the fizzy one doesn't want to cook

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115739516

Oh my.

fizzgig (19,617 posts)    Fri Feb 28, 2014, 12:48 AM

i would really like someone to cook me dinner excluding the odd grilled cheese or bagel with cream cheese, it's been since mid-november since someone cooked for me. husband helps with prep, but he doesn't cook meals. sunday night is the only night we can do family dinner, but sister works (from home) and i don't expect dad to cook, so i do it.
 
i love to cook and feed people, but sometimes i just want to be on the receiving end. my mom spoiled me rotten when i visited last year and it was wonderful.
 
any one else ever feel this way? and yes, i should talk to husband about helping out a bit more. i am going to ask him to make me a box of mac and cheese, i had a horrible day and have no interest in cooking.
 
sorry to whine.

elleng (45,559 posts)      Fri Feb 28, 2014, 12:58 AM

1. Very sorry you feel this way, fizz.

My complaint is boredom with friend, the 'cooks,' repertoire: Quasi-Pakistani. As I'm essentially Amer-European I want different, and recent weather, keeping lazy me IN, gets me grumpy. Would be happy to cook for you! Finished my chicken soup Wednesday.

fizzgig (19,617 posts)    Fri Feb 28, 2014, 01:12 AM

3. i understand getting bored

dad is picky and slightly boring in taste, sister is gluten intolerant, so i'm pretty limited there. i did get to make pork tenderloin a few weeks ago and that was out of the zone. husband likes just about anything, so i have a lot of freedom at home.
 
i would love to eat your food. a c&b potluck is a fantasy of mine.

CaliforniaPeggy (107,941 posts)    Fri Feb 28, 2014, 01:01 AM

2. It is totally normal to want someone to cook you dinner, my dear fizzgig!

It's very similar for us here. My husband doesn't cook at all.

Since my last surgery in Jan., we've been ordering our dinners from a local Italian place that delivers. He helps by setting the table, and getting part of the dinner dished, once it arrives.
 
It's been great, not having to cook.

Do you have a local place that makes pretty good food that will deliver? It is genuinely very fine to have this service.
 
I'm cooking for us now, and I'm ready. But for the nights when I just can't face it, we order out.

fizzgig (19,617 posts)    Fri Feb 28, 2014, 01:35 AM

6. delivery is a splurge for us

there's a chinese place we love and we'll get that once every couple of paydays. i gorge myself and still have leftovers. it's awesome.
 
cereal, pb&j or grilled cheese aren't uncommon dinners for me, but that doesn't bother me.
 
sounds like you're healing up, that's good to hear

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After which a conversation between the fizzy one and Judy, the pie-and-jam primitive, in which "grasswire" shows her advancing senescence.

<<<suspects Judy'll be ensconsced safely in a nursing home before the year's out.

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TexasTowelie (7,462 posts)   Fri Feb 28, 2014, 02:09 AM

12. I sympathize since I'm a bachelor and a horrible cook.

Since I don't eat very much, my cop out is to buy pre-cooked beef or chicken fajita meat, and make tacos. I'll include the single serving guacamole and sour cream packages, lettuce, tomato and a smoked cheese (mozzarella and cheddar are my favorites).
 
I grill the meat on a non-stick ceramic pan and add spices to taste. I usually can get the meal fixed in about 7-8 minutes and it takes about five minutes to wash all the dishes afterwards.
 
Of course, it would be easy to substitute uncooked meat but I would waste so much food that it is more economical to choose the pre-cooked packages.
 
My diet has changed considerably since my brother and I parted ways in October and I moved back to Irving. I was able to get the bacon-wrapped filet mignons for a very decent price and they are very tender which is a big plus since I also started wearing dentures about a year ago. However, I haven't had a steak since that time and it looks like I'm becoming anemic.

fizzgig (19,617 posts)    Fri Feb 28, 2014, 04:18 AM

13. cooking for one can be tough

when it was just me, i'd buy a family pack chicken breasts/thighs and freeze them individually. the leftovers of a batch of soup/stew/chili were frozen in portions.
 
if i knew then what i know now, i would have blanched and frozen fresh v*****s and pre-portioned out large pieces of meat (freezing the meat a bit will make thin slicing easier).
 
i do usually have a bag of chicken strips and tater tots/fries in the freezer. some nights that's all i want to deal with.

[vesta111]

Well I understand that cooking is an art and some cooks go to a Institute for 4 years to learn how to do this.

Cooking shows are funny, all the fresh herbs and spices they use.  Who can afford to buy fresh sprigs of herbs, if you need only two for a dish but have to buy 10 of them.

One of the reasons we waste so much food is we cannot buy in very small lots that is called for in a recipe.

[Dori]

Well I understand that cooking is an art and some cooks go to a Institute for 4 years to learn how to do this.

Cooking shows are funny, all the fresh herbs and spices they use.  Who can afford to buy fresh sprigs of herbs, if you need only two for a dish but have to buy 10 of them.

One of the reasons we waste so much food is we cannot buy in very small lots that is called for in a recipe.

If you have left over herbs, you can air dry most of them and then store them. There are also ways to dry them in the microwave or oven.  I think dried herbs are just as flavorful, if not more so.

[Carl]

The lunatic does not realize that just about every post of hers contradicts a previous one.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Having seen some of their food threads, anything that keeps DUmmies from cooking for themselves or others is probably good for workload at the local ER and the national health generally.

[jukin]

Obama needs to do something for the poor DUchebag! No American citizen should have to work or cook. We need some universal food delivery program. It's not enough to just have EBT and WIC, that means that these poor people have to get off their ass and do something. That's just not right or FAIR!!!

