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A Cooking Thread?
Aimless:
You can make "curry" quickly, but it's not as yummy. At the very least you should let it rest for a few hours so the flavours can marry properly :o you can also make curry with pre-ground or frozen spice mixes, but, again, it's not as yummy as it is when you prepare the spices yourself eg. by toasting and grinding them at home right before cooking. Still, we must be practical if we want to eat!
Nervioso: flour, pasta, rice, lentils and beans, eggs, chicken, frozen veggies, things in tins, onions, garlic, ginger, spice mixes etc are your friends.
Some people like to plan out a whole week's menu in advance and find that approach easy and cheap. I prefer to drop by the grocery store very often (it's on my way home) and let my meals be determined partly by whatever's good and happens to be on sale. I let myself be inspired by the fickle but ultimately wise gods of the Discount :o
Similarly, some people prefer to do a whole week's worth of cooking all in one go. I find that exhausting and feel like I don't want to waste too much of my weekend leisure time like that, so I cook often during the week and either freeze or remix the leftovers.
Basic formula: buy good food at a discount, cook enough for a few meals, freeze leftovers for those days when you don't have the time or energy to cook, or turn them into stir-fry, fried rice, soups etc.
Stuff like this is a little OTT but still very cool:
http://lifehacker.com/5483388/make-17-meals-from-one-chicken
http://lifehacker.com/5813583/stretch-one-chicken-over-five-days-for-less-than-50
Metope:
My flatmate's family is from Pakistan, and the curries she cooks (her mom's recipes) take hours. You really need to let all the veg, meat and spices simmer for a long time in order to make a super delicious one, it seems.
I'm a lazy and impatient cook, so the food I make take no time at all and is super easy. It never tastes as good as food someone has spent a long time on, but I guess that's all about priorities. I tend to forget food exists until I'm hungry, and then I want is straight away.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Metope on 10 May 2014, 10:17 ---My flatmate's family is from Pakistan, and the curries she cooks (her mom's recipes) take hours.
--- End quote ---
My ex wife is also from Pakistan, and it was her who taught me to make curries. I ain't havin' my curry credentials questioned :parrot:
Also I don't use recipes, I just throw shit in there and see what sticks.
ANYWAY
Point is, I agree that planning a week's menu is a good way to save money, it's what I do. I do a stock-up shop from one supermarket on a monthly basis and buy bits and bobs as the month goes on as needed, otherwise the basics I buy enough to last me the whole month.
Metope:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 10 May 2014, 10:33 ---My ex wife is also from Pakistan, and it was her who taught me to make curries.
--- End quote ---
Maybe she was a shit cook :mrgreen:
(I'm sure she wasn't a shit cook)
Thrillho:
(click to show/hide)Well she was a shit wife, so...
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