cybercat wrote:
>
> > Whoa, ease up, Mr. Ella. Fact is you've never tasted my cooking
> > and I can tell you now that it's great, although perhaps a bit
> > limited. I make the best pasta salad you'll ever taste, anywhere,
> > anytime. You need to spend some time in a prisoner of war camp to
> > respect the fine art of simple cooking, you snob goblet you. Speaking
> > of boiled chicken, it's not so good cold, but eaten hot right off the
> > bone it's pretty damned good. Like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky #3
> > when he had to go back to his old neighborhood to regain his heart,
> > you need to go back to a world of poverty to regain whatever true
> > taste you had before you sullied it with all sorts of absurd sauces
> > and multi-syllabled condiments.


> You rock, Tommy. Just sayin.' I lived on black beans with tons of fresh
> garlic and cumin, a splash of cider vinegar cooked down slow and thick and
> velvety, served over rice with a sprinkle of cheddar when I was in school.
> That and a hot pasta dish with garlic, spinach, and parm cheese. Pots of
> navy bean soup with a ham hock in it and 49 cent boxes of date nut muffin
> mix that only needed water. All of it pretty decent nutrition, too. And then
> there are eggs ....if you need any egg recipes let me know.


Thanks for that. I saw humor in your response though, some of
the expressions you used, a splash of cider vinegar, cooked down slow
and velvety, with a sprinkle of cheddar. I have done a lot of cheap
cooking in my time, but I sort of grew into making one-pot meals, not
always necessarily cooked, so all nutrition can be had in one
sitting. That's why I like the chicken pasta salad with tons of
veggies that don't get in the way, also soups and stews. Thanks for
the "you rock" thing. I also roll.

Tommy Joe (rolling on)