Food
last night the couple we were with looked rather scandalised when i said i thought food, and eating, was too repetitive for me. eat, eat, eat, three meals a day. these days i'm rather over food. never know what i want to eat, and while i'll happily make something that either cleverly uses ingredients we have or that sounds new and interesting (or on the man's request) i tend to put off eating till i'm really hungry and then it doesn't matter what i eat, cos i don't have to figure out what i want to eat, just eat whatever's there!
is food here boring? maybe cos we try to eat at home as much as possible. then again, at home we make a wider range of cuisine than can be obtained in restaurants and cafes. maybe cos i always want to try something new, but the lack of familiarity is sometimes daunting. helps to have a pantry well stocked with ingredients and a full herb garden though, and i think i'm getting better at making healthy tasty food regularly (that's the best approach. cook heaps when i feel like it and freeze for lazy days. works well with the sorts of food we like namely stews, curries, casseroles, soups, slow hearty things)
today for lunch i thought i ought to eat something proper. so i wandered into the kitchen and opened all the cupboards, as i do. caught sight of the maseca and was inspired to make corn tortilla from scratch! only made them twice before and there was still a nice full packet of masa. the man tends to think making pasta or tortilla or chapati from scratch takes longer than opening a packet and cooking something from the supermarket, but i disagree. i made two tortilla in the time it would have taken to toast two slices of bread! had them with baked beans and a fried egg. simple, but filling and yummy. there's something about a fried egg with a runny yolk that can't be beat!
oh remember the post i wrote some time ago about the chair i really wanted? i didn't it would ever materialise at first but today we're off to pick it up from the shop we ordered it from during the christmas sale! yippee! it's going to be my new knitting chair :) wahahaha!
is food here boring? maybe cos we try to eat at home as much as possible. then again, at home we make a wider range of cuisine than can be obtained in restaurants and cafes. maybe cos i always want to try something new, but the lack of familiarity is sometimes daunting. helps to have a pantry well stocked with ingredients and a full herb garden though, and i think i'm getting better at making healthy tasty food regularly (that's the best approach. cook heaps when i feel like it and freeze for lazy days. works well with the sorts of food we like namely stews, curries, casseroles, soups, slow hearty things)
today for lunch i thought i ought to eat something proper. so i wandered into the kitchen and opened all the cupboards, as i do. caught sight of the maseca and was inspired to make corn tortilla from scratch! only made them twice before and there was still a nice full packet of masa. the man tends to think making pasta or tortilla or chapati from scratch takes longer than opening a packet and cooking something from the supermarket, but i disagree. i made two tortilla in the time it would have taken to toast two slices of bread! had them with baked beans and a fried egg. simple, but filling and yummy. there's something about a fried egg with a runny yolk that can't be beat!
oh remember the post i wrote some time ago about the chair i really wanted? i didn't it would ever materialise at first but today we're off to pick it up from the shop we ordered it from during the christmas sale! yippee! it's going to be my new knitting chair :) wahahaha!