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I was inspired the other day by this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjdJeXgUvaQ
(inspiration at :44)
to try to cook, other than stew, with a bit more fresh veggies, so I bought a cucumber, bell pepper, and onion yesterday but at home, inspiration gave way to desperation in that many of my cookbooks are still packed.
I was going to look up on the Net last night "recipes with ......" (but I got caught up in disproving a conspiracy theorist). Today, however, my eyes laid upon the various recipe cards from Wally World and I started thumbing through them. Granted, they don't have have bell pepper recipes, by similar recipes where I might experiment but substituting.
So maybe that is how things should be arranged in the future. The cookbooks might get packed for the move, but the recipe card box is put with those first to travel items or, at the very least, stuffed in the spice box.
As far as why not the Net? I try to keep my keyboards away from where things might get tipped over, spilled, and end up all sticky.
I usually find a copy online of a recipe I plan to use, whether it's new or something I remember from one of my cookbooks, and print it out. I keep a couple with me when I go shopping, sometimes deciding what I want to make when I get to the store (sales, outages). When I get home, I don't have to worry about spilling and splashing anything on a device as I cook from the recipe.
During our last cross country move, we purged A LOT of stuff, including ny fairly large collection of cookbooks. All gone. But I haven't missed them. I rarely used them in the last ten years. The net is SO much easier and more flexible.
I do keep a few recipes printed out and in a folder, along with a few ripped out of magazines.
I usually find a copy online of a recipe I plan to use, whether it's new or something I remember from one of my cookbooks, and print it out. I keep a couple with me when I go shopping, sometimes deciding what I want to make when I get to the store (sales, outages). When I get home, I don't have to worry about spilling and splashing anything on a device as I cook from the recipe.
Yeah, this is pretty much what I do also. The occasional recipe that is soooo good I know we'll want it again get printed onto 4x6 cards and go in the recipe box.
I think that the only thing you an cook that contains bell pepper, cucumber, and onion is a green salad.
OK, saute the onion and bell pepper and add a top quality bratwurst. Cook until the brat is done. Pile the brat onions and bell pepper onto a good sesame seed hoagie roll. Top with raw diced cucumber.
Raw cucumber is also excellent on top of ramen. You could cook bell pepper and onion into your ramin, preferable with some cubes of chicken.
What in the world? That is a strange combination of vegetables to go out and buy before looking up a recipe. The only thing that I know of that would use all three of those ingredients is maybe a salad.
I go with recipe cards (this includes any recipes I've cut out of magazines, etc.), then the cookbooks, then the net.
Don't know why - probably because that's how I saw my mom do it. Except for the net stuff. No net back then. Heck, we didn't even have a MICROWAVE until I was moved out of the house, and then it took up almost a whole counter!
PS - only thing I could find with those ingredients on the net was salads.
Well, I mixed in a quarter of bell pepper, a carrot, half a cucumber, half of a can of diced tomatoes, with my standard bouillabaisse, this time with salmon, sardines, pinot blanc, a golden potato, black eye peas, black beans, split green peas, green olives, lentils, brown rice, and feta cheese. Garlic, paprika, cayenne, and bleu cheese/capers (the rinse of both containers into the mix) and I think some lemon tea in with the stewing water. Half a squeezed lemon and then that in as well to cook (but not to eat). Served with Parmesan cheese and Asadero croutons.
Very tasty and meals for the day, both fresh and left over.
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Originally Posted by convextech
What in the world? That is a strange combination of vegetables to go out and buy before looking up a recipe. The only thing that I know of that would use all three of those ingredients is maybe a salad.
The grocery store was more a target of opportunity. I had other business in that area and it was just across the street when I was done. I went in needing Romaine and then one thing led to another.
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Originally Posted by IslandCityGirl
.......Tip for magazine clippers or note-card users: take a picture of the page with your phone. Instantly-saved recipe, no scissors needed. Voila!
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I do that with my DSLR, both for making copies of scripts.....and those endless papers one should keep records of before they send it to the alphabet agencies.
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Originally Posted by IslandCityGirl
........Thank you to this thread for making me feel incredibly young and savvy. lol ..........
Thank you!
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