Food is Exciting!
Jan. 22nd, 2010 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormSo today looks like spring out, the hazel flowers are open and the sarcs are just haemmorhaging scent into the air, it's sunny, it's tank top weather, and I was going past Donald's market at Nanaimo on my way home. It is always a good decision to go in there.
I suddenly like cooking again! I don't know what it is about our local place, Choices-- it's got lots of exciting local food with a fair bit of biodiversity, but nothing in there excites me. Could be the prices, but I think it's partly just the atmosphere. It's not a place where you go in and think, 'watercress! And purple potatoes! I could make soup!' but instead somewhere where you wander the lovely rows of fancy veggies trying to figure out what you could possibly eat.
I came home with bags full of veggies and I have some watercress/potato/carrot/lo bak soup on the stove that will be super yummy, some lo bak in my tummy, some veggies getting ready for roasting (celeriac, parsnips, brussels sprouts, a couple purple potatoes, maybe some red peppers and maybe not, some acorn squash), and a bunch of BBQ tofu ready for baking.
Angus and I are trying a low-meat/no red meat thing for awhile to see if it helps his illness. Depending on how it goes we will next try a no-soy/legumes thing or a no meat of any kind thing or somethin' along those lines. I had been dreading it, but suddenly it seems exciting and fun-- like it would have a year or two ago. I am regaining my hobbies one by one, enjoying things that I had forgotten how to enjoy, and it's very good. I need to not lose this.
With the risotto I made last night there is so much food in the house I don't know what to do.
Anyone have any recipes for me? I am looking for: wheat, dairy, egg & meat free things, may contain fish. I suck at cooking fish other than making nice crispy rainbow trout or poached whitefish, so help would be nice.
I suddenly like cooking again! I don't know what it is about our local place, Choices-- it's got lots of exciting local food with a fair bit of biodiversity, but nothing in there excites me. Could be the prices, but I think it's partly just the atmosphere. It's not a place where you go in and think, 'watercress! And purple potatoes! I could make soup!' but instead somewhere where you wander the lovely rows of fancy veggies trying to figure out what you could possibly eat.
I came home with bags full of veggies and I have some watercress/potato/carrot/lo bak soup on the stove that will be super yummy, some lo bak in my tummy, some veggies getting ready for roasting (celeriac, parsnips, brussels sprouts, a couple purple potatoes, maybe some red peppers and maybe not, some acorn squash), and a bunch of BBQ tofu ready for baking.
Angus and I are trying a low-meat/no red meat thing for awhile to see if it helps his illness. Depending on how it goes we will next try a no-soy/legumes thing or a no meat of any kind thing or somethin' along those lines. I had been dreading it, but suddenly it seems exciting and fun-- like it would have a year or two ago. I am regaining my hobbies one by one, enjoying things that I had forgotten how to enjoy, and it's very good. I need to not lose this.
With the risotto I made last night there is so much food in the house I don't know what to do.
Anyone have any recipes for me? I am looking for: wheat, dairy, egg & meat free things, may contain fish. I suck at cooking fish other than making nice crispy rainbow trout or poached whitefish, so help would be nice.
