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    There's More To "Eat" Than Cooking
    There's More To "Eat" Than Cooking
    There's More To "Eat" Than Cooking
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    There's More To "Eat" Than Cooking

    By Manuel O. Aureus

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    Like many "house-husbands" that I know - and their name is legion - I do most of the cooking at home. I'm no chef, but I have more than 30 years "cooking" experience to back me up. My recipes are written for multi-cultural America and for all situations and occasions. That is why I have written this ebook.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 12, 2013
    ISBN9781483513027
    There's More To "Eat" Than Cooking

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      Introduction

      Like many house-husbands that I know—and their name is legion—I do most of the cooking at home. I’m no chef, but I have more than 30 years cooking experience to back me up.

      When I first came to New York more than 30 years ago, I did not know much about cooking. I tried out recipe books, but always ended up with the usual Chinese take outs, burgers and pizzas. I found out, to my chagrin, that following recipe instructions from a cookbook was like following the instruction manual of a build-it-yourself computer table made in China.

      Ever since then, I had long given up on manuals. Like the China table, you usually ended up with missing parts or extra ones that were not needed. In time, I relied on the pictures—and common sense.

      Cooking is like this. You need common sense. A few ingredients may be missing, causing you to end up with unnecessary, extra ingredients. This is easily solved by simple common sense, which means you can always balance, improvise and direct the outcome.

      Learning how to cook from TV food shows is not that easy either. I wonder how many cuts were done to shoot a scene. Besides, we house-husbands do not really have all that sophisticated kitchen equipment that are available in studio kitchens. We still rely heavily on forks and pans.

      Like many disciplines, I taught myself how to cook the easy way, the shortcut way that is, by apprenticeship — by observing how other people cooked, by asking my co-workers how they cooked their tempting lunch, and especially by recalling how my mom cooked.

      My Mom cooked really great stuff. She is my role model. I copied everything I know from my mother, including the idiosyncrasies. For example, she would always throw in a pinch of sugar for salt based food and a pinch of salt when making sweets. When it came to my Dad’s cooking, all I can remember was watching him throw a pinch of salt over his left shoulder.

      My recipes are written for everyone and for all situations and occasions. For example, what if your spouse came home early and tired from work and fell asleep. You’d say aha! There’s no need to prepare dinner. But what if your spouse woke up in the middle of the night, and very hungry. What would you cook?

      If you were preparing a big party it is advisable to know in advance the diversity of your guests or their food preferences. Some years ago I gave a Thanksgiving party to the employees of a company I was managing. I was disappointed to find out that a third of my employees would not eat turkey because they said it was not Halal. But I recall it was kosher even if we had no Jewish employees. At the end of the day, the rest of the employees went home happy because they brought home the untouched turkeys, while I ended up buying fruit baskets to appease the employees who wanted Halal turkey.

      New York is a multi-cultural metropolis. America itself, in fact, is fast becoming one. Your visitors may consist of people from different ethnic groups. I remember an Indian friend of mine who wanted to have Hawaiian food for breakfast. At one time we had a dinner guest from Indonesia who came in with her Jewish fiancé and I was tempted to serve Falafel with Indonesian devilled eggs inside.

      No worries. Once you’ve read my book, you’ll be able to fully satisfy your guests. Cooking is universal. What tastes good, tastes good, whatever one’s taste bud is. That is why I have written this book.

      One advantage in cooking at home as opposed to eating out or having food delivered home is that you and your love ones are sure that what you are eating is clean. It’s less expensive too.

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