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> I dread even eating out anymore as I fully expect to overpay for bad food and service. I don't know if HN is the place to say this. But, it's just infinitely
by goku12 11mo ago
> I dread even eating out anymore as I fully expect to overpay for bad food and service.
I don't know if HN is the place to say this. But, it's just infinitely better these days to cook your own meals. With some modest initial investment and planning, you can minimize the average time and cost of doing it, while still having access to a reasonaly healthy and delicious menu, though slightly repetitive. But if you really want to indulge, setting aside a couple of hours will give you dishes that taste way beyond anything you can afford from outside.
Some people are natural born chefs with an intuitive understanding of tastebuds. But if you're like me in that you're clueless about it, there are still some exceptional recipes you can steal online. I treat cooking more like chemistry, insisting follow exact measurements and time. It still works out really well for me. You might even tweak the recipe over 4 or 5 repetitions to your at most satisfaction. Anybody who hasn't given it a try really should, at least once.
- ctchocula 11mo agoYou can't finish your comment without sharing some of your favourite recipes =P
- goku12 11mo agoPractically anything you can find online videos for are better than their counterparts from low end restaurants. I have a lot of favs, but most are regional dishes that are not very well known internationally. Pastas are an exception. Cakes too taste a whole lot different and much richer when you do it.
- auggierose 11mo agoYup. Something really simple and cheap, and definitely not worse in nutrition than McDonald's: Buy a pack of chicken legs, marinate them to your liking (for example: olive oil, salt, pepper, smoked or unsmoked paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, chicken or veggie bouillon cube), let them sit for an hour. Put it into the oven for 50min to an hour at 160 degrees Celsius. Cook rice on the side. After chicken legs are done take them out, and mix rice into the juices. Add some ketchup if you like. Put chicken legs back on top. Bake for max 4 minutes at 200 degrees. Enjoy. Now, that will take you about 2 hours to make in absolute time, but the actual time to do this is very little, a few minutes.
- goku12 11mo agoI wasn't expecting a recipe as a reply here, but I appreciate it. Sounds easy and delicious too.
- auggierose 11mo agoOh, forgot the lemon juice in the marinade.
- nakedneuron 11mo agoHow about some vegetables?
- auggierose 11mo agoFeel free! Above recipe is simplified from this one, which includes veggies, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dooNCNUroWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dooNCNUroWY
- bamboozled 11mo agoYet the price of good Parmesan has basically doubled since Covid? It’s so expensive now we ration its usage.
- hexbin010 11mo agoEating out has risen significantly too
- pjc50 11mo agoIt always was? These discussions imply the existence of a large class of people subsisting primarily on restaurants and takeout, who surely are only a few percent of the population? Restaurants are for special occasions. McDonald's is, or used to be, a cheap "treat", or standard food for travellers.
- cheschire 11mo agoYeah in the documentary “supersize me” the subject says, while he ate 30 days straight of McDonald’s, that the restaurant considered a person who ate there once a week to be a heavy consumer.