#7 acceptance

I don't have new dish to show you. in theese days, in fact I had some meals provided by someone else (I work in a restaurant!)

What can I say?

Well, love is also to accept...one another's love

#6 Simplicity

Tomato fusilli,with onion, pine nuts, spices and parmisan cheese on the top. 

Sometimes a simple dish is enough, it nourishes us, makes us feel good. We don't need to be surprised everyday about the creativity of the dish.

Love is simple, like a good friend, or a cute cat sleeping onto our knees.

#5 tricolor lunch and dinner

This was my  today's lunch.

Tricolor pasta 

with:

- red and yellow pepper

- onion, oil, spices

- chopped almonds

I did two different versions: a white version

...and the red  one (with tomato puree)

My dinner was

asparagus, tomato & feta frittata

(I also used onion, garlic, parmisan, black pepper)

I put the frittata in the oven for 30 minutes, and then I grilled it for 5 minutes.

I was a bit sad at the end of the day, anyway I cooked this meal because I prefer not have time to be sad, and have more time to...love.

# 4 Color lunch

Today I ate for lunch:

- sauted and roasted new potatoes, with onion, orange and red pepper, served with warm wholemeal bread.

- blueberry

- kiwi

So, I ate: yellow, red, orange, brown, blue, green. I could appreciate how the colors were bright!

Love has various colors!

#3 sharing ...also a mistake

Yesterday night, me and my flatemate Katie tried to cook blueberry muffins. However, something was wrong. The paper we used  was not so firm, and when we put the mixture in the paper, the muffins became larger than necessary. Then, while muffins were in the oven, we took them off  too early.

However, we had fun, looking for the ingredients and cooking together, and we learnt something about cooking and love:

1) Sharing gets everything more beautiful.

2) Sharing a mistake is important to comparison, and to encourage each other to do better the next time.

3) It's important not to be impatient, and to have appropriate skills...otherwise you can ruin also the best ingredients!

P.S: We couldn't eat them. They seemed (and smelled like) an omelette!

#2 simple meal VS long time cooking

At lunch I cooked and ate a green dish:

- Boiled brussels sprouts.
- Sauted courgettes, with onion and turmeric spice.

At dinner I boiled white butter beans, while in another pan I was frying onion, orange pepper, tomato purèe, and herbs de provence, adding salt and black pepper at the end.
Then I put the beans in to the pan, and stirred well.
This dish takes longer time than the lunch's one, but it is delicious!

Sometimes you don't need much time to love well, in a simply way.
Sometimes love is more difficult, but it worth the wait.

#1 To do fast

Sometimes we eat so fast, and when the meal is finished, we can't be satiated yet. Maybe we are eating without tasting properly.

Sometimes we fall in love too quickly, we get engaged soon, and soon we break. We cant be satisfied, Because we don't feel love properly, we can't appreciate how it tastes.

My first dish is "broccoli rice". 

I just put at the first broccoli and then rice, toghether in the same pan (to do it quick!) with the boiling water and salt, and I waited until they were cooked (about 12 minutes).

At the end they were like a soft green cream; the ingredients were so united that  it was impossible to distinguish any more their different flavours. 
It was so nice, and I tried to taste it... bite by bite.