I want to cook

My husband is a vegetarian. When we started to live together, he took care of the cooking because of his special needs.  I had a lot of free time first when we moved to Chapel Hill so I slowly started to take over in the kitchen. My favorite part of cooking is browsing through cooking books and food blogs. I love discovering new recipes and looking at pictures of food. I have a lot of recipes on my TO-DO-LIST, here are few recipes that I'm planning to make. 

Almond Veggie Pate Nori Rolls

I'm in love with raw sushi rolls. This recipe is from Ani Phyo. I have two raw cooking books from here and I love her recipe's. 

Cristina from Buenos Aires to Paris

is a wonderful food blog. The pictures and the food are so lovely. I just hope that one day I can cook food that looks as nice as hers. Here are Pistachio/Raspberry Mini-Cakes that she made.

 

Moroccan Quinoa Bites

is a recipe that I found on Julie's raw ambition When I cook everything turns to a mess. I think I will never be able to cook like Julie. Just see how amazing the picture is. I just want to run to store and buy the ingredients straight away. 

Chocolate-souffle

This one seems so tasty.

Raw Orange Chia Seed Breakfast Pudding

from rawmazing

 

 

Day 3 was better

My right feet is not my friend. I continued to have pain in my ankle and knee. I can't help it but when the pain gets worse I just want to run to the nearest pharmacy and get my metroexate. I keep telling my self it is all going to be worth it when we have a baby. It's just hard on days like these when the pain is coming back and I know it's only the beginning. 

I have trouble doing my exercises when my foot is in such a state. I bicycled but I haven't done the home work-outs. I'm going to try to do them tonight. 

The food-issue is also giving my hard time. I don't know whats up with me obsession about food. It is ONLY 30 DAYS that I'm not going to eat unhealthy food. I'm still allowing me to have candy days once a week. Never the less I have been sulking past two days over the fact that I can't stuff my face with unhealthy food. I'm trying to remember when food came to be such a issue for me and why. It didn't be a problem for me. I just ate my food on dinner time and didn't think about food between meals. Maybe it's a good idea to go there. Try to find WHEN food started to become such a issue and WHY I started to measure my happy with food. 

More about food. I was so low on fruit for my smoothie this morning. Determined to stick to the meal plan and went through the fridge to find food for the smoothie. I found dates, a cucumber, avocado, spinach, ground almonds, chi seeds, coconut water and carob powder. I'm not much of a cook. Before I moved in with my boyfriend I did minimum cooking. When we started to live together he did all the cooking for the first two years. It is safe to say when it comes to the kitchen, I'm no expert. You can see the result to the right. I'm not going to sugarcoating it tasted like green cream. I wouldn't recommend it. But I ate it all, it had a lot of healthy ingredients and I stuck to the meal plan. 

What I did to tackle the pain today

Sulk and cry (didn't do much good)

Ate mostly raw

Did 40 minutes of 10 minute solution: Target Toning for Beginngers

Took one parkodin

Had a quiet night (had tickets to a concert but decided to stay home)

I don't whether it was the Target toning or the painkillers but I felt better in the evening

Making food

I got  Ani's raw food kitchen from my mother in law for Christmas present. I haven't cooked or made a lot from it YET. I really like the book. It's a good start for people like me who want to explore the wonders of raw food. What I like most about raw food is the fact that there's no cooking involved.  I hate waiting for the water to start boiling, standing and stir in the pot or for the oven to hot enough. 

For supper tonight I made Ginger Almond Nori Roll with Garden Paté. It was delicious. It took about half an hour to make it and they were so pretty.

 

My husband made biscotti to night. I think I have never ever tried biscotti before. They were surprisingly good. 

At last but not least I made ginger"magic"broth. I got the recipe from my father and his wife. They have been brewing it this winter. It is tasty and when properly done it burns your throat when you drink it. I call it the ginger"magic"broth because it did wonder for my arthritis. I was pretty bad of the arthritis in December. I had everyday pain, had trouble sleeping because of it and I had some trouble walking around. You know just the usual for folks with arthritis. In January I went for a month visit to Iceland and stayed with my Dad. I drank the ginger"magic"broth maybe every other day and oh boy og boy, the difference. The pain went form 7 to 1-2 and I stopped taking painkillers and could sleep. When I came back home I started to brew it my self. The broth isn't as effective when I make it but I still get a little bit better of my arthritis.

 

Ginger"magic"broth

2 liters water

320 g ginger

50 ml lemon juice

60ml agave syrup 

4 g mint 

Chop the ginger, squeeze the lemons, put everything in the pot and boil for an hour. Pour the broth through sieve. Store in a fridge.