so people have gone to the moon and other crazy places like that, and yet there are so many things we don't know about our own planet, the plants and animals that share it with us, not to mention ourselves. what is that? i think it may be partly arrogance, but that may be cuz i'm in a certain frame of mind right now. ed pointed out that a lot of times you need to go elsewhere in order to learn more about where you're at. which i can definitely see...
i guess my thoughts on this subject stemmed from my recent musings on how self-centered and arrogant, and mostly how ignorant we humans are, thinking that we are so special, and so "superior" to other beings. i'm reading a book on whales and dolphins, and it's so amazing to realize just how much there is we don't know or understand about these beings and so many others like them. we don't even know how to start approaching them. we study them as "scientific subjects", which i guess is a valid form of inquiry, but to really know a being is so much more involved, so much beyond that. i'm actually glad that we don't know that much about them, and i think it behooves us to maybe humble ourselves a little and just get comfortable with the unknown...
well so now let me get to writing what i really wanted to say today:
i've been really getting into cooking lately. that happened for several reasons: one, i have to feed my family, and i want them to eat healthy home-cooked meals. i also like them to enjoy their food, so i do my best. i love it when sena says "this is really good", or when i see aiyana comp down every last morsel. two, and this is a very selfish reason, but nonetheless very important, is that cooking has become an outlet for my creativity for lack of others at this time. there are lots of other things i'd like to do, such as drawing, or body movement, etc, but these things are difficult to do with children, esp. with a 1-yr-old. hopefully i'll be doing them more and more as time goes by. but for now, cooking has become a major outlet of creative energy.
so i've been making lots of stews and soups, which are really nice and soothing in the winter. i've been using nice, quality vegetables, mostly grown by our good friends, brian and anita, and other things such as lentils, mung and adzuki beans, and all kinds of grains i get at the co-op. i built up a nice collection of spices, so now i can throw together a dish pretty quickly. i try, as much as possible, to use stuff that's in season, like root veges in the winter for example, in the spirit that whatever makes these vegetables get through the winter is also probably going to be good for us as it becomes part of our bodies. this is a principle of macrobiotics, and one that makes intuitive sense to me. the other day, i cooked a kick-ass russian borsch. with lots of cabbage, beets, carrots, and other root vegetables. i got the recipe from the original mosewoods cookbook, and i really love it. it's been a big hit with anyone who's tried it so far. i took out 2 more cookbooks out of the library the other day, one of which i want to buy simply because it's beautiful. some of the recipes seem really good too, but it's the art-work that i love. it's the famous "enchanted broccoli forest" cookbook. the other one is a "soups and stews from moosewoods", or something like that, and it has lots of amazing looking recipes, esp. for wintertime. i'm looking fwd to trying the "eastern european root vege soup" from it. i'll let you know how it turns out if i remember.
hoping you enjoy your food, and the energy it gives you...
peace
raluca
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