Mushrooms, breast cancer and common sense

I enjoy the flavor fresh mushrooms impart to dishes and I use a lot of them in my recipes. Let’s Cook Tonight® believes in eating real food with real flavor and mushrooms pass the test. When fresh mushroom are cooked they release a lot of flavorful liquid, they become various shades of brown and a multitude of sizes and shapes. Because canned mushrooms are precooked, the flavorful juices are lost, they are identical in color and salt and citric acid have been added. Canned mushrooms do not give the same flavor and visual appeal to the finished dish as fresh mushrooms do.

I read that mushrooms lower the risk of breast cancer. I am delighted. I cooked with mushrooms before I knew of their health benefit because they taste good. Let’s Cook Tonight® teaches a common sense approach to cooking and eating for maximum health, flavor and enjoyment. I do not worry about the nutritional content of real, unprocessed foods. Nutritional information is confusing, conflicting and complicated. I assume that if the food grew in the ground, Mother Nature put value in it.

I do not want to know the percentages of vitamins, minerals and fiber in my food and I do not want to have to remember which food prevents cancer, which one helps my colon and which one is good for my heart. I want cooking and eating to be a pleasure not a math or science test. Common sense says that fresh foods have nutritional value. It makes sense that most of the nutritional value will be retained if I do as little to the food as possible and it also makes sense to eat all of the juice the food releases if I do choose to cook it. You do not need a degree in nutrition to eat for maximum health just cook and eat a wide variety of colorful foods in their most natural state and you will reap the most value, favor and enjoyment from your food.

Cooking is easier than you think and you are worth the time and effort it takes.

Simple cooking idea: You will get more juice out of a lemon if you warm it in the microwave for 20 seconds and then roll it on the counter.