unhousewife-y, housewife request

[istealcookies]

i can cook...a little. ok, a very little. i'm decent at following recipes and good with spices though! i'm usually too tired when i get home to prepare anything

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[nokungfu]

i recently started eating fish and i love giada's recipes. there's one for steamed fish in a bag that is so easy and DELICIOUS and yesterday i tried her halibut with grapefruit fennel salsa. so good! www.foodtv.com is my go-to resource for recipes.

you put everything in a foil "bag" and bake it:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_36106,00.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_36998,00.html

i want to try these vegetarian recipes next:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_37001,00.htmlhttp://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,

[nokungfu]

also, if and when you do get a microwave, i suggest NOT steaming your veggies in those steamer bags. the microwave totally kills all of the vitamins and nutrients. get a steamer or steamer basket you can put on top of a pot of boiling water instead. plus, don't forget to buy a rice cooker if you like rice! i've started cooking rice and then dividing it into portions and freezing it in tupperware. that way, my rice never goes bad anymore and i always have cooked rice whenever i need it. brown rice takes so damn long to cook and it sucks to have to wait 3 hours to eat it when you're starving.

also, i've started cooking once or twice a week and bringing my lunch to work and have managed to cut my food bill in half! i guess i like to eat out a lot.

[istealcookies]

god i like to eat out a lot too....i think storage is key when you are cooking more if you want to save money. not that i have much experience with it, but when i tried in the past, things would go bad too quickly or before i'd feel like eating them again. so your rice storage sounds like a good plan.

how do you reheat it?

[nokungfu]

in the microwave for about 40 seconds! i keep saying that i'm going to start freezing meals but i am too lazy.

[istealcookies]

awesome, thanks for the links! halibut with grapefruit fennel salsa sounds amazing. were you just vegetarian before or did you eat other meats?

[nokungfu]

i was a vegetarian for about about a year up until about a month ago. i really like fish and seafood. life is so much easier now!

[istealcookies]

yea i can't decide if i want to stop seafood eventually or not. i'm not huge on shellfish but i really like fish here and there....especially sushi.