End of week 2 – a little bit of everything

I have eaten a lot of whole food this week. I have cooked lots of it too. I am eating a lot more carbohydrate than usual particularly with brown rice and buckwheat flour. Most dishes have a number of spices emphasizing different flavours in the food.

Breakfasts:

• Rolled oats with almond milk, stewed fruit
• Corn fritters, avocado and tomato salsa
• Warmed Quinoa with stewed plums, maples syrup, almond milk, cinnamon and slivered almonds
• Banana-blueberry pancakes with maple syrup
• Tomatoes on toast sprinkled with savoury yeast, or homemade pesto
• Banana and blueberry smoothie with almond milk, pea protein and cinnamon 

Lunches

• Hummus on buckwheat wafers with sliced tomatoes
• Miso soup
• Falafel with hummus with raw carrot
• Tofu with peanut sauce
• Warmed leftover corn fritters
• Apple and pear juice with ginger
• Lettuce, tomato, avocado and cumin spiced grated carrot corn bread wrap

Dinners

• Roasted vegetables with tomato and red pepper
• Thousand jeweled quinoa
• Warmed tortillas stuffed with chilli fried beans, lettuce, tomato and avocado 
• Aashe
• Carrot and avocado soup with coconut and cashews
• Carrot and chickpea tagine
• Babganoush, hummus, guacamole with carrot sticks

Snacks

• Apple slices with smear of almond butter
• Bliss balls
• Banana
• 2 x Omega plums
• Walnut and banana buckwheat and brown rice flour Mini muffin with chia seeds
• Mini carrot cake fritters with many spices and maple syrup

 

Most exotic meal: Shahla’s made two of us dinner using traditional family recipes from her Mum – Aashe (pronounced Oosh), then Iranian crispy rice with saffron syrup, broad beans with garlic and dill,

Shahla serving dinner

The blitzed walnuts after an hour and before being cooked 

walnut sauce with eggplant and pomegranate molasses. 



Everything was absolutely divine. I learned to make the walnut paste you pulse and grind the walnuts for an hour! A true labour of love, and a memorable evening. 

Most delightful surprise meal: the salads at Charlie Nobles, beautifully constructed, delicious and nutritious and fabulous tastes; and carrot and avocado soup with coconut, coriander and cashews.

Weirdest meal: carrot cake fritters with maple syrup for breakfast!

Most Over-rated: Savoury yeast! this does not taste like cheese at all. I have realized eating cheese is an experience - texture, taste, smell, visual delight, memories. Eating savoury yeast is nothing like that.

Quickest meal: Anything Mexican

Not sure yet: Pea protein in smoothies.

Favourite meal: crunchy corn fritters with tomato salsa and avocado; Gilli Bassan’s carrot or pumpkin and chickpea tagine. 

Can’t wait to try: coconut yoghurt made with probiotics, making my own corn bread

Best finds:

Pear Jelly, made from our pears, and chelsea white sugar!

• Vogel’s gluten free 6 seed bread
• Mountain breads corn wraps
• Corn tortillas
• Almond milk
• Black coffee with cardamom
• Smoothies for breakfast

Things I miss a little bit

Pear paste (cooked with sugar!) on blue cheese (verboten). I can still eat the walnuts though 

Left: I don't shop in this section of the supermarket any more!

PS. I have not put on any weight this week.