21 - Cooking with gas Growing up as a young kid across the years at home in Barmera I guess I was culinarily challenged. What you ask, ok, I will explain. We were basically raised as a meat and three vegetable family and as a result our taste buds were never extended beyond what would become a fairly routine diet. The food that would be served was plentiful and mum was a great cook. Her meals were always great tasting, and I am sure very nutritious. However, the staple family diet did revolve around the meat and vegetable idea. As such, I guess that I never got a liking for any other type of cooking or a liking for tastes outside of what mum dished up. Of course, at the time of being fed by mum then I suppose I knew no different. And in fairness to my mum the period in time that I am referring to was far different to now in terms of what is available from different ethnic cultures that have integrated their food and cooking styles into our daily diets. Today the food products ava...
