Greetings from east coast, usa.

I'm not sure if everyone here cooks from scratch or what, but at 37
years old the only thing I've cooked from scratch was pancakes, but
even that's not really scratch - pancake mix + eggs + water. Ooooo wow
i know ; - )

Anyway, my wife and I aren't cooks but we have a 1 year old son and
are now feeding him what we eat. And since we want him to eat
healthier, and us as well, we are starting to think about giving him a
variety of foods other than plain veggies and fruits, like gaucamole
(he likes avacado) and hummus (he hasnt had chick peas yet).

I want to get a waffle iron and make home made wheat waffles. I want
to make hummus and guacamole.

I want to make home made banana bread and muffins.

These ideas are leading me to want to start to really learn to cook
from scratch.

Not that I want to spend all day cooking, but I do want to experiment
and try new things and eat healthier and have fun too. I love food and
I love cooking.

So i just wanted to say Hi and I dunno see if I can find or ask for
some beginner advice, tips, books, etc.

-Paul

meatnub wrote:

> Greetings from east coast, usa.
>
> I'm not sure if everyone here cooks from scratch or what, but at 37
> years old the only thing I've cooked from scratch was pancakes, but
> even that's not really scratch - pancake mix + eggs + water. Ooooo wow
> i know ; - )
>
> Anyway, my wife and I aren't cooks but we have a 1 year old son and
> are now feeding him what we eat. And since we want him to eat
> healthier, and us as well, we are starting to think about giving him a
> variety of foods other than plain veggies and fruits, like gaucamole
> (he likes avacado) and hummus (he hasnt had chick peas yet).
>
> I want to get a waffle iron and make home made wheat waffles. I want
> to make hummus and guacamole.
>
> I want to make home made banana bread and muffins.
>
> These ideas are leading me to want to start to really learn to cook
> from scratch.
>
> Not that I want to spend all day cooking, but I do want to experiment
> and try new things and eat healthier and have fun too. I love food and
> I love cooking.
>
> So i just wanted to say Hi and I dunno see if I can find or ask for
> some beginner advice, tips, books, etc.

Take some cookbooks out from the library, and look through them. If
you find a keeper, buy your own copy.

The most basic cookbooks are meant for college students who have never
cooked before.

Ones for children are a step up. (Note: I am being entirely serious
here. Children's cookbooks really, really are at a higher level than
ones for college students.) They also have good pictures. Avoid the
ones which get too cutesy.

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aem > wrote:

> On May 13, 2:55*pm, (Victor Sack) wrote:
> >
> > A word of advice: *Using groups.google as your newsserver gets you
> > automatically killfiled by a lot of people. *[snip]
>
> That is, there are a few who use killfiles

Whatever makes you think there are just a few?

> and of those few there are
> some fewer whose newsreader or whose skills force them to filter
> wholesale in their efforts to reduce spam. This small reduction in
> the size of your audience doesn't matter.

The reduction may be rather larger, for all you do not know.

> Using google groups allows
> you to see all posts, which is more important than who sees yours, so
> if gg is convenient for you, fine. -aem

The one is not necessarily more important than the other.

ObFood to the OP: look up the easy-to-make semolina kasha recipes I
posted recently. Children tend to love this kasha version and their
parents do, too. See
<http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/4ae7f73584b9ffb3>.

Victor

meatnub > wrote in

oups.com:

> Greetings from east coast, usa.

hey! where on the east coast? i'm in NH.

> I want to get a waffle iron and make home made wheat
> waffles. I want to make hummus and guacamole.

should i post the waffle recipe here or over on misc.parents?
>
> I want to make home made banana bread and muffins.

don't limit yourself. there are *loads* of good healthy
muffins & quick breads... but the banana ones are a good
starting point.

> So i just wanted to say Hi and I dunno see if I can find or
> ask for some beginner advice, tips, books, etc.

there are some rather, um, obnoxious personalities here, but
if you can ignore them, the nice folks do outnumber them.

lee
--
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I pinged a host that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
The host resolved to NSA.

