This blogging project of mine was established to be an electronic postcard, of sorts. It worked wonderfully for my great adventure in India, but it is time for an evolution. It is time for me to put the blog to work. Inspired by my friends and colleagues, Cynthia Nims and Kathy Casey, I will try to update my blog more regularly and focus more specifically on food and cooking.
Of course, my life is not nearly as structured as theirs, so this will be a much breezier site. I will ponder on the foods I have recently experimented with or craved. I will recount what works and what does not. And I will focus on the realities of cooking in my home kitchen, with the hopes that other people will find some kind of inspiration.
Today, I am once again threatening to give up food altogether and live on an exclusive diet of brown rice and steamed vegetables. I spent the extended holiday weekend in Lake Tahoe with friends and family. I had intended to ski a bit, do some snowshoeing and walking. Instead, I ate and ate and ate and then went gambling.The weather demanded more indoor activities, so my beloved friends stuffed us silly with rich pastas, decadent breakfasts, constant snacks, grilled meats, fresh baked cookies and then more of it all.
I am used to being the cook. I am used to keeping active in the kitchen and then listening to my guests moan and then sink into a food coma. As the recipient of such dastardly treatment, I may have to rethink my boundaries. No means no! And I guess that goes for forcefeeding of extra helpings too.
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