written by TheChoujinVirus

Note: the following is based on my own opinions, so don’t take it too personally.

Hey everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here…

Ever had a day where you simply didn’t know what to cook? Or that dish you want that is tasty but serves more than one or two people? That’s me to a T right there.

One such issue I’ve always found is that finding a tasty recipe requires multiple pots to prepare a meal to cook. Not against it, but more pots mean more to clean up. Nothing’s more frustrating than finding a good recipe but needing multiple pots just to make one plate. That’s one way of turning me off of cooking: making messes and having to clean multiple pots and pans for one person.

Though many recipes are tempting to cook but require some stuff that you cannot pick up at a local market due to the requirement. I mean, some of the stuff sounds good, but I’m not going to look through specific stores for that particular food item or spices. In fact, I’m the kind of person who prefers to take his grandmother’s tip of lifehacking some recipes that work. Cooking should be excellent, but you need some tricks to not make it a chore. After all, ya boy is cooking for a meal, not for a spot in Iron Chef.

Lastly, the portion sizes, as I mentioned, some of the food sounds good, but many recipes require you to serve for more than one person. Now I’m not against leftovers, but I’m sure you know that one will get bored with it. Nobody likes it when you get bored with food, let alone running out of space if you decide to cook something for eight people. If you do, get used to having the same dish for lunch and dinner for a while. It also doesn’t help when you’re limited to superficial stuff. I remember only eating eggs and peanut butter sandwiches when I had days where I didn’t want to cook due to boredom or not being hungry. It sucks but nothing I can do I’m not that hungry.

Sure cooking isn’t easy, but it’s better than living off of ramen or TV dinners. Which is another thing that miffs me. The most accessible options are just microwaveable food, soups, or ramen, and not really filling, let alone healthy to thrive on. Heck, you don’t see people living off of peanut butter sandwiches for their lives.
Maybe irrelevant, but if I had a choice between a peanut butter sandwich or cooking some very extreme meal, I’d go for the sandwich but not for the entire thing. Heck, sometimes you’d just have days where you don’t want to cook.

I don’t mind cooking, but it’s not as easy as recipes put them as or anything. Sometimes, I wish you’d have more accessible recipes that are one-pot meals that serve one or two people but don’t require rare things. Either way, it’s better than some out there who can’t cook at all.