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Hey everybody, it's Marielle.
Today we're serving up something special direct from the Life Kid Kitchen how to cook when you're not into cooking or maybe when you just don't feel up to cooking.
And don't worry, we are not here to evangelize about the joy of perfectly julienned vegetables or a gorgeous slow roasted leg of lamb.
While both sound lovely, cooking doesn't have to be fancy.
You don't have to learn a lot of complicated techniques or make magazine worthy dishes for every meal.
Even the most accomplished and celebrated chefs get that feeling of not wanting to step foot in the kitchen.
Oh, I mean, I have it all the time.
I think any professional cook would agree with that.
I think there's a trope in professional kitchens of, you know, this thing that you do all day and then you go home and you make yourself a peanut butter sandwich.
Samin Nosrat is a chef and the author of Salt, Fat, Acid Heat, a best selling cookbook that won the James beard Award in 2018.
It's kind, kind of like the Oscars of food.
She hosted a Netflix show of the same name.
What was on her dinner table last night?
Annie's Mac and cheese with some broccoli in it.
Like, was it the most healthy thing to eat or was it the most, I don't know, creative thing?