The Food Thread

[Bear]

Burgerking versus Mickey Dee's

Breakfast (my likes and dislikes)

Like: Burgerking Croissants of old--you know the really greasy ones years ago that made you sick to go out in the sun afterward; and not the psuedo-health conscious crap they dish out now.

Dislike: McDonald's egg and cheese bisquit. Tastes like someone stole a KFC bisquit from under the floormats and poured eggbeaters on it.

Although, I dig a McMuffin every now and then.

[Royal]

How's about homemade?

[Bear]

How's about homemade?

Nah...crap rules! Besides who has time in this day and age?

Don't get me wrong, everyone prefers a homecooked meal made with love by the sweetpea in your life. But alas I have no talent in that department. Needless to say I purchase many of my meals.

If I married I try to learn just to please my wife.

[thehod]

Nah...crap rules! Besides who has time in this day and age?

Don't get me wrong, everyone prefers a homecooked meal made with love by the sweetpea in your life. But alas I have no talent in that department. Needless to say I purchase many of my meals.

If I married I try to learn just to please my wife.

Oh rubbish.

Cooking is the easiest, most profitable and healthiest thing you can do.

Seriously, we're only talking half an hour here, and if you can log on to a computer, you can cook yourself a meal.

You'll also save yourself a shitload of cash, and you won't die at 35 looking like a beached whale.

Plus, when you do have a girl in tow she'll love you for it. Sometimes maybe even literally.

[Drew Van T.]

Cooking is the easiest, most profitable and healthiest thing you can do.

You know I agree, but not so much on the profitable part. If you like to use high-quality and rare ingredients, and if you're cooking for only one or two people (making it easy to waste and to have too many leftovers), then homemade cooking is pretty expensive, moreso than eating fastfood every day (still I definitely don't recommend the latter).

[thehod]

You know I agree, but not so much on the profitable part. If you like to use high-quality and rare ingredients, and if you're cooking for only one or two people (making it easy to waste and to have too many leftovers), then homemade cooking is pretty expensive, moreso than eating fastfood every day (still I definitely don't recommend the latter).

True, but a little planning can make all the difference.

Take a roast chicken for example. Me & Mrs Hod'll have one of those for Sunday lunch. We'll peel & cook just enough potatoes for the two of us, same with the rest of the veg and the left over chicken goes in the fridge for use in meals later that week, or more likley, for use in sandwiches for work.

So thats one meal, maybe two, plus lunches for the week, for not much more than six or seven quid.

And it takes less than ten minutes of actual work.



Now if you insist on lobster for every meal, then yes, its gonna cost a little more.

[Lubichev]

Does the McDonalds in England and Europe still have the veggie burgers?

Being a vegetarian limits your options when you dip into the fast food trough.

[Bear]

Oh rubbish.

Cooking is the easiest, most profitable and healthiest thing you can do.

Seriously, we're only talking half an hour here, and if you can log on to a computer, you can cook yourself a meal.

You'll also save yourself a shitload of cash, and you won't die at 35 looking like a beached whale.

Plus, when you do have a girl in tow she'll love you for it. Sometimes maybe even literally.

In my opinion, truly "good" cooking requires a better sense of timing than I know I possess; and probably a less health conscious nature .

Give you an example. Cooking with Pam versus cooking with plain old fashioned butter. If I were cooking, I would choose the Pam--because it is supposed to be better for you--but my eggs never come out as good.

[Arawn]

I really dig the breakfast taco recipe from the Sin City dvd. I make those like once a week.