Doing a Little Cooking and Americans Cheating America

I am not a chef and my sister can easily out cook me; but, we come from a family that had many great cooks in it. Unfortunately, I failed to learn anything from any of them and am self taught. My sister is an award winning cook. When she was younger, she was not that good a cook; but, she traveled the world and learned things I could only wish I had. I could never keep up with her anymore; but, I do have a few signature dishes and know how to spice and use some tricky techniques.

I prepare French food, Japanese Food, Italian food, Cuban food, Mexican food and of course American classics. While I do make some Chinese dishes, I don't consider them restaurant ready. I will put my braised ribs or mustard crusted rack of lamb up against anyone; but, not my Chinese food. The fact is that I used to really love cooking and stopped when I was ill. It is nice to be cooking again and I am getting crazy about it.

Tonight I made a Lobster bisque with clams that I cooked in a French manner separately. It was fantastic and if my doctor knew what I made he would probably chastise me; but, it was good. I also made a meal for a couple of days from now, I made Cuban shredded beef an a Cuban barbeque sauce from a reduction, that only took about 10 hours. It was completely made from scratch. I had never made the Cuban shredded beef before, ended up spending a hundred dollars on spices and it was the best shredded beef I have ever had in my life.

I am finding myself more and more drawn to Cuban food. I used to make Cuban sandwiches on Sundays when we would watch the show Dexter. There are different approaches to making Cuban sandwiches and the one I use involves marinating the pork tenderloin overnight after it has been given a special rub that includes lime zest. The flavor is amazing and very distinctive, it just takes two days to make the sandwiches. There is a famous Cuban restaurant in Southern California and the few people that have had both mine and theirs agree my mine is better. It isn't it is just a little more flavorful for a different part of Cuba.

The point is, I like cooking and do it the best when I am feeling well and I am feeling better and better. I like that it shows in my cooking, cooking is love and joy and hope. There is actually someone who reads this blog that has had a complete 5 course meal made by me for around 15 people, in a foreign kitchen, in a distant town for people I barely knew and they all asked that I publish some of my recipes to them and I did. I am much more limited in scope and abilities than my sister; but, I am pretty good at the ones I do know and fairly inventive. I should also say that I detest baking because it is so measured.

Now, lets talk about the news. I am an American and am not in favor of electing Anti-Americans; but, more and more the Republican party is becoming anti-American and it really annoys me. Too many Republicans believe that it is more important for companies to make a profit than whether or not they hire Americans. Reagan believed that the reason jobs were being sent oversees was because this country had too much red tape to get things going, thats why he de-regulated industries; but, he was wrong, de-regulation only led to more jobs being shipped overseas.

FoxNews - Humans are the true wealth of nations. The article from the notoriously right wing Fox news says that the most valuable asset of a nations is it's human capital. There conclusion is that we should let more intelligent Asians move to America, read through the nonsense and understand who we are putting in our universities and you will see that it is Chinese students. I disagree with the article, what if we invested in the most innovative workforce in the history of the world, Americans. What if rather than allowing in the best from other countries, we made sure that we had best educated our children first. These Republicans are not following the history of the party and don't care about Americans, only profit.

PandoDaily - Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees. Apple is as anti-American as you get. All there manufacturing jobs are in Communist China. I am happy to say I have never owned an Apple product and don't plan on owning one. Bill Gates gives his money to Charities, Jobs gave his profit to the Chinese.

Apple and Google and other high tech companies conspired to fix the salary of their employees so they didn't move from one company to another. Think about that. These companies have been fixing salaries and want to bring in foreign citizens to compete with Americans; but, pay them less.