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Honest to heavens Senior, I don't know what you did before in your life but what you should do now is write a cookbook or better still, take over one of the not too hot restaurants here.
So...I love vegetables even though I am not a vegan or a vegetarian and I thought that it would be fun to hear how other people fix their vegetables.
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Actually, I never cooked at all until we were married in 1965.
Worked as a private secretary but still had to commute home to make supper. At first, all I had was a Betty Crocker cookbook. If you can read, you can learn to cook.
There were no processed foods back then except for t.v. dinners, which I did not use.........I cooked from scratch.
I made my first Thanksgiving dinner as a newlywed......for my parents and friends, etc.
We entertained a lot and I made all types of appetizers and desserts.
Later, once the children arrived, you beginning cooking "family meals" and I added to my huge cookbook collection..........plus, remember the old "stained" recipe card box???? Mine was huge....shared by friends and neighbors and family members.
Now, it's just the two of us except when they all come "home".
I wouldn't want to own a restaurant at all. Once you go down to cooking for two, it really isn't fun anymore......but then a restaurant would be too much at our age.
My generation was the "stay at home" mom, baking the cookies for when they returned on the school bus..........sending them off with a hot breakfast.......and a big supper at suppertime. We always ate together.
Now, it appears that some families use the drive up windows a lot.
I even learned to bake French bread (baguettes).........now the breads in the supermarket are awful..........but again, for just the two of us, it isn't worth the bother.
We used to think that the delicious French baguettes at a local historical inn were made in the "kitchen" by some top chef baker.........then we found out he was using Schwan's frozen pre baked French Bread Loaves.
They are really good........so now I cheat.
You could have fooled us......they'd come out of the kitchen looking just like he baked them......and were excellent. Perfect outside crust and nice soft inside.....but not the gluey bread of today.
They come in a bag of three for the freezer. Great "with dinner" or for a sandwich.
Our pet peeve is all the GLUEY MUSHY bread in the supermarkets since they took the trans fats out.......whatever else they did to the bread, it is awful.........I buy "artisan" breads at the supermarket in the bakery section........they are peasant Italian breads, rough and crusty....have holes in them......but at least they have texture........
Anyway, anyone can cook if they can read...........however, nowadays, it seems everyone is either lactose intollerant or following some type of restricted diet..............but, like you, I've always loved my veggies and am not a vegan nor vegetarian.........everything in moderation.
I married a guy who only ate corn and green beans and peas out of a can........so I introduced him to fresh and frozen veggies.......as I did all my friends........our kids eat everything, were never fussy, and are both thin and healthy..........they eat and enjoy all types of ethnic foods from all over the world..........again, I baked every single day as back in those days "it was what we did"..........it wasn't rationed, yet they grew up thin and healthy.
It was fun going to parties and pot lucks in those days........again, no one was on any type of restricted diet....and we all shared recipes.
A recent wedding we attended was super nuts as NO ONE could eat ANYTHING. The menu was huge for all the other meals as well, but nothing on the menus was acceptable.
It's become quite a craze. Actually, it's taken the pleasure out of "dining out".....or "cooking in".
You open the restaurant and we'll come by...........
What I'd like from you is an authentic German Potato Salad recipe.
Our dear friend who was like a grandmother to our children, would make the best "warm" German potato salad.....yes, it had bacon in it...
I've tried to duplicate it over the years since she's been gone, but although good, the recipes aren't quite the same as hers. She had some type of "seeds" in it. It had vinegar and oil, but no MAYO. Onions, yes.
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