sleekie said:
I put a turn-based game on when I'm cooking so I can get up and see to it whenever I need to. Current favorite: Sil.
Hmm, I hadn't thought about that. For longer cooking meals, I might either listen to music or even watch a video of some sort. Oftentimes, I just tidy up the kitchen while waiting for something to cook - the longest cooking I usually do is about half an hour and I can spend half of that just putting things away or quickly wiping off a plot. In between those, I would cut ingredients or put them in a pan/oven or whatever is needed. So, in about two of these half an hour cookings a week, the kitchen is kept in a tidy condition - not sparkling clean but I don't even need it to be sparkling clean. I'd only need one if it was just me using it, but it's three people in total.
Oftentimes I don't even need to cook for 30 minutes in total - I need about 15 and not in one go either. Here is how to do it with chicken.
- 5 minutes in the evening - I take the chicken out of the freezer to defrost and prepare some marinade. To do that, you can use mustard, salt, pepper, few drops of lemon (or vinegar), and maybe some garlic and whatever other spices you want. Just mix them together, then leave that in a bowl in the fridge. I'd sometimes make this kind of marinade while cooking something else.
- 5 minutes in the morning - the chicken has been defrosted, place it in a container and pour the marinade on top, place in fridge. I then go about my daily business (work, classes, what have you)
- 5 minutes in the evening - take the marinaded chichen, put it in the oven. Wait for it to cook.
Dead simple. For a side you can have a salad or just frozen veggies which you've microwaved. If either of these is too much effort, I've even had the chicken with cottage cheese.
Pork is even easier: leave to defrost in the morning, then in the evening place in a bowl of salted water for 30minutes to an hour then put it in the oven.
