Just cook it!

I love salad: veggie salad (greens),  potato salad, fruit salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw, seafood salad

and whatever I can put salad dressing on or simply vinaigrette or balsamic on.

I used to make a plate of crab meat loaded with cucumber and some Ranch dressing, and inhaled it in an instant.

When my doctor declared I was diabetic, I subsisted on greens, wheat bread and peanut butter, oatmeal, tuna and sardines with tomatoes and onions for lunch, and grilled and steamed fish with lots of ginger and of course, on fruits, and immediately brought down my blood sugar level to 5+.

I learned to make smoothie as well.

I always craved for the brown rice with red beans of the Jamaicans, and their chicken, too,  and the rice con pollo of the South Americans, and the panini and roasted pepper and mushrooms and eggplant parmigiana of the Italians, and filled my palate but always, in moderation.

My mix and match drinks always pleased me, and red wine was and is, my favourite.

Three years into sabbatical from cooking and I am beginning to miss my own kind of cooking. And the other things I did, like dancing and long walks in the park with the dog.






Long pauses, alas, can be tiring.