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GREEN HOME SHOW #26: Windows, Food, and News: Part 2 Green Kitchen Skit and Audience Going Green Questions
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Overall Segment #2 – 12:00
This “Mixed” Green Kitchen - 4:00 Sponsored by: Energy Services Group
Bernadette: Welcome to the Little Green Kitchen. Thanks for joining us today. I'm Bernadette George and I’m here with my sous chef and husband Alan Gracie who assists me in soooo many ways. He's a genius with low-fat, butter substitutes and he’s a superb outfielder for our network softball team. In fact that's where we met… somewhere in the outfield. But that's a story for another day. Alan and I have a mixed marriage… Alan is a vegetarian and I’m not, although Alan does eat some dairy. So we’re going to show you how you can cook for you both without ending your marriage. Alan, please tell us what we're going to prepare today in our Mixed Green kitchen.
Alan: Thank you Bernie, as I recall you pitch a pretty mean softball yourself.
Today we are going to make a veggie burger, a salad, and a potato with sour cream, a butter substitute, and lots of fixings. This is a great meal with just enough protein to substitute for that big, fat, juicy cheese-burger that you love so much.
Bernadette: I’m sorry… wait a minute… we didn't really discuss this much... are you saying that were not going be using beef at all anymore? I thought we were supposed to make these decisions together. I don’t recall being consulted on the beef thing. You now much I love my “occasional” steak.
Alan: Now Bernie, don't go jumping to any conclusions.... you know how that sets off your blood pressure. What I'm saying is if we substitute alternative foods for at least half of the beef that we normally eat, a couple of things happened that are good for you and great for our planet. As you know you can't digest any more beef and you can hold in the palm of your hand. The rest of that beef gets stuck in your colon and other places and can stay in your body for years before it’s flushed out… or it turns to fat and makes you look like the cow you’re eating. So what I'm saying Bernie dear, is that if we all reduce our intake of beef and pork by half, we’ll be eating much healthier, staying healthy longer by reducing the stress on our bodies from excess protein that isn't digested, ooohhh, I can't believe you made me explain it again.
Bernadette: So I look like a cow now… ok. Well if I know you, my sweet, I know that there must be some other benefits to cooking this way because you’re always thinking of someone else besides yourself... I need chocolate... where’s my chocolate Alan? Did you hide my chocolate again?
Alan: Actually Bernie, there are other benefits... you see for some of us a vegetarian lifestyle is quite, with or without chocolate, complete and it adds a lot of extra food to that big global rice bowl that we all pull from and put back into. You know how I’m always trying to bring you over to the dark side. You know the dark, green, cruciferous vegetable side? Well, a couple of nights ago, I had a dream:
I was sitting in front of a Cheeseburger in Paradise and I had a revelation. And in this revelation, a voice said (deep and God-like) “Alan”… I don't how it knew my name, but the voice said “Alan, Bernadette doesn't have to give up all of the great steaks and hamburgers that she’s enjoyed her whole life that has jammed her colon up like a baseball in a garden hose. No, no, no, she can still enjoy all of that greasy, artery-choking meat and still contribute to restocking the world's grain supplies.” It said to me “Just have her cut her beef consumption in half and you will be contributing to feeding more people on the planet simply by not eating as much beef, pork and chicken.” The voice continued… it was a very chatty voice “And Alan, because your hands are so big remember she can't digest more meat protein then you can hold in your hand ... so as a first step, all you need to do to help feed the world and trim that (pause) waistline that she’s got, is to reduce her intake of meat, specifically red meat, by half.”
Bernedette: Oh great… even the voice thinks I’m fat.
Alan: No sweetheart, that’s not what the voice thinks.
Bernedette: So what is the voice trying to say honey bunny?
Alan: This revelation was amazing to me… I was bowled over! I think the voice is saying that this is how you should start reducing your intake of red meat. It’ll increase your health, decrease your waistline, and help to restock our dwindling grain supplies around the world. Why the voice was talking to me instead of directly to you, I have no idea.
Bernadette: I do love the idea of a new, slimmer, trimmer me… and you’re saying I don’t have to give up my steaks?
Alan: Not at all snookums. Just eat them half as often. And we’re going to start today with this recipe. Okay, stick a baking potato in a little bowl with about a quarter cup of vegetable stock or broth… organic of course. Now you can bake it or put in the microwave. I prefer the microwave because it’s so fast… about 5 minutes. Take it out of the oven, or microwave if you're so inclined, and cut open the potato. Lay it flat and mush it around a little bit. Put on your favorite butter substitute and shake on some of those salad fixings. Take your veggie burger, which only takes 1 or 2 minutes in the microwave, and crumble it right on top of the potato. Now throw on some shredded cheese, and then put your salad, tomato, a little onion, broccoli, cucumbers, and top it all off with a little ranch dressing. It makes a fantastic meal and it's good to have early in the day because there're lots of carbs blended with veggies to give you energy.
Bernadette: Well, that’s all the time we have for this edition of the Mixed Green Kitchen. Join us next week and save your Mixed Marriage!
Listener Letters – 5:00 Sponsored by: CMI Electric
It’s time for Listener Letters. What do we have Doug?
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