The title of this post is something I ask Dan every Friday night. That's when I typically plan out our meals for the week, usually 3-4 dinners that will produce enough leftovers for lunch each day. It may seem like a lot of cooking for just two people, but I find it so relaxing at the end of a day to make a nice meal and surprise Dan with something tasty and new every night.
Like every household that regularly cooks we have a few standbys that we make once or twice a month, but I love trying different cuisines and experimenting with unfamiliar ingredients. I have a few favorite online resources that I thought I'd share with you for this week's blog post. Please comment and share your favorite recipe repositories!
My number one nemesis to personal productivity: YouTube. Dan can attest that I have fallen down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos on more than one occasion, and most of the time it's food videos (but also funny pets...). I've mentioned FoodWishes previously, but my other two addictions are Cooking with Dog and Binging with Babish/Feast of Fiction. Cooking with Dog is brilliant because it is a collection of instructional videos where Chef (an adorable Japanese home cook) whips up traditional and local Japanese cuisine. The best part is that each video is narrated in English (but with a French-sounding accent) by the dearly missed Francis, a poodle, who hangs out on a stool next to Chef throughout the meal prep process. Binging with Babish and Feast of Fiction were grouped together as one addiction because both of these shows are themed around food from movies and TV. Odds are, if you're wondering how they made something on a show or what the dish in that film might have tasted like, they've got a video for you. |