At the ballfields Sunday I heard a girl ask her mom what they were having for dinner. The mom said, "Frozen pizza." Her daughter said, "Oh Mom, Gino and I had that for dinner Saturday night and we had it for lunch Friday, too." Gino, the rag-tag 7-year-old who would eat root beer twin pops for breakfast if he could, saw his chance to do some reprimanding, "Yeah, Mom, kids can't live on pizza alone. That's just not good for us."The New York Times' Mark Bittman, the Minimalist, today features 101 simple summer recipes. He writes, "The pleasures of cooking are sometimes obscured by summer haze and heat, which can cause many of us to turn instead to bad restaurants and worse takeout. But the cook with a little bit of experience has a wealth of quick and easy alternatives at hand. The trouble is that when it’s too hot, even the most resourceful cook has a hard time remembering all the options. So here are 101 substantial main courses, all of which get you in and out of the kitchen in 10 minutes or less."
It's a good list and I think I'll make one of the recipes later tonight, before Top Chef. But it's also fun to scroll through the Reader's Comments on this article where readers respond with their own 10-minutes-or-less favorites. After a long string of quick eggs and pastas and sardine sandwiches there are these entries:
"Oatmeal."
"What's with all the sardines?"
"I love the NYTimes. This is fun."
and
"McDonalds."
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This is awesome and I've already printed it out for my self and two co-workers. Thanks!
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