All the ladies in my family love those great deli style sandwiches and Pastrami is one of Laura’s favorite and I try to make it for her often. This Pastrami ( which starts by making ‘corned beef’ and smoking the final product transforms it to pastrami.. voila!!!) Karen loved them so much in high school she called the sandwich ‘cheese juice’. Often I would make plenty for her track meets to share and they were always a hit… but then it wasn’t hard to please hungry 16 year olds!
The real important lesson in all of this was the joy they all felt enjoying something homemade and everything made from scratch. Today, it is more important than ever to understand our nutritional needs and develop the basic culinary skills. I am always saddened when I hear young men and women who don’t have a foggiest about the very basics of cooking. Young ones, the microwave is for warming up coffee, cooking vegetables but it is not a replacement for the stove and a good recipe book. One story that touched me recently was of a French chef who took t his skills and expertise to the people and began teaching the fine art of French cooking… a truly heart warming story!
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Bon Appetite!