Flame Free Confession III: Even More Flame Free (Part 2)

@tlgains - I do tuna (drain it!), mayo, and chopped up celery and pickles. I love it.

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Happy Birthday!!!

Thanks, man. 22. I’m getting old.

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French cuisine wouldn’t permit it.

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Problem solved. For realsies.

Confession: I’m the self-appointed billy goat in the house and, when looking for leftovers in the fridge, I don’t go by what I feel like eating. I go for whatever was made longest ago, so it’s either I eat it or it gets thrown out.

Pork stir fry hidden in the fridge since last Sunday? Okee doke. 12-day old chicken chili? Nuke it for a couple minutes, hit the Frank’s Red Hot, and I’m good to go.

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I do exactly this AND cross reference cost.

Leftover $5 Costco chicken that’s 8 days old vs leftover piedmontese beef broccoli that’s 5 days old? Sorry chicken: you had your chance.

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With beef, there’s nothing a little balsamic vinegar and/or chili powder can’t fix.

Sour cream is my universal solvent.

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That is a good one. I’ve taken to mixing my own little batches of dips with sour cream as the base. A little onion powder, some ground horse radish…

That fixes just about anything.

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MUSTARD!!!

It’s been around 2 months since I arrived and I’m on my 4th bottle of mustard

When you mention mustard it reminds me of this video

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It only took about a month into freshman year before people at the dining hall started reserving a bottle of mustard for me

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The dinning hall staff would, no joke, save bacon for me on Sunday brunch. I actually have photos of me with them as I was graduating. They took me on like a second son.

And they even adapted to my low-carb insanity. Burger day, they’d get me my 3 patties with no bun. Sandwich day was like a meat and cheese platter.

Oh I miss college

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Dining room people are something special. If the meal plans weren’t so overpriced and I didn’t like cooking so much, I’d definitely be on one if only to talk to the staff

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The meal plans at my school are overpriced too. Also, It doesn’t really allow me to have control over my schedule.

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they all are. It’s one of the main ways schools make profit

I didn’t learn how to cool until I was 22. I lived at home, then went to college with a dinning hall, then got married out of college. Then, one day, at age 22, my wife went to her cousin’s for a wedding and I realized…I only knew how to make tacos.

After 3 days of tacos (3 AMAZING days), I had my wife teach me how to work a slow cooker.

But I SO miss the college dinning hall. It was a blessing while running Super Squats.

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I’d been broiling a pack of chicken drumsticks for brunch every day last week.
Absolute heavan

Before that, it was salt water poached chicken thighs (one of my favourite dishes)

I eat basically the same stuff every day, but honestly, it’s amazing

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And parking. Few people at my alma mater had a car, but most students where I currently work do. Parking passes are, like, $1k per year.

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