Do you love to eat or eat to live?

[terposton]

For me, I love to eat. I love trying new things and I love to cook also. I wish that I had the opportunity along with the funds to travel all of the world just so I could eat all over the world. I love hearing about dishes from a certain area and stuff like that.

[IndelibleDotInk]

as a kid, i never enjoyed food at all until10-12, correlating with the broadcast of food tv. Although the channel has took a very bad turn for the worse, my love for food, preparation, and exploration have not.

[FartBlaster]

Why can't it be both and for most people it is

[Lokey]

For me, I love to eat. I love trying new things and I love to cook also. I wish that I had the opportunity along with the funds to travel all of the world just so I could eat all over the world. I love hearing about dishes from a certain area and stuff like that.

Right? I marveled at the life of Anthony Bourdain not knowing the pain he must've been in, thought he had the best job ever. For awhile I watched a lot of cooking shows and was inspired to try cooking new things but chronic pain took over and I got out of it. After I found kratom I became less adventurous and interested in food. Cooking to me now is whatever is less ingredients needed and less mess to clean up but I do savor and appreciate whenever it turns out good. Also used to enjoy trying new restaurants but haven't even been to one in over two years now and found the majority of the time the food is sub par and way overpriced. I hate it when the description on the menu of a dish and it's ingredients does not match what's on the plate I'm given, happens constantly. We get takeout every Sunday, my salmon dish was supposed to have green onion and sesame seeds, if they were there I couldn't tell. Anyway I agree eating could be an adventure, there's another show with Andrew Zimmern who travels around the globe and eats weird foods.

[terposton]

For me, I love to eat. I love trying new things and I love to cook also. I wish that I had the opportunity along with the funds to travel all of the world just so I could eat all over the world. I love hearing about dishes from a certain area and stuff like that.

Right? I marveled at the life of Anthony Bourdain not knowing the pain he must've been in, thought he had the best job ever. For awhile I watched a lot of cooking shows and was inspired to try cooking new things but chronic pain took over and I got out of it. After I found kratom I became less adventurous and interested in food. Cooking to me now is whatever is less ingredients needed and less mess to clean up but I do savor and appreciate whenever it turns out good. Also used to enjoy trying new restaurants but haven't even been to one in over two years now and found the majority of the time the food is sub par and way overpriced. I hate it when the description on the menu of a dish and it's ingredients does not match what's on the plate I'm given, happens constantly. We get takeout every Sunday, my salmon dish was supposed to have green onion and sesame seeds, if they were there I couldn't tell. Anyway I agree eating could be an adventure, there's another show with Andrew Zimmern who travels around the globe and eats weird foods.

Andrew Zimmern has a show called Delicious Destinations and on that one, he eats the most popular dishes in that particular city. It's so good. The one where he travels around eating weird stuff I can't stomach. I saw him once where he was in Peru I think and they ate guinea pigs! Disgusting. I also don't like where they are eating different weird organ meat. I absolutely loved Anthony Bourdain. I was such a fan. He is missed. I agree, while I love cooking, I have to be in the mood to try something new or a recipe with lots of ingredients. I have to cook dinner nearly every night because I live in the country to going out entails a long drive to get there. I have a tiny kitchen along with no dishwasher so cleaning up the mess is the worse part

[terposton]

as a kid, i never enjoyed food at all until10-12, correlating with the broadcast of food tv. Although the channel has took a very bad turn for the worse, my love for food, preparation, and exploration have not.

Me too. The Food Network has become nothing but game shows and competitions. I have no interest in that. I do love Ina Garten and some of the shows that they actually cook to learn new things but they don't have much of that anymore.

[Lokey]

as a kid, i never enjoyed food at all until10-12, correlating with the broadcast of food tv. Although the channel has took a very bad turn for the worse, my love for food, preparation, and exploration have not.

Me too. The Food Network has become nothing but game shows and competitions. I have no interest in that. I do love Ina Garten and some of the shows that they actually cook to learn new things but they don't have much of that anymore.

