Every cook should always have...says me

• Ginger
• Garlic
• Canned tomatoes or tomato sauce
• Peanut butter
• Eggs
• Cheese
• Mushrooms

Now I realise there may be foods here that not everyone eats or enjoys eating. The thought was to make a list of items that no matter what else you have available you can create something scumtious to eat especially with limited time.

di june plum

Back on the Scene

Ok,

So I have been incognito forever and been hiding my blog today is the day it comes out :) and I am making a committment on this day November 17, 2010 to make regular posts. I was thinkging I should do daily, for now it will be at least weekly. I started a fruit and vegetable of the month a ways back so even though November is almost ended the fruit for the month will be watermelon and the vegetable squash (in its' many varieties). I will post two recipes for quick and easy ways these two foods may be added to your meal times. So welcome back 'Di June Plum' happy blogging!

WOW as always I take forever to get back here and do a post. I was sitting outside earlier having lunch (it is a lovely day out) and I thought I would do a post. I has some spicy rice and veggies with pork today for lunch and the pepper was really 'hot'. I also had as part of the meal a berry mix yogurt it was yummy and to my joy the yogurt eased the discomfort caused by the pepper yaay for yogurt (something else you can try). Oh and I got some sunlight today(vitamin D) warm and soothing if you can try it some time made me feel happy too.

yours

di june plum:)

New Discoveries

I am believe experience is the best teacher, it continues to prove true. So there has been no sugar, dairy, presevatives or meat in my diet for a few weeks and yes I survived. I never thought it was possible to eat oatmeal (old fashioned rolled oats) without some type of sweetner and so this lead to these discoveries for me.
1/2 a cup of oatmeal
1 cup hot water
2 /3 tablespoons of raisins
1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
let stand for 10 minutes
yummy

1/2 cup of oatmeal
1 cup hot water
2 tablespoons raisins
1 tablespoon peanut butter
let stand for 10 minutes
even more yummy

Peanut butter is a really great item to have on hand. I made some chapatis (indian flat bread) and one morning for breakfast I spread 2 tablespoons of peanut butter on one of these flatbreads with 1 tablespoon of raisins warmed it up a little and WOW it was so good. There was something warm and comforting about the combination for me. So give these a go if you have not already you just might like them!