YouTube Clip of the Week: “Depression Cooking with Clara”
Okay, I’ll ‘fess up front — the “depression cooking” is not what to cook when you are depressed or what to cook when you want to make someone depressed, it was hot, simple to make filling meals from the era of The Great Depression. My Gandmother passed some reciepes to my Mom, but they’ve mostly been forgotten. However, we have 91 year old Clara to remind us.
I find it hard to believe that Clara is now 92 (91 when this video was made in 2007). She looks better than I do. She certainly can wield a cooking knife a lot better than I do. If you can’t slice an onion and peel a potato like she can, please put the foody thing on a chopping board and slice away from you. Place the food item to be chopped on the board, and slice it in half as best you can. Then, cut those halves in halves. Keep repeating and you have a slightly safer way to dice and slice.
Clara’s YouTube cooking series, “Depression Cooking with Clara” has a lot that can help people with depression, including major depression:
- Cooking is creating: Being able to cook yourself a meal is a great accomplishment, especially when you’re depressed and either feel overwhelmed with figuring out what to make for dinner or eat too much crap food because it’s already made.
- Cooking is exercise: Every little bit helps.
- Cooking helps ease money fears: Odds are, as we plunge headlong into the next Great Depression, you don’t have much money. It’s good to not only see what you can make with inexpensive ingredients, but also good to hear how other survived the first Great Depression and now laugh about it.
Hope this helps.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
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