[Purple Sage]

Well I understand that cooking is an art and some cooks go to a Institute for 4 years to learn how to do this.

Cooking shows are funny, all the fresh herbs and spices they use.  Who can afford to buy fresh sprigs of herbs, if you need only two for a dish but have to buy 10 of them.

One of the reasons we waste so much food is we cannot buy in very small lots that is called for in a recipe.

Grow them.  If one doesn't have a place outside, a sunny window will do.  One always knows when to water... do it when they wilt as they like to dry out between watering.  The more you cut, the faster they grow.  Even someone that can't keep a philodendron alive can grow herbs.

And Dori's right.  Dry what you don't use.  ^5 to Dori. 

[Purple Sage]

As for fizzie... she's sinking into depression.  Why doesn't someone over there explain to her that alcohol and anti-psychotics don't mix.  Her meds can't help her as long as she insists on getting snot-slinging drunk all the time.

[landofconfusion80]

As for fizzie... she's sinking into depression.  Why doesn't someone over there explain to her that alcohol and anti-psychotics don't mix.  Her meds can't help her as long as she insists on getting snot-slinging drunk all the time.

where's the fun in that?

[RobJohnson]

Obama needs to do something for the poor DUchebag! No American citizen should have to work or cook. We need some universal food delivery program. It's not enough to just have EBT and WIC, that means that these poor people have to get off their ass and do something. That's just not right or FAIR!!!

 

[Bad Dog]

As for fizzie... she's sinking into depression.  Why doesn't someone over there explain to her that alcohol and anti-psychotics don't mix.  Her meds can't help her as long as she insists on getting snot-slinging drunk all the time.

I think you're right.  Hope she has some hair to shear off or she might put that razor to some other use.

[BattleHymn]

Poor fizzgig primitive. 

She's getting into a serious funk again.  All she needs is a gut bomb and a shaved head, and she'll be right back to "normal" again. 

[Purple Sage]

I think you're right.  Hope she has some hair to shear off or she might put that razor to some other use.

Prophetic.  Hopefully, for fizzie's sake, the scissors are blunted and the razors are all electric shavers.

[Purple Sage]

Poor fizzgig primitive. 

She's getting into a serious funk again.  All she needs is a gut bomb and a shaved head, and she'll be right back to "normal" again. 

Is it that time again already?  Time flies when one's watching the DUmmies.  It seems just like the other day...

[Big Dog]

Is it that time again already?  Time flies when one's watching the DUmmies.  It seems just like the other day...

I think it was just the other day, Sage. She appears to be cycling faster and faster. Her husband, sister, dad, and random strangers on the city bus had best watch out, or she'll be shaving their heads too.

Of all the mentally ill DUmmies - The Tucson Tart, locopuffs, dennis the menace to society, even the subway cat - fizzy appears to be the one most likely to commit suicide.

[franksolich]

I think it was just the other day, Sage. She appears to be cycling faster and faster. Her husband, sister, dad, and random strangers on the city bus had best watch out, or she'll be shaving their heads too.

Of all the mentally ill DUmmies - The Tucson Tart, locopuffs, dennis the menace to society, even the subway cat - fizzy appears to be the one most likely to commit suicide.

There was a campfire the other day--no, I didn't save it--where the primitives rationalized their overuse of pharmaceuticals, and the fizzy one said she couldn't live without her mood-altering drugs.

Well, fine and good, whatever, but usually it's not a good idea to do both drugs and booze; if one's on pharmaceuticals, one should stay away from the latter, lest it cause unintended side-effects or.....death.

My advice to the fizzy one--and of course she's not going to pay attention--is that if the drugs are important to her, well, she'd better stop sucking on the bottle.

[DumbAss Tanker]

... if one's on pharmaceuticals, one should stay away from the latter, lest it cause unintended side-effects or.....death.

As long as we're talking DUmmies, I'm not seeing the downside here.

[franksolich]

As long as we're talking DUmmies, I'm not seeing the downside here.

Well, it's her choice.

Who am I to stand in the way of a woman's freedom of choice?

[Karin]

elleng (45,559 posts)      Fri Feb 28, 2014, 12:58 AM

1. Very sorry you feel this way, fizz.

My complaint is boredom with friend, the 'cooks,' repertoire: Quasi-Pakistani. As I'm essentially Amer-European I want different, and recent weather, keeping lazy me IN, gets me grumpy.

 

Speaking of alcohol and pharms...   

[BattleHymn]

Speaking of alcohol and pharms...   

What the...   I think she must have sucked down some of nad's cough syrup. 

[Purple Sage]

I think it was just the other day, Sage. She appears to be cycling faster and faster. Her husband, sister, dad, and random strangers on the city bus had best watch out, or she'll be shaving their heads too.

Of all the mentally ill DUmmies - The Tucson Tart, locopuffs, dennis the menace to society, even the subway cat - fizzy appears to be the one most likely to commit suicide.

I agree, Big Dog.  It doesn't look good for her.

Bipolar disorder, a mood disorder affecting more than five million Americans. It is characterized by alternating periods of depression and mania or hypomania (a milder form of mania). Up to 20 percent of individuals with bipolar illness commit suicide.  Alcohol is also known to increase one’s risk of suicide by more than 50 percent and, according to some studies, 25 percent of substance abusers commit suicide.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/07/23/higher-risk-of-suicide-in-bipolar-patients-who-abuse-alcohol/15907.html

If her DUmp cohorts truly cared about her, they'd give her a dose of reality instead of validating her poor choices.  But, alas... they are DUmmies and only care about themselves.  They won't even put up a Memorial forum to post about her and how surprised and shocked they are when she does commit suicide.