Yes, it would seem that I have been in a serious rut of late. Maybe it’s the weather, but I am just greatly lacking in inspiration.
I feel like I have managed to cook everything I know how to cook!
The project for the week is to fix that.
Archive for November, 2009
Rut, rut, rut, rut, rut
Saturday, November 14th, 2009Another for the “To Attempt” list – Oven baked breaded fish
Thursday, November 12th, 2009From Lobstersquad – looks incredibly easy and I’ll have to give it a whirl sometime. I usually pan-fry or broil fish fillets, so this looks easy and different.
And really, go look at her page, lovely illustrations as always!
The assault on milk continues!
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Bans on chocolate milk in schools?
Now, if the rest of a school lunch menu was healthy and tasty and calorie conscious, then perhaps I could see chocolate milk getting targeted.
But, if 60 extra calories a day is going to be the make or break for a kid’s weight, maybe something bigger is wrong – and it gets kids to drink milk. Let them have the 60 calories and send them out to play afterwards instead of letting them live their lives in front of the TV set.
When we lived in Japan, chocolate milk was the only way my brother and I would drink milk. There was something…wrong…with the regular milk. (It wasn’t Japanese milk, it was some reconsituted stuff that the commissary sold.)
Kids like chocolate milk. It is a simple fact of life. Why take away a small joy at lunchtime?
I admit it, I’m a whole milk junkie
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009I was making up some packet pasta for lunch today (I know, I know – but I like it. I’m the anti-foodie in many ways) and I noticed it didn’t call for 1/2 cup of milk – it specified 2% milk. My Kraft Singles proclaim that they’re made with 2% milk. Whole milk mozzarella cheese is a big deal in the shredded-cause-I’m-too-lazy-and-like-my-knuckles-intact section of the grocery store.
Now, me being me, anything short of whole milk simply doesn’t make it into my kitchen. Since Starbucks went to 2% milk being it’s standard milk, I’ve had to become “that woman” who can’t just order a latte, cause now I have to say, “Large latte with whole milk.” (No, I don’t use their made up sizes. More than once I’ve just ordered a Bigassed latte and gotten just what I needed.)
I hate that whole milk has become so demonized over the years. It was all that was ever in our house growing up and neither my brother or myself are any the worse for wear. I remember going to friends houses and dreading seeing skim milk come out of the fridge. It looked like water that had some milk mixed into it, and frankly, tasted about the same.
But whole milk is awesome. It hasn’t made me fat. It’s made my recipes wonderful. And I will stick with it until the day I die.
Now I am going to go have a glass of milk with a couple pieces of leftover Halloween candy.
And that is your health food diatribe for the day.