Singles Dinners

[Roh_Chris]

Heat up pinto beans in a bowl with cheese, then add peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, and scoop the whole mess up with corn chips. I eat that meal waaaaaaay too often.

That's not a meal. That's a snack. I can eat that when I'm watching a match. But after the match I will need my meal.

I can eat almost anything. It doesn't matter if I'm single or if I'm on a date. Food is food. I don't make any compromise when I'm eating. But I can be very lazy. Now that's a whole different thing.

My heights of laziness is when I eat frozen food. Have you eaten frozen leftovers without heating them up in an oven? I just let them thaw and I eat it. Who needs to heat them? Ain't nobody got time fo' dat!

 

[Charcoal]

all i'm saying is frozen American "cheeze" tastes better while still frozen.

Anyone else made the Ramen Omelet? It was a college thing.
toss cooked ramen noodles in pan, beat some eggs (how many you have/can spare/will eat), pour on noodles. 1/4 way through cooking, top with seasoning packet, half way through cooking flip. eat with a side of "condiment packets"

Sometimes when my kids are gone I eat Better... no one is there to gripe about Sauerkraut, I can grill anything I want, no one gripes about me eating wild game. Collard greens. need I go on?

 

[gypsygirl]

Angel-hair spaghetti with no sauce and diced hot dogs lol. Add a little salt, and I'm content

paul, it seems like i agree with nearly everything you say... but this "dish" left me speechless.

seriously, i can't even. naked pasta with hotdogs, and salt too? i think mixing pasta and hot dogs is against the law somewhere.

side note: now i know who to mail my leftovers to. ; p

and further, ramen omlettes? i know you said college but um, all this new insight into bachelor/ette fare is making me slightly queasy.

most people think there is some lofty reason i don't eat a lot of processed foods. there really isn't. i just don't like most of it, i.e. hot dogs. the texture is grainy and questionable at best.

reading the jungle by sinclair in highschool didn't help me, either.

 

[Charcoal]

I've a friend that only eats Vegetarian hot dogs. He is not a vegetarian, and regularly eats meat. But when it comes to hot dogs, he figures if its all made from the leftovers, then by electing the veggie option the worst he can get is a wilted leaf or a stem.



I can reach some real culinary depths...like canned chili for dinner, straight out of the can. cold.
I can approach some of the peaks, too. Fresh locally grown paired with grass fed hormone free kinds of stuff. International fusion kinds of stuff. Recipes Grandma learned from her grandma, back when from scratch meant that you had to first harvest it yourself.

Some days food is an art, a dimension to life that adds quality and value. Other days food is just something that gets me through to the next day.

In the end, it's all choices and finding balance. So far that set of choices hasn't killed me yet.

Pass the hot sauce.

 

[Pipp]

Peanut butter on a hot waffle... yum.

My Mom once did the whole just throw something together meal for herself and ended up eating a fried hot dog wrapped in a piece of jelly toast. She likes it and every once in a blue moon still eats it.

 

[tourist]

Peanut butter on a hot waffle... yum.

My Mom once did the whole just throw something together meal for herself and ended up eating a fried hot dog wrapped in a piece of jelly toast. She likes it and every once in a blue moon still eats it.

I prefer mustard with my hot dogs and maybe some chili but that's just me.

 

[ChandlerFan]

paul, it seems like i agree with nearly everything you say... but this "dish" left me speechless.

seriously, i can't even. naked pasta with hotdogs, and salt too? i think mixing pasta and hot dogs is against the law somewhere.

side note: now i know who to mail my leftovers to. ; p

and further, ramen omlettes? i know you said college but um, all this new insight into bachelor/ette fare is making me slightly queasy.

most people think there is some lofty reason i don't eat a lot of processed foods. there really isn't. i just don't like most of it, i.e. hot dogs. the texture is grainy and questionable at best.

reading the jungle by sinclair in highschool didn't help me, either.

The funny thing is that it actually started when I was living in France where the cuisine is significantly better than it is here. But I couldn't afford to eat out all the time, so I typically bought Coke, baguettes, spaghetti, and hot dogs. (Yes, that's right--French hot dogs!) haha. I had never done that prior to that trip, but I liked it enough that I've still eaten it from time to time since.

 

[gypsygirl]

The funny thing is that it actually started when I was living in France where the cuisine is significantly better than it is here. But I couldn't afford to eat out all the time, so I typically bought Coke, baguettes, spaghetti, and hot dogs. (Yes, that's right--French hot dogs!) haha. I had never done that prior to that trip, but I liked it enough that I've still eaten it from time to time since.

yeah, i really am not offering judgment to anyone. i am sort of a picky eater i guess. for example, i am naturally suspicious of any cheese product that is the color of a traffic cone. it is just to reminiscent of ... plastic? i dunno.

funny you mentioned about france. when i lived in avignon, i was in a similar boat. the cheapest thing on the menu for the cafe down the street was mussels in some tomato-wine broth with bread, and it was actually quite cheap. i ate it so often that i couldn't eat mussels for a long time after that.

but what i would give to replicate that dish. i've come close, but there's something missing, still. hmmm.

for what it's worth, i usually have a hot dog about once a year. sometimes i skip a year. but it's usually at costco, sitting on a picnic bench while guarding my 20 lbs of cheese, the big package of pilot gel extra fine pens and whatever else i discover there that i manage to convince myself that i require industrial quantities of. : )

 

[ChandlerFan]

yeah, i really am not offering judgment to anyone. i am sort of a picky eater i guess. for example, i am naturally suspicious of any cheese product that is the color of a traffic cone. it is just to reminiscent of ... plastic? i dunno.

