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    I'd Rather Starve than Cook! A Cookbook for People Who Hate to Cook.
    I'd Rather Starve than Cook! A Cookbook for People Who Hate to Cook.
    I'd Rather Starve than Cook! A Cookbook for People Who Hate to Cook.
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    I'd Rather Starve than Cook! A Cookbook for People Who Hate to Cook.

    By Lisa Orban

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    Everybody needs to eat, not everyone loves to cook.
    Making mealtime quick, fast & stress-free with over 100 easy recipes, helpful tips, funny cooking disaster stories and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndies United Publishing House, LLC
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781644560051
    I'd Rather Starve than Cook! A Cookbook for People Who Hate to Cook.
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    Lisa Orban

    I had a more formal bio to begin with on here, but I'm not a very formal person. So, let's have a little fun with this, shall we? What would you like to know? I suppose we should start with why should you care and what makes me so important that you should be compelled to spend some time with me. Well, I am an Indie author. I write memoirs, they are dark, funny, tragic and hilarious. If you don’t feel better about your own life and your own choices after reading about my misadventures in living, I’d be surprised. I am the reigning champion of “Jerry Springer, the Home Game” after all. Let's see, what else would you like to know? I mean, my life is pretty much an open book at this point. I guess we could start with I was born in Galesburg, IL. I had a mother and a father, they didn't really get along and that's a whole different story that would take an entire other book, and since it's not my story to tell, we'll let it go at that. Shortly after my birth, my mother moved to Quincy, IL where I (mostly) grew up after she married husband #2. At 16, I received a brief tour of Illinois curtsey of foster care and at 18 ran away with my friend Cindy to Phoenix where I lived for three years. I returned to Quincy after my disastrous marriage came to a grinding halt, put my life back together, went to school, earned an Associate in Art in Psychology with a minor in Art. I got a job, well, I've had a lot of them to be honest, and some of them have been pretty weird, but they paid the bills. I’m the mother of five, all of which are grown and gone except my youngest who has a few more years yet before she is let loose into society. I’ve recently become a grandmother, and I expect that will happen more often as the years go by. One of these days I’m going to write a book about my children, much to their impending regret, but that what memoir writers do, they share their lives and their stories. And let’s face it, children are ripe fodder for the funny and the tragic, often all at the same time. I live in a house where chaos is on the menu of the day, every day. For over a decade now I have taken in people in need, the homeless, the helpless and the lost. They come to me broke, and often broken, I give them a clean slate when they walk through the door, and a place to rebuild their lives. I have taken in pregnant women, vets, ex-cons, families and many others who all have one thing in common, somewhere along the way life has pushed them down to the point that they could no longer cope, and their world collapsed around them. When they leave my house, be it weeks or years later, each of them is ready to face the world again, and have gone on to scatter across the states in search of their dreams. (My not so secret dream is that maybe one of these days I will become a moderately successful writer and finally be able to put in that second bathroom I’ve always dreamed of having. In a house of sometimes 12 or more people, that’s no small thing!) Also, I’m pretty funny. So, I hope you will give me a chance to make you laugh, maybe roll your eyes at me, snicker, and on occasion, maybe shed a tear as I continue to share my journey with you. Forever hopeful...

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      I'd Rather Starve than Cook! A Cookbook for People Who Hate to Cook. - Lisa Orban

      Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

      - Mark Twain

      The crock pot may be the single most amazing thing ever invented for the lazy cook. I love being able to just grab things from my cabinets and freezer, throw them into the crock pot, and then walk away for hours. (I just have to remember to do all this in the morning, which may be the only downside to it.)

      Now, as you go through these recipes, not just in this section but in all of them, you will often see spice to taste. For me, my fall back spices generally are pepper, garlic, dill, and the mixed spices you can get pretty much everywhere like, Garlic & Herb seasoning, or Hamburger seasoning. Most of the time I have absolutely no idea what I am going to add to any particular meal, it really does depend on my mood more than anything else. So, whenever I am cooking, I will start randomly grabbing spices from my extensive spice rack and sniff them, if it smells good with what I am cooking, I add it, if not, I close it and move on until I'm bored.

      I know most cookbook will give you an exact amount of whatever they believe it the perfect amount of whatever spice they want you to use, but the fact is, we all have different tastes, and while a few spices are necessary for various recipes, most are just the personal preference of whoever wrote the cookbook. If it's necessary for the recipe to work, I will add it, if it is not, I'll leave it up to you to decide. If you like your meals spicier, add sriracha, hot sauce or whatever you love that makes you sweat. If you don't like heavily spiced meals, then tone it down to what you are comfortable with.

      There will also be options that you can add, or not add. Over the years I have used them, or not, depending on who I am cooking for and allergies. I also add alcohol to some of my recipes, again, they are always optional and by the time whatever is finished cooking is done, it's no longer going to get you drunk. But again, it's entirely up to you.

      Every recipe in this book can be changed or modified to suit your personal tastes. Go wild, add things, change things, have fun with it. Not a single recipe here is written in stone, so don't be afraid to try something different.

      It's your food, be happy with it.

      Beef Stew

      x ~ 1 lbs stew meat

      x ~ 1 bag frozen mixed vegetables

      x ~ 2 cans diced stewed tomatoes (optional)

      x ~ a couple of dashes of Worcestershire

      x ~ 1 packet of Lipton soup mix (dry)

      x ~ a few good dashes of Lowery's seasoning salt

      x ~ a few good dashes of any beef related spice that you want, adjust for your tastes

      x ~ a cap full of red cooking wine

      Throw everything into crock pot.

      Set on low setting.

      Stir a few times.

      Wait 6 hours.

      Done.

      Philly Cheese Steak

      x ~ 2 lbs stew meat

      x ~ 1 package frozen peppers

      x ~ 1 packet of Lipton onion soup mix

      x ~ 1 cup of water

      x ~ a few dashes of Worcestershire

      x ~ ½ a bottle of steak marinade

      *you can also buy a packet of dry steak marinade & add it instead, but if you do add about a 1/2 cup more of water. When I do that, I like using the Peppercorn Steak Marinade, but it will be spicy, you can offset that a bit by adding some honey, but again it will be spicier so only use it if you like a little tingle when you're eating.

      Throw into crock pot.

      Turn on low.

      Stir occasionally.

      Wait 6 hours.

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