Comfort food

Yes, even cavemen need some comfort once in a while, when they've battled dinosaurs all weekend, or had to club their particular female conquest on the head with a bone one time too many (cavemen weren't politically correct), or had to fight over who ended up with the chore of cleaning up after disembowelling a mammoth.
(Please note, as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 'The everlasting man', the cavemen imagery used above has nothing to do with the actual cavemen, but is an artefact of nineteenth, early twentieth century popular imagination)
(Also note: even though it isn't true, it's still cool. And that's what counts ...)
(Last note: See? I can even find a way to quote Chesterton, even on a food blog).
Anyway, I was writing about comfort food.
And I had a good comfort food today. Not particulary low in calories, mind, but it followed the paleolithic concepts to a tee.
First I fried an onion in small pieces in oil, added quite a lot of curry powder, paprika powder and powdered pepper.
I then added a largish piece of cervelaat, a kind of salami-esque sausage, lots of fat but quite tasty , I think 200 grams, cut in pieces. I fried that in the onion until it had colored brownish. I do not have a lisp. I just like to use 'ish' a lot. Or should that be 'a lotish'?
And finally I added one courgette, cut in pieces. Yes, some healthy stuff too.
I fried it all for a couple minutes more, added a copious amount of sweet chili sauce, shoved it on my plate and mmmm ....
Satisfying, spicy and a good stuffed feeling afterwards.
Definitely comforting after a hard days night eh ... work inside the house (or cave).
(Did you get the beatles reference? Chesterton and the Beatles in one post. This is getting weird).

The chicken or the egg?

This is chicken with broccoli, courgette (aka the amazing zucchini) and some spices - garlic and mustard seed.

Ham is good for you (well, combined with lots of vegs and fruit...)

Ah, today was another creative day for cooking.
I had my favorite weekend breakfast again (the mushrooms, tomato's and bacon. Mmmmmm), for lunch I had a whole pineapple (also very good), and for dinner I stir fried a courgette (in slices), a sweet pointed paprika/bellpepper (I like those very much!), and 250 grams of ham in cubes, seasoned with lots of currypowder and pepper and a bit of sweet chili sause (that combines with everything)... I had half of this, and half a can of red beets in slices as salad. The combination between the salty ham and the sweeter bellpepper and ret beets was very good. The other half I'll keep for tomorrow.
All in all I had no more than 800 kcal today, which is good, for yesterday at lunch I had some rolls of bread with cheese and soup (I was with someone else), so I ate starchy and lots of calories, though my breakfast (fruit) and dinner (leftovers from thursday) were not very caloric.
Once again I have to note that eating this way is a very easy way to lose weight. You must eat lots of fruit and vegetables to get to the advised amount of calories. And now I realise how good this food is, I don't really need pizza's or pasta any more...
Have to try out more creative idea's soon. I'll keep y'all informed!

Fast Flashback

Since I'm having a short fast tonight I thought this would be a good time to post a dinner I did about a month ago. I took a picture to send to a friend, so here it is.

It's a filet of smoked rainbow trout on a bed of stir fried courgette, eggplant and spring onions. I probably used ground musterd seed, chili pepper, salt and garlic as spices (I really don't remember).

The salad is cucumber, paprika (aka bell pepper), more spring onions, the stem of a broccoli, sun dried tomatoes, olives and witlof. Yes, that's the english name for the white stuff you can see at the top, though you may now it as belgian endive, chicory or chicoree, depending on where you live. Now I'm going to stop talking about food before I decide to skip my fast...