Cooking Solo

[ramy_fulaz]

I had forgotten how much I despise cooking for only one. There is something so very lonely about cooking for oneself, and it is difficult for me to design interesting meals when no one is around to enjoy them. Thus, it is at dinnertime, more than any other (saving perhaps bedtime), when I most miss petite_chaton. I am reduced to eating frozen pizza, burgers,

Comments

[fox_c]

I imagine that she would like to have your cooking much more than what she's currently getting! Still, I was just discussing this with Mom the other day, and it's amazing how important food and feeding people is to our whole mental health. Do find some peeps to break bread with, and sorry more of us aren't closer. . .

[ramy_fulaz]

Hopefully some of my colleagues at SCCC will prove amenable to joint cooking endeavors.

[araquan]

You can do some really creative things with ramen? ^_^;

[phoenix_seraph]

 
My alone times tend to be when I experiment with my cooking.   First off, I can remember my successes, and second of all, knowing that a bad meal will inconvenience absolutely no one except myself gives me the license to experiment freely.   I have come upon some good techniques and food combinations that way.

Apropos restaurants: bring a good book, find a corner table, eat and enjoy the book.   Or better yet, bring a pad of paper and your favorite creative writing pen.   I often work on my poems and stories while enjoying a slow vegetarian meal (or indulgent burger and fries) in a restaurant by myself.

Eating by oneself in a café and writing worked for J. K. Rowling, don't forget.
 

[ramy_fulaz]

I will try taking a book, but the writing pad is unlikely, since I have little desire to write.