Re: your cooking personality (not a test)

Dee Randall wrote:

"Michael Siemon" <mlsiemon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mlsiemon-15EE25.23230629042006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In article <44545522.22F0@xxxxxxxxx>, bulka <mfbulka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Tonight I talked to a profesional baker (just a random social thing),
and I came home thinking about cooking styles.

I enjoy chopping stuff, and frying and grilling, and adding things to
simmering sauces - things that might be characterized as "active".

I seldom bake or roast or do my mother's casseroles - things where you
do the work and eat an hour or two later - whatever comes out of the
oven.

As close as I come is rice or soup or the winter crock pot season.

Enough about me. My point is - as a half-assed socialogical survey -
are you an active top, or a passive bottom? (I know, I know; Please
don't make the obvious jokes. Until I typed this, I thought I was
asking a serious question. Sheldon - talk about how you use your stove,
or shut up)

Or are there another options?

I guess I swing both ways :-). I like the active prep and making
a meal come together with all components reaching completion as
needed for an enjoyable meal. But that often includes a largish
amount of inactive time when I can go and do something else (like
waste time on the net...)


I prefer getting a meal together in stages throughout the day; I don't like meals where you have to make things come together all at the same time. When I cook that sort of meal, DH always is always working alongside me (working together).

The best sort of meal for me is when I have two things left over, and add two new things to it. This is why I prefer Indian cooking.

I also prefer putting meals together in stages. Breaking cooking down into various steps makes it possible for me to assemble better (imo) meals and a wider variety than I would be able to do if I were forced to set aside a single block of time for meal prep.

Last summer my 10 yr old son flew out to Phoenix to visit my parents and my sister. After a couple days my mother (an extremely reluctant cook) called to ask why the boy was bugging her about supper at breakfast time. I explained to her that first thing in the morning I'm not only fixing breakfast, I'm also packing the kids' lunches and usually starting dinner as well - maybe getting meat from the freezer, putting stuff into the slow cooker or starting a sauce or a salad. "What's for dinner?" is perfectly legitimate breakfast conversation in our household.

Kathleen

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