Food Culture @ Home

*Since I come from a puerto rican family a lot of people would assume that I eat like a typical puerto rican. On the contrary my mother was born here in the U.S and my grandparents were the last people in my immediate family to come to america from puerto rico. So when I go to my grandmothers house of course there's rice and beans and some kind of meat that is carefully seasoned with sazon or adobo and the perfect amount of sofrito. At home I can actually say that I have adapted some of the typical american food habits. Usually for dinner my mother makes some kind of meat with rice or some kind of side dish like salad or fries or mashed potatoes, etc. I'm the picky eater in my family so I don't eat certain things that my mother or grandmother would cook, such as beans or things like liver. I like white rice and chicken, soups, and the occasional frozen pizza for dinner. A lot of my meals are home cooked and only 1 or 2 days out of the week would a meal be something that I can microwave or just place in the over to cook.
*One thing that I think is so typical american is the scenario that happens when I come home. I work every day and my mother gets home before I do, so as soon as I walk in she screams dinners ready. I of course go and get food and return to my room to eat my meal in front of the televison which I think is one of the most american things to do. When I go to visit my godmother and her kids in minnesota there is actually a TV in the kitchen! In my house I don't have a tv in the kitchen BUT my family never eats on the actual kitchen table. If we ever do eat at a table together its for a special occasion in which we would all sit down at the other table in my living room (both tables hold more mail and magazines and bullshit than it serves its purpose as a table) with the tv off to enjoy a "family dinner."