Healthy Cooking with the Great Cooks

Like so many of us, I watch the pub. TV cooking shows on Saturday. Most of them give tips for saving food and not wasting, and for using healty ingredients, despite their basic loyalty to cream and butter. J. Pepin today was making vegetable dishes including ragout of asparagus, tomato/zuccini au gratin, and a cauleflower casserole, on which he quoted Twain, "a cauleflower is a cabbage with an education." Pepin noted he saved the leaves and stems to make soup. Stock is easy to make with vegetables and other ingredients. I think it is time that keeps us from doing it. Also, community gardens are in the news here, and there are whole commissions and state agencies to create rain gardens in public/and private areas. Iowa has one of these, and I know California as worked on this idea for some time. Illinois is also rain garden friendly. There are also housing communities being built with maintenance of a community garden in the reality contracts. Ask in a comment or write me for more information. Finally, a happy accident; I didn't follow the directions making cream of wheat today; I put in the farina first,then the water and salt, and let them all boil together, but just barely. It was perfectly smooth, and very good. A real culinary felix culpa!