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… and now I’m hungry.
I finally got around to making myself a healthy (mostly) meal yesterday. And it was delicious. Now, while I do really like to cook, and some days I love taking hours to make the perfect dinner, I’m not really much of a “take hours in the kitchen to make one meal” on an everyday basis sort of person. I’m kind of impatient. I’m also not a very precise cook. I sort of just throw things in and hope it tastes good. Which is why most of the meals I cook are pretty simple, and the ingredients always vary. But this means that I can share the basics with you, and…
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Pretty Food
I cooked Moroccan food today. Chicken Soup with Couscous. It was amazing. Grated tomatoes (ha!), fresh mint, (!!! from our back yard!), a cinnamon stick, parsley, cilantro, paprika, chili powder, cumin, cayenne pepper. FRESH MINT!!! I looove it. The spices again. They were pretty. I couldn’t help it. Spices and the cookbook at a wonky angle. It was much prettier before I added all the spices. The… er… spices again. What? They were pretty. Oh, and look, there’s couscous! Adding the first round of spices. So mine wasn’t quite as pretty as the picture in the cookbook. Because I didn’t add the second two cups of water like I was…