Food

Lately my thoughts have been centred on food. I am not sure if I wrote, that I was diagnosed with Gastritis, after having painful nights with stomach ache. And writing this, I feel like a fraud, because "I was diagnosed with Gastritis" sounds like I had some really dreadful and terminal illness. And that it is not. It opens up new ways, gives new opportunities, leads to new experiences.

What I mean? The stomach aches made me look up, what I can and can't eat without pain resulting from it.
So, I'll be saving a lot of money in future, because all the fatty stuff I like is off limits for me. Unless I want to spend my nights lying awake in pain and, let's say, developing a very close relationship to my toilet.

Therefore, the door is opend to better food. Healthier and tastier food. And I can get that from several food-traditions. A lot of which I may not even know yet. What I do know is Italian Food. And a little bit of Indian Food, Naturally enough, I know German food, also Amercian (I am referring here mostly to Fanny Flaggs Cook-Book). Then English Food and French Food. And I very little of Australian Food. That's not a lot and then again, it is quite a lot, looking at it.

Just recently I started a book by Erica Baumeister. It is her first book and is called: "The School Of Essential Ingredients". Apart from having quite beautiful stories, the descriptions of food and its' preparation are very inspiring. I have laid it aside for now, because I remembered, that I hadn't written my blog post as yet. AND because I don't want to finish it so soon, because then it will be finished and that will be a real shame, any time it happens.

I am not a foodie. I eat to fill my tummy. So of a weekend, after I finally got up, the whole food of the day may consist of buttered toast and cucumber. We are not speaking of two slices and a piece of cucumber.
This would be about eight pieces and a whole cucumber. Yes, it is greedy. And it was topped with a Cup of tea or Cappuccino.

But due to the requirements of my stomach and the aforementioned book, I made the resolution to change my food habits entirely. Not only the eating of it, but also the choosing and preparing of it.
Yesterday I started small with Pasta and Pesto out of a glass. Today I had Asparagus with salt and pepper and some butter baked in double aluminium foil in the oven for about 30 Minutes (I am not yet very good with the preparation of Asparagus). This I combined with small potatos, cooked in their skins and then boiled in a sauce of butter and rosemary. I do not as yet have my own little rosemary plant, but I will get one tomorrow. It was very tasty at any rate, even if I say so myself and the asparagus was rather hard than soft.

Anyway. Tomorrow - in the office - it will be a big salad with olives and tomatoes and cucumbers and a roll. That I will get from the bakery in my street, made from spelled flour. So that takes care of that. In the evening I may make some fish, but since I also planned to finally do some sports, I am not so sure about it.

Well, full fun ahead and a lot to think of and to learn. And it is always nice to learn. If you should have any ideas for slowfood, with little or no meat, no sharp ingridients, no cabbage, peas, lentils: go ahead and send them here, I am trying out cooking.

Now for a clip to do with food and as ever not owned by me....

It doesn't look, like it has to do with food, does it? But listen to the song, imagine yourself in an italian ristorante. Whole families are there talking to people waay down their table. Laughing, eating, drinking wine, the children playing, the waiters serving food. It is a hot summers days and la cena (the dinner) is in the garden of the restaurant, starting with antipasti.... and now: dream on.

Vivaldi, Verdi and Puccini are also very nice to listen to, while eating - or even only thinking about - italian food.

Enjoy! Until next week!