Every Saturday on one of our PBS channels is cooking shows all morning into the afternoon, including Jacques Pepin, Patti's Mexican Table, Cooking with Julia (Child), Sara Moulton, Kevin Belton and others. I liked Food Over 50 but they took it off. Like to watch but makes me hungry!

[terposton]

as a kid, i never enjoyed food at all until10-12, correlating with the broadcast of food tv. Although the channel has took a very bad turn for the worse, my love for food, preparation, and exploration have not.

Me too. The Food Network has become nothing but game shows and competitions. I have no interest in that. I do love Ina Garten and some of the shows that they actually cook to learn new things but they don't have much of that anymore.

Every Saturday on one of our PBS channels is cooking shows all morning into the afternoon, including Jacques Pepin, Patti's Mexican Table, Cooking with Julia (Child), Sara Moulton, Kevin Belton and others. I liked Food Over 50 but they took it off. Like to watch but makes me hungry!

I love all the cooking shows on PBS too! Even if I don't get around to fixing the stuff, I can watch that stuff for hours. With PBS you actually learn things which I love.

[terposton]

as a kid, i never enjoyed food at all until10-12, correlating with the broadcast of food tv. Although the channel has took a very bad turn for the worse, my love for food, preparation, and exploration have not.

You and I could be best friends

[Sanbutsushin]

Eating to live just sucks, imo. You know when you shuffle to the fridge, open it, and then close it because you don't want what's in there? Those times where you'd rather not bother to cook anything you have... oof. Awful feeling.

It's awesome when you can try out a new recipe and fall in love with it. I recently tried salmon for the first time and wow, instant favorite! But then I went to buy more and omg, everywhere I looked had it either in teeny tiny thin slices, or was charging $55 for a side. I'm an hour's drive from the coast so I have no idea how or why it suddenly got so expensive but it broke my heart.

Who knew you could just stick some fish in a foil packet in the oven with butter and garlic, and it'd be not just good, but GREAT? I had no idea. Now I'm searching for something more affordable to fall in love with.

[Lokey]

If you have a Trader Joe's or Walmart nearby they have very reasonably priced fresh salmon albeit farm raised in Norway, really good, try pouring Ken's Asian Sesame with ginger & soy dressing over it and baking, so easy and good...what I just did tonite and made mashed potatoes. I have too much food here right now but my son lives with me and is always obsessed with his next meal. I wasn't feeling well and got stuff to make chicken soup but it's 100 degrees out so I don't know. Got lots of healthy stuff but I get full too fast.

[tasha99]

Definitely live to eat here, or rather live to cook. I retired at the start of the pandemic, since I worked in healthcare and had some preexisting conditions. We decided we didn't need the money, so now, I cook all the time, and I have a garden that supports my passion for cooking. If you go to a Thai restaurant in the U.S., you'll probably get basil chicken made with Thai basil, but at my house, we have the real deal holy basil. I cook an easy meal and a more time consuming meal every day, plus one extra cooking task to keep it all running (stocks, fermentation projects, sauces, quick pickles, etc.) It gives me something fun to do. Tomorrow I'm going to make and freeze a bunch of pierogi.

[terposton]

Definitely live to eat here, or rather live to cook. I retired at the start of the pandemic, since I worked in healthcare and had some preexisting conditions. We decided we didn't need the money, so now, I cook all the time, and I have a garden that supports my passion for cooking. If you go to a Thai restaurant in the U.S., you'll probably get basil chicken made with Thai basil, but at my house, we have the real deal holy basil. I cook an easy meal and a more time consuming meal every day, plus one extra cooking task to keep it all running (stocks, fermentation projects, sauces, quick pickles, etc.) It gives me something fun to do. Tomorrow I'm going to make and freeze a bunch of pierogi.

I love this so much. I wish I was more of a gardener but I don't have green thumb so I try to find farmer's markets during the summer. The one thing I do grow in lots of pots outside during summer is herbs. It really makes everything better. While I do love kratom and have too much, what I really love is like you, find new sauces along with spices online. I live in a rural area so the only grocery store close by are Walmart. So I'm always browsing online for special stuff. I would love some of your pierogi!

