spiralngphoenix: (hearth and home)
spiralngphoenix ([personal profile] spiralngphoenix) wrote2011-01-02 01:01 pm

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Dear Body,

Can we please not develop some new and interesting health issues that require me to entirely relearn how to cook roughly every decade or so? That would rock. Kthanx. ~M


On the upside, at least my body seems to keep insisting that I need to eat healthier and healthier every time.

On the downside, my family food history is Irish, English, and Polish. All vegetables are to be boiled within an inch of their lives, then seasoned with a bit of butter, salt, and pepper. (Those that didn't come out of a can.) I have ZERO clue what else to do with them.

*sigh*

Anyone got good recipes for Things To Do With Vegetables? (Doesn't have to be vegetarian, meat is fine, I just need to cut back on the amount.)

[identity profile] fatfred.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)

Stir fry is good, but you have to know what shapes to cut them in and which order to add them.

As said above, roasting is good. I add a branch of rosemary and drizzle basalmic vinegar then cover with foil for 40 min, uncover for another 20. To that, you can add roasted chicken and a lemon gravy, layer between lasagna noodles with feta cheese for a Greek Lasagna.

[identity profile] spiralngphoenix.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I am intrigued by the idea of lemon gravy... How does one make this?

[identity profile] fatfred.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)

I cheat, because I have never learned how: I get a bottle of chicken gravy and add the juice of a lemon.

[identity profile] spiralngphoenix.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Works for me! When it comes to regular cooking, I'm a wicked cheater. Baking I'm a snob about everything from scratch...day to day meals? Feh. If my system would let me, I'd live on pasta in winter, fruit in summer, and call it a day. (I can cook most things, I just don't like to.)

*ponders* That would go well with a few things, I'm thinking. Thank you! :)