We eat out once every week for our "date night."
I work hard on preparing meals for my family. But there are those occasional nights where it's gotten too late, or I've been too busy to think about dinner and we'll order out. So at the most, twice a week. But we try to keep it to just the date night.
Any "dinner" that comes premade in a box - frozen or shelf stable either one. Just can't handle the fact that people actually eat that stuff and think it's "food."
I've heard about this for years and never tried it. But OH MY SOUL!! I have GOT to try this now! Well, I'll assemble it and have my Honey grill it. The MEN do the grilling in this house. LOL It's time to do something new too! This is now on the menu for Saturday!
Most weekdays I'm a coffee and peanut butter toast kind of gal. Once in a while I'll live dangerously and add honey and bananas to my PB toast! LOL
Occasionally my Honey will want eggs, oatmeal or French toast for breakfast, then I will eat with him.
Weekends are WAY too crazy busy to even think about breakfast. If I have a batch of fresh, homemade muffins on the counter, I'll grab one of those though.
Oh man I LOVE muffins! I actually contemplated starting my own muffin business and had a name picked out. I would still love to do that. I make them a lot to give as gifts.I never tried a blueberry / lemon combo though.
Yours sound delicious.
I AM an in-law and have a precious daughter in law that is a wonderful cook. I would be devastated though if I knew she was miffed at me for something as small as my food preferences. I believe since they are your husband's parents, you ought to do what you can, while he still has them, to make them happy and comfortable in your home. His food preferences aren't something he's got against you, it sounds like it's just what the man likes. They won't always be around, and one day you'll want to look back and laugh about your FIL's love affair with green beans. It's an old person thing, I'd say - let it go, and stick with pork chops and green beans as your best bet. You'll be his favorite daughter in law, and he'll love coming for dinner! ;-)
My daughter just bought me one of those for my birthday and she got it at Steve and Barry's. It's a sports store in Midwest MI. My Honey is a knife collector and when he saw it, he said, "That looks like an Ulu knife." But it's actually called a Mezzaluna. It came with a small cutting board w/ a slight well in the center. It's mostly designed for cutting fresh herbs, but I've used it to chop other things as well. I'm sure it didn't set her back any more than $20.
Wow this list makes me seem like a heart attack waiting to happen!
Milk
Butter
Eggs
some sort of leftover
Fresh veggies
Fage 2% Total yogurt
Eggland's Best eggs
4% cottage cheese
water
fresh fruit
plus:
empty mugs ready for ice cold milk to be poured in :)
champagne
beer
milk
cheese
butter
condiments that need to be refridged after opening
sour cream
leftovers
veggies/fruits
Target has a great selection of economy knives that won't run you more than $50. I've seen Cuisinart, Henckels, and Wusthoff. Also, although I'm not a fan of Rachael Ray, I've tried the Furi knives that she endorses and they're pretty good. My aunt bought a set and she really loves them.
I've a fan of Wusthoff Classic, which are a little pricier, but well worth it. For me, it was worth it to spend $100 on a knife that I love and I know I'll have for a long time. Think of it as an investment. (Plus, they just look sort of cool!!)
We love to eat. And we especially love to eat out. However, we usually have at least two of our six kids living home with us, most of whom are teenagers. Satisfying those adolescent appetites can start to resemble the feeding of an Army, so the vast majority of our meals are prepared by me. Of course, since we love good quality, interesting food, even eating at home doesn't necessarily save us much money. It varies quite a bit, but I'd say, when we've got kids at home, we eat out and/or take-out about once or twice a week on average.
But we're also lucky enough to get weeks at a time where all the kids are away, and it's just the two of us. That's when we tend to eat out a lot, especially fine dining. At those times, we often find ourselves eating out 10-15 times per week.
We've noticed that eventually, we reach the point of eating out so much that we suffer from restaurant-food burn-out. It gets so neither one of us can abide the thought of another meal that isn't home cooked.
Does anybody else who goes on those high-frequency dining-out jags experience that?
Wow, I'm in the camp of a lot by comparison. I live on Long Island so the dining options are wonderful. Monday to Thursday, I prepare all of my meals, cereal and fruit for breakfast, bagged sandwich for lunch and home prepared dinner. Friday-Sunday, up to 2 meals a day are out. This always includes a stop at our local burrito bar where everything is prepared fresh and mostly organic, brown rice, whole wheat tortillas and tofu are also on the menu. It is my favorite meal of the week and I look forward to it and for less than $8.00 I am full for at least 8 hours with organic healthy and delicious food. We often have breakfast out one weekend day as well. We have a few local places that serve fresh healthy food always under $25 for 2 people and we are always too dull for lunch. The other meals are random (sushi, boulder creek, pubs, mexican, casual Italian but not expensive, always under $50 for two, unless its a holiday/b-day or anniversary and we go to a special (expensive) place. My boyfriend's apartment does not have a stove or an oven and we have a ton of delicious and reasonably priced options nearby so on our weekends together we enjoy going out. His birthday is next week so I asked him to pick a special place for dinner and he jokingly asked "What's wrong with Salsa Salsa"?
oxo makes a terrific six and a half inch santoku for 20 bucks.
This is the knife I use the most in my kitchen. http://int.jahenckels.com/453jahenckels_international
I do get annoyed with the people who say you only need "one knife." I'm sorry, but I don't use the same knife for chopping veggies and herbs as I do for peeling fruits, slicing bread or carving meat.
Weekdays and weekends for me are pretty much the same: either Nature's Path Kamut Puffs or pumpkin spice french toast with cranberry sauce. Odd, but tasty!
My sourdough starter
Savoy cabbage
Spicy salsa
Almond milk
Margarine (not mine but my sister uses a tub every two weeks [!!])
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Favorite foods: BBQ ribs, Ribeye steak (medium please), Hot wings, Roasted veggies, fried green beans, Hot fudge pudding cake over ice cream, hot apple dumplings... Man, I have to stop, I'm gaining weight just listing all this!
Last bite on earth: Would have to be a nice tender rack of BBQ Baby back ribs.