As others have stated already, I am surprised OOT eats so healthy. I would not have suspected as much.

Weekday breakfast is usually (3 of 5 days) a soft boiled egg or a fried egg and a scorched tomato or some raw cherry tomatoes or 1/2 an avocado. 1 weekday will usually be oatmeal or congee. Another weekday will be breakfast sandwich from somewhere or 2 breakfast tacos out.

Weekday lunch is usually 2 out of 5 days dinner leftovers packed. Other 3 days is pho, ramen, bibimbap, bento lunch, vietnamese grilled meat vermicelli, schwarma plate, tacos, mexican torta, unagi don, chinese beef noodle soup, occasional burger, bahn mi + springroll

Weekday dinner is usually 1/2 the time Chinese and 1/2 the time Italian/French/Japanese/Korean if we're cooking. Usually eat out for dinner 1 weekday and 1 weekend.

Proteins tend to be mostly chicken and fish, with shell fish and pork 2nd most often, and beef, lamb, duck equally 3rd as often.

I eat a lot of fish. My favorite cooked fish currently is Branzino. Also eat a decent amount of mackerel, yellow croaker, yellowtail collars, snapper, pomfret, fluke, sole, etc.... Really depends on whats fresh and possibly on sale. I find fish to be much more affordable than meat.

For shellfish, mussels and clams are easy to cook. Decent amount of squid and octopus eaten too.

No soda but kind of have a sweet tooth so dark chocolate and a single pint of ice cream usually around. A pint lasts around 3 weeks.

Almost no alchohol, maybe 2 drinks a month.

On weekends we eat out for 1 lunch and 1 dinner typically.

Things that will always be in my fridge. Some sort of cured ham. A hard and a soft cheese. Eggs. Milk. Yogurt. Mushrooms. Tofu. Real oyster sauce with oyster extract. Some kind of leafy vegetable. Apples or pears. Whole coconuts.

I go grocery shopping on average 3 times during weekdays and once on weekends. On weekend trip usually try to hit up both Costco and Asian grocery.

Almost forgot. The one "food" that I absolutely cannot stand is tootsie rolls. Both the texture and the flavor of those abominations is utterly foul.

Amoeba,

Oh yeah, tomatoes and avocados. I eat a lot of those!

And I ****ing love banh mi, very high in the sandwich rankings.

Tootsie rolls are not good but I will down 10 of them before I have to eat one candy corn.

I also forgot that we eat out at Indian food occasionally. I try to avoid Indian restaurants around lunch as most of them run a buffet during lunch and I tend to overdo it even if I just want a small sample of everything. And then you find 2 or 3 things you want another taste of and well you know how that goes.

Breakfast: copious amounts of coffee, a banana, and random bread/leftovers/whatever's quick... might be something like pickled herring and sour cream or oatmeal or fruit.

Other meals are pretty irregular, which is how I like it. I work in a couple different restaurants and I generally make sure to get a solid shift meal (and shift drinks, of course) in. I try to get in like half salads/healthy stuff but the temptation to set aside a bit of that pretzel dough and make a pretzel bread banh mi/etc is often too great.

I cook a fair bit at home. Baguettes have been on the reg as of late, everything else is pretty based on availability.

Guilty pleasure: any kind of candy. If it's there I will eat the whole container.

Candy corn or that caramel corn or whatever it is, is horrible. I do like popcorn but limit it to probably once a year after my dentist told me it built many a dentist's holiday home.

Have you been to Vietnam? The banh mi from the street vendors in da nang was unreal. The bread. I bought a bunch of them to take with us on another leg of the trip and left them in a hotel by a mistake and it haunts me to this day.

I also always meant to ask you if you have eaten at kokkari in sf. The grilled octopus there is one of the best foods I have ever eaten.

This makes me happy.

Krispy Kreme donuts are overrated af.

They are good when warm but probably overrated in general.

Only reason to go KK instead of a real donut shop is for the drive through

Tryin to incorporate alot of seafoods for a healthy lifestyle. Salmons, tuna, uni, mostly sushi's but of course with the occasional burgers.

Speaking of donut I've had 3 glazed twists in the last 2 days. 2 of them coming after a spicy tuna mix (jalapeño, bell pepper) eaten with red hot blue corn tortilla chips, followed up with a chicken Alfredo pasta, and a small amount of rocky road with a baby spoon to settle the stomach.

I like this as an idea for a thread.

For me, I cook 4-5 times a week for dinner, but rarely do I have the time or energy to want to make anything in the Cooking a good Everything Else thread. Like by the time I get home from work and the gym, I don't exactly have 2 hours to make a risotto from scratch or something like that.

Generally I go with a meat and a vegetable, just grill the meat with some seasoning or marinade. The vegetables I have a few go to recipes that I'll post here.

Sriracha-Soy Broccoli

Grill the broccoli or cook it in a skillet until done. Make a sauce consisting of 2 parts sriracha sauce, 1 part soy sauce, 1/2 part brown sugar, and 1/4 part sesame oil. Add in some freshly chopped garlic or garlic powder. Toss the sauce over the Broccoli and eat.

Garlic-Soy Green Beans

Cook the Green Beans in a skillet with oil (go light on the oil) for 7-9 minutes on high heat. Add in fresh garlic (I love garlic so I use like 4 large cloves for 2 servings of green beans). Cook that for like 30-60 seconds. Then put in a few tbsp of soy sauce then deglaze the pan with a few tbsp of white wine like 5-10 seconds later.

Balsamic Mushrooms and Onions

Buy one of the small packs of sliced white mushrooms. Slice up half an onion into medium sized chunks. Saute the mushrooms and onions with butter and oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. When close to done, add in a small amount of butter and fresh garlic. Make a sauce consisting of 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar, 1 tbsp water, and 2 tsp brown sugar. Toss the sauce in the pan once the garlic is sauteed, toss in like 1/2 to 1 tsp corn starch and stir the sauce around, and it's done.

If by "very high" you mean "absolute pinnacle", you are correct.


Rexx - good thread!

pokeraz - might be more who is choosing to reply.

codesis3 - please stop being racist against tootsie rolls



As for my fish thing - I've held this position since well before de captain taught me that oceans exist.

Has OOT done a sandwich bracket? ... I don't know if bahn mi are the pinnacle but I'd expect them in the final four ... meatball subs, egg sandwiches, cheese steaks (or is this a varient of the steak sandwich?), the club, the fried fish sandwich ....

I don’t mind the taste, but I destroyed a tooth with a tootsie roll once. That was in 1994 and I haven’t had a tootsie roll since.

Banh mi is the pinnacle of sandwich. It is known.

Food most people love/eat regularly that I don’t like: Breakfast cereal.

Never liked it, even as a kid.

Candy corn getting too much hate. Tastes fine to me (+nostalgia).

Not to derail (but not worth it's own thread): if you could have one food not count against your caloric intake (eat as much as you want without gaining an ounce from it), what would it be?

Wheat flour

Easiest pizza ever

Beets, carrots, garlic, and cherry pie.

is "ethanol" an acceptable answer?