triangulated in sliced life

Fridays translate as bloody laborious in casa moi simply because I feel a bit of immodest splurge washing over me and thusly a couple hours in the kitchen preparing dough for a pizza and skinning tomatoes for marinara sauce are a task I linger on most devotedly for the rewards are rich and immensely pleasing.
It's been a while since I made pizza at home and doing everything from the barest of scratch was what I needed to extract myself from the drudgeries of domesticity..a bit counter intuitive spending time in the kitchen to relieve oneself from spending time in the kitchen but this is how it sometimes works for me.
Destressing through cooking and not through a meal that I'm supposed to cook, but something that I wouldn't normally cook. Making pizza is no adventure but somehow making anything with yeast feels so very special.

So yes..perhaps I'll throw some homemade spiced popcorn and guacamole+chips in the mix so as to ease the burden of stuffing oneself with pizza only meal but who am I kidding?

dinner and motivation

An oncoming weekend that hits you smack in the face and as you lie recuperating from the wind knocked out of your system a question looms large overhead 'what's for dinner?'.

Having been asked in various tones ranging from terse to appeal to implore to not cook up a batch up of 'clean food good for health' this Friday, I sit here typing this after punching pizza dough. 

It sits serenely in a warm place, doing its good ol' rising trick while I wonder what kind of healthy side dish I could jeuje up that'd serve as my main course.

Of course there's nothing wrong with eating pizza for dinner, and any experienced sinner might tell you that it serves a perfect dinner meal each night, and a once in awhile carbo mania is nothing if not ecstatic, but it's somehow always good to have a healthier option to fill yourself with, just so you don't allow yourself to dive deep into the molten cheese bread combo, because there's always this fear of drowning and never coming back up because say whatever, everything indulgent tastes far superior than anything healthy.. and this is a sad contradiction we musts live with. Sighs galore.

Having said that I'm no stickler for health food, and I don't believe in categorizing foodstuffs in what's good for you and what's bad. It's just that when you work so much towards a healthier body in terms of fitness, functionality and flexibility it's difficult to give it all up for one night of pleasure, no matter how alluring. 

A once in awhile splurge matters none. If you're good to your body, nourishing it and taking care of it, go ahead and knock yourself out every now and then. Live a little. There are days when one needn't give a singular thought to restrained eating..only remember to get back to taking care of it after a bout of permissive immoderation; what happens however is that weekend tends to shed water all over your plans of fitness and staying healthy. The little devil on your shoulder easily convinces on virtues of having earned an extravagant weekend and how weekdays are always there to even out weekend decadence.. and so the story continues.

Gym memberships paid in full for an entire year, yet gyms are rarely visited and so forth. 

It's not that there is lack of motivation,  just that we're able to justify ourselves otherwise.

It sounds odd but sometimes you have to berate yourself to be motivated. You've got to tell yourself off and criticize and find faults within you and force yourself to correct them. It sounds negative I know, and since everyone nowadays always seems to be on the positivity train these thoughts do come out as harsh, but really they work. 

If you're only always looking at boosting your morale, chances are that you make yourself see you in a better light than you deserve and thus fall back on your plans. 

Positivity in life is important, but not when you're significantly falling behind on your goals. 

Sometimes you just have to feel depressed about being shit and make improvements in your life by ironing out your faults and making better decisions. 

So pizza for dinner is all good, but a salad on the side or baked vegetables and brown rice is even better. 

Ashes to ashes. Dough to dough

Just saw an ad for Domino's 'burger pizza'. 

Considering the stuff Domino's insists on calling 'pizza' isn't anything remotely like pizza, their burger pizza therefore isn't any blasphemous act on culinary world. 

They're just growing truer to their roots, of rapidly preaching trash food aesthetics to the world..and there ain't nothing wrong with that. Because their fan base is mostly comprised of people with little or no sensations left in their taste buds or those who really don't know, don't care about food in general, nor have time to dwell upon such trivialities. Food is fuel to some. 

Domino's has no agenda to push, nor do  they harbour any ill will to food connoisseurs around the world..and if however their 'ghastly' creations are offensive to some high brow recherché rodents (I'm looking at you, rat from ratatouille), well then, the joke's on them. 

Talking of pizza's..I don't know what tag line for Pizza Hut runs around the world, but in China it's 'Pizza and more' because chinese people rarely every order pizza. Most of their orders are sides dishes, rice bowls, or pasta's or steaks etc. Pizza's are seldom ordered at Pizza Hut in China. 

Someone from yum! foods marketing division told me that Domino's are lagging behind their competitors. Their marketing tactics aren't as fierce anymore and the number of Domino's restaurant, also Subway's have greatly reduced in numbers too. 

Could be due to aggressive yum! Foods marketing tactics or maybe cuz people are bored of Domino's. Maybe they needed a burger pizza, like an adrenaline shot in the arm. 

Who knows, I'm just speculating.