I actually cooked three hot meals for myself yesterday and didn’t use the microwave once. I can’t remember the last time that happened
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Ooooh, lasagna!! If you're interested I'll send you another recipe, which involves making your own sauce (not much more work, honest) and only 45 minutes in the oven once you assemble it.
*considers inviting some people over for dinner so I can make lasagna...*
It may be quite a while before I'm moved to make lasagna again. I think eating it for a solid week will probably take care of this craving for a while. *Urp* Despite my plan to put this into the "try again" category, I'm not sure yet if this attempt to cook more for myself will take hold. I've tried cooking from scratch before and fallen back on soup and Lean Cuisine. One gets so tired of finding recipes that serve 6-8 and having to eat the same thing for a week. And spending a lot of time to cook something that you only get two servings out of seems like a lot of work. I need more small, easy recipes.
And by all means, have people over and make lasagna!
The alternative to eating the same thing for a week is to make big recipes and put stuff in the freezer in one-person containers -- then you can just nuke things of an evening. Cheaper than lean cuisine and better ... ;-) I usually have a bunch of stuff on hand like spaghetti sauce, curry, mushroom chicken, lamb stew; great when you don't have time or are too lazy to cook. But, eh -- we each find what works for us!
Not being able to each much processed food (corn syrup allergy) over the past decade has led to two major realizations: 1. Cake mixes are crap and taste bad 2. It's actually just as easy to bake from scratch and the outcome is always scads better.
Even when I seriously fuck up a recipe it still tastes better from scratch somehow. I have three Martha Stewart baking-specific cookbooks (Cookies, Pies, and Cupcakes which I often ramp up to cakes) that are pretty much foolproof - I'm nearly positive there's a pumpkin cake recipe, do you want it? Or has that train already left the station now that you've done one set?
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*considers inviting some people over for dinner so I can make lasagna...*
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And by all means, have people over and make lasagna!
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1. Cake mixes are crap and taste bad
2. It's actually just as easy to bake from scratch and the outcome is always scads better.
Even when I seriously fuck up a recipe it still tastes better from scratch somehow. I have three Martha Stewart baking-specific cookbooks (Cookies, Pies, and Cupcakes which I often ramp up to cakes) that are pretty much foolproof - I'm nearly positive there's a pumpkin cake recipe, do you want it? Or has that train already left the station now that you've done one set?
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