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tenlittlebullets) wrote2009-05-16 07:03 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2009-05-16 07:03 pm
A question for my friends list (cooking-related!)
WHAT AM I GOING TO EAT WHEN I HAVE TO COOK FOR MYSELF?
Yes, it's one of those real-world flail questions. Basically I am going to end up cooking for myself a lot next year in Paris, whether I end up in an apartment or with a host family, and in an apartment I will quite possibly be cooking for two people. And I can do basic cooking tasks and follow recipes, but I... don't know what to cook. My usual diet is heavily supplemented with store-bought snack food which is both expensive and, in France, impractical.
So give me suggestions. Doesn't even have to be recipes, although recipes are nice. Staple foods, filling and more-or-less nutritious things, food that can be prepared in huge batches and chucked in the freezer for later, basic easy ways to cook chicken and beef, fun things to do with lentils and beans and rice and potatoes so I'm not eating meat every night... basically I do not want to be eating pasta all the time, because that is unhealthy and also kind of embarrassing.
Restrictions: sadly, I am horribly allergic to milk, as well as nuts and peanuts. If they can be easily left out or substituted (and I'm pretty damn good at finding substitutes for milk and butter, although cheese is pretty much impossible to fake), go for it, but there is no alfredo sauce in my future. I also don't like fish, and... well, I'm kind of squeamish about vegetables but I'm trying to get over that.
I'll probably be taking a cookbook, but I'd really like some real-world suggestions from real people about wtf to put on the table for dinner on a daily basis.
Yes, it's one of those real-world flail questions. Basically I am going to end up cooking for myself a lot next year in Paris, whether I end up in an apartment or with a host family, and in an apartment I will quite possibly be cooking for two people. And I can do basic cooking tasks and follow recipes, but I... don't know what to cook. My usual diet is heavily supplemented with store-bought snack food which is both expensive and, in France, impractical.
So give me suggestions. Doesn't even have to be recipes, although recipes are nice. Staple foods, filling and more-or-less nutritious things, food that can be prepared in huge batches and chucked in the freezer for later, basic easy ways to cook chicken and beef, fun things to do with lentils and beans and rice and potatoes so I'm not eating meat every night... basically I do not want to be eating pasta all the time, because that is unhealthy and also kind of embarrassing.
Restrictions: sadly, I am horribly allergic to milk, as well as nuts and peanuts. If they can be easily left out or substituted (and I'm pretty damn good at finding substitutes for milk and butter, although cheese is pretty much impossible to fake), go for it, but there is no alfredo sauce in my future. I also don't like fish, and... well, I'm kind of squeamish about vegetables but I'm trying to get over that.
I'll probably be taking a cookbook, but I'd really like some real-world suggestions from real people about wtf to put on the table for dinner on a daily basis.