Food that’s not worth the effort

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Crab…picked yourself
Unfilleted fish
globe artichoke all that finiking for some little bites

Homemade pies /Cornish pasties.

The fraff with the making own pastry etc is a lot.

Pomegranates. Delicious, and I have tried all the you tube hacks known to woman, but still end up with my kitchen looking like a badly run abattoir. I buy them in nice little plastic boxes now.

First time I made a small lasagna from scratch and I was astonished at the amount of time it took. Never again.

I made soup at the weekend for the first time in a while. And was reminded why I don’t bother. Straight forward, but sooooo time consuming. Grating, slicing, sautéing, sweating, simmering, blending, yada, yada.

Especially when you can get a zillion and one lovely flavours at the shop, and it takes mins to heat up.

Me too, risotto is really not much effort at all. And I love varying the flavors as it suits me.

I make risotto in the microwave. Think it's a BBC recipe. Takes 30 minutes with minimal stirring. I wouldn't make it for my Italian SIL!

roast dinners. Love them but they take way too long and use too many cooking pots/pans etc. And a restaurant roast is no where near as nice as a home cooked roast

Most of those mentioned already, though I quite enjoy making and eating risotto.

I can’t stand making pancakes and waffles - such a faff, takes forever to serve everyone and really unsociable cooking one or two at a time 😓

Made a pork pie from scratch once…will never get that time back!

Ditto…Scotch Eggs

Ditto….Oxtail stew

always buy lasagne, too much faff to make my own

Pretty much everything at the moment.

ive decided that homemade pancakes, a nice tub of soup, cheese and crackers and boiled egg and toast counts as homemade dinner.

My children eat all of the above so why bother to spend an hour making a ‘proper dinner’ that they push around the plate and leave.

Hummus, pesto, mayo. Pretty much any condiment type type food.

People claim Ooh, it only takes minutes and costs pennies but the individual ingredients are often expensive and you only get the economies of scale if you’re eating tonnes of the stuff for days in a row! Not to mention faffing about with a food processor and having to clean the bloody thing. Nope, can’t be arsed.

puff pastry, globe artichokes

I do make croissants, crumpets, bread, lasagne, risotto, fish pie. They are worth the effort to me compared to what I can buy locally but that says more about my local shops then anything else.

Instant Pot electric pressure cooker makes and easy "dump and go" Risotto. Made a salmon one at weekend and guests were impressed and thought I had spent ages making it - probably about 20 mins from start to finish,
Dean Edwards made a microwave one on TV last week and it looked so easy to make and other people on there could not believe he had made it in there.
Fish pie is something I wouldn't buy again, not found one with enough fish in it.

Whole full-size sardines. Ordered in France with frites once and it was a trial trying to work around the bones.

WRT risotto, I know it's not the proper way but I pour all the stock in at once and only stir every five minutes ish.

Made pesto once. A Jamie Oliver recipe but was overpowering in the amount of Parmesan he said to use. That was a waste of time and effort.

The BBC recipe for custard is so easy and pretty much the same time as heating up milk for birds custard, and so much better! Just all in one pan and stir. I use all milk rather than cream and it's still good. www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/homemade-custard

100% butternut squash. It will sit for weeks and weeks in my fruit bowl untouched because I just can’t be bothered to peel it.

Most things for me, I really dislike cooking and take as many shortcuts as possible. I do however love doing a roast and a risotto

I'm with @ThreadExterminator on the way to make risotto. Also works if you bung it in the oven.

Most of the time I can't be arsed to make curry sauce. Pataks is fine,thanks.

OTOH I think roast dinner is a really easy meal so I don't mind that at all.

I like the sound of your dish, but without lasagne sheets, mince and tomato sauce and white/cheese sauce it is missing a few vital parts of an actual lasagne!

Agree with croissants and hot cross buns, giant faff. Ditto crab apple or quince jelly. Mad them once, never again.

Now soup is easy and worth the effort and uses up stuff in the fridge.

That's why I only buy the frozen kind, peeled and cut into squares.

One thing you CAN do is just pop the whole thing in the oven and slow roast.

@ pp

To clean a food processor just pour in some warm water, a drop of washing up liquid, then turn it on. Then it's less hard work to clean.

Proper lasagne is a day long exercise. Then it's best to leave the cooked and cooled thing in the fridge to eat next day. Far too much faff, and too many dishes to clean, and the kitchen is like a bomb site too.

But I have a quick version that does the job. Round dish. Tortilla rounds instead of lasagne sheets, sauce (can be made and frozen in batches), Ricotta cheese + seasoning for white sauce. Layer up, cook. Gorgeous.

Of you use jars it's easy but if you make your sauces it's a complete pain