I remember how we used to cook back in the flat in Kilbirnie. Lots of dishes based on mince because that was one of the few things we could all agree on eating. You'd always start the same way: oil, garlic and onion in the wok.
Sometimes we'd get flash food like butter chicken or lemon chicken or a roast. Sometimes we'd order pizza or get fish'n'chips. Pretty ordinary flat type food I think except that we hardly ever had vegetables.
I discovered in that flat some fundamentals:
I don't like macaroni cheese. Unless it's macaroni cheese bacon capsicum mushroom sun-dried tomato.
I love potato goo. (Mashed potatoes mixed up with butter mustard cheese bacon capsicum mushroom, etc.)
Butter chicken is better with lots of sauce. Reheated butter chicken is awesome.
You will crave fresh vege if you don't have it for a while.
Some fish'n'chip shops will cover your pineapple fritter with sugar and cinnamon like a donut.
Posted by jenni at March 19, 2004 04:44 PMMan, I think you've lived in some of the same flats as me. The last flat I lived in before leaving NZ was with two boys. We didn't buy vegetables unless they were potatoes. Meat, cheese and potatoes were combined in a variety of ways to created dinner. Every night. I was quite pleased when one of them discovered how to make home-made pizza, but something other than meat and cheese as topping would have been nice. Oh, and boy do you crave green veges when you haven't eaten them in a month!
Posted by: cal at March 21, 2004 07:38 AMOne of my flatmates now seems to exist almost entirely on Hell pizza and Sizzlers. He seems happy enough though.
Posted by: evil house monkey at March 22, 2004 09:26 PM