Tag: hater-centric tips

  • Splitting Up the Prep & Cooking

    The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Do some food prep the morning of or the night before. A problem many cooking haters (and even non-haters) have is that they just don’t want to come home after a long day of work and march directly into the kitchen for an hour… Or even a half…

  • Slow Cooker Sundays

    Slow Cooker Sundays

    The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Slow Cooker Sunday. So I have this theory for chicks who don’t like sports, but their man is obsessed. (A) Choose to convincingly pretend to be interested in ONE of his sports. (B) Choose football to be that sport. Personally, I’m a die hard Rangers fan. Hockey is…

  • PSA:  I Don’t Measure Stuff

    PSA: I Don’t Measure Stuff

    The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: PSA: I rarely follow recipes exactly. Sometimes I add things, sometimes I omit things (for personal taste as well as allergy reasons). And sometimes the recipe is actually a hybrid of a few recipes for the same dish (and the one I reference on here is simply the…

  • Gringo Chicken Enchiladas

    The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Gringo Chicken Enchiladas. Arriba!! Ok you can certainly make your own enchilada sauce. But for haters, this is just another annoying step you’d rather avoid. (As a reference, “quick” enchilada sauce recipes take 10-15 minutes to make.) You could also buy enchilada sauce, but I’m sharing this “gringo”…

  • One Pot Meals

    One Pot Meals

    The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: One pot meals! Everyone who likes to cook knows that the main benefit of one pot meals is that you only have to clean one pot at the end of the day. But if you hate cooking, or are just beginning to learn, you might not know this…

  • Piggyback Meals

    Piggyback Meals

    The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Piggyback meals! Awesome idea for people who hate cooking, as well as anyone who is pressed for time during the week. Piggyback meals simply mean taking one (or some) main ingredients from one night’s meal, and turning the leftovers into a second (and even third) night’s meal later…

  • Think Outside the Box

    Think Outside the Box

    The Cursing Gourmet Tip of the Day: Think outside the box. A while back, I realized that I make four different meals with the same base ingredients of shredded chicken, onions, carrots, and celery. I never noticed at first, because all the dishes were quite different from each other, tastewise: I make a Spicy “Asian-style”…

  • Start a Dinner Club

    Start a Dinner Club

    Hate cooking? Or maybe you’re just new at it and don’t know where to begin? Start a “dinner club” with a few friends! There’s this saying, “Too many hands spoil the stew”, but when you hate cooking and/or are new at it, I say “many hands make light work!” Sure, you can only fit so…