20 Jan What Are You Cooking for Meal?
For someone who’s single, it may seem like too much ado to make dinner for one person. And for college students, there might not be any budget for real food; Ramen and baked potatoes may be as exciting as it gets.
For others, however, cooking for them is like butter to bread: they believe that they were made for it. There’s a magic that occurs when you’re adding diced onions to some melted butter, your kitchen starts to smell yummy, and you’ve got a little Frank Sinatra on in the background. Playing around with spices, growing your own food, and feeling at home in an apron might be signs that you suit this category.
But, even for those who appreciate to cook, it’s easy to fall into the slump of developing something new to make for dinner. If you’re one of those that is making food each night, you surely fall into the trap of making the same things often again, and you start to get stressed out. If this sounds familiar, listed below are some strategies you might aim to assist switch things up a little bit.
Throw a theme party (e.g. What’s for dinner?). Everybody has gotten those chain recipe emails where you have to add your name and send it on to the persons that are specified in slots 1 and 2 above. Everyone attending has to bring three of their favorite go-to recipes, with copies of the recipes for everyone else. At the end of the night, everyone walks away with a bunch of new recipes, and you know they’re gon na be tasty because you invited folks who love to cook and love to eat.
Look at cooking shows. If you geek out on food, you’re most likely the person who salivates while watching another episode of Barefoot Contessa, can’t wait to relax while watching America’s Test Kitchen, or laugh out loud at Julia Child’s wit as you YouTube old episodes of The French Chef. But hey … watching series can give you inspiration for new meals, and also lets you see presentations of new techniques before you give them a whirl.
Take advantage of apps. Get the Food Network’s app and check out the recipes of your favorite chefs. Download FoodGawker and peruse different categories, depending on what you want to make. Perusing different recipes and amazing food photography in various apps will leave you inspired and make you want to get back to the kitchen ASAP.
Search cookbooks in a local bookstore, or surround yourself with them in Crate & Barrel or Williams Sonoma. There’s something to be said about placing yourself in a place where the creativity can flow. Checking out recipes while you’re surrounded by beautiful sets of pans and pots and big, stunning whisks makes it hard not to be prompted of why you love food a lot, and why you’re distressed to get back to it.
Give businesses like Blue Apron or PeachDish a try. Fresh ingredients that are pre-measured to correspond to the meals so you avoid excess waste, no last-minute running to the grocery store, and no more trying to come up with something to make on your own.
And finally, did you know we provide transportation for cooking tours? Consider booking a cooking tour with us if you’re in a rut and need some new yum in your life. Participating in classes, watching live presentations, and reaching taste test and sample as you go along are all beautiful things, and they can liven up your regular caloric routine.
So… next time things are seeming a little humdrum around the dinner table and you can’t bring yourself to make an additional batch of homemade spaghetti sauce (good as it is), give some (or all!) of these tips a shot! You never know what motivation you’ll find, new recipes you’ll find out, or flavors you’ll fall in love with. Bon appetit!
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