I get a lot of comments about what kind of food I must eat on a daily basis. These are largely based on the fact that I'm a formally trained professional cook, and I work in a sort of "special occasion" kind of restaurant. I frequently hear "Oh! You must eat *insert insanely rich, decadent, high-end food here* all the time . . ." I'll leave you with an image of Eno Terra's lobster risotto with truffles as an example of what I supposedly eat every day:
Awesome dish! I probably cooked this one about a hundred times when we were running this special off my station. But let's be real! If I ate this every day (or like this) I would be 400 pounds and dead broke. This is restaurant food. Expertly and painstakingly prepared, expensive but worth every penny, treat yourself on occasion restaurant food.
Which raises the questions - 1. What do I cook for myself on a regular basis? 2. And, is my husband really the luckiest son-of-a-gun on earth because he has something like the above waiting for him every night for dinner?
Answers: 1. Very little. I'm barely ever home to cook, and when I am, it's generally easy to prepare, light fare. 2. Hell no. Again, I'm barely ever home to cook, and he's usually the one going around trying to wrangle up something I can eat when I drag my tired ass home after dinner service.
My usual daily diet consists of some sort of stir fried vegetables tossed with a grain (pasta, rice, quinoa, beans, potatoes, etc) and occasionally meat. There are also subs, burgers, Chinese food, and rotisserie chickens from the grocery store. Throw in the occasional can of tuna, beef stew and braised chicken something, and that about sums up my daily food. In fact, if you view the pasta primavera I have pictured in my previous post, that's a pretty good representation of my every day food.
I cook whenever I can. Obviously not every day. I do believe in avoiding as many processed products as possible. So when I make my own food it's always as fresh and home-made as possible. I make my own stocks and sauces. I like to know what's in the food I'm eating.
Please allow me to leave you with images of a few typical quick and easy go-to foods on my days off:
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| Creamy Minestrone |
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| Pasta Primavera |
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| Zucchini and Eggplant Lasagna on the Grill |
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| Chicken Cacciatore with Sauteed Green Beans |
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