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This week's Food Rant: Going to Great Lengths to Avoid make Food from Scratch
Did you ever realize how easy it is to make some types of food? And still no one does it? Take hummus, for example. You can make in less time than it takes to get to the store, and that's even if you live close. There's no technique to it - just throw stuff into a food processor - and it only has 5 ingredients + 1 spice, salt, and optional paprika & snipped parsley for garnish. I don't get it.
Pesto is another one of those things that is SO easy to make and yet no one does (except me). Again, 5 ingredients + salt. You throw it all into a food processor. No technique, not hard to do. And yet no one does!
Not only do people not make this stuff from scratch; they buy it and then "spice it up" which means? I guess that it's not that good to begin with and you have to futz around with it which takes more time probably than it would just to make it the way you like it in the first place.
Another thing people do this with is matza balls. 2 (seriously only TWO) ingredients + a few non-exotic spices So WHY would anyone buy a mix? Making matza balls does require technique but making them from a mix requires the same technique so that part is no easier. Then people "spice them up" but it'd be easier to just make them the way you like them in the first place.
I think people are so intimidated they don't even want to try to cook anything. Even stuff that doesn't require cooking (like pesto). Even if they'd save time overall making it instead of going to the store and shopping for it. It's always cheaper to make this stuff from scratch, too. Or maybe it's all marketing - people are led to believe they have to buy processsed food - they couldn't possibly try to make it . . .