three bowls

While I am still many many years away from anything approaching expertise, lately I've been finally feeling like I have a handle of some of the things that have been challenging me in the food arena lo these many years.

One of the things that I have been trying to learn throughout all of this isn't just the foodie side of cooking, but rather the home ec side.  How do I keep myself fed in a way that is efficient and realistic, but still tasty?

After much trial and error, I'm starting to compile a list of not just individual recipes but full meals and/or recipes+strategies that is making it a little easier for me to be satisfied with what I make at home, without it always devolving to the 13-hour cook-a-thon.  

Or if it does, it's a strategic cook-a-thon that is done at a convenient time on a weekend and pays off with many quickly-prepared lunchs or dinners later that week or month.  My Slow Fast Food thing: spending a lot of time on a meal, but maybe not when the meal is actually going to happen.

I've started posting some of the recipes and strategies I've found in the Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Desserts/Snacks/Gifts sections to the right there.

None of them is groundbreaking or revolutionary.  It's just some ideas, in case you, too, sometimes get stuck and are not sure what else to do for lunch or dinner and maybe just want somebody else's idea to help get your own imagination going.

Where appropriate, I'm putting in the steps I've taken that can be done in advance or other strategies and tweaks I've liked that I did with other folks' recipes.

It's a start for now, but I hope to continue to add on a regular basis.  I also want to try to increase my Fast Fast Food skillz, i.e., weeknight dinners that do NOT require a big investment of time on the weekend, but rather can be thrown together quickly at the last minute.  This is a weak spot of mine.  

But the great thing about all this food learning that I've done is that I've also learned HOW to learn (somehow I missed that through all my years of schooling, thanks, honor classes and film school!), and know that even though a subject feel daunting and foreign, it can be attempted.