Cooking at Night.

Oh, I see... I like making extra food because I can freeze the leftovers and not have to cook as often. Just thaw and reheat it. My mom was our cook when I was growing up and now, I'm the cook. (I'm kind of a lazy cook. )

@DaddyEvil As long as you are used to it. My mom never had the time to cook for us. When my grandmother stayed with us, she supervised the cook as my mom preferred her cooking. My grandma and mom were great cooks, but unfortunately my mom just didn't have the time as she was too busy managing her business.

@toniganzon My mom raised 16 kids and didn't have time for a business.

@LindaOHio Pretty eats most of the beef but I like it for a change, too.

Oh, I'm sorry. If you lived closer, I'd cook stuff for you. Do you like Shepherd's Pie?

@DaddyEvil My husband eats a lot of beef. He had a triple bypass and should limit his beef; but he loves beef.

@DaddyEvil I always get up at 5 and the past three morning it was still dark. This is the only thing I miss of summer, the light early in the morning. I open the windows upstairs during the night and downstairs as soon as I get up in the morning. The kitchen does not retain the heat.

To me, 5:30 am IS at night, even though I'm awake most or all night. True, early morning is usually not too warm, but this house retains heat if I cook early in the morning.

@LadyDuck I make sure I get up at 6 am and 6 pm to feed my fishies, whether I'm asleep or awake. (My shark babies trained me well. ) Yeah, I don't like losing part of the daylight already. We don't have crosscurrents in this house. None of the doors or windows align to let a breeze through.

@misunderstood_zombie When we'd been in this house for about a month, the older couple next door stopped by to talk for a little while. The husband asked if we always left lights on in the house all night. His wife tapped his arm and told him she thought Pretty and I stayed awake at night and slept during the day. (She was and is a snooper.) Before I got curtains up on our windows, she'd watch me when I was getting ready for bed... I didn't realize that right away because I don't look out the windows while I'm undressing... At the other house, we weren't close enough to anyone else that they could peek in our windows at night. (We lived in the other house for over 22 years.)

Thank you. If you ever get the chance to come visit, we'll get up in the middle of the night and cook just so you can feel "bad" without doing anything wrong.

@DaddyEvil I know it's weird but somehow I always feel guilty cooking so late. I tell myself I might as well enjoy if I'm going to do it.

Thanks. We both really like it. It's easy to make, it just takes time to get all the ingredients ready. I cook 1/4 lbs ground pork with 3/4 lbs ground beef and one medium onion chopped in a skillet until done, adding some pepper, garlic powder and a sprinkle of salt to it. I drain the liquid off the meat and onions and throw the liquid away. Then put the meat and onions into the bottom of a baking dish. I add diced tomatoes on top of the meat mixture. Then I add a layer of cheese on top of the diced tomatoes. Then, I make a pan of mashed potatoes and spread them on top of the cheese. Add another layer of cheese on top of the mashed potatoes and put the baking dish in the oven at 350F for 30 to 40 minutes. (When you can see the cheese bubbling on top, it's done.) I hope you guys like it as much as we do. (I think it's too much veggies for Sam, though... )

@luisga814 I told Sam that if we could ship some of the Shepherd's Pie to your family without it going bad, I'd do it... But you're just too far away for me to be able to get it there fast enough. When Pretty was in college, sometimes I'd send her fresh homemade rolls through the mail and they arrived the next day, so they were still good. I even packed some meals with ice and shipped them to her and there was still ice in the box when she got it.

@DaddyEvil Wow. This is a great ingredients. Let me take a look if I can prepare the ingredients and once I have the budget, I'll ask Sam to prepare it.

Thank you. I usually cook way too much for us to eat in one meal. I like to freeze the leftovers in single serving freezer bags so we can pick and choose what we want to eat without cooking again. About half of my freezer is saved for these leftovers.

@Greencindere I started cooking when I was 13. There was only mom, my youngest brother and I still living at home. The rest of my siblings had gotten married and moved out. Mom could only cook for large groups of people so, unless we wanted to eat the same thing for a week, I had to start cooking. When I got married, I still did all the cooking. My first wife hated to cook and my second wife didn't know how. I've taught Pretty how to cook but we usually share cooking chores now.

@DaddyEvil I used to do that. The horror on my grandmother’s face lol. She also doesn’t eat leftovers and cooks everyday but mom is like me so the idea of cooking everyday is not foreign to me lol. I think once the kids come and we get busier my husband will realize it’s not sustainable. While it’s just the two of us we always have fun with it.

@DaddyEvil oh wow why do you sleep during the day? I assume when you worked you worked days so is this more recent you started sleeping during the day?

@shaggin Because I worked nights most of my life and preferred that to working days. Now that I'm not working, I can actually choose when I'm awake and when I'm asleep. (When I had full custody of Pretty, the judge made me work days so I was home when she was home. When she graduated from High School, I went back to working nights.)

Oh, wow! I'm up that late cooking because I sleep during the daytime and am awake at night. I usually eat something around 7 or 8 am before I go to sleep. Then, I wake up around 11 am to go pee and might eat something then but usually go back to sleep around 2 pm and wake up again around 6 pm and eat something then and call that my "lunch". Then I cook again at night, between midnight and 3 am for our "supper".

@DaddyEvil and I am sleeping by 10--but the first light in the morning always wakes me up--so I am up before 6 most mornings--

@DaddyEvil Ah--my husband is a night owl, so he would agree that night is a perfect time to cook--but he is usually playing scrabble on his computer till well after midnight--

@divalounger I'm normally playing on myLot, playing solitaire or watching YT movies.

@DaddyEvil I know you're a night owl.

@sjvg1976 I always have been, even when I was a kid. (Mom used to call nights we stayed awake reading "white nights". I inherited that from her. Lots of times she stayed awake all night reading, too.

