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"IN 2H I KITCHEN FOR ALL WEEK" OR THE ART OF PREPARING ME MEAL IN ADVANCE
by Tess Annest
to cook week nights after the office? Not even in dreams. Unless you have already prepared everything in advance and just have to warm up your dishes. This is the promise that makes Caroline Pessin, stylist and culinary author, with his latest book "In 2h I cook for the whole week". To better understand the phenomenon, we talked about "batch cooking" with her.
When working full time, difficult to prepare healthy and balanced meals for the whole family. Especially when you have to pick up the kids at school. And take out the dog. So, to escape the stress of "we eat what tonight?", Or to avoid ruin by ordering every two days a pizza, Caroline Pessin wrote In 2 hours I cook for the whole week. A recipe book of seasons, achievable in just two hours, preferably on Sunday evening. Admittedly, it's a little lazy day, but if it's the price to pay to avoid last-minute shopping and dinners on the run, we want to take up the challenge! And in addition it's trendy.
In our time, people work, have many children and all try to stay connected and athletic, the meal prep is almost a necessity
"Preparing meals in advance is nothing new, says Caroline Pessin, but it's a fashion that has recently made its reappearance on social networks, including Instagram. His little name? The meal prep, or batch cooking, at your convenience. A trend, which according to the culinary author, is not really one. "In our time, people work, have many children and try to stay connected and athletic, the meal prep is almost a necessity," she says. And it's true that the promise is tempting. It consists of cooking large quantities of ingredients to consume over several days, or to prepare a dish in large quantities that is heated in the evening.
In addition, Caroline Pessin even provides the complete shopping list as well as the entire course of the weekend cooking session. In short, just let yourself be guided (without thinking too much). Easy as pie. And economic! "One often thinks that making home-made dishes is more expensive, which is completely wrong," she says, "buying raw and seasonal products is THE secret of a controlled budget." In addition, in recent years, the "homemade" is a smashing return because "we are more and more numerous to be aware of the harmful side of industrial food". Eating well and knowing what you eat has become one of our main concerns, we do not consume at all the same way.
Only drawback of this method, freezing. "It is true that it is one of the keys of the method" says the author and culinary stylist. But Caroline Pessin still concocted a menu where the freezer is not mandatory. For the lucky ones who have already bought the book, this is the menu 3 of spring. For others, she advises to prefer large salads of raw vegetables (cucumber, pepper ...) that keep well. "Think about the hard boiled eggs that are kept five days after cooking and prepare a hummus at the weekend, it is very easy to keep," advises the meal prep specialist. Now you just have to get your hands dirty.
And to give you mouth watering, here is the 4 summer menu:
"IN 2H I KITCHEN FOR ALL WEEK" OR THE ART OF PREPARING ME MEAL IN ADVANCE
by Tess Annest
to cook week nights after the office? Not even in dreams. Unless you have already prepared everything in advance and just have to warm up your dishes. This is the promise that makes Caroline Pessin, stylist and culinary author, with his latest book "In 2h I cook for the whole week". To better understand the phenomenon, we talked about "batch cooking" with her.
When working full time, difficult to prepare healthy and balanced meals for the whole family. Especially when you have to pick up the kids at school. And take out the dog. So, to escape the stress of "we eat what tonight?", Or to avoid ruin by ordering every two days a pizza, Caroline Pessin wrote In 2 hours I cook for the whole week. A recipe book of seasons, achievable in just two hours, preferably on Sunday evening. Admittedly, it's a little lazy day, but if it's the price to pay to avoid last-minute shopping and dinners on the run, we want to take up the challenge! And in addition it's trendy.
In our time, people work, have many children and all try to stay connected and athletic, the meal prep is almost a necessity
"Preparing meals in advance is nothing new, says Caroline Pessin, but it's a fashion that has recently made its reappearance on social networks, including Instagram. His little name? The meal prep, or batch cooking, at your convenience. A trend, which according to the culinary author, is not really one. "In our time, people work, have many children and try to stay connected and athletic, the meal prep is almost a necessity," she says. And it's true that the promise is tempting. It consists of cooking large quantities of ingredients to consume over several days, or to prepare a dish in large quantities that is heated in the evening.
In addition, Caroline Pessin even provides the complete shopping list as well as the entire course of the weekend cooking session. In short, just let yourself be guided (without thinking too much). Easy as pie. And economic! "One often thinks that making home-made dishes is more expensive, which is completely wrong," she says, "buying raw and seasonal products is THE secret of a controlled budget." In addition, in recent years, the "homemade" is a smashing return because "we are more and more numerous to be aware of the harmful side of industrial food". Eating well and knowing what you eat has become one of our main concerns, we do not consume at all the same way.
Only drawback of this method, freezing. "It is true that it is one of the keys of the method" says the author and culinary stylist. But Caroline Pessin still concocted a menu where the freezer is not mandatory. For the lucky ones who have already bought the book, this is the menu 3 of spring. For others, she advises to prefer large salads of raw vegetables (cucumber, pepper ...) that keep well. "Think about the hard boiled eggs that are kept five days after cooking and prepare a hummus at the weekend, it is very easy to keep," advises the meal prep specialist. Now you just have to get your hands dirty.
And to give you mouth watering, here is the 4 summer menu:
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