Does anyone here cook every night?!
Answers: If so, do you prepare gourmet meals or easy dishes? And do you have a full time job as well or stay at home?
Yup - every night.
I work full time and have a 2 hour commute at the beginning and end of each day so I do quick and easy things during the weeks - usually soups or casseroles in the slow cooker, etc, and then I go to town on Friday and Saturday night with more exotic/gourmet stuff followed by a traditional roast on Sunday.
Cake and bread baking gets done on Saturday in between doing the housework.
The autumn is the busiest time when I'm making pickles and chutneys out of the garden produce and making Christmas Puddings and mincemeat for Christmas.
I love it though!!
I try to cook every night....I cook a mix gourmet and easy...I am a full time mom of 3, and go to school full time, and have a part time job, but cooking is not a chore to me, it's something i do to relax.
every night? try every day. work full-time. easy meals when i am working, then i'll try to be creative when i have got the time to be.
Every night. Mostly gourmet, if I want easy, I'll eat out. I stay home.
i dont cook every night but i cooking is a hobby and i cook at least 4 days a weeek. i hate easy made meals. i love going through the process of gourmet food. :)
I am a chef so I cook all the time but I also find that when I don't have to cook, I will eat darn near anything so that I don't have to cook. LOL I do a mix of involved meal and easy. some nights its a hot dish I slapped together and some nights its more intricate. I do use a crockpot a lot.
I'm a single mom and work full time. I love to cook but can't do it every day. On some days off (like today) I cook a few things to use over the next several days (today I made spaghetti sauce, a baked pasta dish, and potato-leek soup).
My cooking is a mix of gourmet and easy. I also bake at times.
Yes I cook every night...and breakfasts in the morning ( I have a B&B/guest house). Usually cook easy but tasty stuff, fish/vegetables, rice/vegetables, baked potato & salad, sometime big Indian feast, pasta and sauce but eat little packaged food as it is prettty gross on the whole.
I cook almost every night, I love it! And yes, I have a full time 'job'... 7 hours of school mon-fri and 8 hours work a day on sat. and sun.
Usually they're easy dishes, like Organic pasta with grated Parmesano Reggiano and butter and steamed organic broccoli & Cauliflour.
Maybe once a week I go all out and make a couple fillets of wild cod/halibut/salmon cooked with organic coconut oil, lemon juice, basil, salt and pepper and served with some almond butter, with fancy plates and the whole 9 yards.
Cookings great, but the foods even better ;-)
I work 12 hour shifts at night. On my nights off I will cook something fancier with enough left over for a meal at work and then usually something simpler to have another night. On weekends when I work 3 days in a row I will have a salad, canned soup or takeout for the third night.
No, it's just the two of us left. Typically hubby likes to command the kitchen on weekends. We like to try new recipes from the Food Network or Cook's Illustrated. Our cooking stills have really improved and now we have stored and printed our family recipes and put them in sheet protectors and then in a binder.
We sometimes have turkey wraps, or frozen salmon (Sam's Club). We often make a big casserole, or soups/stews/chili that can last most of the week. We then supplement with a steamed veggie or bagged salad. My hubby is in sales and eats lunch out most days. I'm on a diet, so I'm trying not to pig out too much. Still...he made me lemon bars today (Williams-Sonoma baking book). Wow, good!
Almost every night- go out on weekends etc-- here is really easy one that you only need 5 minutes:
Easy, melt in your mouth onion-buttery beef from your slow cooker! Serve over cooked egg noodles.
PREP TIME 5 Min
INGREDIENTS
3 pounds cubed beef stew meat
1/2 cup butter
1 (1 ounce) envelope dry onion soup mix
DIRECTIONS
Place the beef and butter into a slow cooker. Sprinkle the onion soup mix over. Cover, and cook on Low for 8 hours, or High for 4 to 5 hours. Stir once or twice
i try and cook something every night for my family. there is 2 a week that i can't because of other obligations. and on friday nights we sometimes will eat out. and i think i lean more towards the easy meals.
Eww. No. I couldn't stand it. Usually my mom cooks. Every once and a while my dad cooks. Lately I haven't had a lot of fast food for dinner...Maybe once a week at the most.
I cook every night, and I switch from gourmet (i.e. Chicken Marsala) to Pasta with meat sauce, to using my slow cooker(cowboy stew) depending on my work schedule. I also work almost full time (35 hours a week) and take care of my mother-in-law who is handicapped.I have like 60 cookbooks, so noone ever knows whatI will come up with for dinner :)
not every night, we have either 1 or 2 days a week that we have whatever we want, we call it our "lazy day".