Holy goodness, bread and pasta

Yesterday I was feeling really great with myself. I took a chance at the weight scale in the morning and it already showed a minus 1 kg. Was so happy and motivated. Then, I went to work. And through the morning I got more and more hungry. I ate my soup at noon and by 4pm I was starved! So, when I returned home all I was craving was eggs and tuna! Oh my! And the cravings were really really strong!

I knew a poor salad would help nothing, I was starved. So I sighed, went ahead and made me what the body demanded. I took an egg, a canned tuna, chinese noodles, tamari sauce and some frozen wok veggies with a handful of fresh broccoli. Just because I love it.

Be damned. Today, +1 kg again! And not very vegan, is it.

While I was cooking I also decided to make some fresh bread, just because we ran out and was too lazy to go to the bakery. Plus, home-made bread is good!

Many people are scared of making bread, but there really is nothing to be afraid. Making bread is simple! I quickly put together the ingredients, rye flour (200g), wheat flour (300g), rolled oats (a handful), lots of various seeds and some dry yeast. I always keep it in the pantry for situations like this.

You just mix everything together roughly with about 0,5 l or a bit more of luke-warm water and let the batch rise in holy peace for an hour. Then you knead it by hand thouroughly and make a pretty loaf, put in the baking tray and let it rise for an hour again. So basically, you just knead and wait. That's all there is to bread-making :)

Then it's off to the oven with it and some 40 minutes later you find yourself shooing the boyfriend away from this freshly-baked home-made goodness.

Oh yum.

Wednesday, 19/10/2011
breakfast: toast sandwich with vegan ham & vegan cheddar cheese & wholegrain seed bread
lunch: 1 cup broccoli soup, 1 thin slice of bread
snack: grapes
dinner: wok pasta with egg&tuna. Damn. Some cookies afterwards, too. Shoot.


Have the weird feeling I forgot about a couple of meals :)