Why do all these recipe requests have to be made "really fast and easy"?

What happened to taking a little time to make something wonderful? Cooking isnt instant.Your thoughts?

i agree with you,i cook every night for at least 45 min. to 1 hr. and i enjoy doing it. it is much healthier for my family. if i'm cooking something special for a party i like to take my time and make it taste the best i can.

Because most of these people are on the go all the time they want something fast so they can take off again. To make a decent meal you have to take some time and thats the way I do it and it's fine with me.

I suppose because they can't cook in the first place. If they could, they'd understand not only the pleasure of cooking but that it takes as long as it takes and some dishes are more effort than others and that's just how it is. Often fast as easy tastes like it. They see it as a means to an end whereas 'real' cooks love the process as much as the results. I was brought up to believe cooking is an act of love not a chore but not everyone had that benefit.My pet theory is (fair warning, here comes the soap box) that this is a symptom of 'what's wrong with this country'. I'm not saying we need to grind our own wheat or go back to beating the laundry on a rock. I'm all for saving time when possible but what corners are we cutting and for what purpose? Quick spaghetti so we can make it on time to cheer Johnny's little league team? Absolutely. Heating up a salt and preservative laden box of processed goodness knows what so we can spend an extra hour in front of the idiot box watching some inane show while the kids play video games? Not so sure. To me that's filling your body and mind with junk instead of quality. Don't get me wrong, I do my 'quick and dirty' thing from time to time but DH says they're as good as someone else's slaving. But my quickies still have flavor and are made with care. That's a skill unto itself, I guess.IMHO when you slap something together you're telling everyone you're feeding, including yourself, that they're not worth your time. Kids especially pick up on this. My mother loved us enough to work all day on her feet and still come home and cook real meals we loved. My grandmother drummed into my head that she wanted me to go to college and have a career but there was still no more important thing I'd ever do than feed my family. One of my most heartbreaking moments was when I had a school friend over for dinner on a weeknight and her response to the meal wasn't 'that was good' but 'wow, your mother really loves you'. She sure did, but my did my poor friend think her mother didn't?They're also robbing their kids and spouses of amazing quality time and memories. I lost Grandma at 18 and Mama at 26, but every time I make stuffed cabbage or meat sauce they're right there. Cooking together was some of the best bonding time I knew. I learned some of my most valuable lessons with a spoon in my hand.Along with that comes sharing a meal as a family. We don't need studies to tell us that kids do better in school, do fewer drugs and get into less trouble when they eat dinner as a family, but there are plenty of them out there. I guess it comes down to being a society of instant gratification, but like any quick fix it leaves us hollow and yearning for the next one. Thank you Grandma, Mama, Aunt Betty, and Daddy (lost him at 23) who ate every single one of my 'experiments'. You guys were the best!