Original oil painting by: Grandfather’s wife
Approximately two hours of his day (mealtime) are hostage to food preparation recipes.
That’s mostly good; cooks like to do well for their diners.
But Grandfather says just look at how many vittles mixer-upper publications are in his house:
Those are all recipes — and more are arriving in the mail every week!
If current projects on prolongation of human life get it done, recipes will fill the whole house and Grandfather says he will have to live in the garage.
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About the Author: RD Blakeslee is an octogenarian from West Virginia who built his net worth by only investing in that which can be enjoyed during acquisition and throughout life, as opposed to papers in a drawer, like stocks and bonds. You can read more about him here.
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Grandfather wonders how many of Len’s readers know how to cook more than, say, six different meals?
It occurs to him that cooking skill might be as important in really bad times as how much precious coinage one has stacked.
I’m writing a family cookbook. The idea was to cut down on the number of cookbooks that threaten to overrun my kitchen. The project is also helpfully keeping me busy and reinforces that I shouldn’t buy more kitchen gadgets that I really won’t use.
Good idea! Organization can improve ‘most anything …
Trouble is, in my household I’d get killed if I touched anything in the wife’s culinary archives.
Many of the people that I work with, I believe, cannot cook. I’ve watched several of my coworkers, those that eat in, and only a very few of them ever bring anything home made. There are several that have a store bought sandwich every day for lunch. I often sit in the break room, eating the leftovers from my supper the previous night, wondering if many of my coworkers even have kitchens in their houses.
Good for you Jason!
I’m afraid your coworkers’ behavior is more and more the norm for most young people, these days.
One of the real joys accompanying my old age is the tradition of home-cooked meals.
I’m with you, Jason. I am a big leftover guy too; in fact, my whole family loves leftovers. I have saved thousands of dollars over the years because my family never tosses our leftovers in the trash!
We raise a lot of our food, so we rarely eat out, finding our own cooking to be far superior to most restaurant fare. In-laws took us out for a meal recently at a lake shore place we’ve liked in the past, but wife got side order of coleslaw and had to send it back….apparently they got salt instead of sugar in the mix and it was terrible !
In the days we were working, lunches were usually brown bag (or Playmate cooler), and supper was often sometime from the crock pot, or a jar of home canned beef stew, chili, pinto beans (all with cornbread of course), or spaghetti sauce with pasta cooked at the time.
We do less canning now in retirement, having more time to cook fresh. Wife comes in ever few days with a bag of stuff to thaw from “freezer row” (we have 8 freezers, 5 currently filled) that will make the core of meals for the next few days. She smiles and says “beat having to go to the store”.
So, Andy, will you be eating a wild turkey from off your property this Thanksgiving? (I’m assuming you have wild turkeys in Tennessee!)
No…..about the only thing fit to eat off a wild turkey is the breast. The rest would compare to shoe leather !
Most likely we’ll be eating a succulent, plump whole chicken…..we put up 40 of them few weeks ago.
Or maybe a fresh pork roast…mmmm….got a pig about ready to go.
Folks, Andy may be going into the wholesale food business soon …
Does the pig know that?
No. He/she/(it?) is deceased.
The chickens, too, have passed away.
(PEIT’s next chore: convincing the sheep among us to pay proper respect for those animals no longer among us by using politically correct language. to describe their departure: Good-old “died” won’t do …)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-05/peta-publishes-laughable-list-animal-friendly-phrases-fight-speciesism