• insanemantis@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Like any food, it depends on if it was frozen/boxed or actually cooked. If that mac is homemade then kudos to the cook

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    IDK, not saying this isn’t a good meal, but I seems to me this kind of post just implies that most men can’t cook for shit. Most of my male friends are good cook and can make much better meals than that. Guessing it’s an amrrican thing.

    • aksdb@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Isn’t professional cooking even male dominated? AFAICT most kitchen chefs are male. That always made this weird stereotype of “women belong in the kitchen” and “men can’t cook” super weird to me.

      • Godric@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        I think that’s possibly the single most sexist stereotype: “Cooking is for women, unless you’re really really good at it”

        I broke the cycle. My mom is an awful cook, and I can turn any red meat into goodness.

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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          10 hours ago

          Most red meat can be turned good by simply existing. So long as you don’t burn it, it’s hard to fuck it up too bad otherwise.

          Montreal steak seasoning, soy sauce, and 40 minutes at 350 will make any red meat amazing though.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    I hate when I see a video going “here is my go-to lazy meal for when I’m totally beat” and the first thing they do is start chopping an onion.

    A lazy meal is a bag of beige crap from the freezer, dumped into an oven tray and left for 20 minutes on gas mark 8. If it’s more effort than that, you can stick it.

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      I buy frozen chopped onions and pepper and onion mix because I fucking hate chopping. Admittedly, the peppers aren’t as good vs fresh, but I will deal with subpar peppers to not have to chop anything. I will say, one annoying thing is fewer and fewer grocery stores stock frozen chopped onions, likely due to lower margins because they are usually dirt cheap, like $1/ bag.

    • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      it’s like when someone uploads a video of “cheap diy project” and half the materials is a couple hundred dollars of stuff they already own from previous projects. or “cheap optiplex gaming pc” and the gpu is a rtx 3090 nvidia gave them for free for being a tech youtuber.

  • phineas1134@reddthat.com
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    15 hours ago

    I never complain about someone giving me prepared food. I spend so much of my life obtaining, storing, preparing, and cleaning up after making food that I see any meal given to me as a wonderful gift of time.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    Vegetables.

    Steamed, blanched, stir fried, raw, broiled, grilled… Depends on your preference, and depends on the vegetable, but that meal desperately needs some.

    At least it’s not an absurd quantity of macaroni and deep fried… nuggets? Based on the size of the noodles, it seems to be a small plate. But, that’s an oily and greasy plate of stuff.

    Even just 1 minute to chop up a bell pepper or some celery will give you a nice juicy crunch and some fiber to offset that grease and oil. And/or, with some advance planning, some nice cherry tomatoes. The acid and juice would offset the grease nicely.