Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Awesome. As it happens, Barb's been using a toaster oven instead of the big 
one and we do without evap cooling, all days in 90s.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 6/27/2010 at 8:54 PM Tameson O'Brien wrote:

>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
>
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>[mailto:livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Tradingpost
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>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] More on Low Dairy and Meat Diets
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>
>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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>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."
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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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