Work/School/Week night dinners, as you all know, are often my hardest. I know most people feel this way. But one person who was always great at this was my mom. Most of the recipes I share with you guys on Tuesdays are hers. There was nothing better than coming home from rehearsal, or dance class, or studying to a nice home-cooked meal that, thanks to my dad’s high cholesterol, was also always super healthy.
I know a lot of people don’t like fish, but I definitely do. And during any sort of athletic training, I love the light protein and all the health benefits.
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About ten years ago, I worked for a catering company here in Reno that seriously had the most amazing food. Mind you, this was before I actually cooked at all. But they had three dishes that were my absolute favorites, and two were cookies. I loved this cookie so much that I asked the owner for the recipe and I have used it ever since.
I have to say, the Fall is probably the one time a year I actually have an easy time coming up with recipes for “Meatless Mondays.” The harvest is abundant and I love the produce which comes out of it. Tomatoes are no exception. A good tomato can seriously make me fall in love. I had an acquaintance in law school who found out I loved food. He offered me a bag of fresh, home-grown tomatoes from his family’s Napa garden, and I’m not sure I would be exaggerating if I said this was the moment I knew we had to be friends. He brought me so many tomatoes that year I had to make pasta with tomatoes three times just to make sure I didn’t let any of the beautiful, multi-colored fruit go to waste–and that was with eating salads and raw tomatoes almost every day for approximately 2-3 weeks in the interim.
I have to say, I’m sortof impressed with myself that The Hungry Dater already has so many Chicken recipes: i.e. two. There are two. After months of posting, I have two recipes for the most consumed meat produce in America. Hahaha. Here’s the big secret: I don’t like chicken. I think it’s dry and stringy, and honestly, I just feel there are so many better things to eat that I just don’t like it. I think I probably ate so pre-frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts back in college that I got seriously burned out. Not that that’s a good excuse, those are often gross. But also, I don’t make it often because I seem to have a fear of making it incorrectly and getting sick–even after all these years of learning to cook. Hahaha. I’m sure that’s left over from college as well.
Hello! Good morning! Wake up! Caffeeeeeeeeeeine! Ok, so for those of you who know me, you know I don’t partake, so my ridiculous enthusiasm for caffeine is sortof insincere. HOWEVER, just because I consume caffeine regularly does not mean I don’t like coffee. I actually love coffee. I’m not crazy about black coffee, but I’m loving the world of coffee drinks that has cropped up in the last 15 years or so.
I often marvel at how timely life can be. I lead a very busy life, and blogging–at least at this point–is a hobby for me. I love connecting with people through food and dating so I love to write about it. I try and stay on a schedule, but as you all know, I don’t always succeed.
Time-Saving Tuesdays tend to be especially difficult for me. I’m always way more interested in making recipes for you guys than I am in making things for myself, but there’s always the exact same issues in making time-sensitive recipes for you as there are for myself on a normal work day: creating recipes which save time but are still delicious enough to avoid takeout is hard!
Every time I hear the word “Succotash,” admittedly, I don’t think of food…. I think of Looney Tunes. Unfortunately, we’re entering a time when many people don’t even know what that means. If you ask me, the cartoons in our world have taken a serious dive since the days of My Little Pony, Looney Tunes and the Gummy Bears. 
Saturdays on the Hungry Dater tend to be slightly eclectic. But the standard themes of a Saturday night tend to be two things for me: dates and dinner parties. Sometimes they go hand in hand, but always they include some great food.