Wednesday 30 September 2009

Slipping under the water

Sometimes you just don't know what you are supposed to do
or who you are meant to be
or where you are
and the day seems to end the way it began.
-
The Red Tree by Shaun Tan

Ooo, last day of OZ & NZ VeganMoFo...and I survived! It was fun but to be honest it's a relief we've reached the end! I haven't exactly had the best month and I certainly haven't made anything particularly interesting. I had all these good intentions but it just never worked out!

A lot is going on round here that isn't food related. I've got a few events coming up that I'm training for which leaves me feeling pretty exhausted and my arms feel dead from an epic climbing session last night. Today is also rather stressful at work after the news of the tsunami in Samoa as we've got a film crew heading over there in a couple of weeks. We're trying to work out what locations are still usable and what isn't and what on earth we're going to do.

Anyway, here's my lunch for today...couscous salad with roasted vegetables from Revel.


It wasn't one of their most exciting salads but it filled the spot and was still pretty tasty.

A few days ago I was having a really bad night and I couldn't think of what to eat. I didn't want toast or cereal and I had hardly any veges in my fridge. I didn't feel up to cooking anything and it also had to be something comforting. What to do?


I ended up settling on cooking up some kumara chips (thank god for our convection oven), carrot chips and peanut butter. Not balanced in any way but if homemade kumara chips can't cheer me up then I don't know what will!

4 comments:

  1. Aw, I'm sorry to hear you had a bad day. Hopefully October treats you a bit better! Can you post food between Australia and NZ? Cookies in the mail are always a good mood-booster...

    I think your chips look great!

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  2. I hope October is a better month for you!
    CHips are great comfort food, especially kumara chips! I love the idea of serving them with peanut butter.

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  3. Theresa, I am sure some cookies in the mail to NZ would be ok!

    And I'm sorry you had a bad day as well but that plate of chips, carrots and pb does look like a comforting meal to me!

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  4. That salad looks super tasty! I didn't know that kumara is the same as sweet potato. I love sweet potato chips/fries.

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