Clémentine

, QUESADILLAS!

I made a mix of vegetables I had in my kitchen: onions, pepper, tomatoes, zucchinis.

I put first olive oil in a frying pan, then my onions, and grate ginger. Then I added pepper, tomatoes, basilic and oregano. I covered for few minutes. And at the end I added the zucchinis. I put them last becaue it takes less time to cook.

To do your quesadilla, you take another frying pan and put a tortilla on it. You can after this put on a half of the tortilla grated cheese, a bit of your vegetable mix another layer of cheese. Fold your tortilla in 2. Wait few minutes (2-3 min) so the cheese melt and then return your tortilla (tricky part ), wait 2-3min again and it’s ready to serve.

You can decide to put whatever you want on it. Adding spices makes it more tasty but if you already have really good vegetables it’s not necessary.

Recette: http://www.pankaj-blog.com/article-recette-carottes-indienne-gajar-sabji-117616997.html#ob-comment-ob-comment-88175301

The website is in french but the recipes are so good and most of the time easy to prepare.

I was really getting bored of always cooking the same thing with carrots so I tried this and in 20 min it was ready.

Quick and easy perfect for cravings !

I put raspberry and blackberry on mine but it can be anyting you want really.

250g of flour

150g of sugar

150g of butter

A bit of oat

Put everything in a mixing bowl and with your hands mix the all and crumble the butter.

you put the fruits at the bottom of the plate until it’s fully cover, and then you put the mix at the top to cover the fruits.

It has to bake 25 min at 210 °C in the oven.

When you’re vegetarian people always ask you why and you have to explain yourself about all the issues your concerned about. The fact that you’re concerned about the well-being of the animals or the environment or anything else. I feel like a vegetarian beliefs are being questionned a lot. But as well in general vegetarian or vegan are seen as aggressive people who are mad at every single person eating meat.

So I’m trying to raise awarness without becoming a meat hater. But god sometimes some person get on my nerves!

I had a talk yesterday with a friend of mine and he was telling me that me driving was worst than him eating meat. And at some point, the conversation I had with him was like convicing someone that the earth isn’t flat, which is ridiculous because I had to go find articles to show him the facts.

The fact that you are eating meat is alright, I mean everyone does what they wants. But, I think it’s important to be aware of the reality behind what you eat. Then you can say that you fully embrace eating meat.

I don’t want to be only negative about talking of my diet. I had other friends who turned vegetarian after conversations we had and after they watch cowspiracy.

I became a preacher!

My First Lasagna!

As you can see again my title is “my first ...”. It’s just because I’m not much of a cooker. I’ve always been at home where everyone cooks so why bother ! And when I lived in the UK, I didn’t bother much either. My main diet was pasta.

So once again Jamie Oliver inspired me, http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/individual-vegetarian-lasagnes/#sGeBJZO4evBiKH1H.97

I made some changes in the recipe, I didn’t have vegetarian sharo, mature cheese so I used parmigiano, I didn’t have normal milk either so I used soya milk but the white sauce didn’t thickened as expected so maybe you should stick to the normal milk. Also I added pepper to give a bit more taste. Finally the thym is only mentionned to put in with the tomatoes but I added some in the white sauce and with the baby spinach.

I feel like it’s a recipe that you can adjust as you wish. It’s just a great basis for any lasagna you wish to make.

If you feel like you always do the same recipe for your lasagna, I definitely recommend having a look at Jamie’s website because I spent 30 min deciding which one I was going to do!

Giving up fish

I have to confess that I’m not quite there yet. Meat was easy to stop because I’ve never been used to eat a lot of meat and I don’t especially like it. I was more eating meat because “it’s the way you’re supposed to eat”. In my family we tend to buy more meat than fish so when we do the fish is usually delicious.

It’s been a month since I stopped eating meat, and most of the time when I go to a restaurant I can only find an alternative with fish. As I don’t want to become a pain in the ass everytime my friends want to go somewhere, I usually take a dish with fish.

But I will not buy fish outside of this.

So we could say I’m a vegetarian at home and a pescatarian in restaurants!

My First Risotto!

SInce I’ve taken my decision, I’m spending a lot of time looking at recipes on internet. As I’m a huge fan of Jamie Oliver this risotto recipe comes from his website : http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/rice-recipes/asparagus-mint-and-lemon-risotto/

Jamie’s website is a real inspiration, because you don’t eat meat it doesn’t have to mean that your dishes have to be boring! And you’ll see that beacuse you’re trying to forget your old habits this makes you even more creative.

I was very scared to try this recipe out. First, because my kitchen isn’t really a kitchen it’s just a induction cooktop. Second, beacsue even if it says “not too tricky” on the website I thought I was going to ruin it.

I read the instructions a million times while doing it, just to be sure I was doing the right thing.

The most difficult part in my process is to be motivated enough to cook for myself.

One of the thing that I learned looking at Jamie Oliver instagram is that you can froze your food! It seems absolutely ridiculous that this is a discovery but most of the time I thought that I couldn’t cook myself this nice family meal because it’ll be a lot for one person. So realising that made me explore my options.

I found this amazing cooking website (in Québec), where I found an easy recipe to make a couscous http://www.ricardocuisine.com/recettes/5561-couscous-de-legumes-et-pois-chiches-a-la-mijoteuse

The first couscous I cooked ever! And it’s actually very good!

Considering that I made enough to feed the whole town I froze most of it. And it’s nice to know that when I’ll be to lazy to cook my self something or to buy myself food, I’ll have a very nice and healthy meal waiting for me in the freezer.

Stay healthy

I think my body has two brains, the usual one which was trained to have its own opinion and be able to examine the world around him. And there’s the second one, which is usually called a stomach. Well, my stomach destroys my other brain every time he sees nice food. All my principles suddenly go away because I have red wine and a chorizo risotto in front of me.

Born french is not an advantage to what I’m trying to do. When I’m thinking about going vegetarian I think about all these nice plates my mum cooks.

The truth is I wouldn’t cook these kinds of dishes for myself because I can’t be bothered. But I still can’t resist it when I have it in front of me. Even my instagram is 90% of food pictures!

For the moment my alimentation is based on soup, hummus bagels and pesto everything!

I’m currently a one week meat sober person!

I recently realised that my way of life isn’t meeting my opinions. I’m a strong defender of the environment. I recycle, I unplugged my computer when it’s charged, I turn off the lights when I live a room, etc. But I’m eating Mc Donald’s, eating too much meat, I love junk food.

After watching the documentary Food Inc. I stoppped eating Mc Donald’s because my opinions finally got in the way of how good I thought it tasted.

I’m now  6 months Mc Donald’s sober !

So I thought “If I’m still eating meat, I have to reduce how much I eat and I have to be careful of the quality of the meat”. So that’s what I did. I stopped spending money on shit food. And once in a while I allowed my self a special treat with a nice piece of meat straight from the butcher.

And recently I’ve been thinking a lot about becoming a vegetarian, how that will allow me to be in harmony with my opinions.

So I am going to try to expose you what I am going thru. All the problems that I meet and all the succeeds that I’ll have.