It takes me almost 1.5 hrs to prepare dinner. That is to say your basic conventional fare. Which includes one sabzi, one daal or gravy based dish, approx 8 rotis, rice, salad and the occasional papad.
Also added to this is the dish washing I keep doing on the side, while arranging dried dishes on their shelves.
Also cleaning my work surface as I go, so I'm not swamped with a million things to do post dinner.
The only exercise that remains after dinner is the few dishes that require washing that were dined in along with a couple pots and pans. Followed by a routine nighttime sprucing up of kitchen which includes cleaning the sink, stove facing tiles, and other assorted areas that might have gotten wet or floury or messy while washing.
Hmm..as I write this I realize it sounds like a lot more work. Though it isn't as much, or maybe it is.
Weekends invite more of a laissez-fare cooking atmosphere. And usually I like to cook some pasta or some other dish that screams weekend indulgence.
The thing is dishes that take long time to cook as opposed to ones that are difficult. Some might take a few mo's but require a world of preparations.
I don't mind cooking foods that take a long time but are quick and easy to prepare, I do sometimes resent ones that take mere moments to cook up, by the chopping can take a fairly long time. I'm looking at you stir fries.
I've also been known to take a quick route out of this by bunging in cans of foodstuff into a baking dish and throwing the damn thing into an oven. Thus requiring absolutely no cooking, peeling, chopping, washing on my part. I do feel ashamed of it sometimes. Sometimes being the keyword.
Ah, why am I ranting about this? Because I'm hungry. I don't dine this late. Waiting is a bitch especially on a hungry stomach.
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