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November 2009 
What do you like to talk about?
Posted on Nov 2nd, 2008
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tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 02, 2008:
Give me half a chance and I'll find some reason to talk about food. Cooking it, eating it, looking at it, sharing it - I'm very opinionated about food. I think it should be delicious and beautiful and healthy. I even cook for our animals - brown rice and lentils and greens, the greens not cooked but whizzed in the food processor and then added to the other part with all their enzymes still intact. Dogs and cats can't break down the cellulose walls of veggies so they have to get them either from the food processor or from the belly of animal they've caught and gutted, but that latter choice creeps me out a bit so I go with the food processor.
Growing up, my mom cooked French and also Greek - her stepdad owned a Greek restaurant, so that was lovely but not a cuisine I adopted. French yes. I spent a couple of years cooking and eating only Japanese food, toyed with presentation, have been an occassional vegan, obsessed over raw food and eaten every cuisine I've lived close enough to for indulgence. Mexico? The Southwest? Chicago? Oh my yes. I adore food.
Now I find that food is being a little unfriendly - grains and dairy don't agree with me and this is absolutely shocking. You have no idea how much cheese is a part of my life, but now it hates me. I actually have cheese fantasies - gorgonzola, just the word is nearly an orgasm. Brie. Chevre. But now it is a migraine, and gluten things send me to the bathroom for a day, and so the food game is becoming a little more demanding. That's good, games should have rules, that's what makes them fun. So now almost everything I make is some form of salad, hot or cold, add liquid and the salad is a soup, add hot peppers and cumin and I'm in heaven...mmmm, food. My subject of choice.
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Boy does this resonate Jeannie…Keith is making some pumpkin pancakes and bacon as I write..yummy.
please send me all the recipes. doc says no cheese for me for at least three weeks. I have eaten cheese almost everyday for my whole life. life without cheese is…….. alien. I have been ignoring my doc's advice for the past several days– I have been eating small amounts of cheese in defiance of the doc's orders. husband disapproves. this makes me feel like a rebellious teen – the more they say no, the more likely I am to eat cheese.
today I ate a gruyere (sp?) avocado omelette. tomorrow I will try to go without cheese again. I think I can do it. I just hope noone tries to be helpful by reminding me what the doc says because I do have a hard time controlling the “i'll do whatever I damn well please” imp that lives inside of me. :-) the sweet, compliant, “good” girl that lives inside of me too, often gets her a** kicked by that punk rock girl who's in there. tsk tsk. :-)
if you can do it though, I can. “games should have rules” true. but I don't really like this no cheese game that much. I'm thinking I can try to look at it as a challenge of food creativity. but heck, one of my bestest friends owns “the cheese shop”. she's the queen of cheese. she's st. kiley of the cheese. she's the mistress of cheese. she has a buddha loves gouda t-shirt that farland gave her. this no cheese thing, even temporary no cheese, is harder than fasting entirely. ok, yes, I know I'm getting dramatic now.
so– can you share that link again that you shared before– the one with healthy vegan yummy soups and stuff??
Vegan Lunch Box is one of my favorite food sites. Joel Fuhrman's site makes me cringe a little even though the information is really, really good, I just have a stylistic aversion to it for some reason. But absolutely read Eat to Live - and it has a ton of good recipes as well as awesome research and information.