What do you find not worth it to make from scratch? And what is worth making from scratch?

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody ever make pho broth at home? How did that turn out?

Beautifully.

Tell me

Google Andrea Nguyen’s recipe and follow it to the letter.

OK but before I do does it involve killing on ox with my bare hands and cooking it in different ways for three days?

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Anonymous wrote:Must-do, i.e low effort: Ghee, yogurt, rice (I can't believe people would buy pre-cooked rice!), whipped cream, beans from dried rather than canned
Worth the effort: tarts, cookies and brownies, ice cream, buttercream cakes, caramel sauce, jams, pickles, pizza
Not worth the effort: sourdough bread, croissants, puff pastry (other than the fact that it's hard to find all-butter puff pastry in stores)

I cook a lot of things from scatch but buy the TJ's frozen brown rice for 3 reasons: (1) it's great when you have less than 10 minutes to make dinner (e.g., get home at 7 and have a 7:30 boy scout meeting...this is not uncommon for me as a working mom of a bunch of kids); (2) it's great for my tweens making their own dinner or lunch; and (3) I actually like the taste better than most brown rice, as I think they use a short grain rice that I have trouble finding in stores so it is more fluffy than brown rice usually is. I keep meaning to try to find some short grain brown rice at Whole Foods or someplace fancy, but haven't gotten around to it. We're not actually huge rice eaters, and probably only eat it about once a month, if that, so it's not a top priority for me. When we do white rice, I just make it from dried in a pot on the stove.

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Things I love to cook from scratch:
Bolognese sauce
Beef stews
steaks
rice (of all kinds)
Most Italian dishes without pasta

Things I buy:
Pasta
Cheese
bread

Things I leave to the professionals at restaurants
Lasanga
Chinese food

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Anonymous wrote:Must-do, i.e low effort: Ghee, yogurt, rice (I can't believe people would buy pre-cooked rice!), whipped cream, beans from dried rather than canned
Worth the effort: tarts, cookies and brownies, ice cream, buttercream cakes, caramel sauce, jams, pickles, pizza
Not worth the effort: sourdough bread, croissants, puff pastry (other than the fact that it's hard to find all-butter puff pastry in stores)

I cook a lot of things from scatch but buy the TJ's frozen brown rice for 3 reasons: (1) it's great when you have less than 10 minutes to make dinner (e.g., get home at 7 and have a 7:30 boy scout meeting...this is not uncommon for me as a working mom of a bunch of kids); (2) it's great for my tweens making their own dinner or lunch; and (3) I actually like the taste better than most brown rice, as I think they use a short grain rice that I have trouble finding in stores so it is more fluffy than brown rice usually is. I keep meaning to try to find some short grain brown rice at Whole Foods or someplace fancy, but haven't gotten around to it. We're not actually huge rice eaters, and probably only eat it about once a month, if that, so it's not a top priority for me. When we do white rice, I just make it from dried in a pot on the stove.

I make a pilaf with white rice in less than 10 minutes in my pressure cooker. I cannot imagine having to recycle all the packaging for premade foods.

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Not worth making from scratch - milk.