Lunch hunch

Irritatingly nutritious and madly delicious, inescapable luscious.
Crisp cooked veggies, shredded carrots and pork belly atop a bed of hot brown rice.
What's not to love?

Cake conundrum

Do you ever just randomly wake up in the morning and think that you'd like to eat a thick slice of a delicious chocolate cake?

And when I say chocolate cake I do not mean those disgusting thickly iced butter cream frosted commercial chocolate cakes that are slathered in that plasticky icky icing of the viscid variety, beaten to a silky texture using unnatural fats and high amounts of sugar, which makes you want to curl up into a fetal position and hope for a roving bulldozer to smear you into a pulp for having sinned so hard.

No, I mean that delicious airy and light chocolate cake which need not be frosted at all. Something of a chocolate sponge cake, that's all too easy to eat without the adhesive grotto like qualities.

Since the time I woke up I've been craving a chocolate cake, and it's odd cuz mostly I hanker for brownies and nice thick dense fudgy ones too (you know what I'm talking about) but not today.
No sir!
Today I have a very specific need to eat a very specific kind of chocolate cake.

I wonder if I should bake it today or wait for a time when I can take pictures, because I have been slacking on my food blog and needs repair that ASAP.
So yes, but the needs are happening today and maybe I can devise a wonderful new recipe and here's the problem, and I shudder as I write this, for it is an anomaly; there are no eggs in the refrigerator.
Gasps!!
I mean there were four of them, sitting serenely but I had them for breakfast without thinking in the slightest and now I'm out.

Which means I'll have to venture out (boo hoo) in this icy weather and buy some.
Makes the whole enterprise of baking look that much less enticing, but what of it?

I've been craving cake and today I realized the needs and now I musts bake one.
If not today, then tomorrow.
Perhaps sometime near weekend so it's easily consumed, because I'm too timid to snaffle big slices of cakes on weekdays, and that too alone..not that I can't, because by the gods I am blessed with gluttonous appetites but because I do not want to.

So yes, chocolate cake!!
How about Friday? Or Saturday?

Pasta mistah

I got late to cook dinner and uh..made some pasta. Am I proud?
Not in the least because pasta as a meal is something I reserve for lazy weekends and not weekdays, but to make up for this folly I went heaps nutritious with the sauce.
Plenty of mushrooms, spinach and creamy avocado that made a deliciously thick base for my Tuesday travesty of a dinner.
Not that there's anything wrong with pasta, just that I feel a bit guilty about eating it on weekdays.

complaints

Something I mostly detest about this weather is its uncanny ability to magically turn the warmest of foods into a cold dish.
It begins cooling by the time you're done plating and setting food on the table, and when its time for a morsel, its almost tasteless cold shovels of edible paper.
This is a phenomenon only plaguing single serving sort of meals, for when I cook wok full of stews or gravy based dishes they keep a lot hotter for much longer, but if it's just a question of scrambled  eggs, stir-fried veggies and thin pieces of toast then god help you, or me in today's case.
I mean I was looking forward to my absolute scrumptious meal of lean proteins and vegetables and complex carbs, but by the time I got to eat it, gah! I hated it. It'd become cold and boring.

Perhaps I ought to stop making single serving meals of various layers, where it's comprised of different components cooked one after another to form a fare proper and make just one pot or one dish meal like noodle broth or stir-fries which just goes in a pan and comes out in one dish, because in this cold weather I cannot stomach the thought of cold food which is meant to be eaten hot.

For when you need poison proper

Rant a ta ta Tuesday

I'd mentioned about how I'd been inflicted by the cold virus and how it was undecided if it's invaded me or not..well, turns out it did try to encroach my system but the good antibodies went into an overdrive and didn't relent, which resulted in minor cold and minimal fever for not more than a day, after which it began receding.
I did suffer from a night of vigorous dreams and frightful coughing, irritated throat and lethargy but it wasn't here to stay, and I'd like to thank my good friend 'the lemon' for that.
Because each day I sucked on at least two lemons immersed in hot water and I'd like to think they were instrumental in thwarting away the bad stuff.
I also let my body rest, didn't work out or step out much in the cold, because it has come to that point where the temperatures are sub zero and morning jogs and walks are not nearly as alluring, at least not when you're on the precipice of falling sick.
I've walked away from the cliff and hopefully will be on a downward ride but the thing with sickness is that you never know when you'd find yourself suddenly plunging into the depths of illness, and hopefully that is a situation mercifully averted.
But precaution is better than cure and for that very reason I'm not going to push my body and let it take its course and tell me when it wants to be tortured with work outs, which is hopefully soon because it's been a few days since I sweated and it bothers me.

It's strange how much you discover of your body, perhaps you begin feeling mindful of it after a bad patch of sickness or maybe you just grow aware but every day I understand a little more and keep making changes to diet and lifestyle accordingly and sometimes they work and sometimes things don't, but the point is that now you know what doesn't and what does, unlike like before when I felt almost blindfolded, groping for health in the dark.
Yes, I do fall off the wagon and go mental with bad food sometimes, but that's rare and a bit of a stroll on the dark side is always recommended to keep your heart cognizant of the sinful wiles.

Facts

Is it odd? I think it is, or maybe not, but perhaps I think it could be that every time I'm hungry I watch food videos.

Edit: I was writing this post at 5:00pm and then got interrupted..but it's 10:07 pm and it still holds true.