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i really need a camera for this kind of thing,..a picture is worth more than a few words i hear.

so how to cook for one's self by cody larsen;
    the very sad thing about our working class gents and gems these days is that we have lost the way and wherewithall to do the most simple and basic of task,..feed ourselves.  it's really too bad, because it's not all that hard, i for instance feed people i don't really care about for a living. i go to work, make good food, cash a check, pay rent, and pray for a girlfriend. why then is it so hard to cook for one'self, or the people you do care about? i know that there are home cooks out there that do so, but i think we often go too quickly to the horrible easy convienient foods, we cook shit basically for ourselves.  this should not be, and i will climb off my soap box now and get down to what i'm gunna eat tonight.
                                   tonight,...hmmmlet's see here,.flank steak, i have, broccoli, rice, carrots. look at that sounds like stirfry to me. ....so what's first you ask? well, wash the rice, cook the rice. ..rice is easy to cook and easy to destroy, do it right i say,.also rice can be wonderfull and interesting as well.  when you cook rice, put aromatics in there , really anything you can think of, orange zest, bayleaf, thyme ,..i've been adding a little green tea leaves to mine, it's really nice and smells great.
          So look at that! you can eat rice by it's self for a better meal than you'd get waiting in a drive thru...but there is more.  So while the rice is steaming, im' gunna put the steak in a ziplock with some sambal oil, peppercorn, little vinager is nice, then sear that piece off and while it's resting use the same pan to saute some of that good'ol' broccoli and carrot, all the while your friends think you are an outstanding chef,  from the smells emitting from the smokey kitchen,..oh yes anotherthing that home cooksforget is the salt and pepper.  never EVER forget the salt, salt is our love and passion close and dear to every cooks heart,..salt is currancy at times, by god ghandi was almost put to death for making his own salt. so let us not forget the importance of salt.
   anyway, the rice is done right? the meat is rested, ready to slice? okay...use that pan we had the meat in and put in your nice chopped veg,.. we can talk about how to use a knife properly later,...so we saute the veg all nice and brown, green onions are good right at the end here,...
     so we haverice, meat and veg,..way better than jack in the box or some damn frozen pizza, really people it's that easy, feed yourself right and well, it's better for you and your friends, it practices a time honored skill for life, plus it's cheaper.
    so that's my standard meal, when hungry.   there is more to come though as i wish to tell the masses how easy it really is to cook and cook well, the grocery store has you fooled, cooking is a lost art and skill that we all should have.
   Navy bean soup huh holly? you want that one? i'll try to figure one ut,  i think i made that soup for the wedding thang.