A challenge

I challenge my Machine owner friends to replicate and tell me how long it took and how many dishes they had at the end.

The meal is: Cous cous with bacon, mushroom, baby spinach, onion and random herbs and veggies (frozen peas in my case).

It took me just over half an hour to: chop onion & sautee in small frypan; chop mushroom and bacon and lightly fry off (while the onion went into a separate dish); make cous cous up in small saucepan; tip onion, bacon, mushroom and herbs and spinach into large saucepan; add cous cous and peas; take off heat and allow the peas to heat through; add a dollop of that lite cooking cream.

For dishes, I can now look forward to spending another 10 minutes washing: a couple of dishes for raw & cooked ingredients; small oily frypan; small saucepan with cous cous stuck on the bottom; large saucepan with cous cous stuck on the bottom; two wooden spoons, a knife and a chopping board; a spoon for the cream and the serving dish.

Now don’t get me wrong – I am just a little bit impressed that I managed to come up with this meal on a lazy Sunday night, after remembering that I haven’t been shopping this week at all.

Time savings

I wonder how much less time it would have taken, obviously following some kind of similar recipe in The Machine’s cookbook.

Money savings

Unlikely to be much given that most of these ingredients were “leftovers” in my fridge or cupboard from other meals.

Post-script

Yummo, if I do say so myself.