So I have this problem… I enjoy cooking and when my grandmother passed away, I inherited her recipe book and her Le Creuset dutch oven.
THEN I discovered I lived a short drive from a Le Creuset outlet store AND they have a mailing list that regularly delivers 30% to 70% off coupon deals.
So I’ll find a pan that makes me go “Oooh!” then I look for excuses to use it.
So it’s not really a lack of motivation, but rather I want people to cook for. Cooking just for me? Incredibly lazy. “More time to make and clean up than eat? I’m not making it.” Cooking for OTHER people?
Chuck roast:
Shakshuka:
Chocolate hazelnut chocolate chip cheesecake:
Beef roast:
Pork loin w/ scalloped potatoes:
Ableskievers:
Holy fuck that chuck roast looks good
I fear you’re living too far away from me to say “I’ll come and eat that!”
Chicken Biryani. I keep getting the ingredients and making simpler things.
Are you me? I keep doing that too
Do you like that? I had it once and, meh, I don’t think I would spend any amount of energy into doing that. It’s not that it was disgusting or anything like it, but it just, yeah, well… maybe it’s not for me.
Beef Wellington
All food is like that to me. I only cook because otherwise I’d die of starvation. I eat to live - food has always just been fuel for me. I don’t want to put any more effort into cooking than what is absolutely necessary. If money was not an issue, then personal chef would be the first person I’d hire. Hell, if it was possible I’d hire someone to eat it for me too.
I feel this so hard. If I could just have a pill that would properly supply my body with all the nutrients and sustenance it needs I would 100% do it and then just eat one or two actual meals a week for the flavours.
I don’t really lack for motivation, I’ll take on some pretty wild culinary adventures, but occasionally I run into things that I just can’t logistically make happen.
For example, nowhere in my house has the right sort of temperature/humidity to cure my own salami and such (I’ve checked,) and I just don’t have the space to squeeze in another fridge with humidity controls and such to make a curing chamber.
I’ve made my own bacon, various kinds of sausages (including smoking my own kielbasa, andouille, and hot dogs) I’ve helped butcher chickens, I’ve made beef Wellington, sushi, I’ve baked bread and cakes in a Dutch oven in a fire pit, I’ve made ice cream, homemade pierogies.
Lasagne. And I hate Mondays.
If it helps, we’ve found cooking the noodles was unnecessary. It holds together better if you don’t.
I just soak the sheets in water whilst making the other elements then construct otherwise I’ve found sometimes you get crunchy lasagne.
That’s never happened to us. Could be our usual sauce is too wet.
Maybe I need more wetness ;p
Skillet lasagna is the answer you seek! Maybe.
Mianjin (seitan) or vegan ramen. Both super time consuming and hard but awesome!
I have the Ladurée macaron cookbook and I look at it frequently, and then go buy a lesser version of the cookie and pretend I’m happy.
mainly foods that have a key ingredient that I would only use for that dish and not very often. an example being something that needs a cup of flour. can’t buy a cup of flour, gotta buy the whole goddamn 3 pounds.
The only reason i do any cooking at all is because it’s too expensive to buy food.
I hate cooking. It takes so much effort.https://www.kitchentreaty.com/40-cloves-of-garlic-soup/
I made it once for Thanksgiving years ago. Everyone loved it. It was a pain. Especially since I didn’t have an immersion blender.
Looks pretty easy, assuming you have the blender. I’m not even sure how you’d make this without a blender of some sort. How did you do it?
Doughnuts. I made doughnuts by hand recently, and kneading the dough. For. 30. Minutes. By. Hand. Fuck, never again. I usually don’t mind kneading dough by hand, but this was the first time I wish I had a mashine for it
Ramen, but it takes so God damn long to make.
Pavlova.
Working in the kitchen requires good coordination and an intuition I will never have in my current setting because it’s not the form of intuition I was raised on. The ability to cook to precision without everything spelled out comes off to me as almost psychic, and I don’t have that. So I will never be making myself my favorite dish.
