Hi guys,
Sorry if this has been covered before. I don’t see a post about it. My effort is at the bottom. Go easy on me this is my first attempt.
Some of you may have seen the Joshua Weissman’s meal prep video from last month:
For someone that is just getting into Meal Prep what do you think of it? My impression is that Weissman is not making actual food that he intends to eat. It looks more like entertainment video than useful advice. These are some of my takes on the video:
1. Moisture. One of the things that makes for tasty food is high moisture content. Weissman cooks the chicken sous vide to preserve moisture. He never gives it a pan sear or the flame thrower treatment. He stores it for a week in the fridge. Is this chicken going to taste good?
2. Weissman uses a rice cooker. Rice cookers are very common in the body builder community. It looks like another plug in device that I don’t need. Do you use a rice cooker?
3. The boxes he uses are flimsy and don’t look like they will be air tight. The boxes are very constraining. For instance he stacks the chicken on the lettuce. That lettuce is going to wilt in a week. Even allowing for some creative license with the video, I’m seeing packing problems like the bread is going to get wet.
4. Salmon. He cooks the salmon and sticks it in the fridge for a week. Generally I have a three day limit for fish in the fridge. He does this thing where he makes skewers of Salmon and vegetables. I find that this is a good way to burn the veggies and under cook the Salmon.
5. He makes a fried vegetable thing. It looks really appetizing in the container but I generally don’t like fried food the next day.
6. Salad. The salad looks terrific but if you put the dressing on the lettuce you have a couple of seconds before it wilts. Nobody likes having a ton of containers but just separating the greens and the dressing would make this last a week.
7. The breakfast sandwich. The bread is going to be soggy. I’m not going to make a turkey thing. This is too much work. I also can’t eat that much in the AM.
This is my effort. I would say that is is inspired by Joshua Weissman more than a recipe from Joshua Weissman.
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Honey Mustard Chicken Sous vide.
* 1 tablespoon honey
* 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
* 5 cloves garlic
* 1/4 cup olive oil
* 1 teaspoon salt
* some pepper.
* tyme
* marjorum
marinate the chicken in the sauce over night and sous vide 2hrs at 62C(143F).
The chicken I got was organic boneless skinless chicken breast from Leclerc at 29 euros/kg. This is unsustainable. There must be a cheaper way to make lunch.
I really enjoyed the video but other than convincing me too cook something I don’t know that it has any useful advice.
by flower-power-123