Although my husband and I have been in a bit of a cooking rut lately, I have found that I still get excited about food, only instead of eagerly anticipating the sugary treats I used to eat, today I am looking forward to ordering salmon when we go out to eat with my husband's relatives tonight. It used to be that the point of going out to eat was to get some kind of fancy dessert. Tonight we are going to Olive Garden. The first time I ever went to Olive Garden was on a business trip with a coworker before I started the program. They had 2 kinds of cheesecake I wanted to try, so I made sure we went back there again during the trip so I could try the second one. I get excited about vegetables now. I love looking at the produce displays at the grocery store and thinking about what I could make. I don't think I will ever think of food as just fuel. Food is one of the joys of life, but the foods that bring me joy are different now.

I think I need to have a look through my cookbooks and recipes and find something different to make this weekend. We get home kind of late (I eat something before leaving work) so we tend to just have grilled meat, sweet potato or brown rice and a vegetable for dinner. It is functional but a bit boring. We do use spice rubs on the meat so at least it's not totally plain.

Allison

: I have posted about this before, but
: it is really on my mind today for
: some reason.

: food has been an obsession of my
: life. It was not always a love.
: Too much drama attached to it one
: way or another. Too many diets.
: Too much "Ought To"

: sometimes we've discussed in chat,
: finding lifes passions, and I m so
: glad to say that the obsession has
: turned in to a passion. It must be
: one of those turn around things of
: balancing biochemistry. It is so
: different, and I think I'm so
: lucky. I used to wonder what on
: earth a lifes passion could be. I
: was just too busy getting through

: Ive spent some time today packing
: lunchboxes and getting tremendous
: satisfaction for that effort. I m
: currently babysitting a base for a
: fish stew sitting on the hob. Am
: going to be very busy later, so
: the addition of the fish at the
: last minute will be so convenient.
: Yet I have had immense
: satisfaction chopping celery,
: leeks, onions garlic and tomatoes

: I was watching a tv programme the
: other day, and an actor was saying
: how he is not bothered at all
: about food. Its fuel only for him,
: just no interest. I couldn't help
: thinking I have the better gift
: here being able to appreciate all
: this