Cooking Directions?

For dinner I decided to cook pasta along with some pasta sauce I have on hand. First I took a big pot and filled it up with about 3 cups of water. I let it come up to a boil first where I put in about a pinch or so of salt in it to give it a greater flavor. I then added long spaghetti noodles to it. The pasta was too long for the pot so what I did was I broke up the top where it wasn’t submerged in the boiling water and then just throw in the broken pieces. About 10 minutes or so I went back to my pot to check on my pasta and was just about done, so I turned off the fire but I left the pasta in the hot water to let it cook just for a little while longer. When the pasta was just about done for me I took a big strainer placed it over the sink and began pouring the boiling water out of the pot slowly so that I would not burn myself. As I was pouring the water out I noticed one other thing that could be a dangerous hazard to people. Although the water was poured out slowly, the steam rose up quickly. So a note to people is for them to pour the water slowly and also avoid the face from the pot.

When all the water and pasta was strained out I shook the strainer a few times just to get the excess water out. I poured it out onto a plate put some of the pasta sauce I had on hand and grated some cheese right on top and enjoyed it!

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Introduction to Locally Available Grass Fed Pastured Organically Raised Ground Beef

Organically raised Ground Beef are from cows that are raised in grass rather than in barns. Also organically raised ground beef from cows are fed grains instead. With organically raised ground beef the cows live in an open grass field where they are free to roam around and not concentrated in one area like cows rose in barns. Unlike cows that are raised in barns, cows that are raised in the open grass field that is their natural habitat, which leads to a richer diet. Also absolutely no hormones are introduced into their diet. However the ground beef that you find in the supermarkets are injected with a great deal of hormones. It is a threat to the human body to consume a great deal of hormones because it can lead to different diseases in a human body stomach. Therefore it is better to eat organically raised ground beef rather than the beef found at your local supermarket because first of all of the amount of hormones found in each, and second of all, organically raised ground beef is healthier and richer to consume. Organically raised beef is available in the Farmer’s Market on 14^th street Union Square in Manhattan. For further information contact, the Hawthorne Valley Farm at (518) 672-7500. Organically raised ground beef is produced by Biodynamic Farming, which states that fertilizers, pesticides and hormones, are avoided.

http://www.organicprairie.com/beef.html (other links available, leading to different sources to organically raised ground beef)

http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/organic-beef.cfm

http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story.php?id=183

What I had for dinner

With so much food in front of me I had no idea what to eat first. What grabbed my attention right away was the beef with veggies that my mom had made. Its aroma attracted my attention right away when I sat down to have dinner. As the beef slid into my mouth, the juices that were cooked with the beef and veggies immediately started dripping down my mouth, and I could feel its flavors just bursting in my mouth. To accompany the beef I added some rice which doubled its taste. The rice along with the beef and its juices was perfect. It was like the perfect combination, almost like Oreo cookies with milk right before bed. I tried some of the veggies that my mom cooked along with the beef, and at first when I put it in my mouth, the taste was kind of rough, almost a slight bitterness to it. But as I worked it in with some more rice, and a piece of beef here and there, it started to cooperate. I began to notice that it was a good combination to include the veggies with the beef. As I started to make my way to the second dish my mom made, scrambled eggs stir fried with cucumbers – thinly sliced. It might sound weird at first but the taste is incredible. As I slid the first piece in I could feel the saltiness that was added right before the eggs were fully cooked. I could feel the salt particles just melt on my tongue and make its way down my throat. The cucumbers gave it a nice crunch and a new texture to it. It was kind of a good balance overall. The saltiness from the eggs and also its fluffiness, and the crunch the cucumbers give when you take that bite to it. When the rice was incorporated along with the eggs and cucumbers, it was easier to wash it down. The third dish was kind of my parent’s dish. It was eggplants. I’m not a huge fan of eggplants based on its taste and the texture you get when you first take a bite. When you take a bite you taste the skin right away and it’s very rough and bitter at times. I saved that for my parents and ate everything else. To wash everything down, I drank a glass of orange juice, which was very satisfying. As I eat, I tend to gobble everything up and don’t chew as much as I should, but the sweetness from the orange juice just washes everything down. As soon as the juice hits my lips and tongue it send my taste buds into overdrive. That should be enough for the Phenomenological Descriptions. Its time to finish up dinner.