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The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:39 am
by GORDON
Name three meals you and/or your family eats on average once a week.
For me it is difficult.... I cook for 3 picky people who all like different things.... but the most overlap I have is:
1. Hamburgers. Everyone eats burgs.
2. Spaghetti. The MIL says she can't eat canned sauce, but she sees me making fresh sauce so much that she doesn't notice when I occasionally use a jar of Prego when there isn't time for fresh. Pro tip: if you buy new hotdog or hamburger buns, and the old package still has a few buns left that are still good, take the older package and throw it in the freezer. On pasta day take them out, spread on some butter and garlic powder, throw them in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes, BAM homemade garlic bread)
3. Chicken breasts. There's so much you can do with one, it's something everyone will eat. I cut one up and throw it in a vinegar salad, the wife and kid likes them cut up and put on fettuccine Alfredo, and the MIL just eats them plain because she can't eat cheese (except when she doesn't know it is cheese).
So those are three meals we eat about once a week.
Now you go. Please don't say Soylent.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:09 am
by TPRJones
My intake is pretty random, mostly because most of it is purchased prepared rather than cooked at home. But some things come up repeatedly:
1) Breakfast Tacos: at least once a week I get breakfast tacos from a food truck or convenience store. The latter may only be a thing down here so I will clarify as this ain't no prepackaged crap tacos. Almost every convenience store where I live has a small kitchen attached where old Mexican women that speak no English make tacos for breakfast and lunch. Most of their customers also do not speak English. This is the authentic stuff made by hardworking poor Mexicans for hardworking poor Mexicans, and it's usually quite good.
2) Sausage Kolaches: Technically these are actually klobasniky, but everyone calls them kolaches. Sweet bread wrapped around a spicy sausage is yum. Also good are the boudin kolaches, which is quite the collision of culinary histories but is also delicious.
3) Tacos Gringos: Just a fancy way of saying "crunchy beef taco with lettuce, onion, tomato, cheese, and sour cream". At least once a week I get some nice crunchy beef tacos from one place or another. Except Taco Bell. Never ever Taco Bell.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:47 am
by TheCatt
I often eat or make my own meals due to dietary restrictions, and one kid cannot eat dairy.
Pizza (a place with dairy-free cheese)
Steak
Pasta (I dont eat it, but everyone else does)
Pancakes (same as above)
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:56 am
by GORDON
TPRJones wrote:
3) Tacos Gringos: Just a fancy way of saying "crunchy beef taco with lettuce, onion, tomato, cheese, and sour cream". At least once a week I get some nice crunchy beef tacos from one place or another. Except Taco Bell. Never ever Taco Bell.
Ha, doesn't that translate as "tacos for white people?"
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:58 am
by GORDON
Also, I wish I could get some of those delicious looking meals they make at Costco.... but there are usually a ton of carbs in them so I can't eat them, or else see the above "pickiness" so there isn't any one thing that all 3 of them would eat.
Oh well.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:01 pm
by TPRJones
GORDON wrote:Ha, doesn't that translate as "tacos for white people?"
Indeed.

In case you've never had "real" tacos, the more authentic variety is always on soft corn, never involves cheese or lettuce, and almost never involves tomato or fresh onion. They will also never involve ground beef (with two specific exceptions in which ground beef is an ingredient in the taco filling but these exceptions are still about as far from Tacos Gringos as you can get). And in Mexico the sour cream is sometimes there, but just for tourists that can't handle the salsa they are about to put on it and need some dairy to cut the pain.
Basically every part of the standard taco bell crunchy taco is something that would never be found in an authentic taco.
But that doesn't mean there's no such thing as a good Tacos Gringos. It's just not "Mexican" cuisine.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:13 pm
by GORDON
I had the authentic tacos one day 25 years ago when I spent a day hanging out with homeless people in San Diego... I remember them being good. Would try again, one of these days.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:16 pm
by TPRJones
Personally I've never been big on tacos until now. It's the hot sauce. When I am selecting foods now, it's all about what would be good with my hot sauce. Tacos of all varieties are always an easy choice for that.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:31 pm
by TheCatt
Did quick reply disappear for anyone else?
Back on topic... Mexican tacos were generally meat, soft fresh corn tortillas, and onions, when I lived there. Sometimes cheese. But Oaxacan cheese (I was in Southern Mexico). They were delicious and cheap.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:32 pm
by GORDON
I do not see QR.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:50 pm
by TheCatt
Ah, appears to be just this forum, the other forums still have it.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 1:12 pm
by Malcolm
Please don't say Soylent.
Eat a dick.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 1:34 pm
by GORDON
At least that would be made of meat.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 1:41 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:At least that would be made of meat.
We are all well aware of the standards you use for putting things in your mouth.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 1:42 pm
by GORDON
Yeah, real food.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 2:03 pm
by Leisher
Name three meals you and/or your family eats on average once a week.
I cannot name one other than pizza. We have other common meals, but not once a week. Stuff I know we'll eat once a month: Tacos, spaghetti, stuffed manicotti, sausage and peppers, burgers, Betty's salad, and...that's probably it.
My wife likes to mix things up a lot. She hits pinterest for recipes, so we rarely have the same meal in a month.
Did quick reply disappear for anyone else?
I see it.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 2:07 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:Yeah, real food.
While jizz has caloric content, no one but you calls it food.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:15 pm
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote:
Did quick reply disappear for anyone else?
I see it.
I added it.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 6:32 pm
by Alhazad
1) I like to take a pack of chicken ramen, add corn and beans and water, and then mix two beaten eggs with the water or add two hardboiled eggs, sliced thin. Cover with a paper towel and microwave for ten minutes (yes). Break up the eggs, add more water if desired, and eat.
2) Lunchmeat sandwich.
3) Big bag of pretzels. Also soylent.
Re: The routine.
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:02 pm
by GORDON
Alhazad wrote:1) I like to take a pack of chicken ramen, add corn and beans and water, and then mix two beaten eggs with the water or add two hardboiled eggs, sliced thin. Cover with a paper towel and microwave for ten minutes (yes). Break up the eggs, add more water if desired, and eat.
I'm intrigued.