How many of you guys here really, really enjoy cooking and planning meals?

Parkanzky · Mar 2, 2015

My babysitter was English and she'd make me rice pudding topped with prunes and figs often. Great memories! I should work on trying to duplicate that.

DFB · Mar 2, 2015

There's couple of different ways to do a rice pudding, on the stove top (saucepan style) or baked in the oven. Baked rice pudding recipes usually add eggs for a more custard like consistency.

My Italian grandmother made egg custards all the time with no less than a dozen eggs!

D7E · Mar 2, 2015

Kenneth in Texas said:
no way, I leave that up to the wife, am I the only one like that on here?

I have done beans on toast when my wife was in hospital

JDgreen227 · Mar 2, 2015

D7E said:
I have done beans on toast when my wife was in hospital

Beans on toast...hmmmm....black beans, chili beans, pinto beans, garbanzo beans....whatever? White toast, wheat toast, rye toast...whatever?

There is a serious difference between those kinds to us members here who are serious foodies. :laughing:

OldMcDonald · Mar 2, 2015

TomSeller said:
Wow, I should try that.

Tom, Yes you really should. And so should everybody else. Wines are made to complement food (note complement, not compliment) and they make it so much more enjoyable. It costs no more to have a few bottles open than one. Possibly even less. If you have only one there is always the thought that there is not much left "so I might as well finish it". You would never think "I must finish these four bottles". We are only here once, make the most of it.

IslandTractor · Mar 2, 2015

Life is too long to drink cheap wine.

GolfAddict · Mar 2, 2015

IslandTractor said:
Life is too long to drink cheap wine.

Well, the next morning certainly is... :yuck:

JDgreen227 · Mar 2, 2015

IslandTractor said:
Life is too long to drink cheap wine.

As a serious consumer of Franzia and Vella, I resemble that remark. A retiree's budget rarely allows for Asti and the related stuff. And didn't you mean "short"?

IslandTractor · Mar 2, 2015

JDgreen227 said:
As a serious consumer of Franzia and Vella, I resemble that remark. A retiree's budget rarely allows for Asti and the related stuff. And didn't you mean "short"?

No, I definitely mean long. Too many meals and bottles of wine to ignore the quality issue completely. Drank plenty of plonk as a young man so I don't feel the need to any more. I'd rather enjoy the vino than join a country club or spend money on similar things. I don't drink expensive wine but I don't drink two buck Chuck anymore either. $10-15 a bottle gets pretty good red or white at Costco and that's what I typically spend. Maybe $20 for a birthday.

2LaneCruzer · Mar 2, 2015

IslandTractor said:
No, I definitely mean long. Too many meals and bottles of wine to ignore the quality issue completely. Drank plenty of plonk as a young man so I don't feel the need to any more. I'd rather enjoy the vino than join a country club or spend money on similar things. I don't drink expensive wine but I don't drink two buck Chuck anymore either. $10-15 a bottle gets pretty good red or white at Costco and that's what I typically spend. Maybe $20 for a birthday.

Back about 1960, my destitute buddy and I were taking a college night course, as I recall, something called "political geography". On our way home he wanted to stop by the liquor store. Oklahoma was newly "wet", so liquor stores were just opening. He asked me if I had some money, and I came up with 35 cents. We stopped at the liquor store, and he bought a 65 cent bottle of apple wine. We drank that bottle between the college and OKC, and I was deathly sick for 3 days. In the last 50 years or so, I haven't drank more than a quart of wine TOTAL of any kind. There may be some high class stuff, but it seems I have acquired an immunity of sorts.