What are you cooking/eating right now?

[abaris]

Just tales some planning.  You have to frontload the prepwork (and this also means you have to select a menu that works for frontloaded prep).  Bonus points if prep can be used for more than one dish (hence all my different pilafs).  

Spoken like a man who's never cooked a decent meal in his life. It takes next to no prepping, if you already know what you're doing. Ten minutest at the most. Then it's off to the oven or the pot with you doing nothing else than waiting it out.