Recipes for those who don't like to cook
All recipe websites I’ve come across have one thing in common - they are made by people who love to cook. I don’t. I want a high return on investment - maximum amount of flavour and nutritional benefit for minimum amount of effort and/or time.
I made this online collection of my favourite recipes to address 3 of my pain points:
- The daily question of what’s for lunch and what’s for dinner? If I have time and energy, I can be creative in the kitchen; this collection of recipes is for those times when my brain needs a break. Add some coconut milk calls for a conscious effort to make a good judgment, which at certain levels of tiredness is too much to ask. My goal is to have step-by-step instructions I can follow to make producing a home made meal as easy as ordering a takeaway.
- If I’m heading home and I’m hungry, I want to shop on the way instead of first consulting my cookbooks at home. I don’t want to be limited by the recipes I’ve memorised, as this limits the diversity of nutrients I get from food. I copy-paste the ingredient list from here into my shopping list, tick off the items I know I have in my kitchen, and done!
- I optimise recipes for speed and for using less items that I’ll need to wash afterwards. I convert all amounts into grams, even for liquids, so I can add everything into a container on the scales, without dirtying any measuring devices. I don’t want to re-optimise a recipe from another website every time I decide to make it.
If you find this online collection useful, please send me one high-return-on-investment recipe as a token of gratitude!
