Give Peas a Chance
People who enjoy growing healthy food often enjoy preparing and preserving it, too. I don’t. In fact I hate anything to do with cooking, resembling cooking or reminding me of cooking.
That doesn’t mean I don’t cook. I live alone so I have to, and I’m quite capable in that department. But any advice from me relating to kitchen activities aims at only one thing: How to spend less time in the kitchen.
Legume Sam:
Tomatoes are difficult because they perish so easily — when I give away food to the food bank I am often left at the end with a bunch of tomatoes, since the food bank itself cannot let old tomatoes (which is what the farmers market usually gives me) rot away on their shelves. Potatoes/ Jerusalem artichokes, on the other hand, can be given away over two or three days without really losing much of their substance. I think I’ll do the freezing thing this time.
8 January 2007, 9:22 pmElki:
I too dislike cooking. For this reason alone i appreciate it when I go out for dinner, where someone has prepared the meal for me – somehow it tastes so much better when someone else has prepared and cooked it. As a consequence I’m very willing to pay to be waited on~
9 January 2007, 4:02 pmKarl:
What the hell is wrong with you people?!! Have you not heard of the only real technological advancement man has made in like two centuries- The George Formeman grill. it’s like that food molecule creator thing out of star trek its so easy. If you live in an efficiency apt, are squatting this thing does everything. Steak- no problem- put meat in, lift cover when light goes off, fish flets? no problem, put fish in till light goes off or earlier if you wish, vegetables? throw em in, light goes off, and bam! I swear this thing came down like the damn rock from 2001 space odyssey and yall don’t know about it?!
15 January 2007, 11:09 pmAudrey:
The tomatoes have been eating away at me for weeks now. A person could freeze the excess, and I suppose if you have a large enough freezer and you are running it anyway, there’s not much difference between having tomatoes in it or not. But it makes way more sense to me to just dry any extra tomatoes the garden throws at me, rather than keeping them plugged in nonstop until I am ready to eat them.
Admittedly, part of my problem is that I keep visualizing all these tomatoes being individually plugged into wall sockets for weeks or months, like a bay of cryogenic embryos waiting for their turn to defrost.
25 January 2007, 11:16 pm