When recipes go wrong - a bit like hit and miss in living in a city

Today was a little bit of a tense day - some small fights with my better half over petty things - and a long drawn dinner which ended up our discussions of why I was so unhappy about Dubai.

My cooking is always tied to my emotions so - we decided to make the trip to the 'big' supermarket store to stock up on some items that was so expensive in our regular store (pine nuts, walnuts, etc) as I wanted to try making few raw food recipes this week. The pesto tasted so much better than any other bottled pesto, and I dont think I'll ever buy a canned one again The pesto was fine but I wasnt so happy with the garlic shrimp pasta I made - I ended up having to sprinkle rock salt and pepper to make it taste good.

It's a bit like my experience in Dubai - I made the garlic simmer in Olive oil for almost 20mins, cooked it with finely chopped green onions and red onions - and I thought cooking it longer would just get the oil soaked in the flavors as I cooked it - but it didnt, it was so-so. It was at best - OK. Some recipes are better than others, and some just taste better than others as well - pretty much like living in a city.

The pastry stuffed with blue cheese and caramelized pears were good (bought cheap filo pastry) and stuffed it with that and walnuts- it was really yummy - this recipe I got inspiration from my yogini friend Shane. Atleast this was a success!

Back to breakfasts - with Mr McNally

Sundried Tomatoe omelettes with feta cheese, mature cheddar and tuna

Andy is home and I am more than glad to have him back - as is our weekend routine,

Andy does a Spinney's run (our little grocery) and I cook. We had our favorite Irish friend

for breakkie - Simon. One thing you need to know about Simon is he is one huge contradiction - for that reason (and his all around big heart), Andy and I love him to bits. He is a contradiction because one day he is chilling out in his pad (filled with art), painting and growing herbs in his little balcony and one moment he's drunk as shit (sleeping ina mosquito net) and doing 'grass angels' in the rain, completely naked outside our hut (this is in palawan)

We usually have our 'family' here in Dubai for breakkie, so I thought apart from taking photos of the food, I should take photos of the friends we have over eating it. Here's simon in a shirt Mitra and Brian (who are back packing in Asia) got him - adorable!!!!!

Breakfast was omelettes I made with sundried tomatoe paste, feta cheese, mature cheddar, tuna and some greens. On the side were some sliced potatoes cooked in sesame oil and cajun spices in mushrooms. I think tomorrow will be an experiement of breakkie outside the eggs and veggie routines - - - I'll probably be looking at shane's blog for inspiration (check HERS out!!!)

http://skinnygourmand.blogspot.com/2010/04/revisit-georgraphy-class.html