^^ Scant 3.5 cups |
Not really. Tasty. But nowhere near DOP buffalo. |
Agree, whipped cream takes like 2 minutes to make and tastes dramatically better than the chemicals in cool whip. |
Rice is literally just rice and water.
What is so difficult about making rice. |
Is a bag of minute rice single serving? Honestly, I don't know. I buy Basmati rice by the 10 lb bag, so totally different situation. |
Not worth it: chicken cutlets. I get chicken parm at restaurants
Full puff pastry |
Things I like to make from scratch:
Guacamole Savory breads Pie Crust and pie filling Marinara sauce Not worth it to me: donuts croissants brownies cinnamon rolls |
I agree on the puff pastry. Croissants too. |
I make a lot of intricate recipes (handmade pastas, curries, maklouba (rice), tahdig (rice), risotto (more rice) but I find that plain white or brown rice is very difficult to make. Mostly because to make good rice (from observing MIL), you need to the leave the rice the eff alone and get the water ratio correct. There is a lot of trust involved in making rice. Unless I am doing something distracting like following a multi-part recipe, I will fiddle with the rice. I will open it up. I will worry it's not cooking and a bit of water from the electric kettle. Invariably I get dry or overcooked rice because I cannot turn off the stir stir stir in my brain. Good rice is an exercise in impulse control. When I put in in the rice cooker, it comes out sticky. |
![]() But you should try it! I can make $100 worth of jam in two hours while supervising children. |
Ha! I am guessing that you don’t have kids at home? Put it on, get the rest of dinner prepped, help kid A with homework, pick up kid B from soccer, take off the stove ![]() |
No both of those are a 3-4 serving size. Not sure why you’d make comments on the extreme wastefulness of a product you admit you don’t know anything about. |
Agree. I also don't get the restaurant flavors of risotto. Always something complicated! |
One toddler with an early bedtime. |
Agree. I always buy a bag of beans and cook them myself. They taste completely different. Also soups are worth to make it from scratch. If I had more time and didn't work full time, I would cook everything from scratch. |