Food may be one of life's greatest pleasures, but preparing homemade meals can be anything but.
We've all been there: the monotonous carousel of simple meals you eat week in and week out just won't do anymore, so you find yourself in the kitchen with high hopes of concocting something a little different.
But an hour or so later, the kitchen looks like a bombsite and you're still toiling away. Measuring out everything meticulously seems to take an age, and the pile of washing up just keeps mounting. Fiddly bits of unused ingredients litter your countertop and will probably end up being thrown away. Next time, you think, I'll just stick to my boring, but fool-proof, pasta bake.
