Foodie

John has given me a homework assignment. He wants me to contribute more to the blog. I guess my vacation is over. I spend a lot of time writing in my head but rarely put fingers to keyboard anymore. I've been wanting to write about my special interest in cooking. I have been a "foodie" since I first had a little toy stove at age four. The process of converting raw ingredients into an edible meal has always intrigued me. Even through my feminist phase, when it wasn't cool to admit to any liking for traditional female roles, I kept on cooking.


Cooking in a motorhome presents a special challenge to produce good food, using fresh ingredients, that also doesn't take too many pots to clean afterwards. Of course I have a well-stocked pantry with all the spices, capers, garlic, real butter, olive oil, and baking stuff. Much of what I make has been in a small wok-pan. Stir frying lends itself well to the small kitchen but can be messy. This time, I purchased a two quart crock pot and today I am experimenting with it. I found a recipe for braised pork with lemon and sage and adapted it to my small pot.


So far the major downside of that has been smelling it all day. Made me real hungry so I put together two shrimp salads for our lunch. I had bought a kilo of shrimp from a beach vendor and have now made three meals from it. We had saute of shrimp and garlic with pasta and (heaven help me) canned asparagus the first night. Fresh veggies are hard to obtain so I fall back on canned just to keep some green in the diet. Last night I put a light breading on the rest of the shrimp, fried those and made rice. Today I used the left over shrimp to make salads with the last of the fresh lettuce I brought from stateside.

I am going to microwave a spaghetti squash to go with the pork to round out tonight's meal.

Dinner anyone?