Comments on: Dinner in Half an Hour http://tleaves.com/2009/08/10/dinner-in-half-an-hour/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Weiguo http://tleaves.com/2009/08/10/dinner-in-half-an-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-5448 Weiguo Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:19:51 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=1999#comment-5448 even more optimization: just wash and then don't bother peeling the potatoes. The skin is tasty anyway, and if you arrange the cubes with the skin side down, there's no sticking (I put them on foil; it may be that on your cooking surface there's no sticking period). but your article is a good one. The point about leftovers is excellent too; one can save a lot of work by making big batches of stuff on the weekends and then using it bit by bit during the weekdays. It doesn't even have to be completed dishes (which leads to "tuna noodle casserole AGAIN?"), but even simple things like tomato sauce, soups, whatever. Divided among all the weekdays that you eat it, the actual cooking time is minimal. even more optimization: just wash and then don’t bother peeling the potatoes. The skin is tasty anyway, and if you arrange the cubes with the skin side down, there’s no sticking (I put them on foil; it may be that on your cooking surface there’s no sticking period).

but your article is a good one. The point about leftovers is excellent too; one can save a lot of work by making big batches of stuff on the weekends and then using it bit by bit during the weekdays. It doesn’t even have to be completed dishes (which leads to “tuna noodle casserole AGAIN?”), but even simple things like tomato sauce, soups, whatever. Divided among all the weekdays that you eat it, the actual cooking time is minimal.

]]> By: Brucey http://tleaves.com/2009/08/10/dinner-in-half-an-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-5449 Brucey Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:54:20 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=1999#comment-5449 Is that really what he's saying? I mean it's certainly preachy, but I don't get the sense that Pollan was chastising women for leaving the kitchen and watching too much television. I mean, Gordon Ramsay goes off on women leaving the kitchen and his voice is FULL of that prejudice. But it seemed to me that Pollan was saying that PEOPLE don't cook as much as they used to. It used to be that the housewife was the home's cook, but in that place there is just the absence of home meals. Food is abundant on the roads between work and home and school, and Food Network hasn't been shy to develop partnerships with Applebee's and TGI Friday's. If you are watching Giada De Laurentis making penne with tomato-basil-cream sauce, you can order it from pizzahut afterwards. When I go into homes to cater events I find cast irons that are not just unused, but uncured, refrigerators full of lean cuisines and healthy choices and buittoni something or others. Growing up my family had dinner around our dinner table once. ONCE. We could use a little dinner at home, can't we? Especially now when we dont have any money. Being able to come home and make pasta and meatballs and a salad and feed six people on ten dollars, that's a good thing, right? And times have changed. It certainly shouldn't fall to the working woman to be the house wife and homemaker. I mean these are antiquated terms. But that shouldn't mean the downfall of home-cooked meals. Is that really what he’s saying? I mean it’s certainly preachy, but I don’t get the sense that Pollan was chastising women for leaving the kitchen and watching too much television. I mean, Gordon Ramsay goes off on women leaving the kitchen and his voice is FULL of that prejudice. But it seemed to me that Pollan was saying that PEOPLE don’t cook as much as they used to. It used to be that the housewife was the home’s cook, but in that place there is just the absence of home meals. Food is abundant on the roads between work and home and school, and Food Network hasn’t been shy to develop partnerships with Applebee’s and TGI Friday’s. If you are watching Giada De Laurentis making penne with tomato-basil-cream sauce, you can order it from pizzahut afterwards.

When I go into homes to cater events I find cast irons that are not just unused, but uncured, refrigerators full of lean cuisines and healthy choices and buittoni something or others. Growing up my family had dinner around our dinner table once. ONCE. We could use a little dinner at home, can’t we? Especially now when we dont have any money. Being able to come home and make pasta and meatballs and a salad and feed six people on ten dollars, that’s a good thing, right? And times have changed. It certainly shouldn’t fall to the working woman to be the house wife and homemaker. I mean these are antiquated terms. But that shouldn’t mean the downfall of home-cooked meals.

]]> By: zoe p. http://tleaves.com/2009/08/10/dinner-in-half-an-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-5450 zoe p. Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:51:29 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=1999#comment-5450 I was not too pleased with that Michael Pollan NYT article myself. It seemed to me it wasn't just TV that was the villain, it was the dastardly working woman who (gasp) allowed herself to watch TV in her precious hours of free time. I was not too pleased with that Michael Pollan NYT article myself.

It seemed to me it wasn’t just TV that was the villain, it was the dastardly working woman who (gasp) allowed herself to watch TV in her precious hours of free time.

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