My SO is a garage sale and thrift store aficionado and I enjoy going with him to them, especially since we're now homeowners. I'm sure my mother finds this to be a very interesting development, since having to hit garage sales on every "quick" trip to town in the summers was the bane of my existence.
A month ago or so, we picked up a rice/vegetable steamer. I don't remember how much we paid. (He probably would.) No more than $2.00. It was missing a box and instruction book. I easily found the instruction book on the internet as a PDF and printed it off. He has used it, and I finally used it this weekend. (Using new gadgets seems like a lot of bother until I get used to them.)
I *heart* this gadget. And, am now trying to decide which fresh vegetable to try cooking in it first.
The steamer includes a meshed section on top of the water so that herbs and spices can flavor the steam. Pretty cool. A book on my wish list is called The Flavor Bible . It lists just about every ingredient you can imagine, along with recommended ingredients to use with it. Alas, I just noticed that the instruction book already includes recommended herbs for various vegetables, and so I don't yet have the justification to purchase the book. Those of you who have seen my entire bookshelf decdicated to cookbooks are probably guffawing at my desire to purchase yet another book about cooking. And rightly so!
Stay tuned for the adventure as I teach myself how to cook more delicious vegetable dishes.
P.S. My mother is a good cook and I learned a lot from her. However; corn, peas, iceberg lettuce, and potatoes were what farm families ate most of the time. There's so much more out there!
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