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  • From: "Tameson O'Brien" <tamesonob@metrocast.net>
  • To: "'Healthy soil and sustainable growing'" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] More on Low Dairy and Meat Diets
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:54:47 -0400

Actually Paul, they did about 15years ago or so. I used to watch this show
where the guy lived in a tiny studio apartment 4th floor walk-up type. He
only had a microwave and a toaster oven and a grill pan and he cooked
incredible meals usually for only one or two people (as the premise was he
lived alone). In the opening credits of the show they'd show him climbing
the stairs with a paper bag or two with a couple of ingredients peeking out
of the top, carrot or beat greens - whatever, And he'd unload the bag on the
counter and cook some awesome meal with his limited tools. It was from THAT
GUY that I learned how to cook. My apartment at the time was wicked hot and
I would get take out to avoid heating up the house anymore than it was, but
he taught me how to make everything from spaghetti to pot roast to tilapia
in just a toaster oven and a microwave, and the food actually tasted better
than the take out I was getting AND it didn't heat up my house. I live in a
house that rarely gets hot now, but I still cook that way - it's second
nature now. Wish that show was still on.

Tameson

-----Original Message-----
From: livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Tradingpost
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 2:48 PM
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] More on Low Dairy and Meat Diets


How long? Oh, about one day of doing without.

Takes me ten minutes to nuke a baked potato. Throw in a little olive oil,
tomato sauce or salsa and seasoning, and it's a meal, nutritious, good carbs
and oil, and dirt cheap. Now I'm not the expert in the house; Barb was
cooking southern Italian with her mother since she could reach the counter.

Ever wonder, Norma, why they don't demonstrate simple cheap food on those
idiot TV shows?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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"Life is a combination of magic and pasta."
-- Federico Fellini

"Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup,
mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment
which destroys the original flavor of the dish."
-- Henry Miller, American writer

"I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United
States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art."
-- Isadora Duncan, America dancer

"What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have
the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively,
but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table."
-- H.L. Mencken

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On 6/27/2010 at 12:19 PM Norma Sutton wrote:

>How long do you think it will take them to learn that home cooking can be
>just as quick as cooking from boxes Paul? I stir up bread as I need it,
>steam veggies while it's rising and if we are having meat it will be
>cooking
>then too. I can normally have a home cooked meal ready in half a hour to
>45
>minutes. From what I've seen it takes about that long to cook from boxes
>and then you have all that trash to deal with.
>
>Today we are having home made sandwich buns with chicken, tomatoes,
>cucumbers, onions and homemade fries.
>Norma
>
>On 6/26/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Good line, wasn't it. In real life it would take an enormous army of
>> bureaucrats to police millions of home gardens across this country. And
>I'd
>> dare say as the economy keeps slipping more and more people everywhere
>will
>> wish they started home growing a lot sooner. We won't have that "fifty
>> million farmers" but we may well see fifty million home growers. Esp if
>they
>> find out the Big Secret - that cooking simply from scratch costs a
>fraction
>> of what they spend on food now. And that cooking your own home grown can
>> cost next to nothing. And it may be more productive than looking for a
>job.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>
>>
>
>
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>
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>
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