Amen to this. I am amazed at how well and quickly even I -- being impatient -- can cook. I am very grateful that my daughter has grown up with home-made meals, not pre-packaged schlock.
The best cookbook for non-experts is Bittman's How To Cook Everything. The title is just about accurate: you can find out what to do with the catfish nuggets that have been sitting in the freezer for months (lemon and caper sauce, or a mustard sauce), pastas when your ingredients are spaghetti noodles, an old head of garlic and some cheese, what to do with cabbage, and how to make a gimlet. Patrick Moore, who must still try that fennel pasta .... On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Patrick in VT <swing4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:48:08 PM UTC-4, Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> >> The best advice about diet I have read is "Eat food. Not too much. >> Mostly plants." > > > The only thing I'd add to that is learn to cook. Cooking is essential to > taking ownership of what we choose to eat - everyday, I get 5-6 chances to > make the right food choices. When I roll my own, I get it right more often > than not. Cooking also inevitably leads to more flavor and variety, which > makes the food i eat very satisfying. It's an essential human skill and it > needs to part of the discussion with respect to the health/obesity epidemic. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/3FrdLfpVE8gJ. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- "Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you." Flannery O'Connor ------------------------- Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM, USA For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html ------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