Victor Sack wrote:

> aem > wrote:
>
>> On May 13, 2:55*pm, (Victor Sack) wrote:
>> >
>> > A word of advice: *Using groups.google as your newsserver gets you
>> > automatically killfiled by a lot of people. *[snip]
>>
>> That is, there are a few who use killfiles
>
> Whatever makes you think there are just a few?

Wishful thinking and/or unfamiliarity with the environment.

>> and of those few there are
>> some fewer whose newsreader or whose skills force them to filter
>> wholesale in their efforts to reduce spam. This small reduction in

And some of us with excellent skills and excellent news clients filter all
GG posts because that's a cleansing we prefer (because of GG spam and GG
posters *in general*), not because of any weaknesses in either abilities
or software.


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enigma wrote:

> meatnub > wrote in
>
> oups.com:
>
>> Greetings from east coast, usa.
>
> hey! where on the east coast? i'm in NH.

Wow. I haven't seen anyone using Xnews/L5 in years.

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Blinky the Shark > wrote in
news
> enigma wrote:
>
>> meatnub > wrote in
>>
>> egr oups.com:
>>
>>> Greetings from east coast, usa.
>>
>> hey! where on the east coast? i'm in NH.
>
> Wow. I haven't seen anyone using Xnews/L5 in years.

closest thing to Pan for Windoze. <shrug> i post here fairly
often, you just never read them


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enigma wrote:

> Blinky the Shark > wrote in
> news >
>> enigma wrote:
>>
>>> meatnub > wrote in
>>>
>>> egr oups.com:
>>>
>>>> Greetings from east coast, usa.
>>>
>>> hey! where on the east coast? i'm in NH.
>>
>> Wow. I haven't seen anyone using Xnews/L5 in years.
>
> closest thing to Pan for Windoze. <shrug> i post here fairly
> often, you just never read them

Sure, Xnews is. But I was talking about that several-years-old version.

It's even older than my whole Xnews archive:

http://blinkynet.net/comp/xnewsarch/index.html

Before you reply, read this:

http://blinkynet.net/comp/xnewsrels.html

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On May 13, 5:55 pm, (Victor Sack) wrote:
> meatnub > wrote:
> > So i just wanted to say Hi and I dunno see if I can find or ask for
> > some beginner advice, tips, books, etc.
>
> Here are a couple of links from the rec.food.cooking FAQ:
>
> * <http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/>
> Cooking guide for beginner cooks.
>
> * <http://www.azcentral.com/home/food/cooking101/>
> Cooking 101.
>
> As far as I am concerned, no cookbook is better written than _Cooking
> with Pomiane_ by Edouard de Pomiane.

Thanks for the info! And of course I will check out the local library
too this weekend.


>
> A word of advice: Using groups.google as your newsserver gets you
> automatically killfiled by a lot of people. Yes, I see that you are
> posting from a bank which probably does not allow installation of
> unauthorised software and blocks NNTP connections. Still there are ways
> around that, especially if you are willing to pay a bit of money. For
> example, a basic NewsGuy account is $39 a year and you can use their
> Web-based newsserver, which is nothing special, but does offer a
> rudimentary killfile. The yearly basic NewsGuy rate is not listed on
> their Web site and has to be requested by e-mail.
>
> Victor

Yeah, I use GG because I can't install (nor would I) newsreader app at
my job. It's not *that* important. And at home, well I used to use
Forte Agent but I no longer have time at home like I used to. So if
people miss my posts because of filtering, well I'll just have to live
with that. ;-)

On May 14, 6:42*pm, enigma > wrote:
>
> hey! where on the east coast? i'm in NH.

PA here! Ever been? Sorry, I've never been anywhere beyond NY.

>
> > I want to get a waffle iron and make home madewheat
> >waffles. I want to make hummus and guacamole.
>
> should i post the waffle recipe here or over on misc.parents?

Ooo would you mind posting it here? misc.parents? nice, i'll have to
start lurking over there.

>
> > I want to make home made banana bread and muffins.
>
> don't limit yourself. there are *loads* of good healthy
> muffins & quick breads... but the banana ones are a good
> starting point.

i just don't *know* of any other quick breads besides banana bread,
care to share? :-)


> *there are some rather, um, obnoxious personalities here, but
> if you can ignore them, the nice folks do outnumber them.
>

water on a duck's back