back to basics

I need to modify my challenge a little. This occurred to me last night as I was enjoying a wonderful sourdough from La Brea Bakery. I’m in the Midwest. La Brea is in California. Doh! I love their take and bake breads (you take the loaves home and finish baking for 10 minutes in your own oven), but I shouldn’t be buying a loaf of bread that was shipped halfway across the country. We have a local European bakery here that makes several very good breads, but the baked cookies and desserts are off-limits, as they often contain shortening. That’s fine, however, as I’m trying to limit my desserts to things I bake, anyway.

The only other part of my challenge that I want to modify is to take time to really sit back and enjoy my meals. This is difficult for me, as I don’t have an actual table. I have a breakfast bar and tv trays. The breakfast bar is fine for something like breakfast, but not so fine when I’ve cooked a big meal. It’s difficult to relax while eating when you’re staring at four different dirty pots and pans. The time may have come to rearrange my furniture to make room for a small table of sorts.

Finally, the other point from this book that I haven’t necessarily accomplished this week is to stick to a cultural rule of three meals per day, no snacks. I’ve done this before and have been quite successful with it. Meals are much more tasty than ever before, because you are actually hungry when you sit down to eat. It’s been well-documented that any food tastes better when you come to the table hungry.

Thus far today, I’ve been enjoying my coffee, but I need to prepare a small breakfast now. I have errands to run, but it’s very easy to procrastinate when the snow is falling outside my window. It’s beautiful to look at, but not necessarily to drive around in.

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