We'll All Be Eating In 15 Minutes . . . No Matter What

By Don Rutberg

Cooking on the fly? This book is for people who think they don't have time to cook or aren't sure where to begin when stocking a kitchen and planning meals. Don Rutberg has experience as a student, as a young professional living on his own, and as a newly wed. Now he enjoys entertaining and spending most of his time with his guests and not in the kitchen. We'll Be Eating in 15 Minutes . . . No Matter What describes his cooking strategy from meal planning and shopping to presentation and clean up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781456617936

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WE'LL ALL BE EATING IN 15 MINUTES …

NO MATTER WHAT

By Don Rutberg

Being downsized doesn't mean you have to eat scraps or spend a lot of time cooking

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We'll All Be Eating In 15 Minutes . . . No Matter What

by Don Rutberg

Copyright 2013 Don Rutberg

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Downsized? Retired? Broken-hearted?

Moved out? Moved in? Moved on?

Graduated? Empty-nested? Expense account cancelled?

Newly wed? Suddenly single? Shot down hard?

I'm downsized, after teaching English at a local college for ten semesters. No classes were available, not for me, anyway, due to drastic reductions in students, financial aid and … there was a third thing they wanted me to believe.

Whether you've been downsized or just been awarded plenty of spare time by your boss, you've got to move on, be productive.

You've still got to eat, right? And so does my wife. She works until 5 pm Monday through Friday and since I'm out of work, I'm the logical choice to cook dinner. Maybe you are, too. Let's get to it.

My qualifications as a chef are eclectic. I won a wok on The Dating Game in 1978 and I've been cooking ever since. And if that's not good enough, I also won a truck load of soda for appearing on that episode.

Cooking is like playing poker. If you have good cards and have some clue about what you're doing, you should be a decent player. Adding a little passion helps, even if you're more passionate about saving money than cooking dinner.

My cooking skills developed in my young adult years, as a free-lance writer living on the L.A. beach. I was alone, far from home, writing, cooking and inviting young ladies I met on the beach over for dinner. I'd cook on a hibachi and a wok. I always had steaks and lobster tails in my freezer, buying them in bulk or on sale. I actually signed with my first literary agent after a hibachi-cooked, lobster tail dinner. If I had gotten famous, I would've sold a ton of those hibachi grills.

Whether you've been downsized, not gotten famous, been avoiding jealous telepaths in Pittsburgh (more on that later: see Foods to Avoid) or just broken up, heartbreakingly, with your long-time favorite NFL team, like me, you've got to move on, be productive.

Maybe you've just graduated from college or moved in with your lover. You've still got to eat, right? Cooking is not hard to do. Anyone can become a competent chef. Go ahead, turn your house, apartment or trailer into your favorite restaurant and eat better than anyone you know and save money doing it.

No, it won't be fancy. You can't prepare Beef Wellington in 15 minutes. But