Quick Food

Observation:

It takes less time to toss a steak or a couple of pork chops into a hot skillet and steam or sauté some broccoli or green beans than it does to wait for a frozen pizza to bake, or to make pasta.  Yes, I know the pasta label claims it only takes 12 minutes to cook, but that doesn’t include the time required to boil the giant pot of water, now does it?  And the pizza only takes 25 minutes to bake, but how long does it take your oven to get to 400 plus degrees?

The skillet is hot in seconds, the chops are cooked in 10 to 15 (sprinkle with a little lemon pepper or something), and if you’re cooking your broccoli for more than 5 minutes, my friend, we need to have a little chat about overcooking the ol’ veggies.  So even if you’re a little slow with the knife, you ought to be able to have this entire meal on the table in 15 minutes.  OK, if you’re really slow, it might be 20.

Which is, by the way, less time than it takes that giant pot of water to boil.

I have to go make dinner now.