Like Yeah It Turns Into A Bit Of A Stone Soup Production But The Thing Is—that Makes It Feel So Much More Possible To Me - Blog Posts

food journaling mundanities domesticities like sometimes‚ especially with someone else to keep me on track‚ i manage Actual cooking and sometimes i manage 'thing in a can' or 'frozen thing' but there's such a shockingly good ratio of time+effort to taste that you can achieve if you just. get a good jar of sauce. a package of already mostly-cooked precut chicken to stir into it (that was on sale‚ even!). a bit of fresh cilantro to sprinkle on top. some peas out of the freezer. curry leaves ditto. like yeah it turns into a bit of a stone soup production but the thing is—that makes it feel so much more possible to me when i'm on my own and low on executive function spoons than committing to prepping from scratch. cooking onions down. etc. and now i'm like. eating a thing that actually tastes reasonably real and tasty and satisfying and it took significantly less time than it took the rice to cook idk it's just like. really nice sometimes to have an option that isn't 'run up against the brick wall of yr own brain sucking' or 'starve' tl;dr extremely grateful for jarred indian sauces you can stick a protein and some veg into and eat over rice!