Fast Food Foofaraw

[LordMortis]

Just like with the way I make baked potatoes, I don't think of it as work. Anything that is practically nothing with light clean up that I don't have monitor is just a thing I have to set and come back to. Now if I can't wait 30 minutes and then another 15 minutes to eat, then it's a nonstarter. However, since I started obsessively calorie counting, I plan most of my meals either for a whole day in the morning, or sometimes up to a week in advance if I am trying to make sure I go through fresh food while it's still fresh.

I suppose 45 minutes to make fried potato slices is the antithesis of fast fooding, though.

[hepcat]

I like to line up the other potatoes that weren't chosen in a line and make them watch as I eat the one that was. All the while making eye contact with each of them.

Spoiler:

heh..."eye"

[Kraken]

Ima get me an air fryer. My kitchen's almost put together and I still have free counter space and outlets, and I keep reading such good things about fried air.

[hepcat]

Get thee hence….to a Ninja Foodi Grill.

I’ve sung their praises before, but in short, you get your air fryer and a whole lot more. I grill on mine constantly.

[Alefroth]

Ima get me an air fryer. My kitchen's almost put together and I still have free counter space and outlets, and I keep reading such good things about fried air.

I was really surprised by how often we use it and how many things it's good for.

[Max Peck]

My go to potato side dish these days is air fryer baby potatoes. Slice 'em in half, add some oil and choice of seasonings, and let 'em rip at maybe 380 for 20 minutes (shake half-way through!).

My air fryer has a rotisserie basket, so no shaking required. I just season them with some kosher salt, and eat them with some sour cream on the side for dipping.

[mori]

Tried the McCrispy Chicken Sandwich from McDonalds. Read an article that claimed it was as good as the Chick-fil-a sandwich which is not setting a very high bar IMHO. Much better than their old chicken sandwich whatever that was called. It just needed some hot sauce and it would of been pretty good.

[Daehawk]

I'm standing here in the kitchen eating a frozen dinner I've never had before...and it's delicious!

It's a Scott & Jon's Garlic Butter Shrimp rice bowl. Mmmm, mmmmm!

[Blackhawk]

Mmmm, mmmmm!

I get that you like it, but that doesn't mean that you can talk with your mouth full.

[Jeff V]

I'm standing here in the kitchen eating a frozen dinner I've never had before...and it's delicious!

It's a Scott & Jon's Garlic Butter Shrimp rice bowl. Mmmm, mmmmm!

A few weeks ago, I bought my wife a Gordon Ramsay Chicken Marsala frozen dinner from Walmart. She likes Chicken Marsala and Gordon Ramsay. It's still in the freezer. For her birthday last week, we went to Ramsay's Kitchen in Naperville. She finally got to try the Beef Wellington she's seen served so many times on his shows. It was good, of course, but she could only eat half of it. I got a seafood risotto that included lobster, shrimp and scallops. For $100, I expected it to be more orgasmic than it was...the risotto included roasted corn and I'm sure I can replicate that, and the scallops were no better than I make (I like mine better since I amp it up with cayenne). Total check was $375 including tip.

[Kraken]

When we moved my menu plan centered around frozen and shelf-stable meals for a couple of weeks. Some of them were quite good. Nutritionally not so much, maybe, and it's usually more cost-effective to cook than to eat prepared meals (once you build up and maintain a basic pantry). But I rather enjoyed the holiday from cooking and I've decided to slot in heat-and-eat meals once every week or two going forward.

Total check was $375 including tip.

$175 for Wife's birthday dinner was my high-water mark. Shared appetizer, two entrees, and $45 for a $20 bottle of wine.