My Cooking Adventure

My Cooking Adventure

I enjoy eating and I dislike cooking.

Over the decades most of the times attempted to cook it was a disaster. So I just put in off for another one to three years.

I lived in an apartment for 12 years. I noticed the oven did not work early on. I did not report it and I did not miss it.

I was given a microwave oven that sat on my kitchen counter for years and was rarely used so I gave it away.

I moved to Ennis about a year and a half ago. Soon after I moved here I was given an electric steamer. Soon after that, a church delivered fruits and vegetables here.  I steamed many vegetables. The steamer broke and the church quit delivering. We might begin to get fruits and vegetables delivered from the food bank again in February.

My brother is a good cook.

I am a member of a small group of men at my local church and most of them cook often.

So what I am about to share is a fairly big deal in my noncooking life.

I cooked my first vegetable soup. I used the cooking skills of a novice.

Into the crockpot went the following

Spring water

Premium chicken bouillon

Frozen cut okra

Frozen green beans

Vegetable oil

V8 juice

A little pasta

It was tasty, watery, and nutritious.

Mostly I prefer a hearty soup or cream soup.

I have been preferring soups more in the last few years than ever before in my 65 years.

Today I indulged that desire at Walmart and got the soups near the deli.

What I bought was

Tomato bisque

Butternut squash bisque

Lobster bisque

Today it was cold outside. Some people feel that soup and chili are only to be eaten when it is cold outside. But I like it all year no matter the weather.

While I was shopping today I was again impressed by the abundance of options on the shelves. When I was a child in the 1950s there were fruit stands at the roadsides in suburban Houston. There the fruits and vegetables of the local farmers were sold. In the grocery stores the watermelons, peaches, cantaloupes, and more were there only for a few months a year.

That was a simpler time. But consider the cooking options during the lifetime of Jesus Christ. I came on this set of videos by a chef that shows and tells what the people of that time ate. He also shows how it was cooked using those tools. And he weaves in Bible stories. Even as a non-cook I enjoyed it and you might too.

It is called Feasts of Faith on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QllbAaeEPwc&list=PL9B52BC6A7A29EB96

Shalom

John