Recipe Books

Nowadays, my reading during a day has come to be circumscribed by what I cook. Most often.

Like if I am planning to cook pasta with soya sauce, I need to clarify what spices I need to add. If it would be ginger, garlic and onion, or something more too. Whether I need to be strictly making an Asian pasta/noodles, or move somewhat away from that path and add the Italian tomato sauce that contains oregano.

It is an extremely good idea to have cookbooks in the house. More if you like cooking, and on top of that, if you have someone in the house who is a finicky eater.

But there are disadvantages to having cookbooks too. You end up making too much good food, and then eating it too. The outcome? Maybe indigestion, obesity, high bp, or even diabetes. And then cholesterol fear always looms large.

The result is that you learn to cook healthy, and eat healthy eventually. Because you search for such recipes in cookbooks that spell out the exact calories and other components, like cholesterol and sodium, that it contains.