Recipes, Recipes

06/03/15

For the past three weeks or so, I've been cooking everyday I didn't have leftovers. This combined with my $11-a-day grocery shopping has led to me exploring a lot more recipes. Several people in my life are gluten-free, as well, so I explore a lot of gluten-free recipes. Most any pre-made gluten-free product is either expensive or a poor imitation of some gluten product. Usually, it's both. So baking from scratch has become a regular thing for me.

Thanks to the Internet, this is actually really easy, and leads to a lot of quite delicious gluten-free, egg-free, and various other free recipes to try out. I have become quite curious with allergen-free or vegan-style recipes, both for the challenge and also for the surprising tastiness.

Because cooking so regularly and relatively cheaply has become a thing, I both cook the same thing a lot and try new things a lot. One of the things I have been experimenting with is gluten-free pizza.

It was tasty, it was unique (parmasen cheese as a main ingredient in the crust!), and it wasn't particularly expensive. I thought for sure it'd be a new regular recipe.

But, Rosse found another recipe to try:

This crust is so good. Quite possibly the best pizza I've ever had. I've cooked it only twice but I've memorized the recipe. I've since lost the other recipe.

Cooking everyday has been a huge boon. The variety and quality of my diet has increased dramatically, and the cost of it has decrased by more than a hundred dollars a month (probably considerably more). There is this trap I fell into with cooking before, where I told myself the time-cost made it more expensive than it seemed.

This is false.

It's false for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that even the fastest food has considerable time-cost. Especially if you need to leave the house to get to it, and even if it's delivered (at extra cost), there's waiting time that isn't often used towards any real value. Might as well cook whilst watching some fun, non-attention-heavy show.

I think my cooking setup is sustainable, and I'm really excited for the future meals to come out of it.