I want to start playing around here with some writings on cooking. I wanna call these blogs “Cooking With Shorty.” Shorty and I have been making these awesome healthy dinners together for some time. For a while there, Shorty and I noticed that our eating habits were slipping and we knew we weren’t looking or feeling our best because of that. So together we started having these awesome dinner nights we prepare a entire meal of healthy recipes found primarily from blogs. We eat gluten free, dairy free and try to limit our sugar and grains. The entire process feels like an exciting crescendo to dinnertime. I feel like there is a distinct process forming here:
1. Recipe Selection:
Shorty does all the research, because I don’t have the time or patience for it. I receive a flurry of them via text and it’s my job to review each recipe, say yes or no. Sometimes we do an entire meal prep. Sometimes it’s a theme like raw energy bites and we do it test kitchen style preparing several similar recipes. I want to feature the recipe blogs we use and expose you to new recipe bloggers you may not have known about.
2. Foraging
Once the recipes are chosen I prepare a shopping list. I pick up some stuff, Shorty picks up some stuff. I live in the market area of Ottawa and foraging takes on a European flavour here where I go from shop to shop and to the local fresh food vendors for ingredients. I want to feature the local Ottawa businesses here as a way of community building.
And my Shortier Shorty tags along too.
3. Cooking
Shorty and I have a way with each other in the kitchen. It feels like a dance the way we move around one another. It is honestly so much fun to cook with Shorty!
4. Mandatory Dance Break
When I say that I dance with Shorty around the kitchen, I really mean that. Shorty institutes a mandatory dance break and me, Shorty and my Shortier Shorty all dance together in the kitchen.
5. EATING!
6. Assessment
We rate and assess the recipes. Think about how we might improve.
I live this life of intentional practice and part of that is presenting you with a balanced and real view of who I am. How cooking spills into parenting and spills into sex talking and spills into dancing and spills into conversations with strangers. It is all one big conversation really. So you’ll see the weaving of the various aspects of my life in my writings.
If you have any recipes suggestions, I would be happy to consider it. Any questions, comments, ways we can improve the recipes or local shops we should check out, please do let us know.
Please come back and check out what Shorty and I are cooking up!
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