Cooking family dinner
Making the evening meal from scratch as the default, kids in the kitchen
Cooking dinner at home on most weeknights instead of ordering it, often with children helping at the counter. People do it for cheaper food, for control over what goes into it, and for one fixed point in the day when everybody sits down together. It costs 30 to 60 minutes of attention at the worst hour of the evening. Every evening. The ones who keep it going tend to shrink the recipe rather than the frequency.
People on record
Sorted by strength of stance
Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- J. Kenji López-AltDoes it
Chef and food writer · The Food Lab
He cooks dinner at home most nights, and says his daughter cooks with him most of those. Missing it, when violin practice ran late, is what she takes as the punishment. The YouTube channel fits around that. A video only happens if the meal was one he was going to cook anyway.
Source: The Sporkful: Kenji Lopez-Alt No Longer Calls His Recipes The Best
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