The Healthy Cooking Journal for Today’s Savvy Cook
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The Healthy Cooking Lifestyle
How can you just look in the fridge and throw something together? Depends on what’s in your fridge! Over the years I’ve become a pretty fair cook, mostly because my family of eight depended on me not to starve. These days when I’m asked to bring food, everyone knows to put me in charge of salad….and they do. I can tell you that a fabulous caesar salad is a hit every time. My relish plates are not only good and healthy, they are a work of art…at least in my mind.
I actually do like to cook. Just not the meat, potatoes and gravy daily grind. There’s a better, healthier way. That said, I invite you into this journal of healthy cooking. I’ve been an avid recipe collector since I was a teenager, and the Healthy Cooking Journal is the perfect opportunity to share from my bulging files. I might even be inspired to bake something again real soon even though baking isn’t necessarily my strong suit.
As autumn gets closer I start thinking soup and stew. I can almost smell the homemade vegetable soup simmering on the back burner. Of course the perfect match is sourdough bread hot from the oven spread with REAL butter. No wonder they call it comfort food. But, I’m getting ahead of myself here. We’re still in late summer. Just a few days ago I discovered that potatoes, onions, zucchini and yellow crookneck squash cooked together and seasoned with a little salt, pepper and a dash (or more) of Braggs Sprinkle became a really tasty side for rosemary grilled chicken breast. Are you hungry yet?
As Healthy Cooking Journal grows it will become much more than just a cookbook. We’ll talk about what is, and is not healthy, and why. How you can become a savvy shopper. How you can take control of your health by cooking and eating healthy, healing food. You can also find more about healthier food at www.thewholefoodjournal.com.
Perhaps you want to grow your own….and preserve it too. Good for you. You’ll find what you need to know right here. Homemade is the very best and worth your efforts.
I guess cooking naturally could be best described at this moment as the difference between the pizza you make yourself and the one I once purchased at the grocery store with only three things I could recognize on the label…..white flour, fat and some kind of tomato spread. The remaining “ingredients” were words I could not pronounce. Of course I trashed it! But, there you can clearly see the line in the sand when it comes to healthy food and just plain junk.
I invite you to visit Healthy Cooking Journal often and to share your comments, suggestions (and yes, recipes too!). Someone out there is looking for your prize recipes and tips.
And, I leave you today with a great little story about my mother-in-law. She was the best baker I ever knew. Every Sunday after church she would take over my kitchen, make one huge mess and produce six beautiful loaves of homemade bread. I cleaned up the mess, but there was NO whining in my kitchen, for as she took her one loaf with her, she always left the remaining five with me. No wonder her grandkids loved her.
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