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I hate when I see a video going “here is my go-to lazy meal for when I’m totally beat” and the first thing they do is start chopping an onion.
A lazy meal is a bag of beige crap from the freezer, dumped into an oven tray and left for 20 minutes on gas mark 8. If it’s more effort than that, you can stick it.
it’s like when someone uploads a video of “cheap diy project” and half the materials is a couple hundred dollars of stuff they already own from previous projects. or “cheap optiplex gaming pc” and the gpu is a rtx 3090 nvidia gave them for free for being a tech youtuber.
Oven? Why be such an overachiever? If it requires more than 1 button press on the microwave I’m just gonna eat it cold.
I buy frozen chopped onions and pepper and onion mix because I fucking hate chopping. Admittedly, the peppers aren’t as good vs fresh, but I will deal with subpar peppers to not have to chop anything. I will say, one annoying thing is fewer and fewer grocery stores stock frozen chopped onions, likely due to lower margins because they are usually dirt cheap, like $1/ bag.
Word to your mother.
If you get used to cooking chopping an onion isn’t work.
That depends. Saying that as someone who trained as a chef. There are levels of exhaustion.
Agreed. I cook every single meal my family eats, one onion is under 30 seconds of faff. Even thin-sliced.
Some green beans and spinach would be nice. Otherwise, looks pretty good
What is this? Girl dinner?!?!
It’s a hot meal, and the mac looks homemade, and not from a box. Girl needs to talk to her boyfriend, and stop bitching on the internet. The conversation should start like this, “Thank you for dinner, I appreciate the effort. Next time you cook, can you make some of these things in the future, they are some of my favorite meals?”
My wife works a 7 days on 7 days off hospital shift. On her workdays, I stay up late and have a hot dinner ready for her. After 3 years, I have had 0 complaints. We talk to each other about things we like and our preferences, so I try to cook things I know she will like anyway. I used to make things like felafel from scratch, tons of homemade veggie soups from scratch, like split pea, butternut squash bisque, garden veggie, until I learned she didn’t like those things and just focused my efforts on things she likes.
In a healthy relationship, adults talk to each other about their wants and needs, instead of bitching on the internet.
Mac & cheese have been ruined for me by that instinct that makes you disgusted by the last thing you ate before getting a stomach bug. Cmon body it’s not a novel type of berry it won’t be poisonous this time
Same thing happened to me and celery. One fucking bite and as soon as it plopped into my stomach crippling pain and out of school for the week with flu.
MINUTES BEFORE the christmas cheesecske dinner, too.
Had the same thing with coconut. Used to like it, until I paired it with the flu. Now I can’t have anything that I can’t have anything that tastes like it or I get queasy. That happened when I was a child and it has carried into being an adult.
Interestingly enough if you had a strong enough preference for something it kind of overrides that instinct. I did the same thing with lasagna and I still eat that shit up like Garfield.
I am of the persuasion that stomach bugs do not exist.
Food poisoning is more common than one would think, but also takes a bit longer than one would think.
I am of the persuasion that rabies doesn’t exist.
I’ve never gotten it, so therefore it must be a myth.
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Yeah, tell that to my wife who got the stomach flu so bad, she collapsed in the parking lot of the ER.
*food poisoning
Stomach flu is viral and food poisoning is bacterial. 2 different things.
I do remember hearing that that food poisoning is the fault of something you ate much earlier that week. But also, food seems to stay 1-4 days in my body after eating it. So if that were the case the puke impulse wouldn’t clear out the thing that caused the illness, it would be in the intestines or out of the body already. If puking evolved it must be for a reason
It’s the little baddies that ride the food in and multiply that’s bad. When they hit critical mass, the body expels them.
Depends on the food iirc. I had bad sushi that had me puking within maybe six hours. God that was a nightmare, and I hate that I’m hesitant to try my favorite food again. At the same time I’m grateful that it didn’t seem to get digested enough to go through both ends
Damn, he put pepper on the mac and cheese for you? He must be really fond of you.
That right there looks like an amazing meal.
I grew up with parents who loved to cook and grow their own vegetables - I was always cooking with them. When I moved into an engineering dormitory, I was shocked to learn that absolutely no ~20 y/o around me knew how to cook. Seeing a picture of this plate brought me back - everybody made crap like this.