Yeah, I know... But I'm up all night and sleep during our daytime.

@DaddyEvil Got it. So you are on your usual schedule, awake at night. It's almost 1 am there? I just woke up because I feel hungry. Haven't had my breakfast when I went to sleep at 10 Am.

@jobelbojel Yes, my normal schedule. And yes, it's 12:47 am now. I always eat something right before going to sleep and then again when I wake up in the late afternoon.

Thank you. Cooking in the middle of my night is normal for me because I stay awake at night and sleep during the daytime. My mom used to do it and Pretty also cooks during the night. All three of us are/were what is considered "night owls" here.

@DaddyEvil Does that mean that you eat just 2 meals a day or are you also taking a mid day meal, during your daytime?

@Juliaacv I usually only eat twice a day. The exceptions to that are on days when Pretty or I have doctor appointments and I eat a snack when she eats lunch.

I'm normally awake all night and sleep during the day. It's just as easy to cook then as to wake up and cook when we get hungry. (I eat breakfast before I go to sleep in the morning and supper when I wake up in the evening.)

I understand. But I'm awake during the night and sleep during the daytime. I always tell Pretty that we're both growing kids, so need to keep up our strength.

@RubyHawk If I could figure out how to get the doctors' offices to stop "reminding" me of visits three or four times before we need to be there, I'd sleep a lot better. I keep blocking their numbers but they just use a different line to call from.

@DaddyEvil Night or day I don’t suppose it matters as long as we get enough sleep. I’m not a good sleeper so I never get enough.

I like to cook and I often do dishes and clean the kitchen while I'm cooking at night.

@Nevena83 Oh, I see... I've been cooking since I was 13 and took over cooking for the family. I enjoy experimenting and some of our favorite dinners are things I made when experimenting.

@DaddyEvil Oh, I hate cooking, even when I have to, it's hard for me.

If some of the food could make the trip to your house from me, I'd send it so you and your family could try it. You'll get used to me showing the foods I make or Pretty and I make. I talk about them a lot.

@DevMrSamEleazar That just means you'll know you're going to get good foods if you ever get rich and come visit me.

@DaddyEvil Yea yea but the one you really cook is not gonna reach here that is hot and good. But yea thanks for that. yea yea In fact it is already 4 that I already saw

@DaddyEvil ........If I were still cooking that is what I would do.

@celticeagle I understand. Getting older sucks.

Yeah, I understand. I always cook more during cooler weather and freeze most of what I cook so we have things that just need to be microwaved to eat. We normally eat a lot more fruits and sandwiches in the summer.

@DaddyEvil Oh you are too sweet . But I still want my sleep ! Ah, then I see why it makes sense to cook there at night. Do you ever do any bbq-ing outside? My neighbors do it like twice a week around 10am . . . but I hate it because then I have to shut the windows at that time because of their smoke. Those freezer meals sure come in handy! But sometimes it all gets gobbled up before you can put it away in the freezer .

@much2say Years ago I gave away our barbecue grill. Every time I used it I burned myself. We love barbecue but I don't love it that much. Now, if we want barbecue, I put the meat in a disposable aluminum pan, dump a few bottles of barbecue sauce in the pan and stick it in the oven. True. That's what's happening with the shepherd's pie. It's almost all gone already.

I know you're always beautiful, so don't need "beauty sleep"! Who're you trying to fool? This house is set up wrong. There's no breezeway to help cool the house down so doing any cooking during the day makes the house hot and keeps it hot if we don't run the A/C. (There's no vent over our stove, either. In the last house we had an attic fan that we could use to draw heat out of the house.) Yeah, lots of leftovers to freeze and have when we don't feel like cooking!

@DaddyEvil Nah just a lot of annoyed nurses as we had to evacuate the building.

Thank you. Oh, wow! I hope nobody got hurt! I'm always awake at night and sleep during the daytime. (I'm usually on myLot all night. )

@flapiz Well, that part is good, even if everyone did have to evacuate. That's better than being burned up!

Thank you. Well, I'm mostly up at night and sleeping during the day. For some reason Pretty gets upset if I'm cooking and fall asleep. I totally understand. We bought a bunch of stuff at the store that is microwavable this time that we don't normally buy.

@paigea We're under a heat advisory again until next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. (We might get rain again then.) It stayed cloudy here most of the day but still reached a high of 98F [36.6C]

@DaddyEvil one day, I used the slow cooker outside so it wouldn't add heat. This morning, we needed the fire on to keep warm, the next few days we'll be wishing we stored up the cold!

Thank you. It's a favorite dish with us.

@everwonderwhy Yeah, I agree. I've passed the recipe along to a lot of friends and they tend to make it a lot, too.

@DaddyEvil Shepherds pie is always a family's favorite dish.

@BabeSays Yes, it is kind of like lasagna. I make that once in a while, too. YUMM! Oh, that's too bad. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have an oven. I cook a lot of our foods in the oven. Your hubby is too nice to you.

Thank you. It is ground beef and ground pork fried with onions and drained. Then the meat is placed in a baking dish. I put diced tomatoes over the meat in the pan, then added cheese over that. I made mashed potatoes and spread them over the cheese and put more cheese over the potatoes and baked it for half an hour. We really like it. Your hubby sounds just like me. I cook at night all the time.

@DaddyEvil Sounds good. This dish kinda of reminds me of lasagna we don’t have an oven otherwise I’d love to try this recipe out. Here we mostly only have and use gas cooker. So all our meal are cooked not baked. About a year ago my husband and I did planned to get an oven but this pandemic messed up our whole budget, so we has to drop the idea. Oh yes he loves cooking but only night time. Day time he would work and come home and chill but night time is when he starts cooking anything he wants to eat. (Best part is if I want to eat something he will cook that for me too)