Mmmmm...an Idea
Last night William had a few people over to discuss some ideas for an association he's trying to get started. I love having people over because that means I get to make food and make others eat it. I made mini wholemeal empanadas and Spanish Patatas Olioli (basically potatoes covered in a delicious garlic flavoured mayonaise). I've never made either of those things before. I sometimes decide to experiment with new dishes at inappropriate moments, such as right before your guests are due to arrive. I don't have much experience making dough. The first time I made dough for a spinach pie I wanted to make the dough refused to stick together and it was just crumbly. Anyhow, the dough for the empanadas from scratch and it came out fantastic.
A concept I've never understood was cooking from scratch. When I moved to the states two years ago, there was all this talk of cooking from scratch. I asked exactly what that was and it turns out that its cooking without preprepared things. Making something from nothing. People seemed so surprised when something was really good and "made from scratch". Like its a superpower or somthing. Is there any other way to cook? Cooking has unfortunately become a lost art in many American families today. Its crazy how many different types of tv dinners and dinners in a bag or box you can find in supermarkets these days. People just don't have time. Somewhere along the line mothers stopped teaching their daughters how to cook. These daughters grow up, get married and then feed their husbands and families charred crap. Yes, I know the demands of having a career, raising a family and taking your kids to a million after school activities just doesn't leave much time or energy to spend an hour or more in the kitchen. So cooking "from scratch" just isn't a realistic option for many people.
Even so, when I had a stinky fulltime office job, I really looked forwards to going home and spending time preparing dinner together with Williaml, cooking solo or having a great meal on the table and ready to eat when William comes home. But that's just me. The day I have to feed my family anything that has come out of a box or a packet, the world will have come to an end.
Has anyone tasted instant rice or mashed potatos???? The stuff is vile.
posted by Dirty Flamingo @ 8:42 pm
4 Comments:
Rice a Roni is quality.. Instant Potatoes blow. I completely agree that there are way to many pre-prepared meals out there.. But as you said no one has time anymore for a "real meal", except possibly on the weekends.
Oh and Bill, would you mind if I proposed to Adrianne? Haha.
Instant potatoes are horrible. I love Rice-A-Roni. Luckily Cristina loves to cook from scratch and she makes me real meals everynight. Tim you are welcomed to come over anytime. Cristina also loves to have people over so she can go to the grocery store and make food for the guests coming over. I think you (Adrianna)and Cristina would have fun cooking together.
By the way Adrianna im an old friend of Bills.
-John O.
I'm glad we all agree that those soap flakes they try to pass off as potatos are gross. Eating instant mashed potatos is actually one of my earliest memories of eating "vegetables". I never wanted to eat them when my mother put that pile of stuff on my plate. My poor mom, she was only trying to help.
Oh and rice a roni does taste good and it does count as food, but the only reason I don't cook it is because the ingredient include quite a few chemicals. If I wanted chemicals, I'd poor clorox in my brown rice. Well, not really. I'd just drink Kool-Aid.
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