If you want to enjoy life to the full with natural healthy food
recipes you wont' be able to rely on processed food with its thousands of toxic
additives. That means that you'll have to marry a cook that likes healthy
cooking, or hire a chef who will prepare only health food, or learn to cook.
Can you be sure that another cook will always use organic health
food, or will they sneak processed food in behind your back? The only way to be
sure of what you are eating is to cook it yourself.
That is an enormous obstacle if you have been brainwashed into
believing that it takes an apprenticeship lasting several years to learn to
cook.
When I was 20 I still hadn't learned to cook. It was too
difficult, or so I thought. Then I got a job living alone on a farm, snowed up
for much of the time, with the boss out of contact 6 miles away. I realized to
my horror that I was going to have to learn to cook.
So I bought "The Reluctant Cook" by Ethelind Fearon
and really enjoyed my voyage of discovery. In her introduction she says
If you are hampered at every turn by tiresome complicated
recipes; an inefficient kitchen... instructions to use half a dozen different
containers or operations where one would do, I don't wonder that you're
reluctant.
The approach of simplifying everything suited me perfectly. In a
few weeks I was cooking eggs with recipes that I made up as I went along (the
400 hens on the farm produced a couple of dozen cracked eggs per day and I
tried leave as few as possible to throw out), snaring rabbits and making rabbit
and pigeon pies, making cheeses (I had to pour about ten gallons of milk down
the drain each day so if I could convert 5 gallons to cheese that was OK).
I remember one lemon meringue pie that I made with the whites of
a dozen eggs, that foamed up to about six inches high. I enjoyed the first
slice so much that I ate it all at one sitting.
How did I become such an expert in a few weeks? The secret is
that if you start off with good tasty food, it's very difficult to spoil it.
You can of course ruin it by tipping in too much salt or pepper or curry powder
or garlic and so on. You can even make it taste like a poultice by adding too
much sage and onions. But you can avoid the problem by increasing these tasty
additives gradually until you find the level that you prefer.
If you are considering kids healthy recipes you have to find
something that they are prepared to eat. The best solution is to teach them
healthy cooking. Even if they ruin some food they'll doggedly eat their way
through it because they made it.
Why put up with unhealthy fruit juice and carbonated drinks or
chocolates for snacks? Teach the children that they are clever enough not to be
tricked into all these nasty foods that make their friends get sick so often,
and show them how to make snacks of fruit, and even peas or celery foraged from
the garden.
I like to wander round a good organic garden and pick fruit and
vegetables and herbs, and collect duck and poultry eggs, then invent natural
healthy food recipes to go with whatever I've gathered. It's heart healthy but
even better - it lessens the chance that I'll ever get cancer. Read More-
