It all starts with a recipe downloaded off the Internet.
Then there’s the new item on the grocery store shopping list, the big soup pot or fancy barbecue tools you haven’t used in a while, and about an hour of commotion in the kitchen.
Finally everyone takes a seat and out pops a steaming slab of lasagna or some glistening T-bone steaks with fancy side dishes. And as drinks are poured, plates are filled, and everyone starts digging into the meal, somebody lobs up the big question.
“Hey, what do you think this would cost in a restaurant?”
And it’s a great conversation, because now in addition to the feeling of eating good food with friends or family, you get a nice little bonus Cheapskate High, too.
AWESOME!
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My wife and I do this all the freakin time! Especially with seafood. We talk about how the quality of seafood in Atlanta isn’t that great as say buying it at the fresh market. Man…. We save a lot cooking at home.
This reminds me of your writing style…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/dining/26dele.html?8dpc
#886 Bacon?
This is especially cool when your home-cooked food is more delicious than in a restaraunt. There are very, very few restaraunts that I would prefer over my mom’s cooking.
ahaha, very funny post, and so true!
@ Hazard
Bacon should be in the first ones, not so far on the list!
No. I’ve never done this. Please remove this post immediately.
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Not Awesome to me, but only because my dad does this with Every Single Meal that he makes. It is so annoying. But yes it used to be awesome, but now it’s worse than the scratching of a blackboard to me. Ahhh I’m getting mad just thinking about it.
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Oh yes. I have a real weakness for mussels , which cost $5 a kilo at my local fish market. That’s enough for two people to each eat a bowl of mussels bigger than your head. With white wine and leeks, you have basic moulles mariniere, which translated means “$29 for a smaller serve, each, plus tax, plus tip (and you don’t get to finish the bottle of wine used to cook it all in)”. Awesome. Also, gluttonous.
My husband and I both love to cook, we are always saying this, and how true it is. :)
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SEAFOOD!
and when I make spinach, ricotta and feta cheese pie…crazy how we talk about that one…
one spanokapita is about $5 now a days and I can bake enough for 8 people for about twice that!
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