rrorkins

Intermediate home cook


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About me

I'm using BigOven to document my wife's recipe's - sneaking in a few of my own though she really is a classic Italian cook, ( no- not chief, we cook for la familia not for work). I try to keep my hand in with my favorite non Italian dishes and she "lets" me do the sous work that the short Italian attention span finds too tedious. I try to also keep a garden going along with blueberry, strawberry, and raspberry patches.

My Favorite Foods

With the realization of mortality that middle age brings, the fight against cholesterol and high blood sugar has led me to learn to enjoy foods even more exotic than those that marrying a NY Italian exposes you too. I've jumped in to at least try a great number of new things and to enjoy a large percentage of them. 

Following the recommendations of health related websites I've found alternatives to white flour and white rice, ( I still eat those but the knowledge that these are not the healthful items once believed has us limiting our use). I won't try to list all the strange items I've learned to enjoy but anyone can get an idea if you go to the RealAge. com website - which I recommend to anyone concerned about eating exercise, and health. I get pleasure trying grains that I used to read about in historical texts, ( I include the Bible in those). Things like barley, spelt, quinoa, and wheat berries have so much more texture and flavor than rice.  I've always enjoyed fish in any form, ( cooked please). Wild game is also a welcome treat to me, even though I don't hunt, I'm busy enough as it is - donations are happily accepted though! 

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Got into this in order to document recipes, (mainly my wife's but I do have a few favorites). For more years than either of us care to mention she has been collecting recipes and has them saved in many different ways, folders, cook book notes and handtyped. I purchased the software after reading a review by PC magazine online and am very happy with it. My typical evening is scanning in 4 to 6 recipes, converting them to Word, then importing them into BigOven. I have 110+ right now and of course there are many times that waiting. Been trying to collect and take photos of completed dishes when I can. Hoping to create a "cookbook" of sorts to give to "la familia".

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