Problems with cooking

[cjsmith]

I was about to head over to the store for more baking ingredients when I thought "Gee, I could toss something into the slow cooker, too. What would I need to pick up for that?"

I refuse to buy anything perishable that I will not use up. I refuse to cook anything I can not or will not eat. There is no point to me cooking unless the result is healthier than I can get elsewhere. Also, for this exercise, I really did want something I could just throw together, since I'd planned to spend the afternoon baking, so no brown this and dice that and pause halfway through to count the number of cloves to tie into a cheesecloth. I wish I were making this up.

I glanced through two cookbooks, scanning the recipe ingredients. Every single time, I didn't finish reading the list before at least three of the items violated the above requirements. One of the cookbooks was supposed to be healthy, but every recipe I saw has between a 3:1 and a 5:1 sodium mg to calories ratio. (I begin to realize why folks might not like my lentil soup. I forgot to add the salt lick.) Healthy? Pull on the other leg.

There's no point in even trying. I am now glum enough that I don't even want to go get flour and eggs. A pox on all of it.

Comments

Re: Healthy chipotle pork stew

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

Oh, what makes this super-easy for me was finding out that a lot of grocery stores sell little containers of pre-diced onion now, in exactly the right size for this stew. So I just pick up one of those and dump it in, along with about a teaspoon of pre-chopped garlic from a jar, and the entire "prep" of this dish is reduced to opening cans. :)

Re: Healthy chipotle pork stew

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

By the way, one of Rob's flight students thanks you by proxy for posting this recipe. She tried it and her report was summed up as "OMG THE YUM".

Re: Healthy chipotle pork stew

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

I'm glad! All credit goes to czarina69 as she created the stew and I just added the pork roast.

Amusingly enough,m I'm trying a variant on it tonight with adding raspberry vinaigrette dressing, since I've had very good raspberry-chipotle dishes in the past... we'll see if it works!

Re: Healthy chipotle pork stew

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hmm, raspberry! I'll have to point her to this variant. :)

Me, on the other hand, I have yet to try it. I couldn't find chipotle peppers at my local grocery store. (I'm probably in one of the whitest white-bread sections of the California bay area. I'm sure trying another grocery store will do the trick.)