What is it that makes you so passionate about cooking ?

On Apr 17, 8:46?pm, "Bob Terwilliger"
wrote:

You're a very different sort of cook and eater than I am, and you
really are very honest about your relationship with food. You're
obviously not a supertaster, but you're very discriminating about
ingredients. You very seldom *slum*, but often go somewhat over the
top with combinations. I sometimes read your posts with fascination,
though seldom with a desire to emulate.

I do cook with passion, and am far more conservative in my choices of
ingredients. It's not a hobby, but a part of maximizing pleasure for
myself, family and sometimes friends. I almost never critique your
*recipes* because I don't have the ability to even understand most of
them. I do understand the crappy ingredient recipes I see, because
I've been subjected to them.

--Bryan
 
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Ranee at Arabian Knits wrote:


An example of replacement not meaning co-opting: My recitation of
Muslim scriptures and prayers was replaced by the bible and Our Father
and praying according to the Rule of St. Benedict. It does not follow
that any of those borrowed from Islam.

Perhaps the reason that the feasts held in honor of Oestre that had
gone out of favor to be replaced with the Paschal season is because the
people had been converted and no longer had to celebrate something they
did not believe in, but now celebrated by honoring their Lord.

People in China give money at weddings. We received money as gifts
at our wedding. It does not follow that the people were
following/borrowing/stealing/co-opting Chinese tradition.

People of all cultures, religions, ethnicities and nations celebrate
feasts by eating great meals, it does not follow that my celebrating
Thanksgiving is a theft from the Mayans.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:54:29 +0100, Janet wrote:

You nailed it. She's on the two year plan.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:37:44 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
wrote:

Plus I enjoy cooking - it's recreation, not a chore. I've been having
a lot of fun with it and don't repeat myself enough to feel like I'm
in a rut. We ate out last night because I don't make Mexican food
very often and we both came home slightly disappointed. It didn't
taste as good as it usually would to us. We came to the conclusion
that what I've been making at home has been really good so we're just
spoiled.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:46:53 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
wrote:

The truth is, I'm more passionate about eating than I am about
cooking.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:53:50 +0000 (UTC), Nad R
wrote:


Eating restaurant food daily will also wreck your health, because they
use so much salt. Once or twice a week is fine, but not every meal.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
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sf wrote:


We had an SAT worthy mathematical trajectory for a while, but we had
Jerome later than forecasted. The first two were 20 months apart, then
the next was 22 months later, then 24 months later. When we had Amira,
people asked when we would have our fifth, I just said May 2006. It was
August.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:43:35 -0700, Serene Vannoy
wrote:


That is so true, I'm glad you're doing your mom food blog because your
kid will really appreciate it in a few years. Mine are at the age
where they're trying to think of what I used to cook when I was busy
and didn't have the time to devote to it like I do now.


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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 04/17/2011 06:20 PM, Leon Manfredi wrote:

All you smart-asses who say you cook because you like to eat, fie on
you. Everyone knows you can eat (even at home) without doing much (or
any) cooking. So fie, I say. Fie!

People who don't give a shit about cooking (if they're not spammers or
trolls) don't spend their recreational time on cooking newsgroups.

So Pfthththpb!

Serene, cranky

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http://www.momfoodproject.com
 
koko replied to Billy:



Against the handicaps with which Billy is burdened, viz., bigotry,
stupidity, fear of the unknown, utter lack of imagination, and huge
unjustified ego.

Bob
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:03:57 +0000 (UTC), Nad R
wrote:


Yes, I know that's a typo - but thanks for the laugh anyway!

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
In article , [email protected] says...

Yes of course. The Christian church in Europe operated a policy of
deliberately merging/co-opting old European pagan practices of the pagan
converts, into the Christian religious diary..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization

"Reformatting native religious and cultural activities and beliefs into a
Christianized form was officially sanctioned; preserved in the Venerable
Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is a letter from Pope
Gregory I to Mellitus, arguing that conversions were easier if people were
allowed to retain the outward forms of their traditions, while claiming
that the traditions were in honour of the Christian God, "to the end that,
whilst some gratifications are outwardly permitted them, they may the more
easily consent to the inward consolations of the grace of God". In
essence, it was intended that the traditions and practices still existed,
but that the reasoning behind them was altered. The existence of
syncretism in Christian tradition has long been recognized by scholars,
and in recent times many of the instances of syncretism have also been
acknowledged by the Roman Catholic church."

Janet
 
In article , [email protected] says...

I already posted that. It's Ostern, from Ostara. Ostera (Old German)
is Oestre (Old English) and the modern English word Easter is derived from
both.

You are insisting on a

Pagan beliefs *were* very widespread in Europe before Chritianity.
Paganism was Christianised.

I said


You replied


I am merely pointing out that the English word YOU insisted on ,
"Easter",is not unique to English. The WORD Easter in English originated
from the name of a pagan goddess whose followers also celebrated Spring.

Janet
 
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