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[neadods]

Mini trampoline: Good low-impact workout, or disaster waiting to happen?

Also, I am in the market for a good, general cookbook (think "Joy of Cooking") for:
- Mediterranean Cooking (esp. Greece and Italy)
- Recipes for Lent
- Jewish cooking

Any recommendations?

I am trying to deal with the incredible paucity of fish and bean recipes in most "generican" cookbooks. Vegetarian cookbooks are slightly better. Slightly.

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[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I could kiss you!

You said "Fount"! So many people say "Font" and it drives me bonkers because it's wrong...

I am trying to deal with the incredible paucity of fish and bean recipes in most "generican" cookbooks. Vegetarian cookbooks are slightly better. Slightly.

Well true vegetarians don't eat fish...

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

I have an automatic twitch when it comes to any kind of trampoline, as my second cousin fell on a regular trampoline decades ago and broke his neck. Ended up quadriplegic for the rest of his life.

If you go with one, just be careful, please.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I ahve all manner of fish and bean recipe books - but sadly they're published on the wrong side of the Atlantic and are couched in strange UK quantities.

You might be able to find a copy of Claudia Roden's 'Mediterranean Cookery' which is one of my staples.

Though as Claudia was born to a cosmopolitan Jewish family in Cairo you might find some of her online recipes the answer to all your needs...

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

These are all ones I have and like, though obviously mileage varies with cookbooks:

Mediterranean: Joyce Goldstein, The Mediterranean Kitchen

Jewish: Claudia Roden, The Book of Jewish Food; Rose Levy Beranbaum has a number of cookbooks, but specifically Jewish recipes are scattered throughout them and mingled with other cuisines.

Italian: Patricia Wells' Trattoria; Lynne Rosetto Kasper, The Splendid Table; Viana La Place and Evan Klieman, Cucina Rustica and Pasta Fresca.

[cedara]

Don't do the trampoline - what if something goes wrong? You could end up with horrible injuries. There should be safer ways to get a workout.

*hugs*

[cedara]

Well true vegetarians don't eat fish...

Yes. It always irks me when someone says they're vegetarians and eat fish. If you're vegetarian, the only animal products you eat are eggs and/or cheese/milk products and/or honey - that's why they're called ovo-lacto vegetarians or lacto-vegetarians.

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

If you mean one of those mini trampolines that are about 5 inches high and a yard across - I've never used one, but a friend of mine has done regularly for years & thinks it's been good for her. The kind with the grab bar in front look the safest to me, but that may be because I don't trust my balance on a bouncy thing.

For cookbooks, 3 that come to mind are Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything Vegetarian, Barbara Kafka's Vegetable Love and Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking.

[shaggydogstail.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge fan of trampolines. Anything that involves bouncing has to be better than other, non-bouncy forms of exercise.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Font? But I'm not asking LJ to print anything for me...

Well true vegetarians don't eat fish...

:P~ I meant the beans part there. There's pretty much one bean recipe in America: Baked beans. Which are good, but there must be more you can do with them.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

That is an extremely persuasive vote against! Although the one I was thinking of has a handlebar, which should help.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Don't start me on weird UK quantities. I still haven't forgiven the cookbook I have for having cups, teacups, spoons, dessert spoons, ounces, and grams in it.

Do you have a link to the online recipes?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Terri's got a particularly good argument against it upthread.

It's just this damned knee! All sorts of standard workout moves will cripple me; I thought the trampoline would be easier on it than the treadmill is.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of bean recipes in the Vegetarian cookbook.

Personally, I'm more of a flexitarian, I think the new term is. Trying to be mostly vegetarian, but not always. (The last time I lost weight and kept it off for years, I ate meat once a day and red meat once a week. I also walked 3 miles a day...)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

If you mean one of those mini trampolines that are about 5 inches high and a yard across

Yes - it looked like a good way to get in some of the harder impact running/twisting moves without knocking my bad knee out of commission.

I'll check out the cookbooks, thank you!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought, but Terri's got a pretty compelling argument against!

[inamac.livejournal.com]

The onlylink I can find is the BBC one to her middle eastern recipes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_middleeasterncooking.shtml

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

I know many people who sustained serious injuries from regular trampolines, but never personally heard of anyone on a mini-tramp getting worse than a stubbed toe when they stumble across it heading to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

My doctor thinks they're wonderful, stimulate the lymphatic system which aids general health - but my arthritic joints didn't like the bouncing motion. They tend to show up super cheap at Goodwill and yard sales quite frequently, you could try a cheap one to see if you like it before you invest in something nicer.

[melusinehr.livejournal.com]

I second the recommendation for Claudia Roden's Book of Jewish Food. Not only does she have some great recipes, but it's a really enjoyable book to just read.

[shaggydogstail.livejournal.com]

That's an awful story, and I can completely see how having something like that happen to a family member would put someone off trampolines completely, but I don't think it should put you off completely. A mini trampoline is much safer than a regular one - you wouldn't be turning somersaults or bouncing very high, and the trampolines sold for home exercise generally have the elastics covered to avoid trip hazards.

Most trampolining accidents involve children, often when safety guidance hasn't been followed properly. You're a responsible adult who would take proper safety precautions, so I think the risk to you would be minimal.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

but my arthritic joints didn't like the bouncing motion.

Really? Because the attraction to me was to save my knee - one of its several problems being arthritis.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm terrible about reading cookbooks like novels. Right now I'm going through Cooking With Jane Austen.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

you wouldn't be turning somersaults or bouncing very high

No - I was thinking more of jogging in place, and that one where you bounce up and twist side to side from the waist down on landing

[bentleywg.livejournal.com]

am trying to deal with the incredible paucity of fish and bean recipes in most "generican" cookbooks. Vegetarian cookbooks are slightly better. Slightly.

Have you looked specifically for bean cookbooks and fish cookbooks? There are lots of them around.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Recommendations? (Particularly for recipes, but also for books.)