Food In The Fort

Okay, that’s probably a gross exaggeration; all right, it’s an outright lie, but sometimes I wonder if I’m just doing it all wrong.  It happens like this:  dinner is either a quick, rushed meal in between work and some other obligation or a more involved affair which I come to with no appetite since I’ve eaten so much of the raw ingredients during prep. I can’t help it; I’m starving after school and it’s impossible not to snack while I cook.

So what’s a girl to do?  I end up liking all the wonderful things that I cook with Leo better the next day as lunch – the pasta with hummus, for example, was an entirely different experience when it wasn’t prefaced by preparation (but it still needed hot sauce).  Should I throw in the towel and only eat leftovers?  If I only eat leftovers, when will I cook them?  They will have to be un-leftovers at some point…so confusing.

Dear reader, please offer your helpful suggestion to a girl in trouble. How do you deal with the dinner time crunch and still enjoy what you’ve cooked?

About the author:  I'm a Latin-teaching foodie who has lived (and eaten) in Fort Wayne for the past 10 years. I love all the ethnic grocery stores here and the great Mexican restaurants. Cooking is something that I really enjoy, although I tend to improvise a lot and experience my share of disasters. My parents are both wonderful cooks, as was my paternal grandmother (Oma), and I'm always trying to make things the way mom, dad or Oma did. Read more from this author