funny you mentioned about france. when i lived in avignon, i was in a similar boat. the cheapest thing on the menu for the cafe down the street was mussels in some tomato-wine broth with bread, and it was actually quite cheap. i ate it so often that i couldn't eat mussels for a long time after that.

but what i would give to replicate that dish. i've come close, but there's something missing, still. hmmm.

for what it's worth, i usually have a hot dog about once a year. sometimes i skip a year. but it's usually at costco, sitting on a picnic bench while guarding my 20 lbs of cheese, the big package of pilot gel extra fine pens and whatever else i discover there that i manage to convince myself that i require industrial quantities of. : )

Yeah, I'm actually really picky when it comes to cheese. I really only ever eat pepper jack (the best), cheddar, American, and colby jack. Did you ever have raclette when you lived in France? It's a type of cheese similar to cheddar, but it's also a dish. One of the missionary families in Montpellier where we lived made it for us. It's basically just baked potato with sauteed veggies and melted raclette cheese on top. They actually have raclette makers which are basically small skillets that have heated coils underneath to allow you to sautee the veggies, and then small pans around the outside that sit above the coils. You set thick slices of the cheese in those pans, and it melts right down so you can put it on top of everything. It was amazing! My mom found raclette at a store here once, but it just wasn't quite the same. It tasted stronger than what I had in France, and I don't really like a strong taste to cheese at all.

If I ever ate out there, though, I almost always got a kabob. There was a local place there that actually served kabobs using pita that was stuffed with cheese. So great. I also remember getting a sandwich a few times called L'Americain, or something like that, which was basically a sub roll with beef and french fries stuffed into it. So funny.

I actually laughed out loud when you said you sometimes skip a year. That's hilarious.

 

[JesusLives]

More recent years of single life it was eating out of a can.....open a can of corn, or green beans, or carrots, or beets get a fork and eat out of the can toss empty can in garbage dinner is done....no heat just eat... the survival diet.

I hate a lot of left overs when there is just one and am so happy that there will be someone else to cook for and no more can dinners.... I know not a very balanced dinner but then neither is a couple of hot dogs or ramen noodles....

Oh yes and before life style change bags and bags of potato chips, corn chips, Cheetos, etc.... candy..... Thank God tourist came along we will both eat healthier....

I eat so much better when there are at least two people in the house and there is a reason to cook.

 

[tourist]

More recent years of single life it was eating out of a can.....open a can of corn, or green beans, or carrots, or beets get a fork and eat out of the can toss empty can in garbage dinner is done....no heat just eat... the survival diet.

I hate a lot of left overs when there is just one and am so happy that there will be someone else to cook for and no more can dinners.... I know not a very balanced dinner but then neither is a couple of hot dogs or ramen noodles....

Oh yes and before life style change bags and bags of potato chips, corn chips, Cheetos, etc.... candy..... Thank God tourist came along we will both eat healthier....

I eat so much better when there are at least two people in the house and there is a reason to cook.

We are not doing beets, canned or otherwise.

 

[Jullianna]

We are not doing beets, canned or otherwise.

LOL! Now ^this^ is godly headship

 

[ChandlerFan]

We are not doing beets, canned or otherwise.

LOL! Now ^this^ is godly headship

I'd even submit to that. hahahaha

 

[JesusLives]

Originally Posted by tourist

We are not doing beets, canned or otherwise.

Originally Posted by Jullianna

LOL! Now ^this^ is godly headship

I'd even submit to that. hahahaha

So I see I am the only beet lover in this thread.....Well all I gotta say is

The Beet Goes On......lol Which can throw the Blond into singing a song.....Good ole Sonny and Cher.....

The Beet Goes On"

[Chorus:]
The beet goes on, the beet goes on
Drums keep pounding
A rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da

Charleston was once the rage, uh huh
History has turned the page, uh huh
The mini skirts the current thing, uh huh
Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh

[Chorus]

The grocery store's the super mart, uh huh
Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh
And men still keep on marching off to war
Electrically they keep a baseball score

[Chorus]

Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce
Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss
The cars keep going faster all the time
Bums still cry, "Hey buddy,
have you got a dime?"

 

[sassylady]

I've made homemade pizza crust and spread it with leftover chili, and then shredded cheese.

 

[MissCris]

So I see I am the only beet lover in this thread.....Well all I gotta say is

I like beets.

...but I'm not technically in this thread. Well, NOW I am. Nevermind.

 

[HLR]

I have before been known to take a taco shell (soft), fill it with ranch dressing.. and eat that for lunch. -- I'm not proud of it; But it kept me from starving.

Another one, one that I eat often I might add, is elbow noodles with butter and salt. That's it. Maybe some Vienna sausages with them.

 

[Roh_Chris]

funny you mentioned about france. when i lived in avignon, i was in a similar boat. the cheapest thing on the menu for the cafe down the street was mussels in some tomato-wine broth with bread, and it was actually quite cheap. i ate it so often that i couldn't eat mussels for a long time after that.

Hey I've been to Avignon. We stayed for a few days at the Hotel Moulin de Vernegues. And we spent a few hours walking all over Avignon. It was a beautiful town. My only regret is that I forgot to buy a magnet souvenir for my fridge.

 

[JesusLives]

My latest concoction in a bowl some cottage cheese, habanero sweet pickles, pickled beets, green olives, cherry tomatoes, some blue cheese dressing....got a whole lot of hot, sweet, salty, cold, tomato, tart flavors going on and no I didn't cook this either, something about cold not cooking works for me..... better than opening a can though I opened the refrigerator instead.

 

[zeroturbulence]

I keep seeing the title as 'Singles Diner'.