adventures in bachelor boy cuisine

2024.10.10
I feel like some day I should try to gain a LITTLE more proficiency in all things cooking. I know it ain't rocket science, though it does take a certain intuition and comfort with ambiguous judgements that I have never liked. (Not to mention, since I've always been more about textures than flavors, my concepts of spice are extremely limited.) I should be more willing to experiment, but I guess I'm too worried about ruining food or cookware.

I kind of like this article on good ideas from Trader Joe's, which is exactly the kind of thing I hoped this nutritionist I met with once or twice would come up with - pragmatic (and grocer store based) specific options, not just generalized "here's nutrition guidelines now work out an action plan for yourself"
My latest bit of bachelor-boy-ish cuisine is some kind of quick cook rice with torn up leafy greens, and then maybe a bit of some kind of dressing (Heh - maybe I should add it onto my previous "bachelor boy" food list I made in 2002) And maybe I should thrown an egg on that? Or go back to Chicken Sausages, though I've been steering away from them a bit.

Actually here's a promising cooking for newbies from back in quarantine days. I do admit, "Assume it will take you 60 to 90 minutes to prepare and clean up after any meal that's not scrambled eggs." is probably that I hate to admit is right; mostly I would like to cook to not appear incompetent to others and maybe for special occasions, more so than caring about eating something interesting, and 90 minutes is a hunk of time.
Everyone will not just

If your solution to some problem relies on "If everyone would just..." then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At no time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they're not going to start now.


fry an egg and put it on that and it almost looks like i know what I'm doing