#9 Repetition - experience

Asparagus risotto with smoked cheddar

I cooked the asparagus in a large saucepan of lightly salted boiling water until tender, then took off them and cut into 3 cm lenghts. I put the rice in the same cooking water, adding again the asparagus' pieces and some slices of smoked cheddar at the last minute, stirring well.

I add black pepper on the top.

This is a dish that I often cook. It's easy, and it has a very gentle & fine taste. More I cook this dish, better it is. I guess that also love works in the same way. Repetitions of kindness, caring, affection, is not boring... it's experience. And experience gets things well done! Delicioussss

#8 Perseverance

I left this blog for a long time without updates, although secretly I continued sometimes to cook and take pictures. So these are the dishes that I have not written about.

Spelt and lentils stew, with tofu (first time I used tofu!)

Cherry tomatoes and green salad with dry ricotta cheese, pine nuts, oil and roasted bread.

Mushrooms and quinoa soup. Cherry tomatoes and green salad, egg. Blueberries. (yes....I'm still eating colours!)

Roasted butternut squash (first time cooking this nice vegetable!)


Pan cake with raspberry jam and agave syrup on the top. For a sweet breakfast.

And because during these months I didn't write anything, I did not fully understand which meanings I can  take from these dishes.

So, I have not learned anything, except what I am going to write now:

To learn, to love, to cook, to do anything, it takes repetition and perseverance.

Love requires a continue effort (to cook), and a moment of reflection about things (to write). And they must alternate with equal proportion, and in a retively short time.

#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.