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You don't want to eat out too often, thus, you would have to cook.
Now, winter time, heat is on, keep windows open while cooking and/or after cooking would result in too much electricity consumption -- hate waste.
Turn heat off for a few hours and then turn it back on, not sure if it would consume similar amount of electricity as always leaving heat on. So, this does not seems a viable option.
Preparing cold meal like sandwich, fine for lunch but not good eating cold food all day long.
Warm food without flavor? Man, what sort of food is that? Unimaginable. Feeding pigs? LoL
So, here you see, cooking delicious food with flavor during this time of the year poses the challenge of leaving the home/house smell like a restaurant, and no, I don't want that.
Thus, the IMPOSSIBLE problem!
solution?
Troll posts deserve answers with the same mindset of being mindlessly difficult and obtuse.
Move to Ecuador. IMPOSSIBLE problem SOLVED!!! The solution was so simple that it was staring you in the face!
You don't want to eat out too often, thus, you would have to cook.
Now, winter time, heat is on, keep windows open while cooking and/or after cooking would result in too much electricity consumption -- hate waste.
Turn heat off for a few hours and then turn it back on, not sure if it would consume similar amount of electricity as always leaving heat on. So, this does not seems a viable option.
Preparing cold meal like sandwich, fine for lunch but not good eating cold food all day long.
Warm food without flavor? Man, what sort of food is that? Unimaginable. Feeding pigs? LoL
So, here you see, cooking delicious food with flavor during this time of the year poses the challenge of leaving the home/house smell like a restaurant, and no, I don't want that.
Thus, the IMPOSSIBLE problem!
solution?
Not impossible at all.
Cook in pots with a lid on. Bake using oven. Crack your window open. Turn the vent above your stove on.
Invest in air purifier. This highly rated model is 30% off right now: https://www.amazon.com/AROEVE-Purifi...ref=mp_s_a_1_8
I have closed floor plan in my house. No problem with cooking scents when I close the kitchen door, use the vent and crack open window.
You don't want to eat out too often, thus, you would have to cook.
Now, winter time, heat is on, keep windows open while cooking and/or after cooking would result in too much electricity consumption -- hate waste.
Turn heat off for a few hours and then turn it back on, not sure if it would consume similar amount of electricity as always leaving heat on. So, this does not seems a viable option.
Preparing cold meal like sandwich, fine for lunch but not good eating cold food all day long.
Warm food without flavor? Man, what sort of food is that? Unimaginable. Feeding pigs? LoL
So, here you see, cooking delicious food with flavor during this time of the year poses the challenge of leaving the home/house smell like a restaurant, and no, I don't want that.
Thus, the IMPOSSIBLE problem!
solution?
Solution? Spices.
A thing or two. Growing up, I read this Nat'l Geo article about North Atlantic cod fishermen and on the mother ship, the cook served cod for every meal. The thing was that with different spices and sauces, he made each meal seem different. Secondly,......
I am currently having breakfast, the bean/chicken stew made for the week, over the corn bread made for the week, nuked in the microwave in a big measuring cup, topped with Parmesan cheese. Very delicious, very filling for breakfast.
"Don’t you have a fan over your stove?", I do, fans on while cooking.
"put a bowl of white vinegar on the counter", I do that when the fridge smell weird. Sometimes, I simmer some cinnamon to balance out the smell.
Still not sure why you need the windows open. I love garlic too, so I try to close the windows and trap the wonderful aroma in my house (Near Raleigh, NC, so similar climate to you).
If energy savings is your concern:
use the oven in the winter, capture that heat
use the toaster oven in the summer, don't heat up the house so much
Windows open in spring and fall because "great weather and fresh air"
That would be (and has been) my solution to this "impossible" problem.
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IMPOSSIBLE problem SOLVED!!! The solution was so simple that it was staring you in the face! 
