Food is always on my mind.
I am no saint, but I love sitting at a nicely set table, have nice music on and Billy sitting across from me as we enjoy a meal together. It is the most cherished moment in my day. I have an old favorite cookbook that I have had to replace once. It had become so tattered and worn that the pages were falling out. So I found it online back in the 80's and take better care of it, but...it still is resembling my original in it's well worn hard back cover. It is starting to look like the flimsy sort of cook books, the only differnce is the stains that baptised its useage. It's not filled with pictures or drawings that attracted me to this book, it's just a book. Before computers, you had to search to find out how to cut, broil, poach or steam in the ways our mothers...didn't. I love food from all over this planet. Their are many items I haven't bitten into yet, or let dribble down my chin or let spill in haste to enter my lips all over my white shirt. Oh...I love to try new things too. I will never forget my approach to poaching an egg without the tools I've seen at stores. But, my researching has expanded into the internet when I crave for a savory, tasety goodness. Learning these words from my son, who has asked often for my meatloaf, dutch mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts and gravy over these many years. My daughters have such a sweet tooth and romance flavors and smells of food more than I do. Now they take wooden spoons and cast iron pots to their own stoves and master basic skills and experiments in their own kitchens. I know and please myself in knowing my children will never be without the means or knowledge on cooking or even eating out.....even if more than occationally.
I simply love that a cauliflowerhas so many directions to be served and is one of my favorite items that I serve weekly and most times more often than most like. You don't have to drag children into the kitchen to cook. You just need to give the child a variety of foods to enjoy in all its different ways till they find out for themselves if they like it cooked, raw, hot or cold.
I am no saint, but I love sitting at a nicely set table, have nice music on and Billy sitting across from me as we enjoy a meal together. It is the most cherished moment in my day. I have an old favorite cookbook that I have had to replace once. It had become so tattered and worn that the pages were falling out. So I found it online back in the 80's and take better care of it, but...it still is resembling my original in it's well worn hard back cover. It is starting to look like the flimsy sort of cook books, the only differnce is the stains that baptised its useage. It's not filled with pictures or drawings that attracted me to this book, it's just a book. Before computers, you had to search to find out how to cut, broil, poach or steam in the ways our mothers...didn't. I love food from all over this planet. Their are many items I haven't bitten into yet, or let dribble down my chin or let spill in haste to enter my lips all over my white shirt. Oh...I love to try new things too. I will never forget my approach to poaching an egg without the tools I've seen at stores. But, my researching has expanded into the internet when I crave for a savory, tasety goodness. Learning these words from my son, who has asked often for my meatloaf, dutch mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts and gravy over these many years. My daughters have such a sweet tooth and romance flavors and smells of food more than I do. Now they take wooden spoons and cast iron pots to their own stoves and master basic skills and experiments in their own kitchens. I know and please myself in knowing my children will never be without the means or knowledge on cooking or even eating out.....even if more than occationally.
I simply love that a cauliflowerhas so many directions to be served and is one of my favorite items that I serve weekly and most times more often than most like. You don't have to drag children into the kitchen to cook. You just need to give the child a variety of foods to enjoy in all its different ways till they find out for themselves if they like it cooked, raw, hot or cold.
Cauliflower is low in fat, high in dietary fiber, folate, water and vitamin C, possessing a very high nutritional density. As a member of the brassica family, cauliflower shares with broccoli and cabbage several phytochemicals which are beneficial to human health, including sulforaphane, an anti-cancer compound released when cauliflower is chopped or chewed. In addition, the compound indole-3-carbinol, which appears to work as an anti-estrogen, appears to slow or prevent the growth of tumors of the breast and prostate.[8] Cauliflower also contains other glucosinolates besides sulfurophane, substances which may improve the liver's ability to detoxify carcinogenic substances.[9] A high intake of cauliflower has been found to reduce the risk of aggressive prostate cancer.[10]
