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#1) Given a choice, and imagining that money and time were no object, would you rather cook dinner, eat out or order in?

- Depends on who I'm eating with. If it's <6 folks, going out or ordering delivery. For bigger bunches, I enjoy holding court at the grill (as anyone who's been to the festivities at GMBAN can attest).

#2) What is the most elaborate meal you've ever prepared yourself or purchased at a restaurant?

- There's a fancy French restaurant in Aruba that does the whole "nine billion courses, dinner takes three hours" presentation.

- As far as stuff I've prepared/helped prepare, pretty much everything comes in a distant second to an epic dry rub that occurred at mighty_man's house that was so good, the frozen leftovers were still delicious months later.

#3) What food do you find yourself making and/or eating way too much?

- Back in the day, this would have been easy to answer - ramen noodles, and Hungry Man turkey dinners. These days, I'm much more varied, but have no qualms with having grilled cheese sandwiches and grilled chicken breast every night.

#4) What was your most disastrous cooking/eating out experience?

- I got a wicked case of food poisoning, possibly even salmonella, from some chicken wings at Hooters in Fairfax.... then, three hours later, drove to Richmond to visit timly and ruhiel, and, rather than be able to enjoy the things we'd planned to do, I spent the entire weekend dead on their couch.

#5) Would you rather cook for someone else or have them cook for you?

- I think that if you can make a meal where you both cook for each other (such as, say, grilled meat with a side dish and dessert), that's the best option. Besides, I drive aishlynn bugfuck nuts with my insistence on wanting to help, because she enjoys cooking for me, and I feel guilty about it. I usually get to help with menial prep work or stirring something, as long as I'm out of her way. Heh.

Comments

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

#2: just to clarify, it was a 10lb boneless prime rib roast with a Texas Dry Rub on it. That was circa summer of 99 or 00.

#3: What about M&Ms and Cool Ranch Doritos back in the day?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

2. It was still damn tasty.

3. Good point. However, since those don't really require preparation (other than opening the bag), I omitted them.

[megiddo-lj.livejournal.com]

mmm...Cool Ranch Doritos

Those + Sunkist = perfect Sil hangover food