mmmm GARLIC!!

[DonziGirl]

I was just thinking tonight as I made dinner - how many people really cook most of the week? I couldn't tell you the last time I went out to eat. Tonight is baked ziti (of course with lots of garlic). My dad is a great cook (who also puts garlic in almost everything). He actually taught my mom too cook.

But I also know people who go out to eat for almost every meal. I was just wondering what the norm was around here.

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

I cook daily. Typically go though 3 heads of garlic a week. Love to cook with Thai basil and cayenne. Lots of veggies. Breakfast everyday but Friday.

A house that smells of garlic is full of love.

 

[DonziGirl]

Whoops just noticed I put this in the wrong section. That's what I get for having two windows open.
I grill out while boating. Does that count as on the dock?


Will someone move it please? Thanks.


Jim - I knew I liked you!

 

[Buoy]

I used to cook all the time, but now, the wife won't let me in the kitchen.
She loves to cook, and the weekends are pretty much all day the cooking channel on TV.
If we're staying home on a Sunday, she actually plans a meal, and starts cooking at 11:00am for a dinner that isn't going to get served until 7:00.
She does this just to "make the house stink good"
Yesterday was home made Spaghetti sauce.

We usually only go out to eat about once a month.
It's even something if we're on vacation somewhere, that after awhile, I get bored with everything typically on the menu, and always look forward to good home cooking.

 

[BraceYourself]

I eat out every meal

 

[cigdaze]

Whoops just noticed I put this in the wrong section. That's what I get for having two windows open.
I grill out while boating. Does that count as on the dock?


Will someone move it please? Thanks.


Jim - I knew I liked you!

We're here for ya, it's moved.

I enjoy cooking and love my garlic...I just don't get to do it much anymore. I'll still make damn sure I light the grill at least a couple times a week, but it sure as heck isn't as often as it used to. I barely get 2 hours a night to myself most evenings, I just don't have the time.

 

[MarylandMark]

We eat out so much that I love home cooking...

Mon, Fri, Sat & Sun we eat out
Tues-Wed I cook
Thurs she cooks

Last week: Carrabba's twice, Bonefish once, Rib Shack once and Texas Roadhouse once and local seafood for crabs once. Ice cream yesterday was a treat I normally don't do

 

[Wrinkleface]

We eat out so much that I love home cooking...

Mon, Fri, Sat & Sun we eat out
Tues-Wed I cook
Thurs she cooks

Last week: Carrabba's twice, Bonefish once, Rib Shack once and Texas Roadhouse once and local seafood for crabs once. Ice cream yesterday was a treat I normally don't do

I eat out alot but also eat alot of leftovers from eat'n out!!:drool5:

 

[JupiterSunsation]

Wow DonziGirl I married the wrong girl............We eat out 5+ nights a week even though it costs too much and isn't healthy for you at all!

Friday- Waterfront Seafood Restaurant- dinner for 2 $130
Saturday- Capitol Grille- Steakhouse- dinner for 4 $430
Sunday- Mexican- Local Place- Dinner for 3 $45

Not hearing my wife b!tch priceless............Monday morning $5 cash in my wallet, back to work!

 

[DonziGirl]

!!! Holy crap! There's a few places I go that I like their food and the service is excellent. I go there on purpose. Other than that, we don't eat out. hell I don't even order pizza much. I've started making dough in my bread maker


You make me feel much better about my grocery bill. I'll say that. I love to cook though. I'm always trying out new things or altering recipes. Tony says I've ruined going out to eat for him because he knows I can either make what we have or figure out how to make it.

 

[rchevelle71]

We eat out on the weekends, but I cook(grille) all week.

 

[JupiterSunsation]

To be fair we live in an area that has an abundance of great restaurants. On PGA Blvd. there was 92 high end restaurants in about a 7 mile stretch. Several high end steakhouses (most failed), two high end Mexican (Rosa Mexicana from Manhattan failed), Yardhouse (bar with over 100 beers on tap, kegs changed weekly) etc. All of these places are $100 dinner for two with a couple drinks. Too many and they failed due to high rents/lack of clients. In season it gets to be ridiculous for waiting (wait at valet stand for ticket, wait at hostess stand, wait at bar, get dinner, wait at valet for car) to the point we won't stay unless we can sit within a few minutes.

That was all 2006 and prior.....now all of these places are sit immediately and they are happy to see you! Real Estate meltdown destroyed many a millionaire! McDonalds is getting busy though!

 

[DonziGirl]

There are a ton of places in Cincy. Granted in the boondocks out here it's a little different. Still it was the way I was brought up. And I love to cook. I made killer carrot cake the other day if I do say so myself

 

[Madpoodle]

Came home, Heidi had baked some garlic heads, toasted some bread, cooked some spaghetti (it ain't pasta damnit) and there was sauce bubbling on the stove.. Tasted the sauce, awesome man, perfect blend of ground beef, sausage and spices.. I was impressed..



Then she told me the sauce was some I made awhile ago, then froze the leftovers.. I knew I liked it!!

 

[Buoy]

Came home, Heidi had baked some garlic heads, toasted some bread, cooked some spaghetti (it ain't pasta damnit) and there was sauce bubbling on the stove.. Tasted the sauce, awesome man, perfect blend of ground beef, sausage and spices.. I was impressed..



Then she told me the sauce was some I made awhile ago, then froze the leftovers.. I knew I liked it!!

Yep, after the sauce is cooking for 5 hours on Sunday, my wife is bringing me half a roll dipped in sauce to try.
I'm not even Italian.

 

[Tony]

Living with Donzi will fukin ruin your favorite restraunt. As soon as you find something excellent she finds a way to make it better.....for the most part I'm not complaining but when your sitting at your favorite steakhouse thinking to yourself, I could have had better at home then whats the point...


She hasnt mastered the lobster rueben yet.

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

I hate to pay for a meal that is not better than I can eat at home.

When we go out it is for Sushi or trying recommended places out of town.

Every now and then a great steak house.

Lately I am in to trying renown BBQ. The ones that are like 50 years old and landmarks.

 

[insanity]

Used to cook quite a bit, not much time to do it anymore. When I moved out of my last apartment that I lived in for a year and a half before I relocated (again), the stove and refridgerator still had the packing materials in/on them (place was brand new when I moved in). Apartment lady laughed about it and cut me my deposit check back in full, on the spot.

 

[FULL FORCE]

I eat at home during the week, mostly salds, after a weekend of eat out and boozing I need to eat right during the week.....I am on vacation this week and on day 5 of full all out boating and boozin witha friend... next week.. back on track!

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

This place is about an hour away. Looking for an excuse to go.:drool5:


http://www.louiemuellerbarbecue.com/