Greatest Tuna in a Can....ever. Review of Unique Cooking Show

Cooking.....Fun But With Some Anxiety

The challenge of cooking and eating as age comes upon us.

I've always enjoyed cooking, but as more of a necessity and a sub-hobby.

I've never been especially good at it but I enjoyed it enough to not be half bad.  The problem is that I have, for over thirty years now, cooked in large amounts.  Not that my immediate family was all that big but a husband, child and various stepchildren over the years was a whole lot more hungry stomachs than just me, now looking close to 70 and preparing meals for one.

One of greater joys in life is eating although it's probably not cool to say so.  And as a retiree I have more time to cook.  My goal is to cook good meals that aren't too difficult, relatively inexpensive and are tasty.  I also have a goal to purchase more pre-prepared foods than I did when my family was young.

An example is the food below:

This is a new type of canned tuna that I discovered during a grocery trip that had me peering at foodstuffs I never looked at before when a side of beef was more needed than the smallish can above.

It's called "INFUSIONS" , is about 2.8 oz and is wonderfully flavored.  It's the perfect size for a lunch for me...lunches now being much less then I ate many years ago.  Add a couple of saltines and some fruit and it makes a nice lunch.  Only costs around $2.00!

I've become a big fan of prepared grocery foods.  First, they're mostly (definitely not all) better than fast foods.  Second, they're usually cheaper.  Finally, you can pick up a prepared meal right in the grocery store instead of chasing Burger King all over the place.

Thus my culinary posts will be about my experiences chasing inexpensive but tasty foods that are easy to prepare.

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I do quite like canned soup but there's a food category that is all over the place.  Some soups are too salty.  Some canned soups are bland.  When I'm lucky I find a canned soup that is perfect, pull it off the grocery shelf, maybe six at a time.  Store in the pantry to pull down for a quick lunch with a lot of taste, not much work.

Ordinarily I would not classify Campbell canned soups as being particularly tasty but I discovered a soup... Campbell's Slow Kettle Tomato ; Sweet Basil.  From my very first taste I adored this soup, packaged by two rather small cans in a cardboard container.

Meanwhile, we're keeping an eye out for prepared foods that meet my criteria and foods I will cook for the superiority of their taste.
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Alton Brown "Good Eats"

Oh my goodness let us discuss Alton Brown.

Just recently I discovered Alton Brown on Food Network, of course.  I was surprised.  I watched many episodes of Alton years ago but hadn't seen him in a while.

I note that the new show's title had some reference to "Alton Brown Returns".

Now is ever there was an example of too much time cooking and not enough time eating, as I define understand, it is Alton Brown.

This is not to cast aspersions on Alton.  His show is well scripted and enacted.  But that man works entirely too hard for food that maybe, with some research, we could find in a grocery.  He marinates mushrooms, purees everything in a blender, loves to let stuff sit in the fridge all night that it may absorb the flavors of the marinade.

While we all do this sort of thing from time to time, Alton Brown does to cook most everything.

Still and so, I learn a lot from him and enjoy his show for how well it is produced.

And Alton Brown will tell you that he loves to cook.
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