"Kris" > wrote in message
...
On Oct 4, 7:30 pm, "Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > Frozen beef and chicken broths, fresh celery, carrots, and onions.
> > Frozen green beans, corn, peas. Fresh parsley. A bit of tomato
> > powder. A can of beef purchased in Amishland last October.
>
> Well, I just got done cooking a tasty BIG crockpot of beef stew, so being
> me
> isn't *too* shabby...
>
> ;-)
>
> I LOVE this cooler weather, great for making those hearty dishes, baking,
> etc...
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

I love the cooler weather, too. We just had shephard's pie because of
it.

Kris



I don't understand why people wait for cooler weather to cook certain
dishes. Don't you people have air conditioning? I made a chuck roast two
weeks ago. It was 90 degrees outside. I made a pot of chicken & dumplings.
It was 90 degrees outside. I roasted marinated country ribs in the oven.
(We had a cold snap, it was only 85 degrees. LOL) *Inside* it was 73
degrees. Why do seasons and outside temperature control what people cook?
I'd truly like to understand this. I prepare and eat hot soup all year
round. Shepard's pie, chicken pot pie, chili, stew... doesn't seem to
require special weather conditions.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:

> "Kris" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Oct 4, 7:30 pm, "Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
>> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>> Frozen beef and chicken broths, fresh celery, carrots, and onions.
>>> Frozen green beans, corn, peas. Fresh parsley. A bit of tomato
>>> powder. A can of beef purchased in Amishland last October.
>>
>> Well, I just got done cooking a tasty BIG crockpot of beef stew, so
>> being me
>> isn't *too* shabby...
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> I LOVE this cooler weather, great for making those hearty dishes,
>> baking, etc...
>>
>> --
>> Best
>> Greg
>
> I love the cooler weather, too. We just had shephard's pie because of
> it.
>
> Kris
>
>
>
> I don't understand why people wait for cooler weather to cook certain
> dishes. Don't you people have air conditioning? I made a chuck
> roast two weeks ago. It was 90 degrees outside. I made a pot of
> chicken & dumplings. It was 90 degrees outside. I roasted marinated
> country ribs in the oven. (We had a cold snap, it was only 85
> degrees. LOL) *Inside* it was 73 degrees. Why do seasons and
> outside temperature control what people cook? I'd truly like to
> understand this. I prepare and eat hot soup all year round.
> Shepard's pie, chicken pot pie, chili, stew... doesn't seem to
> require special weather conditions.


Well, darlin', I guess when one lives ALONE like you do and with LOTS of
time on your hands you can jes' cook *any* old thing up *any* ole' time...

Some of us, ya see, have these things called "friends" or "family", we try
to please them with what we make...steaming beef stew and ho' made bisquits
or a big fat roast turkey din - din with all the trimmings on a steaming
July day is not something most of us would do...

But then you are known as being extremely self - absorbed so I guess such a
minor thought would not happen to flit across yer brain pan...

And yes, most of us have "have" air conditioning, and we use it - it's just
that most of us don't have mummy and daddie's TRUST FUND to pay for it as
you do...


<chortle>


--
"Best"
Gregory Morrow

jmcquown wrote:

>
> I don't understand why people wait for cooler weather to cook certain
> dishes. Don't you people have air conditioning? I made a chuck roast
> two weeks ago. It was 90 degrees outside. I made a pot of chicken &
> dumplings. It was 90 degrees outside. I roasted marinated country ribs
> in the oven. (We had a cold snap, it was only 85 degrees. LOL) *Inside*
> it was 73 degrees. Why do seasons and outside temperature control what
> people cook? I'd truly like to understand this. I prepare and eat hot
> soup all year round. Shepard's pie, chicken pot pie, chili, stew...
> doesn't seem to require special weather conditions.
>


It's not just temperature, Jill. In warmer summer weather you have all
the fresh summer fruits and vegetables to cook with plus comfortable
weather for grilling.

