Recipe-Free Zone

I read about an interesting concept today that as time moves on, perhaps we, as Christians should no longer be quite so dependent upon recipes. Strange concept, I know, especially from a gal with loads of cookbooks and bookmarked cooking websites!

But I think I agree with the idea... How many complex recipes are tantalizing, interesting, but expensive, time-consuming and unhealthy? I'd like to encourage you to include more recipe-free dishes in your diet! Wouldn't it simplify your life and perhaps be helpful to your wallet? It also might bind you to your children and friends - as you teach them a favorite idea rather than email them a favorite recipe! Here are some suggestions:

What these suggestions are not:
1. More eating out
2. More pre-packaged foods
3. A repetitive cycle of the three recipes you know by heart.
4. Dependence on someone else's cooking

What these suggestions are:
1. Lots of fresh fruits and veggies, just eaten plain.
2. Lots of fresh fruits, chopped up, combined, and served with honey if necessary or a little yogurt or concentrated juice.
3. Lots of fresh salad (or not) veggies, chopped up, combined, and served with herbs and salt... (Just experiment a little and learn which flavors go together!)
4. Fruits (and greens?) and your favorite milk dumped together into a blender and eaten as a delicious smoothie.
5. Veggies lightly salted, chunked or sliced into a greased casserole dish, lightly salted and baked until the tips get a little browned.
6. Find a recipe for the basics you frequently consume that makes just enough for your family, and just understand the amounts well enough to recreate similar dishes in a jiffy. There are so many things you can try once you learn approximate ratios of dry-wet-fat-salt-sweet. Just remember that yeast need sugar, warmth and time and baking powder/soda must have some salt! Hope this didn't get too complex. Just get to understand your favorite two or three recipes enough to alter them at will! (see examples below)
7. Most important take home - simpler really is better - in so many ways!
Have a blessed, simply sweet Sabbath!
Melanie

(Example 1: one pound lentils and 8-10 cups water with 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and a handful of herbs or chopped veggies makes the perfect amount for my family for one meal. This combination works well for other legumes, too!)
(Example 2: one cup of flour [ww or white] with a couple tablespoons of fat of some kind, 1 teaspoon of your type of baking powder and 1/4-1/2 teaspoon of salt mixed to together with 1/3 c of water or so makes great biscuits for two baked on 400 for 13 minutes or so - make sure to cover them in cloth so they don't get hard.)

Gluten-free? Of course!
Helpful in weight control? You bet!

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Thanks for the pic from: http://healthandcare.in/control-type-2-diabetes-with-fruits-and-vegetables/bio-fresh-fruits-and-vegetables/

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