"Real cooking" involves assembly and modification of ingredients.
Do you season your condensed soup? You're cooking. Do you modify that instant pizza with some add'l ingredients? You're cooking. Are you adding something to that premade mix while you make it? You're cooking. Do you grow your own veggies and make homemade soup? You're cooking.
Prepared ingredients are one of the best legacies of the 19th/20th centuries. If Alton Brown can use shortcuts, so can I!
Shoot, half my "cooking" is done in the microwave, because I like the heat control. The other half's grilling to satiate my caveman sensibilities. I leave the intricacies of stove and oven to Da Wife, who's *much* better with them than I am.
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Date: 2009-08-11 04:08 pm (UTC)Do you season your condensed soup? You're cooking.
Do you modify that instant pizza with some add'l ingredients? You're cooking.
Are you adding something to that premade mix while you make it? You're cooking.
Do you grow your own veggies and make homemade soup? You're cooking.
Prepared ingredients are one of the best legacies of the 19th/20th centuries. If Alton Brown can use shortcuts, so can I!
Shoot, half my "cooking" is done in the microwave, because I like the heat control. The other half's grilling to satiate my caveman sensibilities. I leave the intricacies of stove and oven to Da Wife, who's *much* better with them than I am.