When it's hot outside many of us are drawn to cold foods--various types
of salads served with grilled meats. In winter (remember some of us
live where temperatures get below freezing or even below zero for weeks
or months at a time) cold foods aren't nearly as appealing. We want
soup, stew, roasts, rice or pastas with hearty sauces.

When family comes from the east coast to ski for a week, even if they
have come from warm conditions, they want chili, stew, pot roast,
spaghetti, chiles rellenos, things that saw "WARM!"

YM of course MV. Different strokes and all that....

gloria p

jmcquown wrote:
> "Kris" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Oct 4, 7:30 pm, "Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
>> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>> > Frozen beef and chicken broths, fresh celery, carrots, and onions.
>> > Frozen green beans, corn, peas. Fresh parsley. A bit of tomato
>> > powder. A can of beef purchased in Amishland last October.
>>
>> Well, I just got done cooking a tasty BIG crockpot of beef stew, so
>> being me
>> isn't *too* shabby...
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> I LOVE this cooler weather, great for making those hearty dishes, baking,
>> etc...
>>
>> --
>> Best
>> Greg
>
> I love the cooler weather, too. We just had shephard's pie because of
> it.
>
> Kris
>
>
>
> I don't understand why people wait for cooler weather to cook certain
> dishes. Don't you people have air conditioning? I made a chuck roast
> two weeks ago. It was 90 degrees outside. I made a pot of chicken &
> dumplings. It was 90 degrees outside. I roasted marinated country ribs
> in the oven. (We had a cold snap, it was only 85 degrees. LOL) *Inside*
> it was 73 degrees. Why do seasons and outside temperature control what
> people cook? I'd truly like to understand this. I prepare and eat hot
> soup all year round. Shepard's pie, chicken pot pie, chili, stew...
> doesn't seem to require special weather conditions.
>
> Jill

You da man!

jmcquown wrote:
>
> "Kris" > wrote in message

<snip>


> I love the cooler weather, too. We just had shephard's pie because of
> it.
>
> Kris
>
> I don't understand why people wait for cooler weather to cook certain
> dishes. Don't you people have air conditioning? I made a chuck roast two
> weeks ago. It was 90 degrees outside. I made a pot of chicken & dumplings.
> It was 90 degrees outside. I roasted marinated country ribs in the oven.
> (We had a cold snap, it was only 85 degrees. LOL) *Inside* it was 73
> degrees. Why do seasons and outside temperature control what people cook?
> I'd truly like to understand this. I prepare and eat hot soup all year
> round. Shepard's pie, chicken pot pie, chili, stew... doesn't seem to
> require special weather conditions.
>
> Jill

That's just your circumstances. Not going to waste electricity and water
(for the swamp cooler) cooling down a house heated up by running the
oven or long simmering pots of stew in summer. In addition when it's
over 100 F outside, just don't want to eat 'hearty' anything. In the
same vein, we don't eat much ice cream in winter; doesn't feel 'right.

(We keep the house at around 80 F in the summer.)

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
>
> I don't understand why people wait for cooler weather to cook certain
> dishes. Don't you people have air conditioning? I made a chuck roast two
> weeks ago. It was 90 degrees outside. I made a pot of chicken &
> dumplings. It was 90 degrees outside. I roasted marinated country ribs in
> the oven. (We had a cold snap, it was only 85 degrees. LOL) *Inside* it
> was 73 degrees. Why do seasons and outside temperature control what
> people cook? I'd truly like to understand this. I prepare and eat hot
> soup all year round. Shepard's pie, chicken pot pie, chili, stew...
> doesn't seem to require special weather conditions.

I try to cook with the seasons to either help keep the house cooler in the
summer meaning no oven when I can get away with it, and cooking out as much
as possible. In the winter I like to double my cooking energy use with
heating the house. Soups make more humidity, which I like to avoid in the
summer, and increase in the winter. Honestly, Jill, I thought this was
obvious stuff?