Now, I probably cook more, rarely cook gourmet. For example, here's what we've had so far this week. Monday, roast chicken and green salad, Tuesday hamburgers/chips/pineapple upside down cake, tonight, sirloin on the grill, green salad, baked potato. Real exciting stuff, huh? My younger sister, a gourmet cook, says I cook "old people food". Well, all I have to say about that is try eating the way they eat for the rest of your life and you may end up looking like a prize heifer. We have to keep it simple, being over 50 years of age and all. Not to mention, I really do not enjoy cooking any longer.
I have a Paul Prudhomme cookbook with two recipes in it that I make occasionally. One is for chicken curry (Cajun style, of course - we're talking Prudhomme here) and Cajun Meat Pies. I just went to his website and he has lost some serious weight. The last time I checked, he was very obese. Now, he looks great. I imagine you can find these recipes on his site.
The above is my introduction to an interesting recipe I just discovered today. A very clever recipe, I might add. It's on a great website called "Instructables" and it is the "Lazy Man's Pancake". Instead of making lots of little pancakes, you just pour the batter in a pan and cook it in the oven until it is light and fluffy. What a super idea. Well, maybe everyone might not think it's so wonderful...................
Instructables is just chock full of some great and not so great ideas people concoct. I saw one instructable for a postage scale using old CD's, wire and a clothespin - brilliant. How about a Universal Bike Light Battery starting with an 8 oz. Kraft Parmesan Cheese container?
I'd be making one of these if only we drank pop from those big bottles. Basically, we don't drink soda pop. (When I lived up east, pop was soda. I actually like "soda" better, but I'm no longer up east.)
