NotAGran55
Gosh what a judgmental post!
We were donated a lot of pancake mixes ahead of of Shrove Tuesday at our food bank which I hope the recipients enjoyed.
Not everyone has the means to fill their larder with flour, sugar, eggs etc or the equipment or skills to bake from scratch.
Or wants to …. I also live alone and have better things to do with my time!
I cook from scratch occasionally and mostly do large batches so I can save time time by eating the same meal fora few nights. But almost always I enjoy it far more the next two nights than on the day I cooked it - I’m so knackered cooking and clearing up on the day I make it.
I’ve just bought a Ninja dual air fryer and that I am using to cook more basics from scratch but only cos it’s simple with little effort. I must add that in my 30s and 40s when married to a Lecturer husband, with children, I was a really good cook , catering dinner parties, musical evenings, etc, etc, …ad nausium - but I hated it!
Delia Smiths ‘How to Cheat at Cooking ‘ is more my Bible now as it lists all the short cut packets, Sauces and pre prepared things you can buy in the Supermarkets nowadays, and still produce a super meal.
I cooked my neighbour a lamb roast dinner 2 nights ago- frozen roasties, frozen parsnips/ carrots ( popped in one drawer of the air fryer) lamb shoulder in the other. Synced to finish together. Green Veg in the microwave, pot of lamb gravy on the hob. Mint sauce ( with lemon and vinegar) and redcurrant jelly from pots. You would have thought I’d spent hours preparing - the lot took c. 25 mins, with almost no clearing up - except to pop plates in the dishwasher. That’s my sort of special cooking!
It was lauded!