Never too Old to Learn.............Maybe!
03-17-2012, 06:07 AM
#14
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Funny! I remember in school that I was taught to address the audience when you are giving a speech. You are all farm Ladies - Didn't they know where they were?
Next generation.... mashing turnips on Thanksgiving and my DIL said....'Oh that's what it is used for....She did not know what a potato masher was? Her Mother only used French's Instant! My kids called them 'fake' potatoes.
I also taught her and other DIL's how to make apple pies. (They measured and they rolled,etc.) How could anyone live without apple pie? Thank you for listening. I will step off my grandstand now.
Next generation.... mashing turnips on Thanksgiving and my DIL said....'Oh that's what it is used for....She did not know what a potato masher was? Her Mother only used French's Instant! My kids called them 'fake' potatoes.
I also taught her and other DIL's how to make apple pies. (They measured and they rolled,etc.) How could anyone live without apple pie? Thank you for listening. I will step off my grandstand now.
03-17-2012, 06:37 AM
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LenaBeena, you and your friends are a hoot! And very gracious too I might add.
As an organic gardener of many years, your methods are closer to the real thing than those of the supposed "experts" who were instructing you.
As an organic gardener of many years, your methods are closer to the real thing than those of the supposed "experts" who were instructing you.
03-17-2012, 06:59 AM
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Ha ha ha ...well said!!!!! I°m in your club!!!!!
I recently attended, with several friends, a cooking demonstration at our little rural church. We are all in our 70's and have been cooking for many years but still interested in learning new things. Well, seems we are hopelessly old fashioned. At least that is what we were told.
All of the foods we sampled were very spicy. All the recipes included garlic, hot peppers, Indian curries, Cajun spices, plenty of salt and other tongue tingling things. The young ladies liked them but we had to scrape the coatings off before we could eat them. When we mentioned we liked our foods more naturally cooked without added flavors we were told we were way behind the times and, get this, older people have to eat very spicy foods because our taste buds are nearly gone! Well, to each her own of course, but don't tell me about my taste buds!
Then came the cooking helps. Did you know you can use your cappacino machine part that makes frothy milk to scramble eggs and your paper shredder to cut pasta? Neither did I. I just use a fork to stir and a sharp knife to cut.
Best part is when we were told how to actually grow our own foods! Just buy special plants, put them in special soil you buy, in a special container you buy, under a special grow light you buy, wear special plastic gloves you buy, fertilize with special packages you buy, pick when ripe and wash in a special cleaner you buy, and eat. When they said it was so "organic" we nearly lost it. We all grew up and still live on farms, have gardened all our lives using dirt and manure and no plastic gloves, and canned and froze many, many foods to feed our families for years and years.
After another hour of such help we left, thanked the presenters profusely, and continued to do things our old fashioned ways.
Like I said, you are never too old to learn!
All of the foods we sampled were very spicy. All the recipes included garlic, hot peppers, Indian curries, Cajun spices, plenty of salt and other tongue tingling things. The young ladies liked them but we had to scrape the coatings off before we could eat them. When we mentioned we liked our foods more naturally cooked without added flavors we were told we were way behind the times and, get this, older people have to eat very spicy foods because our taste buds are nearly gone! Well, to each her own of course, but don't tell me about my taste buds!
Then came the cooking helps. Did you know you can use your cappacino machine part that makes frothy milk to scramble eggs and your paper shredder to cut pasta? Neither did I. I just use a fork to stir and a sharp knife to cut.
Best part is when we were told how to actually grow our own foods! Just buy special plants, put them in special soil you buy, in a special container you buy, under a special grow light you buy, wear special plastic gloves you buy, fertilize with special packages you buy, pick when ripe and wash in a special cleaner you buy, and eat. When they said it was so "organic" we nearly lost it. We all grew up and still live on farms, have gardened all our lives using dirt and manure and no plastic gloves, and canned and froze many, many foods to feed our families for years and years.
After another hour of such help we left, thanked the presenters profusely, and continued to do things our old fashioned ways.
Like I said, you are never too old to learn!
03-17-2012, 07:34 AM
#19
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I'm with you! not even 50 yet but I'd rather eat out of my garden with no man made chemicals.. Its funny how ORGANIC is the NEW way of doing things. I wouldn't want to have to clean that shredder LOL. the victorian era had a tool for everything, um' a grape peeler? really? whats wrong with eating the grape skin?
03-17-2012, 01:17 PM
#20
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Location: Boston
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I am not quite 70 and in the 60's my neighbors thought I was a hippie. == long hair, artist, sandles. I also did then and still do make everything from scratch, veg in season, etc. Now, of my 6 kids, a couple follow in my footsteps, a couple sound like your speaker and a couple are in between. Funny how your habits rub off. I have sent your letter to the 'hippie' kids. Love it.
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