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Originally Posted by dar512
....the throw-three-things-together-and-call-it-a-meal recipes come in handy.
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Oh, I totally agree. But to win money in a baking contest that used to rate national attention?
My cousin has a masters in Home Economics. The whole emphasis is on quick and easy for them, you know. She teaches at the prisons in the LA area, trying to help some of those women who have children and not much else to learn how they can make home and food in general more interesting and effective. Unfortunately, when she gets excited about a recipe and passes it to the momster and me there is never anything that catches our interest. The momster was widowed early in life and I could not have children, so I guess we have never had the pressures that most of you guys go through to get food cooked and on the table every night. So little pressure, in fact, that I would just as soon eat out of a can as cook something more complex if there is anything else I want to do. Cooking a fine meal is an art form to me, but I increasingly feel less interest in being the artist because there is nobody to appreciate the work.