So, I am new to the blog scene but am ready to jump right in. A little about me, I am a happily married lady. I am blessed to have 1 child. She is amazing and you will hear all about her and our fur baby. I love my family. I love life. I love food. I love a lot I guess, which is a great thing.
I plan to get a blog out each week. I hope to hear from many of you and feel free to share my blogs. I do not confess to be an expert at anything, quite the contrary I am like the old saying a " jack of all trades, master of none".
I have always had a love of food, and my belly shows that quite well. (HA!) I love good food. Not "fast food" junk food. My junk food is good quality, rich spoils that I should probably not indulge in as much as I do , but hey, I'm pretty sure no ones cause of death was ever, death by gelato. ( oh and I guess I should apologize now, I crack myself up a lot ~you'll get used to it. 😄
A little more about me, I am a vegetarian for a long time, about 32 yrs now. As a kid I just could not decipher the difference between people eating beef, chicken etc.. To people eating our family pet. They all were animals to me and it didn't make sense. Especially........in a life where there was something called PASTA! Why would you ever want to eat an animal when there was carb heaven instead! So I refused and decided at 10 no meat would ever go in my belly again. It was hard growing up in an Italian family to understand that I did not eat meat. My grandmother would make a meatball soup and say" it's ok, it's only meatballs, you can still eat it" . LOL!
It took a long time for anyone in my family or even friends to understand as I was growing up. ( I did it before it was even a trend -ha ha ha)
So, anyway my love of food has never left me. Nor, is the fact that although I do not eat meat, poultry or seafood ever dazed me on cooking it for my family. I don't do well with recipes most of the time. I kind of just cook by what I think. I am getting older so I should start writing them down. ( I confess the other day I got out of the shower with the conditioner still in my hair-oops- like really these types of things happen to us as we get older?? )
This is dinner from last night. I made orecchiette pasta with cauliflower and bell peppers in a pesto sauce. Now, the pesto sauce was a total combo because I did not have enough Basil for traditional pesto and I also did not have enough pignoli nuts (what kind of Italian am I?!) so I improvised and it became a walnut pesto sauce, made with basil and cilantro as to those are what I did have. Either way it was a win win! My 3yr old loves pasta. However, bad mama- now knows that sautéing the veggies is not a good idea when it comes to her. Her meal last night took about an hour of compromise because "mama, there is something wrong with my cauliflower!" "It's got brown on it" " I like my cauliflower white color mama". I did not win in the end. I did however win extra sautéed cauliflower for myself. Score!
So that's about it for today. Can't wait to get to know you all and share these fun things and day to day goings on with you all. Have a great one! Ciao
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