Our Hobbies
“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.” - Walter Lippmann
Cooking Is A Great Hobby
Gee!!!... what a way to go! Marry
someone who's hobby it is to cook... and not only cook... but cook vegetarian
(otherwise Paul would be 800 pounds).
Vegetarian = Ovo-lacto which means
dairy products are fine! A lacto-ovo vegetarian is a vegetarian
who is willing to consume dairy products (i.e. milk and its derivatives,
like cheese, butter, or yogurt) and eggs. Lacto- means "milk" and ovo-
means "egg".
In the Western world lacto-ovo vegetarians are the most common type of
vegetarian. Generally speaking, when one uses the term vegetarian a
lacto-ovo vegetarian is assumed. Lacto-ovo vegetarians are well-catered
to in restaurants and shops, especially in Europe and metropolitan
cities in North America.
Just no fish, chicken, or beef! And we raise our own vegetables!!
Some favorites:
Take a look at a couple of dishes we make on a regular basis:
Icky Food
This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide to sup on a nice bowl of shredded wheat and nothing else. It wasn't that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared for a timid palate fearful of spice.
Nutrition
Nutrition is a science that examines the relationship between diet
and health. Dietitians are health professionals who specialize in this
area of study, and are trained to provide safe, evidence-based dietary
advice and interventions.
Deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in diet can produce negative
impacts on health, which may lead to diseases such as cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, scurvy, obesity or osteoporosis, as well as
psychological and behavioral problems. Moreover, excessive ingestion of
elements that have no apparent role in health, (e.g. lead, mercury,
PCBs, dioxins), may incur toxic and potentially lethal effects,
depending on the dose.
Many common diseases and their symptoms can often be prevented or
alleviated with better nutrition. The science of nutrition attempts to
understand how and why specific dietary aspects influence health.
Protein
Protein is composed of amino acids. The body requires amino acids to produce new body protein (protein retention) and to replace damaged proteins (maintenance) that are lost in the urine. In animals amino acid requirements are classified in terms of essential (an animal cannot produce them) and non-essential (the animal can produce them from other nitrogen containing compounds) amino acids. Consuming a diet that contains adequate amounts of essential (but also non-essential) amino acids is particularly important for growing animals, who have a particularly high requirement.