Also, once I saw a dude trying to boil a whole cheese (his parents were mega-wealthy, and he had never cooked once in his life).
Elaborate on boiling a “whole cheese” please
I don’t eat cheese myself, so I can’t say specifically which one. I came into the common kitchen one day, and he was just boiling a big chunky slice (like from a cheese wheel). His reason was that he thought it would ‘soften it up’.
He was a great engineer but an incredibly odd fellow. His entire room was also just hip-height stacks of old tech, laptops, books and boardgames, with only a shallow walking path between his bed, desk and bathroom.
with only a shallow walking path between his bed, desk and bathroom.
The essentials.
Honestly, thats kinda sound logic. Cheese melt but would mix with water and water would also provide very uniform heating. As an engineer, I would for sure try it out as a possible solution.
boiling a big chunky slice (like from a cheese wheel)
I’ve never even imagined boiling cheese before. The closest I’ve come is throwing parmesan rinds into a tomato sauce, but you take the rinds out before eating it.
Yeah I don’t trust anyone that doesn’t eat cheese (i’m guessing any dairy?). You should have that chECKED OUT.
I am Danish and have a hatred for how the meat and dairy industry has ruined my country and its farmland. So more of a political choice, that was handed down to me by my hippie grandparents.
Would you make exceptions for, say, meat/dairy from local farms? I’m with you about the industries, and I try to supplement with locally farmed stuff as often as possible, but I’m also weak of constitution.
They are too expensive to have on a regular occasion.
Agree, hence my weakness unfortunately. But I certainly try.
Sure would! But the few times I did try, it fucked with my stomach. Meat is especially rough if your stomach bacteria is not used to it. I don’t consider myself vegan, I just don’t buy dairy products.
I’m lactose intolerant and even I eat cheese.
“Boil a whole cheese”!!?? To what end? Like a craft single, a 1 lb block of sharp Tillamook cheddar, a 20 kg wheel of parm?
To what end?
Triggering the end times.
Same here, I grew up around a farm so I’m not like a great chef, but I know how to put a meal together. One time I saw someone attempt to make onion soup by just boiling an onion in a pot.
I have a theory that they only see cooking in video games, where you throw the ingredients into a cauldron or whatever and the meal comes out so they think that’s how it works lol.
My parents were proto-hippies (went to college in the '50s) who listened to The Kingston Trio and baked their own bread and such. We almost never ate out or ate packaged food. One year I went to summer camp and for breakfast they made real stuff like eggs and pancakes and bacon but also had those little boxes of sugary cereals on the tables. I pigged out on the cereal while everybody else ate the real food, since their parents never ever made shit like that for them.
No shortage of people climbing over each other for the classic “hahaha this is so right men are the worst” casual misandrist crap, either.
I don’t see a problem here
Shit, my wife demands this sometimes. This lady is nuts.
It might mean you’re pregnant.
Well, typically it means we’re going to find out she’s not pregnant the next day.
Should’ve been dino nuggs, but apart from that I don’t see a problem here.
Spotted a man
EDIT: Hell yeah
And that’s the fancy Mac and cheese with the cheese in the pouch, not even the powder one.
I never complain about someone giving me prepared food. I spend so much of my life obtaining, storing, preparing, and cleaning up after making food that I see any meal given to me as a wonderful gift of time.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand the obsession with macaroni cheese. I’ve never had any that I’d describe as anything higher than tolerable. The only exception to this was a dollop of it, fried, on top of a burger.
I make the most banging mac and cheese and it only takes like 15 mins.
Make a white sauce - butter, flour into a paste, add milk and mix til smooth and slightly thinner than the eventual intended sauce.
Add grated cheddar, dijon mustard and salt and pepper. Boil the macaroni til al dente. Mix that shit up and top with parmesan. It is incredible every damn time. The issue is that most mac and cheese is made of shelf stable food adjacent powders.
shelf stable food adjacent powders.
Thank you for enriching my vocabulary. I’ll be using that. And also the idea of mustard in the bechamel :)
Sounds very similar to how I make it but English mustard and a slash of Worcestershire sauce. Sometimes fry bacon and use the bacon grease instead of butter too.
Also added fried onions before but not done that in a while.
The cheese and heavy starch doesn’t do it for me. At best I find it okay, at worst it turns my stomach.
Heavy starch is a lot of British comfort foods and a great hangover food.
