What? You don't usually have 4 different kinds of pasta and 2 different kinds of pizza for 3 people (one being a kid)? Gaobest's house is like a Vegas buffet with all of the choices.

LOL. Like I said, I'm not judging, but I think if I ate like that I'd need a litre of prune juice washed down with some Metamucil just to get the pipes working again.

here�s the picture of the pasta separator - I only need 1, which is good because I can�t fit two in our largest pot for boiling water. Very joyful $40 purchase at restaurant depot - I�ve needed something like this for years!

Apparently my parents were just mean when I was a child.
this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=thai...rs+restaurants

When I was in Thailand I asked at one restaurant for the food to be as spicy as a Thai person would get it. The waitress gave me an amused look and, when they delivered my dinner (I think it was larb actually) the chef poked his head out to see the crazy (or daring) farang. I ate the whole thing, sweating bullets the entire time. At Thai places here I usually get it on a 3-4 out of 5 star spiciness level.

I guess I don't understand the need for making penne, bucatini, and angel hair for one family meal. Plus 2 different pizzas.
Besides....3 different pastas all requiring different cooking times and same with 2 different pizza types.

Man, I hate pictures that are sideways.

yes, because I can. What can�t I do? I can�t get weld. And of course I can�t yet do many things.
Remember, I�m that guy who spent $350 for 10 poker plaques just for the joy of playing poker with friends. Obviously those plaques weren�t necessary.





the Detroit pizza was yummy; the other olive & red onion pizza was yummy. The bucatini was yummy. I don�t want penne or fresh angel hair pasta so I�m better off cooking what I want.
big hint - penne and bucatini can cook same amount of time! I removed them and THEN put in the fresh angel hair pasta :-)


ditto - I input the picture �correctly� and it gets flipped. Ah well.

Same.

?? And I don't even know what poker plaques are or do.
I know that you can...I was just wondering why you did. I have just not ever heard of anyone's nightly dinners within one family all being different--like running a restaurant. Obviously not now but if you go to someone's house for dinner do you all eat the same thing? Or what about when you have company (pre covid) for dinner or lunch...do you fix everyone something different? This is fascinating.
What about on Thanksgiving...does one of you have turkey and someone else has a cheeseburger and someone else have lasagna?

And I thought my thanksgiving dinner menu was a feat... We would usually have turkey, mashed potatoes, two kinds of stuffing, green bean casserole, corn, and then lasagna or eggplant for the vegetarian.

poker plaques are like poker chips - they�re units of value in a casino. When casinos change their designs, their �old� inventory gets destroyed or sold to wholesalers and then people like me eventually buy them online. Most USA gamblers use casino chips but high stakes baccarat will still have $100,000 plaques and then some non-USA casinos use plaques for as low as 5,000 currency units. So if I can pay $35 for a single worthless poker (casino) plaque, then yes I can cook 3 kinds of pasta and 2 kinds of pizza for supper.

for thanksgiving, since we KNOW that travel and a group meal will be ridiculous and unsafe, I will cook thanksgiving and our child will have pasta or a cheeseburger. I�ll probably have both rice and mashed potatoes, a few vegetables, and one or two kinds of cranberry relish. It�ll be yummy. If kipper and her then-husband can cook a turkey dinner, then it�ll be fine for me to make a thanksgiving turkey supper.

Then Mr. Kipper didn't do much of the cooking. While I can understand having multiple entree options at a Thanksgiving dinner with vegetarians and non-vegetarians, I don't understand multiple entree options for a regular dinner each night for those without specific dietary needs.

Of course you can, I'm just curious how you put it all away. I used to cycle 300km-400km/week and would plough through pizza and pasta and would knock off a pack of Tim-Tams every second day, but that's 10-12 hours on a bike every week. If I ate like that now I'd be the size of a house. Are you training for an ironman?

Does your kid only eat cheeseburgers or pasta? No salads or veggies? Maybe you can sneak in some veggies to make those things more nutritious. There are all kinds of cookbooks and recipes that show how to slip spinach or broccoli into ground beef for a burger or even meatballs to go with the pasta.
And I am sure you can make a turkey---do you ever roast a chicken? It will be delicious and your house will smell wonderful.