Posted by alexandra_k on September 13, 2013, at 19:29:48
Who likes to cook? Sometimes, I mean, I know it becomes tedious when you have to do it a lot.
I'm trying to figure out what to do about food in my current living situation. Everyone else is fairly communal about food so I've ended up getting into bad habits with buying food that doesn't need to be refrigerated / cooked (processed junk, in other words) and hiding out with it in my room.
My flatmates will get used to my cooking big pots of food to last me a couple days eventually... Who knows... It might even inspire them to cook similarly. I don't have any more money than they do so I don't need to feel bad about that.
I'm thinking I might buy a slow cooker (so I don't use up the big pot / space on the stove). I'm keen for ideas of stuff to cook... I can't afford expensive cuts of meat, but I can get a chicken sometimes. Or a kg (2.2 pounds, I think) of chuck or blade steak. Keen to get a bacon hock if I can... My dad used to make this wonderful soup with veges and split peas and barley or something... And bacon. Keen to try and figure that out... I want to try and figure some Indian type of vegetarian dishes with lentals etc too. Chick peas. Tasty, but I don't entirely know how...
Any ideas or recipes to share? Hints etc?
Also... I sort of have this idea of cooking up a big pot (to last me 2 days, say) and keeping it at a low heat for those 2 days. Is this something I can do with a slow cooker - or do I have to let it cool, refrigerate it, then heat it up?
So, for instance, last night I made chicken soup (sort of).
- 3 Caremalized onions in sesame oil (because I like the taste of them that way)
- 1 chicken
- 1 litre low salt chicken stock
- salt (ahahahhahaha)
- enough water to cover
- gently simmer for an hour
- pick bones and skin out without burning self too much
- add 3 choped kumara / sweet potato and 250g of corn kernels
- simmer for 30 minutessimple. i don't know what to do with herbs and stuff... i know some people reckon to dump the chicken meat since most of the flavor is out - but i like the texture. and... the protein is in there - right?
anyway... i turned it off when it was done and a few hours later had some more and it was still hot. then this morning heated it to simmer again... so in a couple hours it will still be good... then i... heat is once more today maybe? and make sure i eat it by the end of the day or freeze it.
is that safe?
i guess we find out. heh.
i do feel bad for my flatmates, though... this is the way i like to do food (it is cheap to eat this way and healthy, too, and delicious once you get used to it). but it doesn't seem fair to do it without offering it to other people since it makes the whole house smell like whatever it is you are cooking (especially when they always eat communally). i guess this is why... they do thinks like cook up a pot of pumpkins and offer it round (then watch it rot in the fridge). sigh. i can use a slow cooker in my room - right?
it just... feels rude to eat in front of other people. i don't go into the kitchen when they are in their cooking... they have this curious habit of rocking up just as i'm about to eat...
i need to grow a thicker skin.
why should i?
oh yeah, because i'm the one who suffers.
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