On 02/28/2011 10:46 AM, Omelet wrote:
> In >,
> Serene > wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Serene
>
> 20 minute recipes are good... :-)

Sure they are. So are recipes that take all day. The trick is to choose
the one that works for you, not whine about the ones that don't. :-)

Serene

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