In the golden days of TV moms stayed home all day vacuuming the house while wearing pearls, cooking special meals, and doling out wise advice to the kids when dad wasn't around. Meals could take all day and could involve many intricate steps and that wasn't just on TV, it was a reflection of real life as well.
In comparison, the 21st century world is one of amazing technology and lives that are much faster paced. Mothers, For more detail go to:www.cooking-groundbeef.com.
and fathers who now take on a large part of the cooking chore, look for easy fast dinner recipes that can get the same TV mom results with a lot less real person effort. The Pilgrims didn't have a good source for such simplicity in food, but they didn't have the Internet either. There are a lot of sources on line to provide help to the busy family looking for a quality meal.
One steak can go a long way. Change the sides for different meal experiences. Change the spices for a trip around the world of food. Start with one large flank steak. On Monday serve steak with roasted potatoes and a salad. On Tuesday add some spices and a little salsa for a taste from south of the border and make it steak Fajitas. Wednesday's meal combines the steak with some Teriyaki sauce, rice, and steamed vegetables for a delicious Asian inspired meal. Thursday go back to the steak and salad, this time with mashed potatoes and asparagus on the side. Friday is the day for some pita bread and Greek spices. That's right, Gyros. A whole work day week of meals based on one main meat.
Want more ideas for that steak? OK, get the plates, glasses, spoons and forks ready. Try southwestern steak, corn, and black bean wraps; give mixed bean salad with flank steak a whirl; how about lentil and orzo salad with flank steak and feta cheese; enjoy steak, sun-dried tomato, and mozzarella couscous salad; and finally we have steak salad wraps with horseradish sauce. Now add another meat, and the variety is even more endless. For more help visit to: www.cooking-chinese-style.com.Chicken can be fried, broiled with potatoes, cut into strips and added to salad, or cooked into a soup with noodles or dumplings. Talk about meal variety.
With just a little clever planning all the meals for the week can be cooked on the weekend, then heated and served in minutes during the week. Make out the menu for the whole month, buy bulk foods and make sure to use coupons to add extreme savings to the mix. In fact, these menus and meals can also be a great learning experience for young people or college students. Put them in charge for a week or let the whole family take turns from week to week. And you thought easy fast dinner recipes were hard.
When a Swarthmore College student turned a guided tour of the Web into a detailed journal of his life, blog communication was born. That was in 1994. By 2007 that one blog had grown into 106 million blogs. Seventy-six percent of them document personal experiences to share with others. The 15 most popular words used in communicating those experiences are blogger, blog, stupid, me, myself, my, oh, yeah, ok, post, stuff, lovely, update, nice and a four-letter word that begins with "s". Although that word isn't in my dictionary, Merriam-Webster proclaimed another four-letter word to be 2004's word of the year. That word was blog.
Then there's the Oxford English Dictionary. It contains 616,500 words and 10,000 to 20,000 of those words are in the average person's vocabulary. Unfortunately, a large percentage of those words are only in our recognition vocabulary - not in our everyday communication. However, new words are constantly becoming part of our language. The Miriam Webster Dictionary has more than 100 new words and phrases in its 2007 edition. For example, a soul patch means a small spot of beard under a man's lip and polyamory means having more than one openly romantic relationship at the same time. Because our language is constantly growing, dictionary publishers will never have the last word.
I love new words. My newest is kleptoparasitic. Kleptoparasitic is an adjective that was used to describe birds that chase other birds in order to take the fish those birds have caught. Sometimes the kleptoparasitic birds wrestle larger birds into the sea in order to steal their food. I know you might think my new word has limited use, but I'm planning to use kleptoparasitic to describe things besides birds - like politicians and the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA has become concerned that communicating via cell phones could be dangerous to our health. Recently the administration contracted the National Association of Science to conduct a symposium on the possible negative effects of exposure to wireless devices and issue a report on the findings. I want to know where the FDA was 25 years ago when cell phones became commercially available. Because 1.1 billion cell phones were sold worldwide in 2007, I can't be the only one who's wondering what food and drugs have to do with cell phones. Maybe FDA doesn't stand for Food and Drug Administration. Maybe FDA stands for Find Disaster Anywhere.
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