Cooking dinners

[munmun]

Originally Posted by klr15

I love cooking food from scratch, but hate cooking frozen food, I don’t know how people find frozen food easy, I hate it! So much easier to cook a chilli or a curry from scratch!

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I agree I love to cook from scratch I also hate receipes, once you know some basic receipes you can make anything.

I have a great double range oven here after moving house and leaving perfect aga range cooker behind one problem is that numbers on the knobs are non- existent so everything is guess work.

It's fine, it usually works out

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Eeyore rocks

A lot of people enjoy cooking... it relaxes them... I’m NOT one of them people...I loathe it... my husband can only eat chicken or fish.. the only fish I eat is fish fingers! Trying to do different stuff is really hard...I do spag Bol for him using vegetarian mince...but I can’t stand it... I do end up with a takeaway.

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We have started replacing beef mince with either turkey or pork mince. I prefer it now. I would love to eat fish every night but DSs and DH don't like/want it.

[tspill]

Since retiring I now do pretty much all the cooking. I have always enjoyed it but had limited time.
Personally I never put two ovens on for two things - I just put it in at 190 and it is always fine. Maybe sometimes something needs a few mins more - I just leave it in while serving the rest.

[Eeyore rocks]

Originally Posted by aitchieaitchie

We have started replacing beef mince with either turkey or pork mince. I prefer it now. I would love to eat fish every night but DSs and DH don't like/want it.

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You used to be able to get chicken mince, but not any more...I get a tray of chicken breasts from Costco, and mince them from my kitchen aid.

[olgaandcoda]

Another way is to batch cook and freeze, or just cook double portion and freeze for another day. I like to cook mostly from scratch, but buy meat pies and quiches. Meat pies take about 40 mins, I nuke mine in the microwave to make sure they are piping hot. Or cut in half and rotate the inside to the outside. My husband would eat fish fingers any day of the week! And wont eat mince, so slag bol and chilli are out! I do a mean curry and also biriani. Biriani tastes better next day and I do two big bowls of it.
Check out recipes online, put in an ingredient you have and get inspired.
Also get a slow cooker for stews etc. Pop it all in and come home to a lovely hot meal. Little effort required.

[Bellasmummy]

I’m loving my slow cooker atm as I find that’s much easier and as I prep it in the morning I don’t really have to think too much in the evening when I really am not in the mood to cook.

I only use easy recipes that take a few minutes to prep so I spend very little time on dinners.

Sometimes I have a mad moment and forget I don’t like cooking and will spend ages on something that then seems so disappointing when I eat it. Really I think I enjoy every meal more if I didn’t have a hand in preparing it 👍

[ROBBOTOO]

I don’t mind cooking and do some things from scratch, but DH loves cooking, so he actually does more than me.

But we’re both also happy to do easy ready prepared meals too.

We also mix and match so bit cook from scratch, bit ready done! Ie make a lovely shepherds pie, but buy pre-done mash.

We’d both use frozen or ready made chips if it suits what we are
doing, but often find their cooking instructions can be out, or the cooking instructions for something else can be. If the chips are doing quicker than something else we just take them out and put them back in for a while near the end to warm them/crisp them up again!

[janjan]

Invest in a slow cooker, go onto utube and watch some dump and go videos for inspiration. Makes life so much easier for me.

[ClaireNJ]

Made a Chilli tonight from scratch😳Tesco recipe, Hubbie didn’t like it, bland & bit watery ,moaned as it had oxo cube in, said it tasted just like mincemeat
Had a google & he wants to try Lloyd Grosman Chilli, he’s so fussy, I like the new recipe

[JLH]

I don’t like cooking but since doing much longer shifts I use the slow cooker more plus simply cook as I can pick recipes that don’t take too long. The instructions are so simple it’s hard to go wrong - I had a day off yesterday so cooked a roast for 7 - took so much effort time and mess plus the beef wasn’t cheap I wished I had got takeaway instead !