On 17/02/2015 3:54 AM, Drew Lawson wrote:
In article
"David Hare-Scott" writes:

I cannot understand why the time it takes to cook fresh food, in some cases
no more than prepared food, is such a problem to people.

I can only speak for myself, and the answer would be ignorance. I
don't really know how to cook much. I know how to follow a recipe,
but I can't look in the fridge and think of what can be done with
what I see. Fortunately, I am also an exceedingly boring person,
so I am okay with eating a small number of dishes. (Leftovers from
roasting a 9 lb chicken can carry me pretty far.)

:-)) My response to that sort of comment is that if you can turn on an
oven, use a knife, have a set of saucepans and a casserole dish, can
stir with a wooden spoon, fill a pot with water or pour oil from a
bottle into a fry pan then you already have the physical skills for
being a cook. From there it's about your willingness to feed yourself
well so it helps if you love eating good food.

You can use recipe sites to cure your lack of inspiration. For example,
if you look in the fridge and see a chicken breast, some carrots and a
few mushrooms, go to one of the cooking sites (I use taste.com.au) and
put those 3 ingredients in and the site will come back with lots of
recipes. For example, when i plugged these 3 ingredients in, this
recipe, which I have decided I will now try, came back:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/2267...table+rissoles