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My view on food is relatively simple: Life is way too short for boring food. I could not imagine eating the same thing every day. That's not to say I eat a com
by KozmoNau7 8y ago
My view on food is relatively simple: Life is way too short for boring food. I could not imagine eating the same thing every day.
That's not to say I eat a completely new-to-me meal every day. When I was single, I would cook and then eat the same meal 3-4 days in a row, but I would change it up every week.
Now, what we (my girlfriend and I) usually do is cook and bake on Sundays, then freeze about half and eat the rest during the week, interspersed with meals from the freezer, from previous weeks. We like to cook big portions, especially soups, curries, stews and such.
Baking-wise, we prefer to bake sourdough bread or slow-raised bread with minimal yeast. We also make homemade ice cream and bake cakes.
I can understand that some people think it takes way too much time and effort that they would rather spend on other things, but we consider it quality time spent together, doing something we both love to do.
- ASalazarMX 8y ago> Life is way too short for boring food I think it's not that life is way too short, but that you enjoy new food. For me, sometimes the food decision tree feels like too much time lost to food while other more interesting tasks could be done, and then I choose a tuna/chicken salad and get over with it.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoIt's not that I only like new food, I absolutely love comfort food as well. I just love food in general, including good tuna/chicken salad :-)
- SirLuxuryYacht 8y agoJust curious as to why you say bread with 'minimal yeast', particularly after listing sourdough?
- KozmoNau7 8y agoWhat I mean is bread with long rising time, ideally 20-24 hours. The improvement in flavour and structure is well worth it. I rarely use more than ~20g of sourdough or 4-5g of yeast for a full-sized loaf with ~1kg flour. Sometimes a tiny (~0.1g) bit of yeast to help out the sourdough if the current batch is slightly lazy.