My Evil Twin

Occasionally, my evil twin "Know It All" Kathryn comes to visit.  She arrives with little warning, and (thankfully) usually doesn't stay very long.  With practice, I have learned to live with her and use her to my advantage whenever possible.  Allow me to explain:

 

In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," the speaker comes to a fork in the road and must choose the path he will take.  As he puts it,

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
and be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as long as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;

Now we all, like Frost's traveler, have considered our next steps at more than one of life's crossroads, but "Know It All" Kathryn does not dawdle...she is (sometimes foolishly) confident which is the right way to go.  This is not something I'm proud of...however, when it comes to food, I put her to good use when I can.  This week, as I considered my mission [to learn to make appetizing food that doesn't cost a million dollars and doesn't leave food to rot in my refrigerator], I called upon "Know It All" Kathryn, who replied a little flippantly for my taste:

"Kathryn, there are millions of people who cook food for one person at a time: short order cooks at all night diners, chefs in tall hats at hotel omelet stations, and all those people who eat at those new trendy make-your-own-stir-fry restaurants!"

Yes!  These are paths I need to explore.  But wait!  Those people always have little bowls filled with all sorts of dice vegetables, prepped seafoods, and meats.  In order to make this short order cook technique work for me (without wasting a lot of food), I'm going to have to harness the power of the freezer.