Reflections and Conclusions.

Over the last 30some days, Ive been doing something that I always enjoyed. Cooking. I've worked in many a kitchen but always enjoyed my kitchen over the rest. The only drawback was that at home, I didnt have access to all that fancy commercial kitchen appliances. Salamander grills, flat grills, ROBOT food processors, a crepe station. But working in a restaurant kitchen wore me out. Too much stress, too much caffeine, too many dumb wait staff. I quit doing that line of work years ago and with that, I quit cooking at home. Granted I still had to eat and I sure didnt not have an extravagant budget to eat out every night at my favorite place, Chinese Homestyle Cooking or CHC for short. So I settled for menial but tasty meals, ranging from hamburger helper to hot ham and cheese sandwiches.

In the past month, I went from cooking at home once or twice a week to almost 4 times a week. And not just for myself either. I have roommates now and at some point or another they all tried something I conjured up out on the grill. So far the most popular item was the Boston Butt Roast. Those were what I see as my successes. I did have some failures too. Like the fact that I wanted to cook more things, but one of our bills was an outlandish amount due to the fact that our sub pump was still running like crazy all the time the previous month. Another observation I had the other day is that I only went to CHC a few times last month and did fewer trips to the Wendy's down the street from where I live.

Its been an interesting month. Im sure the neighbors were wondering "why that guy is grilling at night or why is he taking pictures of his food! What kind of crazy person lives next to us and should we be alarmed enough to arm ourselves?" The answers to these questions are as follow: Because I sometimes work in the afternoon, because Im trying to document the cooking process, not crazy but a little unstable at times and no, there is no cause for concern or loaded weapons.

In the end, I realize that food does indeed taste better when its cooked out on the grill, it can be less expensive than eating out on a regular basis and that it can be balanced out evenly with fresh steamed or grilled veggies. Also I think that I may have lost a little weight. Which is always a plus. Ill keep doing this as long as people keep reading it. Remember im always open to suggestions so feel free.
Until next time,
Mahalo.