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.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
On being a Secretive Non-vegetarian
Can anyone tell me what one can do when there are two people in the house, and one is vegetarian and the other isn't? Can love sustain when neither of them is willing to give in?
This is the true story of a non-vegetarian woman, recently married to a strict vegetarian (who eats eggs without the yolk). The woman cannot give up meat and fish, and the man cannot let her cook or eat any of it inside the house. Of course, he is not ready or willing to turn into a non-vegetarian.
Eating out every day is not economically viable. Neither is it practical, as the portions are too large, and taking away the leftover goes against the principles of the man.
They are married, many months pass. The woman is unhappy, the man feels guilty but cannot give in. How could he go against his religion, or, how would he be able to accept that things are being cooked in the house?
And then, at the end of many many requests made by the woman, the man agrees. To one thing. And they begin working towards it.
This is the true story of a non-vegetarian woman, recently married to a strict vegetarian (who eats eggs without the yolk). The woman cannot give up meat and fish, and the man cannot let her cook or eat any of it inside the house. Of course, he is not ready or willing to turn into a non-vegetarian.
Eating out every day is not economically viable. Neither is it practical, as the portions are too large, and taking away the leftover goes against the principles of the man.
They are married, many months pass. The woman is unhappy, the man feels guilty but cannot give in. How could he go against his religion, or, how would he be able to accept that things are being cooked in the house?
And then, at the end of many many requests made by the woman, the man agrees. To one thing. And they begin working towards it.
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