[terposton]

Eating to live just sucks, imo. You know when you shuffle to the fridge, open it, and then close it because you don't want what's in there? Those times where you'd rather not bother to cook anything you have... oof. Awful feeling.

It's awesome when you can try out a new recipe and fall in love with it. I recently tried salmon for the first time and wow, instant favorite! But then I went to buy more and omg, everywhere I looked had it either in teeny tiny thin slices, or was charging $55 for a side. I'm an hour's drive from the coast so I have no idea how or why it suddenly got so expensive but it broke my heart.

Who knew you could just stick some fish in a foil packet in the oven with butter and garlic, and it'd be not just good, but GREAT? I had no idea. Now I'm searching for something more affordable to fall in love with.

I agree Sunbutsushin! Eating to live sounds like not living. I had a sister-in-law that would say sometimes that she forgot to eat. That is so foreign to me. While I'm cooking and eating dinner I'm already thinking about what I'm gonna fix the next day

[tasha99]

Definitely live to eat here, or rather live to cook. I retired at the start of the pandemic, since I worked in healthcare and had some preexisting conditions. We decided we didn't need the money, so now, I cook all the time, and I have a garden that supports my passion for cooking. If you go to a Thai restaurant in the U.S., you'll probably get basil chicken made with Thai basil, but at my house, we have the real deal holy basil. I cook an easy meal and a more time consuming meal every day, plus one extra cooking task to keep it all running (stocks, fermentation projects, sauces, quick pickles, etc.) It gives me something fun to do. Tomorrow I'm going to make and freeze a bunch of pierogi.

I love this so much. I wish I was more of a gardener but I don't have green thumb so I try to find farmer's markets during the summer. The one thing I do grow in lots of pots outside during summer is herbs. It really makes everything better. While I do love kratom and have too much, what I really love is like you, find new sauces along with spices online. I live in a rural area so the only grocery store close by are Walmart. So I'm always browsing online for special stuff. I would love some of your pierogi!

Yeah, we source so much stuff online now--spices, Mexican dried chiles, even some foods that come frozen. I wish I'd made that pierogi, but I didn't. It's like I have a mental block about it. I call it pierogi to others since most people what that is, but it's a Ukrainian version called vareniki (but just like pierogi--my mom called it that, even though the vareniki I've had in restaurants were more noodle-like). I haven't made it since her memorial service 7 years ago. Now I'm afraid I won't do it right because it's been so long. I am really really going to make it soon, though.

[terposton]

Definitely live to eat here, or rather live to cook. I retired at the start of the pandemic, since I worked in healthcare and had some preexisting conditions. We decided we didn't need the money, so now, I cook all the time, and I have a garden that supports my passion for cooking. If you go to a Thai restaurant in the U.S., you'll probably get basil chicken made with Thai basil, but at my house, we have the real deal holy basil. I cook an easy meal and a more time consuming meal every day, plus one extra cooking task to keep it all running (stocks, fermentation projects, sauces, quick pickles, etc.) It gives me something fun to do. Tomorrow I'm going to make and freeze a bunch of pierogi.

I love this so much. I wish I was more of a gardener but I don't have green thumb so I try to find farmer's markets during the summer. The one thing I do grow in lots of pots outside during summer is herbs. It really makes everything better. While I do love kratom and have too much, what I really love is like you, find new sauces along with spices online. I live in a rural area so the only grocery store close by are Walmart. So I'm always browsing online for special stuff. I would love some of your pierogi!

Yeah, we source so much stuff online now--spices, Mexican dried chiles, even some foods that come frozen. I wish I'd made that pierogi, but I didn't. It's like I have a mental block about it. I call it pierogi to others since most people what that is, but it's a Ukrainian version called vareniki (but just like pierogi--my mom called it that, even though the vareniki I've had in restaurants were more noodle-like). I haven't made it since her memorial service 7 years ago. Now I'm afraid I won't do it right because it's been so long. I am really really going to make it soon, though.

Tasha I bet it will be delicious. You will make it with love and that's all that matters.