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Pass the Beans, Please

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Do you eat enough vegetables? Do you really, honestly, get your " 6 a day? " I think it is pretty safe to say that even though I have the best of intentions, I don't. For all the thinking, writing and enjoying food that I do, I'm actually a real slouch on an everyday basis. This is an account of last Thursday, but you could tell the same story for many of the days during the looooong time off I've just had: I wake up, a large glass of tea on the bedstand next to me, lovingly provided by Martin. I get up, lounge around the apartment for a couple of hours (internetting, checking the balcony, doing some scrap-booking (on a good day)), then suddenly realize I need to get to work. I shower and run out the door. You did notice I forgot to eat breakfast, right? And even though I take my tea with both milk and sugar, please, and there is a lot of it, I'm pretty sure it doesn't fit neatly into the category of "stamina-inducing breakfasts". So I jot to wo...

How Am I Doing?

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It's time for a chat. You probably remember I had a loooooong list of New Year dares up back in January. I thought this was the time to do a short recap of how I'm doing on that list, because, you know, I've had all of my summer holiday to get stuff done, there's only four short months left of the year and - maybe, just maybe, I need a literal kick in the behind to get back in gear. So: Do more comparative cooking and, especially, baking. Well, it started out great ! But since that fight, not much has happened. I've done quite a lot of comparative tasting, like organic vs. regular cucumbers (couldn't tell the difference, except for a slight difference in texture), and mayo (homemade wins, no doubt) , but other than that. Meh. So I can't quite cross that of my list, yet. Cook Osso Buco. I actually did do this , quite a while back, but it just wasn't worthy of a post. That may have had a lot to do with the recipe, which I sorta winged, drawing on a cou...

After that, you need food.

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Hello? Um. I, um. Well, okay. I sorta borrowed the 5 first books of the Harry Potter series from my (9-year-old) little sister. The first four was devoured in three days. Then I got stuck with number five, probably because I'd just seen the movie. But then, um. The 6th. was available from the library. And. Um. The last one was in the shops again. So - ah. The last two days, I've been cooped up in the chair in the corner of our living room, only breaking loose when making tea (they have an awful lot of tea in those books, don't they?) and changing the candles and turning on lights. And now. I read them. All of them. Forgive me. But. Um. Does anyone around here carry wands? No? Any snakes? Scars? Robes? Okey-dokey. Just checking if I really AM back in the real world... I'm hungry. Don't you just love vacations? Promise, I will be back - with food - soon!;-)