Fast Food Rant

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: jaqie
Your point about taking an hour to make is spurious. It all depends on what you want to make and what you use as raw materials.
I'll give you a great few dishes as an example:

one can cream of mushroom (or of chicken) for each person to be fed. A cup of made rice (a half cup dried) for each person. a boneless skinless chicken breast for each person to be fed. A few standard home spices such as pepper. A bit of margarine or butter.
Pan fry the chicken breasts while making the rice, and heating the cream of x in the microwave. Put on a plate the rice, the chicken, and then pour over cream of mushroom. A very tasty fairly good for you meal in ten or so minutes.

A crock pot/slow cooker. Some baby carrots in a bag, some beef bullion, some of those pre-peeled small potatoes. Toss it all into the crockpot, turn it on, and 12 hours later you have an incredibly good meal. You don't even have to watch the thing at all as long as it is in a safe place like on top the stove.

This one does take a bit more prep, but can be done in advance. Fry some ground beef into spaghetti meat, seasoning how you like it (I use several spices, mainly seasoned salt). Freeze until ready to make the meal. Toss into a crock pot some spaghetti sauce, the meat, and a few spices to taste. Let for three hours, then stir as you make noodles. Lovely homeade spaghetti, the taste of it is insanely good as it has simmered in the crockpot for an hour or so.

I have a variant of that chicken recipe you listed, I will post it later. Got to get ready and go to the bookstore, half price on all used titles all weekend.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Hippies are everywhere nowadays.

No, clueless nerds are everywhere nowadays. True hippies are kind of hard to find.

What's a true hippie?

A Long Hair who frequently attends Renaissance Festivals .

I don't know that twice counts as frequently

Did you dress the part?

I suppose if wearing chain mail and a surcoat qualifies, then yes :shiftyeyes;

:thumbsup: It's all about having fun!

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Hippies are everywhere nowadays.

No, clueless nerds are everywhere nowadays. True hippies are kind of hard to find.

What's a true hippie?

A Long Hair who frequently attends Renaissance Festivals .

I don't know that twice counts as frequently

Did you dress the part?

I suppose if wearing chain mail and a surcoat qualifies, then yes :shiftyeyes;

:thumbsup: It's all about having fun!

Chain mail undies bind terribly.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn:thumbsup: It's all about having fun!

I guess you never saw any of the pics, then?

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Red Dawn:thumbsup: It's all about having fun!

I guess you never saw any of the pics, then?

Hast thou a be-robed froggy pic?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Red Dawn:thumbsup: It's all about having fun!

I guess you never saw any of the pics, then?

Hast thou a be-robed froggy pic?

No robes, that's the only outfit I've got. Well, I have a darker blue surcoat, the one there was just for the wedding.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Red Dawn:thumbsup: It's all about having fun!

I guess you never saw any of the pics, then?

Hast thou a be-robed froggy pic?

No robes, that's the only outfit I've got. Well, I have a darker blue surcoat, the one there was just for the wedding.

Ahhhhhh, cool! :thumbsup:

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Hippies are everywhere nowadays.

No, clueless nerds are everywhere nowadays. True hippies are kind of hard to find.

so are you a true hippie then?

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Hippies are everywhere nowadays.

No, clueless nerds are everywhere nowadays. True hippies are kind of hard to find.

so are you a true hippie then?

Dunno. I keep the very best of the '60's in my heart, and always will. There was a lot of crap, too.

But, "the moving hand having writ, moves on" and "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind" has blown. These times, they've changed.

Mais, plus ca change, plus la meme chose.

The eternal cycle, yin into yang into yin:

"First there is a mountain
Then there is no mountain
Then there is."

Even that noted hippie William Butler Yates wrote, "All things fall and are built again."

Do I have to break into Old Man River, or are you catching my "cosmic drift" here?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Hippies are everywhere nowadays.

No, clueless nerds are everywhere nowadays. True hippies are kind of hard to find.

What's a true hippie?

A Long Hair who frequently attends Renaissance Festivals .

I don't know that twice counts as frequently

Did you dress the part?

I suppose if wearing chain mail and a surcoat qualifies, then yes :shiftyeyes;

:thumbsup: It's all about having fun!

I'm baa-aack! Real men play in the SCA. The difference is The Ren Faire does it for money, the SCA does it for fun. I never thought of myself as a hippie but Perknose yer growin' on me.

Amused, you sure have a purty mouth. Shaddap, drink one of my beers, eat one of my meals and tell me I'm elitist. I'll throw in the conversation for free!

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Svnla
OP, you have some valid points but here are my counterpoints:

1. At home, you don't have the tools or the skills to make your meat/meal as good as the restaurants <10,000 BTU oven is not cheap>.

The lack of knowledge or the interest to acquire it is the main issue.

2. Time constraints - good meals take at least 1 hr to make from begin to end. I am not sure I want to spend that much time to make a good meal after a long day at the office.

My point is why is the time spent on preparing a good meal viewed as wasted?

"ignorance, laziness and, the blind acceptance"???? Hummm....I will have to say laziness <at least in my case> is the main reason that sometimes I went out and order instead cook at home.

Ignorance of cooking, laziness as in lack of interest and blind acceptance as in someone must have convinced the majority that cooking and sharing meals with others was a time waster/extravagance/costly when it is an expression of love.

?Wine, women and song and the time to enjoy them.? ...in the perfect world, maybe. But I don't think I want to see my gf every night and drink or sing daily. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good tasty meal/social envent/get together/picnic as much as the next guy but some of us have other things to do ..in my case, I have to spend time to run my business after my regular day job.

Why should we not strive for that perfect world? Or, at least spend as much time effort and money on it as we do on non essentials?

 

[Perknose]

The OP has come back to this thread nutured, fortified, strengthened by what he does.

How many of us can say that?