I am in heaven! Well sort of...I am so easily amused at the moment. I decided to stay up and do some reading tonight and I turned on the television, a very rare thing for me. And Emeril is doing an entire show dedicated to vegetarian cuisine! And oh my goodness, he is using horseradish! I am swooning. Over the years, I have developed some sort of freaky love of the foulest smelling things! Horseradish, garlic, onions, and shallots are some of my favorites. My husband complains about a lot of the veggies I love. But somehow he always manages to forgive me for stinking up the house, cooking broccoli ;)

When I remember to flip on the television and actually take a moment to look at it, I watch his program. I love to cook. I am in sort of a transition as far as meal planning goes. My son still eats meat, my daughters and husband are vegetarian but eat dairy products, and I stay away from both. So I am learning new recipes and working sort of by trial and error method. I have incorporated a lot of soy products into our diet to try to even us all out. I am not sure that it is working for me though. Also, my husband has a keen sense of what cheese should taste like. If it isn’t Kraft, it isn’t cheese!

I have found that what works best for my body is a lot of fresh fruit and veggies and less cooked or concentrated foods. The drawback to that is that I don’t get to cook a lot. However, I make a very sexy marinated veggie kabob on the grill.

I wish I had more time to devote to cooking and baking.

If we ever go mobile I won’t worry too much about it though. We will live like kings and queens with our fresh fruit and veggies and whatever goodies we find in whatever neighborhood we are in.

Posted by gwendolyn on January 16, 2001 at 11:55 PM