Guest guest Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 The question of the week [QOTW] for April 1-7, 2007: Have you ever found yourself in a cooking rut, serving and eating the same ol' things over and over? How did you manage to get inspired again? Please share meal planning tips, recipe ideas, or any thing you have found helpful in shaking the food blahs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Get out your favorite cook book and start reading the recipes...don't pick anything with too many ingredients or too much to prepare just something that reads well. Make it and repeat the next day until you have 3 new dishes and then use up the first then the second then the third... Luanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 If I get in a cooking rut its usually because I don't feel well. I am always inspired by groups like this, Food TV and my cookbooks. Easter this year is at my daughters, she is vegan and I want to bring side dishes. This is fun so I am looking through all my resources. I like to bring the usual comfort food and something new. Donna 41' 21 " N 72' 09 " W USDA zone 6 AHS heat zone 4 " If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. " - Albert Einstein On 1 Apr 2007, at 1:34 pm, ~ PT ~ wrote: The question of the week [QOTW] for April 1-7, 2007: Have you ever found yourself in a cooking rut, serving and eating the same ol' things over and over? How did you manage to get inspired again? Please share meal planning tips, recipe ideas, or any thing you have found helpful in shaking the food blahs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 I find that experimenting with ethnic foods to be a great food rut remedy. Go for the sushi, curries, stir-frys with thai peanut sauce, spice it up with mexican, anything but the usual! Eating seasonal fruits and veggies from the farmers market is also a great way to keep variety in the diet. Yea! Spring is here!!! Happy eating folks! Kyra , " ~ PT ~ " <patchouli_troll wrote: > > The question of the week [QOTW] for April 1-7, 2007: > > > Have you ever found yourself in a cooking rut, serving and > eating the same ol' things over and over? How did you manage > to get inspired again? > > Please share meal planning tips, recipe ideas, or any thing > you have found helpful in shaking the food blahs. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 My partner and I got into a rut of eating our same ole fave recipes a while back. We remedied this by starting up our weekly produce delivery service again. This way, we get whatever they've grown and have to find recipes to work around that! We check the website on Friday to see what we'll be getting Monday and spend the weekend looking for recipes and then do our grocery shopping to pick up the other ingredients we'll need. We get an average of 6-7 veggies and 2-3 fruits each week. Cindi See what we've been cookin'! http://cookingwithluinda.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 What usually gets me out of the same old dinner syndrome is my water aerobics class I go to on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have kind of a standing joke in there that we can't leave before we discuss " what's for dinner tonight? " We have several members that always have something great planned, and also tips on how to do it. Not all of it is vegetarian obviously, but I get ideas from what they're doing and adapt them. So that's what gets me out of the rut is talking about it with friends on a regular basis, and using some of their ideas as inspiration. This also means that I try to come up with novel ideas to contribute since I don't want to be a slouch....LOL. Paula , " ~ PT ~ " <patchouli_troll wrote: > > The question of the week [QOTW] for April 1-7, 2007: > > > Have you ever found yourself in a cooking rut, serving and > eating the same ol' things over and over? How did you manage > to get inspired again? > > Please share meal planning tips, recipe ideas, or any thing > you have found helpful in shaking the food blahs. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Using a produce co-op delivery service helps me out, too. I've had to come up with some interesting new things. Thankfully, I read a lot of magazines and websites with recipes, and get at least a handful of new recipes delivered to my inbox every day, so that gives me inspiration right there. My wife and I also live in NYC, with lots of different kinds of food stores. I'll eat anything, as long as it's lacto-vegetarian, and my wife will just eat anything that won't eat her first! Having a sense of adventure and a sense of humor helps a lot. Blessed be, Jayelle " People only protect what they love, but they can love only what they know. " --Jacques-Yves Cousteau http://crackerlilo.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/greeneyedlilo GO SMOKE GO! No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Mail for Mobile. Get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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