Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
Well, a sad little side note.
Combined with too much fun, a cold and inactivity… it’s back on the Jenny Craig wagon again! Not that I didn’t enjoy the holidays, I did! It’s just that I am now over my allowable range… and that’s the way it goes.
Hopefully, I can get the weight off for Saturday… which is the day we cook!
Roger Freberg
PS. it must have been Karen’s cheese cake, or my Eclairs… or perhaps, Laura’s deliciously decadent ABC Rolls (Amarula, Blueberry & Cinnamon!)… nah!
Don’t you love it when you spend so much of your life being told that cooking vegetables destroys the ‘goodness’ and that raw veggies are best?
Now, we are seeing studies that are showing that many of the nutrient qualities of veggies are actually being ‘released’ and eating cooked vegetables is actually better for you!
Frankly, I am not surprised!
“They” did give ‘frying’ vegetables a bum rap… but I am sure the data will show that the ‘missing’ healthful qualities of vegetables were merely released into the sauce rather than being ‘destroyed’ in the frying process. If in fact this is the case… then frying may actually be a preferred method of extracting nutritional elements from vegetables… besides the side benefit of improved taste!
Roger Freberg
I would like to congratulate the Southern California Trojans for their tremendous over-the-top testosterone victory! I only wish I could have been there….
Special Congrats to Chef Lagasse for accepting the honor to be Grand Marshall of this year’s Tournament of Roses Parade… a spectacle that I have enjoyed watching wherever I was.
I hope the Associated Press folks saw what I witnessed today…
Roger Freberg