Anna is in her 40’s and she lives alone. She is working in a State project for sustaining all the TV and radio material that the State has over the years. She reports that she is working long hours, even in the weekends. In that sense, she doesn’t have time to cook every day. Though, just because she loves cooking and good eating, she has decided that she had to find a way to eat good food even though she has no time for cooking!
She has found out that organizing is the solution to the puzzle! She is cooking only in Saturdays but she is cooking 3-4 dishes to have for the whole week. The effort she puts is amazing: she preplans the whole cooking adventure. Every Thursday she decides on the week’s menu. She is shopping every Friday all the ingredients she needs. Early Saturday morning she starts the cooking process: she gathers all the ingredients she needs for all the dishes she has planned to cook. She reports that instead of chopping onion for one recipe, she is chopping it for all 4 recipes and then she divides the chopped onion to four separate bowls. She is firstly preparing all the necessary ingredients and she then starts to cook 2-3 dishes simultaneously! She reports that the sequence of the dish cooking is also carefully planned! At the end of the cooking sessions, she usually cooks a nice cake with cocoa powder since the oven is already heated from the previous dish.
She then let the dishes to cool and then she refrigerates them into deep freezer to be certain that they will not spoil and that they will retain the entire flavor and taste. She has a cupboard full of Tupperware for storing food and etiquettes to note the day of preparation!
Her friends know well that she always have homemade frozen food and they often call to be invited for a late dinner! Those dinners have a great variety of flavors as Anna is defrosting many and different plates for her friends.
She reports that food is important for her, especially food that has rich and full taste. She is eating everything but she prefers meat and eggs and sausages even though she knows that she has to be careful not to gain weight. She loves all dairy products like milk, yogurt, cheese and certainly butter.
She is buying a Greek brand of butter that is from cow’s milk. She reports that it has a full and rich taste that she enjoys in many ways: she eats warm bread with butter and honey every morning, warm bread with butter and smoked salmon at night. She is also using butter in many recipes not only for sweets like cake but also on top of the meat or chicken she cooks in the oven. She believes that only butter can offer color and crispiness to the meat or chicken.
She is mainly following the Mediterranean cuisine and the traditional Greek recipes she has from older relatives. She is not much into international cuisine. She prefers to prepare recipes she knows well and appreciate the taste.
She is going to the super market for most of her purchases. In general, she has some brands that she considers as “favorite” brands but she is not very loyal. She keeps an eye on promotions and offers and sometimes she buys new brands. Though, butter is not one of the categories where she experiments. She claims that she is very happy with the brand she purchases.
She is going to the super market for most of her purchases. In general, she has some brands that she considers as “favorite” brands but she is not very loyal. She keeps an eye on promotions and offers and sometimes she buys new brands. Though, butter is not one of the categories where she experiments. She claims that she is very happy with the brand she purchases.
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