"When you come home from work, exhausted, that is exactly when you shouldn't try to cook a meal with your fresh vegetables, " she says.
Eventually a harried housewife or a busy executive will be able to order a ready-to-eat or ready-to-cook gourmet meal for delivery by dinner time (see box).
And for when you need to charge your gadgets or lamps while camping, the PowerPot is a new camping pot that uses heat to charge your devices while you cook a meal.
Say you want to cook a new meal, the technology can project a recipe right onto your cooking surface.
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He wants only to light a small fire, enough to cook a simple meal, nothing more, hardly an undertaking momentous enough to give rise to premonitions such as these.
Figuring out how to do the laundry, cook a basic meal or even wait for a handyman "are not crippling responsibilities" but rather "minor life skills" that can prove useful if the housekeeper cancels.
She is supported by a charity called United Response which has installed video phone technology into a number of homes to assist people with daily living - helping to compile shopping lists or advice on how to cook a basic meal.
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No longer is it so important that you learned to cook a new meal every week for a year, but now the focus turns to how many thousands of families you touched by creating healthy cooking videos that were then posted on YouTube and viewed by moms who were previously hardcore fast foodies.
My friend Steve taught me how to cook a gourmet Mexican meal.
When staying at a hotel, most people don't think about the housekeeper who made their bed, the kitchen worker who cleaned their plate, or the cook who prepared their meal.
More men were having to cook for themselves and ready meal producers were on hand to make it as easy for them as possible.
It can help you synchronize your meal prep work and cook times so that everything makes it to the table hot and delicious.
I've got two gorgeous sons and I cook a lot and we have an evening meal together and I'm not there drinking some goop.
Kumar also ensured that all 100, 000 or so of the running staff who would normally cook their food at the station after every shift were now getting a free meal at the canteens.
There was room for only one chair, perhaps to discourage the cook from sitting down with the cook next door for a conversation, and no room at all for a table where she could have a meal.
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