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You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.

Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

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 julioned vegetables or a gorgeous,

slow-roasted leg of lamb. Well, 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 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, 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? No, but it was the thing I needed in that time, which was just

something super quick and comforting and warm. If this answer surprises you, Margaret Eby says it's time to reconsider.

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