going on about food

right now it's not more or less cooking than before, but more conscious cooking I guess. and it feels good, it feels right and I am tasting more and/or "deeper"...meaning, I can taste if a meal is nourishing my body in a good way or not.

as an example, last night's dinner. as we had dinner guests and it needed to be a quick dinner, after that we had to run to school for a performance of the big girl, I decided on something I know the girls and their friends like: tunaballs, pasta, tomato sauce, fried vegetables

oh, it's one of the girls favourite! they didn't have much of the vegetables and I mainly added them for myself. so I ate the vegetables (broccoli, spinach) and a yummy piece of fresh soy milk bread I made in the afternoon. and I was perfectly happy with it! I wasn't drawn towards the sauce or the paste, yes, I had one tunaball, as they have no ingredient that I shouldn't eat at the moment, but one was enough. long story short, I am very happy with the fact that my body is noticing what I do for it :-)

not saying that I am not missing "my" sweets...oh, I do and it is not always easy to watch the girls go get their treats after dinner. but they are so sweet...my big girl would come give me a big hug after she ate her piece of chocolate and describe how wonderful it tastes. not, that's no torture to me.

sometimes when I am in the shop, I very slowly walk past all the sweets, checking what there is, almost tasting things and that's it.

don't worry I will go back to sweets, but right now I am just happy about how well things go!

as I shared the bread recipe with you in my last post, here something you can make once you have some bread left and need to use - Spinach Strata! the recipe comes from this book!

we actually had it as dinner, but it makes a wonderful, quick weekend breakfast too!

and one more before I go and help my big girl bake some chocolate chip cookies :-)

it's artichoke season in Cairo! before last year I had no idea what to do with fresh artichokes, but luckily my italian friend opened up a whole world of wonderful artichoke recipes for me! last week I found some fresh ones and here is what I did!

the artichokes are cleaned and steamed in water. once done I put a little salt and grated some parmesan cheese on top. brown rice - that's it, I love it simple, sometimes ;-)