*** Malia - silly and random question ***

redshoegirl

I saw you posted this below:

myday1708:

We had a BBQ in our back yard and got all the food and drinks at COSTCO. I don't cook, so we did burgers/hotdogs and potato salad, chips, pretzels, nuts type of stuff. That's all you need for a BBQ! Easy peasy! 

I'm always really intrigued when people say they don't cook - does your H do all the cooking? Or do you just eat out all the time? I know not everyone enjoys cooking like I do, but it surprises me when people say that they simply don't cook - it's one of those silly little things that intrigue me but I've never actually asked anyone about it (although I've heard other people say this). 

myday1708

LOL! Can't get ANYTHING past you!

What I mean is that I don't make anything fancy. I still boil water for pasta or put rice in a rice cooker and heat up chili from the can in a pot or put a pizza in the oven. Easy things. I just mean that I don't make my own chili, my own pasta sauce, and heaven help me when it comes to stews or slow-cooker stuff or whatnot!

So pretty much all we eat comes out of a box or a can or whatnot. I just don't have time for anything else after work. And on weekends, I'm too lazy! I would also add that most nights, DH does "make" dinner, and by that I mean he'll heat up the soup from the cans or pop the pizza in the oven. GWIM?

That said, I did "bake" some muffins last weekend for Alexa. I added water to the mixture and put them in the oven. :-) 

redshoegirl

LOL I can't help it - you're interesting!

Ahhh I see. So you cook but don't *cook*. This made me laugh a bit because I sometimes look up recipes on allrecipes.com, and there was this one I found where all of the comments turned into a huuuuge fight about whether the recipe (which essentially combined pre-packed ingredients and a few seasonings) was really a proper recipe or "just dumping stuff together." I thought it was all a pretty silly semantic argument, but people got really heated up - I didn't realize people felt so strongly about it!

I guess I do a combination - I make my own chili (sort of - I use canned beans and dump everything in the crockpot before I leave for work), but can't be bothered to make my own pasta sauce. I'll make muffins from scratch, but brownies come out of a box. I totally agree that it's hard to get the time when you come home from work - we get home at around 5.20-5.30pm and eat dinner with the boys at about 6pm, so anything I make on a weekday needs to take 30 min max to prepare and cook, and that rules out anything complicated.