Here is a little bit of a bizarre query — do you favor to repeat recipes, combine in new recipes, do imprecise “DIY” type of recipes? How do you retain issues “fresh” should you’re utilizing the identical elements that everybody agrees are wholesome like beans, yogurt, milk, greens?
There are not any proper solutions right here, clearly!
I used to have plenty of repeat recipes, however I am… one way or the other tremendous drained of all of them. Even fundamental, low effort meals like tacos now make me type of roll my eyes. I strive mixing in new recipes however these are excessive effort and never at all times nice.
At one level I had tried to have a tough theme that repeated for recipes — rooster or fish on Monday, soup on Tuesday, and many others — and big lists of issues that may match every theme.
I additionally was keen on a “roll for initiative” planner (hyperlink to the freebie from Imperfect Inspiration) that I had modified so as an alternative of eating places, I listed recipes to make as an alternative. Previous recipes, new recipes, simple recipes. That one labored the perfect and I ought to in all probability return to it. Loads of instances dinner is chosen by my son who makes use of a web-based selection wheel like this one. I ought to in all probability get again to that one.
I’ve additionally heard about what I am going to name “vague” recipes — the Mark Bittman e-book, VB6, is nice for this as a result of the recipes actually record elements like “a grain, a bean, a green vegetable” in very tough phrases. Then you’ll be able to adapt based mostly on style, availability, and many others. (The speculation within the e-book is that it’s not laborious to be “vegan before 6PM,” which is sweet for a wide range of well being, price range, and moral causes.)
On the flip aspect, my dad and mom have a set menu 5 days of the week, repeatedly consuming the identical easy recipes and solely hardly ever attempting new recipes.
So, the query for at the moment — how do you cook dinner? Do you wish to repeat the identical recipes time and again, or strive new ones? (Do you recipes you repeat so typically you’ve gotten them memorized?) Do you favor to do meal subscription companies to “choose” your meals for you? Do you favor to wing it and do “girl dinner” (or freezer dinner, or cereal dinner)?
(That is truly not that completely different a query from an previous one we had on holidays, the place we mentioned the professionals and cons of repeating holidays versus attempting new issues.)
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