Musing 145

Growing up, I didn’t learn a ton of cooking, and early on in my adult life, cooking wasn’t the highest priority.

As one can imagine, I ended up with a lot of box dinners, ramen/other dried noodles or rice, and other prepackaged meals.

While those can be useful at times (especially when calorie counting), it really is super useful to just be able to make whatever you want for yourself.

One example of how to build up from this is with pizza. I got super interested for a time in making pizza after watching Kane’s Kitchen. And it was cheaper to just buy the components for how often I made the pizza.

But in building my cooking skills, it often started with experimenting on pre-packaged stuff, then moving to assembling components into a dish, then making more and more of it from scratch.

With pizza, that looked like buying the pizza from the store, then spicing it up with extra toppings or cheese to my satisfaction.

Then when I was buying the components, I’d have the pre-made crust and sauce it up with extra sauce, cheese, etc, to get way closer to what I liked, especially since I like extra sauce on my pizza.

At least personally, I’ve only made pizza crust from scratch on a few occasions. It just took more time than I was willing to put into it. Especially when I got “good enough” results from the pre-made crust.

But that experimentation let me build up the confidence to take on other things like alfredo sauce, which has had great results too.