Girl dinners

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Lard Shart said:
Yeah, me too. I was referring to traditional recipes where they expect you to be ready to start preparing hours in advance so it can simmer for 9 hours, which was possible with the now uncommon stay-at-home wife. Most home made meals today fall in the four categories, or a fifth one: goyslop (https://youtu.be/vruA6K4HEY4?t=256).
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Even then that was a bit of meme. Those sorts of dishes were either

1. Special occasions

or

2. Things that can be fired and forgotten, like stews, where you literally just combine the ingredients and occasionally stir it every half hour or so.

"Stay at home" women in "ye olden tymes" had shit to do that did not involve spending hours on end in the kitchen. Breakfast was something boiled and fried, quick. Lunch was bread and cheese, and dinner was a stew if you were lucky. Soup and more bread and cheese if not.
 
Lard Shart said:
Yeah, me too. I was referring to traditional recipes where they expect you to be ready to start preparing hours in advance so it can simmer for 9 hours, which was possible with the now uncommon stay-at-home wife. Most home made meals today fall in the four categories, or a fifth one: goyslop (https://youtu.be/vruA6K4HEY4?t=256).
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This is only true if you use bad cookbooks that are just a mishmash of random recipes from various locations compiled together. A well-written cookbook will have a shopping list at the beginning that has nearly everything you’ll need for most recipes. Some books also have meal planning tips, equipment, etc. It will divide each recipe into stages for what can be prepared in advance and what should be done before serving. It will tell you how to modify the recipe for different ingredients so you can learn one dish and cook a dozen.

For example, four herbs you can use in every meal are thyme, parsley, bay leaves, and tarragon. Sure, you can use other herbs but those four can do a lot of work for you.

And not everything needs to be simmered, although that’s the best way to cook economically. Traditional cooking involves sautéeing, pan-broiling, roasting, etc. These are much shorter than simmering. Your time is also overstated. Nothing needs 9 hours to cook. The longest thing that needs to sit in a pot is stock. A tomato sauce, for example, only needs around three hours to develop fully, but you can get away with less time if you know what you’re doing. The really long recipes are meant for crockpots that can be left alone (not a fan of those however).

I learned to cook from these kinds of cookbooks and now I have nearly everything I like to cook memorized. I can go to the store, pick out fresh, in-season vegetables and the meat on sale and come up with something without needing to consult a book. It’s just experience that people need to push themselves to do. Same as doing anything else around your house.

P.S. all online recipes are terrible. I don’t know what it is about the Internet but it is a terrible place to get recipes.
 
George Lucas said:
P.S. all online recipes are terrible. I don’t know what it is about the Internet but it is a terrible place to get recipes
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What i hate about the internet recipes is the websites they are on require an entire blog post story about the dish requiring you to scroll through no less then a dozen advertisements before you reach the actual recipe at the bottom.
 
mindlessobserver said:
What i hate about the internet recipes is the websites they are on require an entire blog post story about the dish requiring you to scroll through no less then a dozen advertisements before you reach the actual recipe at the bottom.
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I just use my adblocker to manually block everything on the page except the recipe itself, then any time I visit that site from then on there's no more scrolling. But yes, it's extremely annoying.
 
crockpots are GREAT for corned beef
bottle of merlot, a heaping handful of corned beef seasonings, some onions, let that shit go a day
my NYC mother-in-law not only approved of it but even favorably compared it to Katz's

but yeah I do "girl dinner" stuff sometimes, especially if I already made semi-effort leftovers for my wife or otherwise I'm not really feeling actually cooking, so I'll just eat some cheese and gnaw on some cold chicken
 
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