Cheap Entertainment

Food, when prepared fresh (and at home), is one of the cheaper forms of entertainment, but it is so wonderful. I've been busy and gone so much, and my weekends were so full of Wendy's and McDonald's that I had forgotten how good a simple well-made dish can be. Oddly enough, I haven't cooked that much since I've been here in this apartment (8 months). It's mostly been pretty simple foods. A couple weeks ago, someone oddly suggested that I just start washing my dishes more often. Lo and behold, that suddenly made me start wanting to cook real food again. I guess it must be the fact that I had something clean to cook with. This week has had a rather colorful culinary spectrum. From the weird (see previous post) to the absolutley delicious - the shrimp alfredo I am eating now. Next time I eat shrimp alfredo I'd better get alfredo sauce in a jar or learn how to make it - a pouch of powder mix just doesn't cut it.

Ironic, almost, that now that I'm without Food Network, I'm finally spending more time creating. It's also much better for the body even to eat something with alfredo sauce. If it takes over a half hour to prepare lunch it's hardly likely that someone's going to accidentally have two lunches. Not that I have that habit so much as a portion control problem. I didn't even have time to make a side dish - I just wanted to eat. I like that better than the "throwing another one in the microwave for 30 seconds" approach to the unsatiated appetite.