My grandson Aaron cooked eggplant cubes according to a recipe you already have. The sad thing is I put cayenne pepper in the potato starch and it was too hot for him to eat. Cooking is an imperfect science.
Today's photo is familiar - scallops with microwaved potatoes and spinach. I put it here for inspiration. In fact it's a little out of focus and so maybe not so inspiring. The point is you can feed yourself well even if it's out of focus, and you're really tired from traveling 2000 miles and back and sleeping in a strange bed. Food and cooking go on, and can be lovely and delicious and healthy in the middle of a lot of other stuff. Remember the line from Psalm 23? "He prepares a table for me in the midst of my enemies." I love that and take it literally. Although I was just with my darling family, not in the midst of my enemies, you know what I mean. Life is hard, everywhere, for everyone. But you can still cook. I rarely cook lengthy dishes. I'm a fast and easy girl.
I put the little washed potatoes in the microwave for 6 minutes, and cooked the rest in that time. Wash, dry, flour the scallops, (defrosted in their little baggy), sauteed them, washed the spinach, (organic from Costco - goes far) and put it in the pan when I took out the scallops, cooked it on high for a minute or two. Took the potatoes out, sliced and squished them, added a little margarine, and Voila! done.
My point, over and over, is you can do it, your kids can do it, your grandchildren can do it.
Sarah's yellow cake is a recipe from Mireille on the Delphi Forums celiac support group. And the frosting was powdered sugar, butter and cocoa powder. It was so good I ate two pieces, not tiny ones either, and then had some blood sugar problems, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
I was glad to see my daughter. She was kind and gracious and I felt like visiting royalty. They're gluten free, and it was a treat to be able to eat someone else's cooking. Summer at the lake in rural St. Louis was green, forested, lush, beautiful, warm and somehow like traveling back in time.
What a strange summer this has been in Baja. I wore shorts once. Once! and now summer is officially over. Eat well and love each other. What could be better?
