Favorite Recipe; Simple and Out of Reach
by Fred Aiken
I do not like to cook. But I do like to eat. Not to excess. Or at least I don’t like to think that I eat excessively. Just the three meals and the occasional snack. But I do cook, both for myself and my wife–and she for me. We cook for each other. But it’s not like a thing that we do because we like cooking. I married someone almost exactly like me in that regard. We both enjoy eating and we don’t mind making meals, but it’s not our favorite activity. It’s sustenance. Cooking is a form of boredom for us both. And I suppose because of that reason, we tend to stick to recipes that are super simple and generally take less than 15minutes from start to finish.
This isn’t to say that my wife and I haven’t tried to cook more complicated meals. We have. But by the end of those super fancy meals that taste really nice and required a lot of effort because of all the different ingredients and cooking techniques and equipment needed, we’re exhausted. Our energies are spent, and we end up staying in bed for the rest of the night until we fall asleep.
But if the meals had something like 5 or less ingredients, and we can make it in about 10minutes or so, especially if we only need to use the microwave, then I am all over that recipe. There are a lot of meals that one can make that fall under this category. But yeah, I guess if I were to say which is my favorite, then it would be the Simplest Meal of Them All.
With that said, I do not do meal prep. I’m not a sociopath that eats the same meal six days in a row.
Fred Aiken Writing 
I am the opposite. I live cooking and baking. But I like easy meals to cook. And I mean cook since we do not even own a microwave. But I feel, each there own. If you like to eat then there you go. My easiest meals are almost all crackpot meals. Throw my chicken frozen, add a couple cans if cream of chicken, a small bag of frozen peas and carrots, then about an hour before done cute up some grands biscuits (I just said grands to give size if biscuits I use) in to 4s. And after that hour, you have a cheap version of chicken and dumplings. Nice and easy. Just an idea for you.