Are Roasts Not the Best Dinner Option?
July 28th 2008 04:23
As a 21 year old who has been living out of home for almost 3 years, surprising my parents still don’t think I eat a well balanced diet. Far enough, for the majority of those years I was a very poor uni student, who at times thought party and clothes were more important then eating nutritious food.
I now work fulltime as a consequence of finishing my uni degree and I have never felt as much joy as filling up my pantry and actually keeping it that way so there is never a point in time where I think to myself, darn I have nothing to eat. I think a big part of that is due to the fact I also live with 2 footballers who need to be fed portions bigger then my food intake for a week.
I am described by my friends as someone who eats like a king, and to tell you the truth they are not wrong. For some reason my parents haven’t caught on to that, with both my mother and father bombarding me with calls every night literally to ask what I am cooking and offering their advice on how and why to cook various options. (Probably because for the first year out of school my diet was basically pasta every night).
I can’t complain though, because seriously a mum and (in my instance) a dad cooks meal never tasted as good as when I moved away from them. Every time I visit home I am literally smothered in food, roasts, casseroles, Barbeques, big breakfasts and stir-fries…anything and everything.
One thing that I really can’t get my head around is that an alarming number of people have told me in the past few months that they don’t like roasts and hate it when their parents rush to cook it when they visit home. I really can’t think why… as I type I a actually craving a warm roast with gorgeously cooks vege’s and a nice gravy mmm mmm.
Its actually laughable though, as much as I love coming home to the smell of a cooking roast and the excitement about actually getting to eat it, I have never actually cooked one for myself, weird I know! With a Weber outside just waiting to be used, maybe it is time.
But it gets me thinking, do I only love roasts and the meals my parents take hours of preparing; because I didn’t have to do a thing, not one ounce of preparing, waiting, testing etc?
I now work fulltime as a consequence of finishing my uni degree and I have never felt as much joy as filling up my pantry and actually keeping it that way so there is never a point in time where I think to myself, darn I have nothing to eat. I think a big part of that is due to the fact I also live with 2 footballers who need to be fed portions bigger then my food intake for a week.
I can’t complain though, because seriously a mum and (in my instance) a dad cooks meal never tasted as good as when I moved away from them. Every time I visit home I am literally smothered in food, roasts, casseroles, Barbeques, big breakfasts and stir-fries…anything and everything.
One thing that I really can’t get my head around is that an alarming number of people have told me in the past few months that they don’t like roasts and hate it when their parents rush to cook it when they visit home. I really can’t think why… as I type I a actually craving a warm roast with gorgeously cooks vege’s and a nice gravy mmm mmm.
Its actually laughable though, as much as I love coming home to the smell of a cooking roast and the excitement about actually getting to eat it, I have never actually cooked one for myself, weird I know! With a Weber outside just waiting to be used, maybe it is time.
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