It's the minutiae that kills me

[amul]

As I've often said, the thing that irritates me most about living alone is that I have to choose what I'm going to eat, three meals a day, every day, without any input, all by myself.

I am so utterly sick of my usual breakfast options.

I typically have eggs, usually an omlette with onions, tomatoes, cheese and one of two sets of spices. Sometimes I eat it as a sandwich. Sometimes, I'll eat it with bacon or sausage. Occasionally, I have cereal instead. In the winter, I might make myself a bowl of cream of wheat. Pancakes generally take too long, and there's no way to mix together a small enough batch.

I'm pretty sick of lunch, too, which usually consists of a deli-meat sandwich.

Dinner, I'm still doing okay on. I have time to cook properly for dinner, and so a much larger variety of options is available to me. The other two meals, though, I need to make quickly, so as not to get lost in the act of cooking and waste my day.

Any suggestions?


As I spend more time hanging out with the Chicago Crew, and all those herbivores in Pgh, it occurs to me that I am not as omnivorous as I always claimed to be. I've always said that it makes little difference to me if I eat meat or vegetables, so long as it tastes good. But I've noticed lately that I tend to choose meat.

On the other hand, maybe this is just some subconscious attempt to please the girl I'm infatuated with, the Radiant Idol which I praise from....well, not afar. More like from the other side of the couch. I'm not such a sad sap that I'd change my eating habits for a girl, but there's no denying that the smallest comment RI makes lingers in my head for hours.

*sigh* Enough of this sappy romanticism. It feeds the soul but denies the flesh. It's been nearly a month since the red-head from my birthday told me to wait a month before hitting on her. I think it's time to head to a certain pub....

Comments

[themoocow.livejournal.com]

I can't help you out there. Unless we're talking about fancy restarunts it generally means little to me. I eat pretty much the exact same daily menu for weeks at a time. I've had "Great Grains" for breakfast everyday for the past month, not counting Origins. Similarly, I've had a deli sandwich for lunch, and either Toquitoes or chicken tenders for dinner.

I hear you on the "not worth it for one". Even on the weekend, I generally don't get fancy because it just isn't worth it to go to a lot of trouble to cook for just me.

[mothburning.livejournal.com]

Why don't you join an LJ community for cooking/recipes? I've gotten my dinner/desert ideas from vegancooking (http://www.livejournal.com/~vegancooking) for the past week.

[mschaos.livejournal.com]

how about making quiche and having that for breakfast (make it on sunday, you have it for the week for breakfasts...

for lunches try pasta salad with all sorts of veggies and then some salami or ham diced in there...

or make a wrap insteaed of a sandwich

add hummus on the bread or wrap for something different...you can use that instead of meat too...lots of protein...add lots of veggies (spinach, onion, thin sliced peppers, etc)

[amul.livejournal.com]

The quiche is actually a really good idea.

Why is it that all the salads seem to have a ton of mayo in them? Pasta salad, tuna salad, egg salad....

[mschaos.livejournal.com]

heh...not mine...I likea more oil and vinegar dressing in mine...or if it is creamy, use it sparingly

PS

[mothburning.livejournal.com]

"adult remix"? send me some o' dat junx!

look what i found today: rural_ruin (http://www.livejournal.com/~rural_ruin), urban_decay (http://www.livejournal.com/~urban_decay), & deadmachinery (http://www.livejournal.com/~deadmachinery).

[princessmatilda.livejournal.com]

i totally feel your angst at cooking for one and being tired of the available options for a quick meal for one. maybe there's a million dollar idea here that we're missing....or maybe we just need to get motivated. on the otehr hand...i usually ahve a bagel for breakfast. it's filling, and there's alot of variety available for toppings and bagle flavor. and you could have your eggs on your bagel! m.....bagel.

[amul.livejournal.com]

I think that bandwagon has already been jumped - Toaster Scrambles, hot pockets, breakfast burritos.....the problem is, none of it is actual food.

And if I was to suggest a Bachelor's Cookbook, I bet I'd find it's already in print.

Hrm, that's an idea worth exploring, actually...

[vocis.livejournal.com]

Oatmeal for breakfast is the good.

Also, it seems kind of weird, but I find that making an "egg scramble" using the same stuff you would for an omelet somehow tastes different. (I don't know if that's the actual name for it, but you saute the filling stuffs in a some olive oil, then just break the eggs into the pan mixing them around to scramble them on the fly. You could also just beat them in a bowl first, but why dirty an extra dish? *g*)

Lastly, add some herbs and/or spices to your eggs. I'm a big fan of crushed red pepper in just about anything and adding a little of the Italian seasoning blend works well, too.

[amul.livejournal.com]

If there are mushrooms in my eggs, then there has to be tarragon, too. Another good egg-spice is Dill Weed, although I've found various brands of dill weed have inconsistent strength. Garlic Salt is also awesome in just about everything to me.

Whenever I cook anything in oil these days, first I fry a teaspoon of cumin seeds in the oil.

Also, for some reason it seems that tumeric can go with any food that's naturally yellow.