One of the very best things you can do for your kids is teach them that cooking is fun. It’s a cornerstone to a lifelong positive relationship with food. Great job.
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Child labor ITT.
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I thought we went through this and you have a microwave that doubles as a convection oven?
It isn’t good for huge meals but I use my toaster oven more than my actual oven. It is more energy efficient and basically requires no preheating.
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Baked potatoes come out perfect in my toaster oven every time.
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Toaster ovens are definitely an underrated home cooking tool. I think one of the keys that separates blah home cooking from good home cooking is using enough heat to generate browning / caramelization. Good toaster ovens can get very hot - they’re basically tiny countertop broilers.
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Love toaster ovens and use mine constantly. Easily the MVP small appliance in my kitchen.
I could do 95% of my cooking with a toaster oven and a 2 hot plates.
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Today’s lunch is from scratch cast iron pizza. Capicolla and garlic mushroom. Finished with olive oil, Parmesan, basil and a drizzle of honey.
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This look great but I am confused by the paneer comment. Round here paneer is cubed. Did you put some kind of fresh paneer on the chana?
You just eat plain white rice?
it’s still better than white rice with butter and sugar.
It’s a southern thing, and it’s how we ate rice when I was a kid 
Sugar? Hmm never heard of that one.
Made it with chicken stock, onions and butter, so not completely plain
When I was in elementary school the cafeteria served rice with huge shakers of sugar
I’ve had it with just butter and salt before. Actually not bad.
Butter and sugar sounds awful.
I also like plain white rice with a little butter and salt, particularly if cooked in stock as mentioned.
Pretty much a theme across Southern food. See; sweet tea, sweet cornbread, sweet rice, grits with butter and sugar, etc.
My dad is from TN, that’s why we ate it that way. I loved it as a kid, but that’s because I didn’t know better and we literally had like, 2 Asian people in our entire town. Rice any other way (except taco bell-level mexican) just wasn’t something I was ever exposed to.
Sweet tea: great
Sweet cornbread: great
Sweet rice: WTF
Grits with butter and sugar: meh
It’s not an entirely bad theme. It just needs a little tweaking.