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Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by SergeAx »

Eisenstein wrote: post #82
Scoundreller wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, my “dream” kitchen that I’ll never have would have those instead of a range. And maybe a big slow cooker that could do a turkey. Edit: oh yeah, add an air fryer and bread machine. And kettle obvs. Preheats water for a pasta pot faster than the stove. Immersion >> conduction heating. The amount spent on a range buys a lot of gadgets. Not even wiring one up saves a circuit and dedicated run. I couldn’t live witho…

How many people are you cooking for? I find that a dishwasher when only used for one or two people is more of a nuisance than washing dishes as they are used, mostly because you have to basically use all of your dishes before running it.

You cannot achieve a dishwasher quality with your hands only. Partially because of the temperature, partially because of chemicals. I will never even try to wash wine glasses by hands.

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by gcr »

Ekaros wrote: post #104
random_upvoter wrote: post #100

Any non-wealthy single person faces an uphill battle to both 1. earn a living 2. take proper care of themselves. In the Middle Ages people invented a rather neat solution for this problem: go live together in a big building, work together, pray together, cook together and call it a monastery.

Then guilt trip others to donate to you money and their inheritance and end up filthy rich... Still doing the same... Kinda weird end result... Who did profit anyway, apart from upper management.

You might be confusing "monastery" with "church."

EDIT: damn, I stand corrected!

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by thegabriele »

ehPReth wrote: post #18

I wish I could just take one pill a day (or three) for nutrition (and satiating hunger) and not have to eat meals at all. That would be amazing, not to have to deal with food. Buying, preparing, ordering, over eating.

Yep, i would do it 5/7 and having normal food as a ceremony the other two days.

Still, don't forget that chewing is important for your general health

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by madmax108 »

coolvision wrote: post #52

My food for when I can't be bothered is pasta with canned pesto sauce (+optional parmesan). Can eat it every day. Another a bit more involved option is pasta with checkpeas: https://www.seriouseats.com/pasta-e-ceci-pasta-with-chickpea... What's yours go-to recipes?

Aglio e Olio - Literally takes 4 ingredients, and (Italians will hate me for this) can be spruced up easily with other stuff available in your pantry, be it chopped up chinese sausages, peppers, olives, shrimp, or leafy greens.

Moroccan Shakshuka - Eggs, Tomatoes, Peppers, Spices - Slowcook and lap up with a nice piece of bread. What's not to like? Again, very easy to spruce up to ensure you don't feel like you're eating the same meal everyday

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by gcr »

maccard wrote: post #109
coolvision wrote: post #52

My food for when I can't be bothered is pasta with canned pesto sauce (+optional parmesan). Can eat it every day. Another a bit more involved option is pasta with checkpeas: https://www.seriouseats.com/pasta-e-ceci-pasta-with-chickpea... What's yours go-to recipes?

We meal plan every week, but when I'm feeling less bothered I lean on a few dishes. They're not quite as simple as pasta plus jarred sauce, but from practice I can go from knife to table in 30 minutes, with basically no dishes. [0] https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021485-one-pan-orzo-wit... [1] https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020291-vegetarian-mushr...

These links are paywalled, "This is a subscriber-only recipe."

For curious folks, the URL says they are one-pan orzo with spinach and feta, and vegetarian mushroom shawarma pitas.

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by SergeAx »

ehPReth wrote: post #18

I wish I could just take one pill a day (or three) for nutrition (and satiating hunger) and not have to eat meals at all. That would be amazing, not to have to deal with food. Buying, preparing, ordering, over eating.

You will miss a lot of sensory sensations with that. You may treat your body as a brain-riding bipedal machine, but it is not a healthy approach.

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by Ekaros »

gcr wrote: post #122
Ekaros wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then guilt trip others to donate to you money and their inheritance and end up filthy rich... Still doing the same... Kinda weird end result... Who did profit anyway, apart from upper management.

You might be confusing "monastery" with "church." EDIT: damn, I stand corrected!

Not really, quite many monasteries themselves ended up very wealthy. Though they could have acted as proxies by churches. But did not mean they did not hold land what was the wealth back then. And did not have to divide it as inheritance had to.

Re: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by BlargMcLarg »

collaborative wrote: post #108

Healthy meals take 2 hours to cook but can be consumed during multiple days As a starter, one must at least eliminate all candy, sugary products, and bad oils. I look around and see no hope for society. Even "healthy meals" are just a substitute for rich, once-a-week-at-most recipes In Spanish, the centuries-old idiom says it best: mesa pobre, mesa sana (a poor table is a healthy table). But people find that too _bor…

2 hours? It takes a few minutes to bake most lean meats and eggs. Potatoes aren't too difficult to cut and cook. Same for rice. Many vegetables can be eaten raw. All of it can be done in parallel. Who are you talking about in this, a family of 5 using blunt knives?

Even many confection recipes don't take more than 90 minutes, and those are known to take ages (and aren't in any way 'healthy').

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