Timing......

  

     Today while having lunch, I realized the most common mistake in a kitchen is timing. It seems like our lives are so busy we prefer fast things, like instant mashed potatoes, semi cooked meals, frozen foods, or fast food itself. Maybe prefer was a bad word. We do not prefer it, but we choose it due to little time. The only problem I have noticed with this picture is that, because we choose fast options, when we decided to cook on a weekend or day off we forget to turn off the fast option in speed. My girlfriend the other day, bless her heart, thought it would be helpful if she had dinner when I came home from work ready for me, instead of me cooking. She had bought a large frozen pizza from the HEB deli. She brought out the pizza looking glorious from the top but looking like a serious char black coal from the bottom. She was very sad, feeling she ruined dinner. I told her scratching the bottom might help. I dipped mine in ranch. I realized then what her mistake was.......She placed the pizza in as soon as she turned on the oven without preheating. This is the same mistake when people add pasta to a sauce pan with cold water and start boiling. The package clearly says to add pasta to boiling water. Or when we decide to make some fluffy eggs one Saturday morning and we add the eggs to a cold pan and then turn on the heat.All because we can not wait to boil water, preheat ovens or use heated pans. If we opt for fast choices, we should stick to the professionals like fast food restaurants that have almost everything pre cooked or our local frozen section at our groceries. If we want homemade, we have to follow all the rules. : p