Hard disagree. If its real Mac and cheese there’s a thing as too much its really rich. Still really good but thats something you only have as a small side dish at bbqs, or thanks giving where your plate competing for space with 12 other side dishes. Bread crumbs on top drive me wild though.
If its store bought in a plastic tub kind of Mac and cheese then it always taste like frozen dinner quality, or something you would get at a buffet for the old people that still some how only costs 7.99, and is exclusively ran by prisoners on work release. I’m with you on that one. that’s the stuff they deep fry at restaurants, and the only acceptable use for the stuff.
Box Mac though I could demolish two boxes if I was feeling like a piggy. Can’t go wrong with Velveta cheese sauce kind, but powdered cheese will do. I try not to eat it often because it makes me feel like a child, but it lasts in the pantry and its nice to have easy cheap food around. Buy a flat of them and forget about it.
You disagree with my personal opinion of macaroni cheese…?
Yes and I will fight you about it.
When you just dismiss an entire dish because “I’ve never had a good one”.
Have you ever had homemade? Raw rice noodles with a homemade cheese sauce? With spices and garnish?
I’ve never had a good apple pie. I hate apples, especially baked apples. At least I know I don’t like Apple Pie. But very much unlike you, I’m not going to trash Apple Pie or people who enjoy Apple Pie because I’m not an entitled piece of crap who thinks my choice of food is better than yours. And I’m certainly not going to go into a thread about Apple Pie and tell everyone in that thread who loves Apple Pie that their choice of food sucks.
I have tried a wide variety. Enough to have a functional understanding of the spectrum that is mac and cheese.
I’m not interested in your attempts to lecture me about food. You don’t know me and your sneering presumptions about me are of no value.
Yes, you can “um, actually” me in that I haven’t tried every variation of mac and cheese under the sun, so I cannot have an objective opinion. However I’ve tried enough to know well the common features that must be present for it to be mac and cheese, rather than some other dish.
…and I didn’t particularly enjoy it.
Which is allowed. My gods, where’s the fucking block button?
100% agreed. The reason the box stuff is good is because the cheese is powdered. I think I’ve had good, homemade stuff once ever.
A lot of people don’t properly spice it or choose a good cheese blend for it. Mix some complimentary cheeses, I like gruyere, gouda, and cheddar sharp enough to puncture the hull of an empire-class Fire Nation battle ship, leaving thousands to drown at sea, then include some mustard powder, spicy and smoked paprika, fresh ground pepper, and whatever other pungent spices your soul yearns for. Top it with panko fried in butter and too much garlic.
Or you just don’t like the stuff. But yeah a lot of people make it basically flavorless
I’ve made the “original” recipe from Thomas Jefferson’s chef, and it was better than most I’ve had simply because it’s a proper bechamel sauce base. Most people just throw cheese on buttered noodles with no spices or hopes or dreams or love in their hearts.
Oh jeez I didn’t even consider some people may skip the bechamel
Some people skip everything except literally the macaroni and cheese, and poorly cook the macaroni.
I think that’s the point. It’s comfort food; if it’s from a box, you can’t screw it up without really trying to.
So if you see it on offer, you know it’s going to be decent minimum.
I could not agree more. This has got to be the most overrated and underwhelming dish ever. The first time I saw it in a restaurant menu, I looked at my wife like we were in the fucking twilight zone.
“Mac 'n Cheese” 🤮 That shit tastes like over-milked plastic, at best.
The tinned ones I would agree but if you make it yourself its great. I grew up only ever having home made and then in my 20s got given a tin of it for the first time, it’s terrible.
Americans like the worst food. They also have completely white bread sandwiches with peanut butter and jelly. Literally just sugar and fat.
I haven’t seen Americans eat a normal dish with some chicken, vegetables, potatoes, light sauce. You know, normal food. Not deep fried.
You don’t see that because nobody shares just a normal meal.
I once tried a pb&j with german weltmeister bread. i thought it was decent, but not an everyday type food
Hey now, don’t besmirch the pb&j.
What is wrong with peanut butter? Got some on my desk. Approx 50% fat, 26% protein, 5% sugar 5% other carbs, 9% fiber.
Its a high energy density but I usually only add a bit to other foods. Lately that is usually oats, sultanas, peanut butter and milk.
Let them cook.
Cook what though?
