Eating Right and Living Well

Cooking

My twin sister and room mate is going back to school to finish her degree. In order to help her out I have decided to do most of the cooking this year. 

So far this week has not been bad. I made beef stew and omelets. The left over stew has gone to beef vegetable soup. 

I found a great cook book from America's Test Kitchen Cooking School. 
 With this and my old stand by Joy of Cooking I am going to improve my skills in the kitchen. 

 I have always enjoyed cooking. I like baking biscuits, for which I am grateful to White Lily flour. I lived in the south forever and never bought it till I read an article about a chef from up North who filled up a suit case with the stuff whenever he went South. Next time I went to the grocery I bought it and I have been buying it ever since. Whenever anyone asks me how to make biscuits, I tell them, it starts with the flour.

A lot of my favorite authors like to cook. Julia Cameron equates soup as a good way to cook up creativity and stir up ideas. Gone with a Handsomer Man, Michael  Lee West's heroine Teeny is a cook, with a penchant for crime solving and poisons.

My favorite novel with a heroine who cooks is  Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel. It made me see cooking not as a chore hoisted by society mostly upon the backs of women, but as a beautiful expression of love and creativity. It made me appreciate the best cook who ever cooked for me, the woman who raised me, my grandmother Onnie Elizabeth.