Lies, damned lies and recipes
According to a survey from a food company, the average mother relies on just nine different meals to feed her family. Now as readers to this blog may know, I’m quite a keen cook and my ’staples’ must number around 50, but I couldn’t believe that other mums (why not dads?) were so unadventurous. Then I looked at the list:
- Spaghetti Bolognese
- Roast dinner
- Shepherds Pie/Cottage Pie
- Pasta dish
- Meat and two veg
- Pizza
- Casserole/stew
- Sausages and chips/mash
- Indian/Curry
The problem with that list is that most of them cover more than one meal. I regularly cook ten different types of curry, plus side dishes, and half a dozen different pasta dishes. Roast dinners cover half a dozen meats, each one can be cooked in different ways, with many different accompaniments. And how many dishes come under the heading of casserole/stew? So it’s not really nine dishes, but many dozens.
Apart from pie, fish and salad (which really isn’t cooking), plus various ethnic meals, the list covers most everyday dishes served for our dinners – except one of our family favourites, toad in the hole. And in any case, what’s wrong with those nine dishes in rotation, cooked with healthy, fresh ingredients? Leave us mums alone – we’re mostly doing a great job.
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