What To Do With Leftovers?
Eat them of course!
- Cooked meat and veggies can be tossed into a salad, eggs, pasta, rice or laid on pizza dough and topped with cheese. Make a sauce for the pasta or pizza and add some fresh herbs.
- Raw food like carrots, and celery can be sliced into sticks and eaten with dip or make a soup, a salad, a tomato sauce or chili. Raw potatoes are delicious roasted in the oven with a little olive oil, salt and pepper. Onions can be sliced up and cooked slowly over the stove with a little butter or oil. Add a little sugar at the end and you have carmelized onions.
Recipes
As you all know there are gazillions of web sites catering to cooks on line with recipes and how to videos, so I am not going to overload you with these. My goal is to present the basics to get you started on a lifelong path of cooking.
My recipes are very simple and reflect my experience cooking for a family. I will add options at the end of some recipes if you want to get fancy.
Use these recipes as a road map but take detours at your own discretion. Even if it doesn’t turn out the way you had hoped you will learn something from it and improve with each new effort.
Here's to a long life of healthy cooking and eating!
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Cooking With a Recipe
If you can read, you can cook!
The first time you try to make something you read the recipe and follow the directions precisely. You are all smart enough to do this.
Once you get over your intimidation you make it again. The second time, maybe you don't have all the same ingredients so you make substitutions. Now you're gaining confidence.
The third time, you barely glance at the recipe and it becomes your own creation. So it evolves from an intellectual exercize to a creative one.