On 2005-12-17 16:11:00, dragonfly wrote:
Mother says when you coook them to kingdom come they get all the vitamins spoiled out of them.
Oh, depends what it is. Kale and collards need a good hard ass kickin'. Cabbage and beets, a bit less. Spinach and lettuce, they're fine raw. My dear old grandma was raised poor. Landed up in the `80s with just what she'd been after all her life; a good, kind and faithful husband, and a few acres w/ a tractor and a little livestock on a state road (to sell the produce from the truck garden). Coming up dirt poor, she learned one way to cook meat; boil the evil out of it.
So, each year, she and the neighbor would take turns slaughtering a yearling and they'd split it down the middle. And, in the summer if we came for a visit, she'd thaw out enough to feed us ten times over then proceed to boil the living hell out of it. Didn't matter what the cut, prime rib, sirloin, tenderloin or what have you. Boiled is better, safer, she didn't, as she so often said, want to drive any of us all the way to the hosptle (she spit here words out, rappid fire, even in leisure, asif she had a shotgun to her head) Good hearted lady, she was. But tough as hell. The old Mama cartoons always reminded me of her.
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, philosopher
