of the bad stuff I used to when I lived with my parents.
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Permalink Reply by NoOrdinaryBen on
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I go out far more than I should but that'll stop soon when I move out to the 'burbs. My favourite recipe site is http://theculinarychase.blogspot.com it's all beautiful, gourmet meals but they're so easy to make with more or less normal ingredients.
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