Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mandrake the Perihelion Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Cooking redefined Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 21:08:50 -0500 Organization: Justification Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net dVXFsemcmQV29JTzd94UZg0Rr+8p8nJv/Rs6vr3HKe8mFOztM7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:eKv/aNkgi03eaq2lNoYBjuma8Ho= sha256:XO/POHxIpv3/SYondWGtBAKmRzwKb8IPRoo2skvMJgo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2157 ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 20:40:34 +0000, Ed P wrote: > >> I did make breakfast every day except one.  That aside, did I cook >> anything this week? >> >> If you define cooking as making frozen stuff, yes, every night.  OTOH, >> if you mean like actually preparing, seasoning, mixing, frying, baking, >> roasting, then no, I did not cook dinner this week. >> >> > Whether it's frozen or not, I still consider it cooking. > It's not going to hop in the oven or a skillet unless I > put it there and 95% of the time that's going to involve > some seasoning.  It also involves some sort of side > vegetable as well and that vegetable might be canned or > it could be frozen.  Whichever, I've got to prepare it > and season it as well. > > Earlier this week I made homemade tomato soup and a > grilled cheese sandwich.  I consider the grilled > cheese sandwich cooking as well as I had to prepare > it with butter to go into the toaster oven and turn > it to reach the desired golden hue. > > America's Test Kitchen can't hold a patch to me.  😋 > > -- I can cook Shrimp Creole and Cashew Chicken. -- What can I say to have you at es?