cooking up a storm

My life has been lived in the kitchen these last few weeks.

We have all embarked upon an immune boosting diet to help make us healthier.

It is a love hate deal. I love the inches coming off my waist but so far I dont feel any better and the food preparation involved means that the children are rather neglected.

This morning I cooked up a large vege omelette for breakfast and then made up a salad and some home made mayo with tuna, as we were going out for lunch.

We arrived home at 5 pm and it was straight back into the kitchen for me! Soup for dinner and then a double batch of vege samosas for packed lunches tomorrow... with more salad.

More veges for breakfast tomorrow and then we are treating ourselves to a modified nacho's for dinner, with blue corn chips and refried beans with the usual sour cream, guacamole and salad.

When I am not cooking I seem to be heading out to the shops for that one or two ingredients that I dont have, mustard seeds, ural dhal, pistachios.... things that, when you are a food fanatic like I am and your cooking and culinary privelidges are restricted you just have to have in order to keep the palate happy.

Of course I could just live on Omelettes and tuna salad... but Im already going mad with the repetition... so it is off to the kitchen I go again to find some new way of working with lentils and veges!!

Cheers