All this talk of food is making me salivate!
I only get my meat from the butchers. I like that because the fellas there are really cheerful and give me what I want, how I want it. They're more than happy to slice or cut it for me. They get a big thumbs up from me.
I'd rather they cut my meat for me as I find big chopping knives a bit scary as I'm a bit clumsy and accident prone... (says me who uses a double edge razor to shave with lol. I know, I know! But to me that's different. I'm more relaxed with a small blade on a razor than a huge carving knife or cleaver!)
I've noticed that supermarkets I've been to don't do that. I remember asking the lad at the meat counter to give me so much of something and cut it up for me. But he said they couldn't do that. Tsk tsk!
I love to cook stirfrys and casseroles. Things that cook in one pot. Very easy and tasty. I can just about make spaghetti bolognaise (with the 2 pots for the meat and for the pasta).
I would love love love to be able to cook a proper roast dinner with everything. I can do the tastiest roast potatoes ever if I just did those on their own.
But I have trouble trying to co-ordinate everything else like the meat, veg, roast potatoes, gravy, and yorkshire puddings (lots of different pots and pans on at different times) to be cooked and ready at the same time.
I remember growing up, my mum and my nana would be trying to tell me something about timing."Find out what takes the longest to cook (the meat), and work backwards", they'd say.
Any hints or tips will be greatly appreciated.