What do tomatoes, turmeric and broccoli have in common?

Well.... yeah! "Heart attack" and "stroke" sound much better than "She died of nothing."

the doctor told me that my father died of nothing, at the age of 93. He always practiced a lousy life style, nothing but meat and boos and tobacco. I hope my share of his genes will promote longevity for me. Nevertheless, I'm taking no chances, and that's easy because a good life style can be very pleasureable. No sacrifice at all.

yeah, what fishin' said.

I too wouldn't pass up any pleasure if it only meant that I would get a few years more of life. I'd like to eat fried eggs every morning, but, fortunately, there are many other ways to enjoy breakfast.
But, if at the age of 90, I find out that eggs are only good for you, I'm going to be pretty pissed off.

JL - eggs aren't really bad for you unless you have high cholesterol/artery disease. The frying might be a problem, depending on what you fry them in.

Hmmm, fishin, it's not always alive or dead. I betcha it's more often partially paralyzed or in life long pain. I suppose you could always have someone shoot you.

I will volunteer. I enjoy shooting people.

Ok, I'll send you fishin's info. I don't have Dys'.....

I know where dys lives. Not quite in range.....but almost.

Nosey, ain'tcha . . .

Last night we had fusilli in a thick tomato sauce with mild italian sausage, onion, garlic, spices--all that good junk. We had eaten almost all the sausage, so the left-over pasta and t-sauce were tonight's side dish.

We had a salad, cukes (eBeth don't eat 'em, i got 'em all), cherry tomatoes, shredded cheddar, bacon bits and radiccio on a bed of romaine and spinach leaves.

For the main course, i roasted a hen. Fattest damned hen i've ever seen. When i was a child, we raised our own chickens, so we had good ones for a meal--but this was till the fattest damned hen i've ever seen. I roasted it in carrot and apple juice with about 15-20 unpeeled garlic cloves, and crossed two strips of bacon over the breast to keep it moist--it took more than an hour and half, one hour at 350, and half an hour at 450. When we roast a chicken like this, i like to take the leg quarters and leave the wings and breasts for eBeth. So, normally, i get two legs and two thighs. I had one leg quarter--one leg, one thigh--and i'm stuffed. It'll have to wait until tomorrow to finish it.

Fattest damned roasting hen i've ever seen . . .

That whole thing sounds entirely too healthy to me, Set.

So, is a hen a chicken?

Technically speaking, among domestic birds, a hen can be a chicken or a turkey. This was a chicken which seems to have aspired to bein' a turkey . . .

Gus, you can't live with 'em . . . but you can't shoot 'em neither, so i make sacrifices to keep the peace . . .

I've paid attention to what is out there as the latest in what is good for you advice for at least the last thirty years. I haven't purposely bought something from the grocery storewith trans fats in at least twenty years .

On the other hand, I do eat meat sometimes and enjoy it, and I do revere the occasional helping of good biscuits and gravy. I didn't have any of the biscuits and gravy pleasures in all my time in north north California, since the b & g in my early experience there was uniformly horrible.
Thus my recent and future barrage of posts about it, as I think I found biscuit and gravy nirvana on my recent trip (no, not at this morning's breakfast place, although they weren't all that bad tasting either.)

As to quesadillas, I am a purist. I don't understand mixing the kitchen sink in with them, and only saw that previously in north north. I like queso or jack cheese with some diced jalapeno chili in an envelope of fresh flour tortillas, with a tiny side dish. perhaps, of sour cream. That's it.

I don't want tomatoes in my guacamole, or much else besides a good Haas avocado. squirt of limon or lemon, and some drops of hot sauce.

I don't really understand making meals of a list of healthy ingredients, though I admit to trying to avoid many unhealthy dreadfuls. I like things that blend well - so I agree with JLN re mediterranean cooking choices, but for different reasons. Garden fresh tomatoes, fresh picked basil, garlic, good olive oil, great toasted semolina bread equals heaven, not because tomatoes are good for you, but because I like them with these things. That liking of the blend is always first for me. Not that you don't like the blend too, JL, but our priorities are a little different.

On the other hand, I'm chubbier.

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Dan Quayle and george bush can't spell them?

Set, that meal was to die for, what I call pornocooking. Wish I were there.

No, Osso. You've got me wrong. I truly want to die in your kitchen--naked.

My God, I hope Osso didn't screech out "Eeeeuuuwww".