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Food: “batch cooking”, a new method for cooking meals throughout the week
Food: “batch cooking”, a new method for cooking meals throughout the week
Batch cooking is in vogue. This technique from the United States consists of preparing dishes for five evenings of the week during the preceding weekend, in the space of three hours.
As is her Sunday evening ritual, Delphine has the ingredients and her list of recipes for the coming week on her work surface. A very popular technique that comes to us from New York, in the United States, and called “batch cooking” (in French, “to cook in series”). “I started batch cooking 3-4 years ago, when I was embarking on a zero waste approach. It was really to avoid wasting and try to do less shopping, consume better too, consume local”she says.
Three hours to make the five dishes of the week
In three hours, we have to create the five menus for the five evenings to come. Delphine prepares them for four people. Basquaise chicken, Mexican burrito, lasagna and Lorraine quiches are prepared at the same time. Vegetables, rice, spinach share the pot, and will coexist in the oven. “You can even make sweet and savory, and the smells do not transfer“, reassures Delphine.
