Food = love
Spring break so far (as represented by a list of things cooked and eaten since I arrived at home):
- Dad's homemade hummus with toasted pita
- Matzoh ball soup with tons of chicken fat
- Fiberlicious hot cereal with a zillion different grains and nuts
- Tiny loaf of delicious whole wheat bread (slightly denser than ideal)
- Granola sweetened with date molasses that is perfect.
There are obviously many ways to make granola; this is how I did it, in slavish detail. The nuts and figs came from Oberlin Market, pretty much everything else from Whole Foods or similar. I don't know where the date molasses came from. The pantry might have spontaneously produced it. Also, all measurements are approximate.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 c veggie oil
- 2 c rolled oats
- 1 c 7-grain hot cereal mix (including flaxseed, oat bran, barley and some other stuff)
- 1 c mixed nuts and seeds (mine: brazil nuts, walnuts, cashews, pecans, almonds, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds)
- 1/2 c chopped dried dates
- 3/4 c dried coconut flakes
- date molasses
Put the oil in a largish metal baking pan (9"x13" or so) and warm it in the oven at 300˚. Add the oats and grains, stir, and cook for fifteen minutes, stirring often. Add the nuts and seeds and cook for ten minutes, stirring often. Stir in the coconut and let it cook for about three minutes, then add the figs and take it out to cool. There's probably a more economical way to do this, but I realized once it was cool that it wouldn't be very good without some salt and sweetener of some kind, so I stirred in salt and date molasses, turned the oven back on and cooked it again. It's stickier now, but oh my god is it tasty. And vegan!
I arrived at home yesterday evening in an utterly wretched state--fatigued, aching, head so clogged I could barely hear. My parents gave me decongestants, painkillers, antihistamines, tea and love, and we had heavenly matzoh ball soup for dinner. I felt so much better, even just later that night, and I finally slept soundly. I woke up at 7:30. Today has been spent drinking tea, reading Juniper by Monica Furlong (young adult magical fantasy) and In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, helping with laundry, and cooking and eating delicious things.
- Dad's homemade hummus with toasted pita
- Matzoh ball soup with tons of chicken fat
- Fiberlicious hot cereal with a zillion different grains and nuts
- Tiny loaf of delicious whole wheat bread (slightly denser than ideal)
- Granola sweetened with date molasses that is perfect.
There are obviously many ways to make granola; this is how I did it, in slavish detail. The nuts and figs came from Oberlin Market, pretty much everything else from Whole Foods or similar. I don't know where the date molasses came from. The pantry might have spontaneously produced it. Also, all measurements are approximate.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 c veggie oil
- 2 c rolled oats
- 1 c 7-grain hot cereal mix (including flaxseed, oat bran, barley and some other stuff)
- 1 c mixed nuts and seeds (mine: brazil nuts, walnuts, cashews, pecans, almonds, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds)
- 1/2 c chopped dried dates
- 3/4 c dried coconut flakes
- date molasses
Put the oil in a largish metal baking pan (9"x13" or so) and warm it in the oven at 300˚. Add the oats and grains, stir, and cook for fifteen minutes, stirring often. Add the nuts and seeds and cook for ten minutes, stirring often. Stir in the coconut and let it cook for about three minutes, then add the figs and take it out to cool. There's probably a more economical way to do this, but I realized once it was cool that it wouldn't be very good without some salt and sweetener of some kind, so I stirred in salt and date molasses, turned the oven back on and cooked it again. It's stickier now, but oh my god is it tasty. And vegan!
I arrived at home yesterday evening in an utterly wretched state--fatigued, aching, head so clogged I could barely hear. My parents gave me decongestants, painkillers, antihistamines, tea and love, and we had heavenly matzoh ball soup for dinner. I felt so much better, even just later that night, and I finally slept soundly. I woke up at 7:30. Today has been spent drinking tea, reading Juniper by Monica Furlong (young adult magical fantasy) and In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, helping with laundry, and cooking and eating delicious things.