Chris Pirillo: Uncle John is not my uncle nor do I believe is he named John. However, he has taken to capturing some of the wacky moments that happen in the live video feed at live.pirillo.com and I don't know what inspired him, but he decided to send off top live tips for cooking as a bachelor, not cooking bachelors, but cooking as a bachelor. He writes, I know how hard it is to cook for just one person and how most bachelors probably are never in the mood to slave away in the kitchen. Here are some tips to making some meals, that will get you through at least a week and believe me I know my audience is full of geeks and I guarantee, a lot of them have likely never even seen a woman in real life.
Number one, cook large meals that make good leftovers. For instance, cook the spaghetti sauce separate from the noodles. The sauce can be reused, and then added in, in order to make other unique meals throughout the week. Like my famous Hoagie spaghetti sauce sandwich with chedder cheese. Oh! now you know you are going to have to share the recipe with us.
Number two, Top Ramen, a Top Ramen by itself isn’t very good, but you can use the noodles instead of buying actual spaghetti noodles to save yourself a few bucks. These are cheap and easy to fix. Their noodles tend to cook a lot faster than actual spaghetti as well.
Number three, slow cookers, yes indeed get yourself a slow cooker that you can cook stews, chili, and other large meals in. This will keep your food warm for a long period of time, and best of all there is “set it and forget it”. Once everything is in the pot, the slow cooker will do the rest, slow cooker is what I meant to say.
Number four, make “TV dinner” style meals that you can freeze and just heat up from any day-to-day. So when you’re not in the mood to cook, all you have to do is microwave and this brings me to getting yourself a vacuum sealer system. These really work and keep your leftovers good for at least a week. I won't trust them any longer than that though, that's true. I as a bachelor my tips -- well I would have recommended Ramen. I would live on cereal, cheese slices or string cheese potentially, toasts and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Sandwiches are usually pretty simple, you can throw anything on it.
Another tip for -- let's say you've got some wacky leftovers, you are like oh! I have got a little of this, I have got a little bit of that, I have got a little bit of this. The best tip is one that Ponzi has been doing for years and she says she has learned that from her father. Throw it all into like a frying pan and then drop some eggs in there, I mean, of course you would want to. Crack the eggs open, you wouldn't want to use the -- he heard me talking about food and he actually thought I was eating, but I am not Wicket, I was just talking. There is nothing here, he is smelling, it's just a piece of paper dude, see, piece of paper.
Anyway, putting the egg in with the leftovers makes for an amazing new meal and I think it's my biggest tip to pass back to both Uncle John and the rest of the community. Those are very simple tips to help make sure that you stay fed at home and saving money at the same time. If anybody else has got any good cooking tips for those of us who can't cook very well or don't care to cook, feel free to pass them along, my email address is chris@pirillo.com and you are also welcome to swing by the website with the chat room and this live video feed. You never really know what's going to happen in the live video feed. We do all sorts of contents on a daily basis and it's largely related to technology stuff, but every once in a while my dog like to get on -- what you are doing dude?
There is nothing on the desk, he is licking my desk. He missed a spot. Yes this is the dog who puked on my MacBook Pro, and so why I allow him on the desk anymore is beyond me. Anyway, you can meet me and Wicket in the rest of the crew including Uncle John, 24 hours a day. Well, we are not always here, but sometimes we are. Seven days a week at live.pirillo.com, we will get you later. I am sorry, did I hit you there?
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