Cooking with Jennifer
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@Jennifer said in any downside to having cooked shiitake mushrooms frequently?:
@Mossy, I bet your potato soup is delicious! The bacon is a splurge I only get periodically, but I found ways to stretch it. The fat from 1 lb of it is enough to roast 4 lb of potatoes or kabocha squash, for example, then I just chop up the bacon, add it to the (seasoned) roasted veggies, add cheese, top it with some sour cream, and my dad gets at least 6 meals out of it. I get the woodland over conventional for purely ethical reasons. I’m a bad Peater—I’m not concerned about PUFA in whole foods, especially when the food is as nutritious as animal proteins.
I thought I would transfer this over to a new cooking thread. I hope you don't mind the title, as it's more creative than just "Cooking Talk".
I do think the potato soup is pretty good, but I have nothing to really judge it against. I've just started cooking with any serious schedule about a year or so ago, and that was out of necessity. So while I enjoy food, and the idea of many various dishes, the reality of daily cooking has me wanting to be as efficient as I can get away with. My lens into what, and how, I should cook is always first from an efficiency perspective, which I've adopted into a one pot only perspective...haha. (If I can get away with it.) So I use an Instant Pot as much as I can. Just recently, though, I have branched out into using the oven a tiny bit. Your roasted veggies with bacon sounds good, which mimics a classic frozen dinner my dad used to really like. Basically, a gloried baked potato. Even beyond the ethical reasons, woodland pork would definitely be better than conventional: I see they purposely do not feed the pigs corn or soy. I tend to follow your PUFA in whole foods perspective, as budget and availability limit many of my options. The more processed and refined foods get, the more cautious I am about PUFA and other negatives. As a general rule, whole food, cooking from scratch seems to be best. I don't think I'd call you a bad Peater!
