Chicken/egg

[susandennis]

I hate cooking. I really do. More than 3 ingredients is too many. Stirring, PIA. Preheating oven? no.

I love to eat. And I love to eat what I want to eat. Not some healthy kale-ridden crap for two that the meal services all seem to think that I want to eat.

Every so often I trick myself into thinking I can cook the way I want and produce the foods I want to eat the way I want to cook them -easily no measuring, guessing, using up the stuff in the fridge. My chicken and rice in a crock pot was just such an example. It did not work. Tonight's tuna/chicken noodle casserole is probably going to be the same.

I had a chef once and she made wonderful meals of what I wanted to eat and never once made me eat kale. But, she made my condo stink for days and she was expensive. But man, that was some good eatin'.

oh well.

On the bright side, my little heater is doing exactly what I wanted. It heats up the room nicely and quietly and then I can turn it off and let everything cool down nicely for sleeping. (I need it really pretty cold to enjoy good sleep.)

Comments

[atlantisburning.livejournal.com]

The old me, who didn't know how to cook, would agree with you wholeheartedly on more than 3 ingredients being too much. In my infancy (of cooking), boiled chicken plopped in a box of Kirkland mac and cheese was dinner, and it was delicious.

These days, and for the last 6-7 years, I try to do everything from scratch (some of it is just *too* time consuming or not worth the effort when store bought tastes just as good, for cheaper), and just generally eat how we want to eat and don't make things cause they're trendy, but because we like 'em. I will spend my days off in the kitchen for 3-4 hours playing with a recipe or tinkering with this or that. In the last year or so, I made pasta from scratch, with a from scratch beurre blanc with salmon, and a loaf of French bread. It was probably the most ambitious I've been in a LONG time. It was delicious, and better than anything I could have ever purchased, but damn... there's a reason I have not made it since.

I had considered throwing together a personal chef business to cater to those who are too busy in life to make good food they love themselves, but I realized I'd have to commute to Seattle to really make it and I just wasn't willing to make that trek regularly. I like to visit Seattle for fun. Not work.

[maju01.livejournal.com]

I'm with you in hating to cook. However, I am willing to cook one large dinner meal in the slow cooker once a week so that we can just reheat each evening. Lunches are also batch-prepared.

[jwg.livejournal.com]

Think of cooking to be just like sewing.

You start with a recipe / pattern
You get ingredients eggs, flour, meat, .../ fabric, thread, buttons, etc.
You improvise a bit on the recipe / pattern
You cook it / sew it
You eat it / wear it
You think of some modifications for the next time.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Humans should never be made to eat kale - it is cruel and unusual punishment. Kale is for feeding cattle at the end of winter when all the other feed has gone and a late spring has meant no grass. And then it makes the milk taste horrible.

Really there should be no place for kale on the planet; I'm sure we could use the space for something better.


PS - if you have a fan oven you don't need to pre-heat it. Also - there is a lot to be said for Five ingredient recipes (https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/five-ingredients-or-less).

[susandennis]

I'm with you on kale but we may be a club of two.

I like the idea of 5 ingredient recipes!

[lifeinroseland.livejournal.com]

Sautéing? I have a life. My cooking tends to be, ‘One, two, cheese.’