fullygoldy (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fullygoldy) wrote2013-08-13 09:21 am
fullygoldy) wrote2013-08-13 09:21 am
I am a Food Snob
Probably not a surprise to most of you. But in the past week I have been inordinately annoyed by people who obviously don't know how to cook and yet presume to write detailed descriptions of a character's cooking process in their fic. I feel that it shouldn't be that big a deal - it's just color for the story, right? Not integral to the plot in any way. And yet - I'm sitting here yelling "it's not made that way!" instead of enjoying the story. ::sigh::
Currently, I'm mostly reading Teen Wolf, and fanon is split on Stiles' cooking skills. It seems the majority opinion is that he cooks "fairly well for a teenager" to "surprisingly well for anybody." There is also a faction that is convinced he can't operate anything more complicated than a microwave, which might be my preferred faction from now on. Because seriously? Anyone who can make a decent spaghetti sauce/marinara knows:
1) You don't buy 3-4 of the most perfect slicing tomatoes you can find and turn them into a giant pot of bolognese.
2) You don't slice up tomatoes, saute them with onions and garlic, and 30 minutes later produce a "thick, shimmering sauce" for 15 or so people.
PEOPLE!! Tomato sauce from scratch is a labor of love and a complete pain in the ass. You use Roma or paste tomatoes - many pounds of them - to get one glorious pot of sauce. It takes hours to cook off the water in those tomatoes - if you used a slicing variety it would take DAYS. You can make (and I learned this from a hand-me-down Italian family recipe) wonderful marinara with plain canned sauce as the base. It still takes more than 30 minutes, but the results are much more consistent than starting with fresh tomatoes. My mother is a great cook, but she can't make a tomato sauce from scratch that is worth the boxed pasta she serves it on.
Can we please just have Stiles' signature dish be baked mac 'n cheese or something? How about pot roast? The wolves would like a nice pot roast, wouldn't they?
Currently, I'm mostly reading Teen Wolf, and fanon is split on Stiles' cooking skills. It seems the majority opinion is that he cooks "fairly well for a teenager" to "surprisingly well for anybody." There is also a faction that is convinced he can't operate anything more complicated than a microwave, which might be my preferred faction from now on. Because seriously? Anyone who can make a decent spaghetti sauce/marinara knows:
1) You don't buy 3-4 of the most perfect slicing tomatoes you can find and turn them into a giant pot of bolognese.
2) You don't slice up tomatoes, saute them with onions and garlic, and 30 minutes later produce a "thick, shimmering sauce" for 15 or so people.
PEOPLE!! Tomato sauce from scratch is a labor of love and a complete pain in the ass. You use Roma or paste tomatoes - many pounds of them - to get one glorious pot of sauce. It takes hours to cook off the water in those tomatoes - if you used a slicing variety it would take DAYS. You can make (and I learned this from a hand-me-down Italian family recipe) wonderful marinara with plain canned sauce as the base. It still takes more than 30 minutes, but the results are much more consistent than starting with fresh tomatoes. My mother is a great cook, but she can't make a tomato sauce from scratch that is worth the boxed pasta she serves it on.
Can we please just have Stiles' signature dish be baked mac 'n cheese or something? How about pot roast? The wolves would like a nice pot roast, wouldn't they?