Food Obsession
It is remarkable how much I enjoy the food that I enjoy. I think that I may be a bit obsessed. The contrast between the alkalizing diet and the SCD (Simple Carbohydrate Diet) that I am following in my quest for healing has provided me with a sense of profound gratefulness for the items that are available to me. There are very few shortcuts available to me, which is fine, because I am a capable cook. I am eating wholesome, hearty, well-rounded meals, and loving it. Even while I am eating, I scheme about the delicious meal I will have next.
Here is what my day of eating looked like today:
Breakfast: smoothie with banana, yogurt, and cottage cheese. (The yogurt I make, extra fermented (24 hours) so that all the lactose gets broken down into a more simple sugar. Extra-ripe banana, and dry-curd cottage cheese.) A couple of poached eggs, and fruit juice jello (grape).
Lunch: a home-baked chicken breast seasoned with sage, steamed asparagus, a salad with red-leaf lettuce and a home-made red wine vinegarette with dill and red onions.
Snack: a piece of you-guessed-it, home-made almond bread with almond butter (store-bought, can you believe it) and honey. Mmmmmm, sweets, my favorite.
Dinner: Home-made chicken soup. Buffalo meatloaf with home-made ketchup (has to be sweetened with honey, and no weird starchy ingredients like xanthan gum) and cauliflower mashers.
Thank goodness for left-overs of I would never leave the kitchen because I’d always be cooking.
Since starting the diet I have learned how to make my own practically everything. The best items so far have been almond bread (guess what, I ground the almonds to make the flour) and honey-sweetened strawberry jam.
Bees, I love you. Please stick around and pollenate the flowers and make delicious bee vomit here on Earth for a very long long time.
Nina-Lois Turtledove is deeply interested in philosophy, psychology, peace studies, nutrition, tradition, and progress. When she's not slinging meatloaf and gingerbread at a highly acclaimed Denver restaurant, she is helping found an online music school. She is writing a manual designed to improving people's lives through yoga, cooking, and gardening (among other things). This is an online collection of her journal.