I batch cook things like curry, chili, bolognaise, stews…but that’s weekday meals. It means we don’t spend extortionate amounts on Deliveroo and Birds Eye sponsored crap. I spend time at the weekend on cooking yummy things. The kitchen is my happy place. Mr D v much benefits from this.
Yes can do more than follow a recipe and adapting one you already have is a place to start. I do batch cook sometimes. Travel a bit with work so it is nice to have something in the freezer sitting there when I get back
Gradually moving from following recipes, apart from to recreate particular asian dishes or that involve baking. I am gradually realising mostly they are emperors new clothes, just some ingredients chucked together that I can do myself with what is in the fridge/cupboard. That book about fat and salt and acid helped with this.
Regularly make stuff up as I go along just based on what I think would be good together.
Tried batch cooking but I'd forget to get stuff out to defrost and would end up buying something else then eventually chucking stuff that had been in the freezer for ages. Easier to just buy what I need most evenings.
ExProsecutor reminds me of a recently widowed lady who as given a book called Cooking For One Is Fun by a friend who was trying to be helpful. It made her so angry she amended the front cover to change Fun into a profanity and add bore. Some months later her friend came round asked to the borrow the book as she liked the look of one of the recipes...
ExProsecutor reminds me of a recently widowed lady who as given a book called Cooking For One Is Fun by a friend who was trying to be helpful. It made her so angry she amended the front cover to change Fun into a profanity and add bore. Some months later her friend came round asked to the borrow the book as she liked the look of one of the recipes...
I have a shelf in the fridge for ice cubes and I can fit a bag of frozen peas in there too. When I had a freezer that was all it ever contained, so I never bothered to get one in this house.
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Unfortunately my fussy family refuses to eat anything that was cooked more that 24 hours ago so our kitchen sees a lot of daily action.
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Uh oh. He's gone off-piste again.
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I'm not a creative cook so am useless without a recipe.
No, I don't batch cook, I have an aversion to leftovers. That includes cold pizza or when I roast a chicken and it goes cold.
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I batch cook things like curry, chili, bolognaise, stews…but that’s weekday meals. It means we don’t spend extortionate amounts on Deliveroo and Birds Eye sponsored crap. I spend time at the weekend on cooking yummy things. The kitchen is my happy place. Mr D v much benefits from this.
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I don’t batch cook, but I do over-cater which means:
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Yes can do more than follow a recipe and adapting one you already have is a place to start. I do batch cook sometimes. Travel a bit with work so it is nice to have something in the freezer sitting there when I get back
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Gradually moving from following recipes, apart from to recreate particular asian dishes or that involve baking. I am gradually realising mostly they are emperors new clothes, just some ingredients chucked together that I can do myself with what is in the fridge/cupboard. That book about fat and salt and acid helped with this.
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Regularly make stuff up as I go along just based on what I think would be good together.
Tried batch cooking but I'd forget to get stuff out to defrost and would end up buying something else then eventually chucking stuff that had been in the freezer for ages. Easier to just buy what I need most evenings.
ExProsecutor reminds me of a recently widowed lady who as given a book called Cooking For One Is Fun by a friend who was trying to be helpful. It made her so angry she amended the front cover to change Fun into a profanity and add bore. Some months later her friend came round asked to the borrow the book as she liked the look of one of the recipes...
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Stews, cuzza, lasagne, fish pies all get batch cooked.
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Yes, I use recipes for inspiration but I rarely follow them directly.
I never batch cook, I don't own a freezer.
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I do think I've ever 100% followed a recipe.
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ExProsecutor reminds me of a recently widowed lady who as given a book called Cooking For One Is Fun by a friend who was trying to be helpful. It made her so angry she amended the front cover to change Fun into a profanity and add bore. Some months later her friend came round asked to the borrow the book as she liked the look of one of the recipes...
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Inside, I am this.
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Yes and yes.
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Like sails i batch cook and either forget or lose interest.
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"Batch cook" just sounds wrong ffs. Portion likewise
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"Portion" is a word I'd only use in the "I'd give her a portion" context.
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How can you not own a freezer?!?!
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I have a shelf in the fridge for ice cubes and I can fit a bag of frozen peas in there too. When I had a freezer that was all it ever contained, so I never bothered to get one in this house.
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