"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:45:44 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"Serene Vannoy" > wrote in message
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>>> On 02/27/2011 06:04 AM, Blockade Runner wrote:
>>>> Does anyone ever follow their menus ? I mean if I bought all the things
>>>> to make meal like they cook I be filing for bankruptcy . + all the
>>>> clean
>>>> up etc.& time.
>>>
>>> No, I don't usually make more than one new recipe at a meal. If the main
>>> dish is something I haven't made before, the sides are likely to be
>>> something I'm really familiar with, and vice versa.
>>>
>>>> Seems like cheaper& lot easier eat out. When I am hyngry I am hungry,
>>>> not 5 hours later , I want to eat now.
>>>
>>> That's a whole other issue. If you know you're cooking something new,
>>> and
>>> dinner is at 7, and it will take hours to cook, you don't wait until
>>> 6:30
>>> when you're hungry for dinner; you start working on it earlier in the
>>> day,
>>> or the day before, if the recipe allows.
>>
>>If I am doing something like lasagna or stuffed shells, I do them the day
>>before. Then all I have to do is pop them in the oven.
>
> That's not a safe food handling practice... once those ingredients are
> mixed it's best to cook that right away... and then refrigerate and
> reheat the next day, or immediately freeze.

Why is it not? They are refrigerated until it's time to bake them. And it
doesn't take me two hours to assemble so they are not left out at an unsafe
temp.