minestrone soup (so many nice veggies!).bang bang shrimp (ogughfhgfuh I love it.potstickers! (this is a lovely group activity if you want to cook with housemates!).pad thai! (not as hard as you'd think, as long as you have access to tamarind paste!).lasagna! (freezes well and then boom! low energy meal for later).tom kha gai (a thai soup and my absolute favorite! you just need access to galangal).beef tacos (I like mine with cilantro and onion, and when I'm feeling especially high energy I love a tomatillo salsa).chicken and roasted garlic (oh my god.one of my all time favorites).High energy ("I don't mind chopping some things up!") I hate salad but could write essays on this copycat olive garden salad (throw it in a bowl! chopping required if you use onion).fruit smoothie (bananas, frozen strawberries, yogurt.or whatever!).
fried eggs (with toast and lots of butter.so comforting).pancakes or waffles! (I love mine with jam).pan-fried tofu with scallion sauce (this sauce goes well with everything and tofu is no exception).cuban sandwich (bread, swiss, pickle, mustard, ham.pot roast (requires a lot of time but not a lot of actual work.quesadilla (add some canned beans, cilantro, or avocado!).baked potato with toppings (I like cheese, bacon, broccoli, green onion, and sour cream).buttered noodles (take it up to level 10 and add roasted garlic takes 30 mins in an oven, only one swoop of the knife required).boiled eggs and fresh veggies (put a little salt on top of the eggs for pizzaz!).Medium energy ("I'll boil water but don't ask me to chop shit") a "deconstructed sandwich": bites of lunch meat, pickles, cheese, cherry tomato, etc (I love roast beef and white cheddar for this).alternate bites of apple and spoonfulls of peanut butter (mixing honey or chocolate chips to the peanut butter is my favorite).
Low energy ("do not ask me to do any prep work at all, so help me god") Flight used to be fun, an experience, a small luxury. The metal detector at the one in my hometown often wasn’t even turned on.) You could go in and eat with your family while you waited for your flight.Īll of it was true. (And the checkpoint itself was little more than a formality. You know those airport restaurants and gift shops and whatnot? Those used to be BEFORE THE SECURITY CHECKPOINT. Some airports had special passenger lounges where you could sit with people waiting to get on, and very small ones like the one in my hometown might actually let you go all the way through security and up to the gate with your loved one. People sitting together until it was time to get on the plane? Yep.
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(Would have required a small amount of negligence from the gate attendant, but possible.) Scenes of people being served full meals on flights and not paying for them? Of course, that was included in the cost of your ticket, it was a seven-hour flight, why wouldn’t they feed you? People with eight zillion pieces of luggage? That was a lot easier when you got two carry-ons (not “one and a personal item,” TWO CARRY-ONS) and your first two pieces of checked baggage were free. No, you couldn’t go running down the tarmac to your One True Love, but the way Kevin gets on the wrong plane in Home Alone II? Entirely possible. On this one, what you see in the movies is like 99% TRUE. I couldn’t actually go inside, but I did get to look in and see the controls and say hi to the copilot, who gave me a sticker made to look like pilot wings. You know, the place that’s absolutely walled off and locked and even trying to sneak a peek is an actual federal crime these days? My first-ever flight was in 1996 and after the single security guard (not TSA, this guy worked specifically for the airport) waved my grandmother and I through the security gate with no wand, no scanner, and no metal detector, just a cheery “tell your daughter hello from me, Mabel!”-the gate attendant asked if I wanted to meet the pilot because I was seven years old and telling all and sundry it was My Very First Flight. Slightly tighter by the time I was a kid (you certainly couldn’t have bought your ticket in-flight and smoking had been banned), but not by a whole lot. If you’re too young to remember 9/11….yes, it really was like this.
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