Sunday

Sunday in Rabat.
When temperature comes down, colors are more pronounced. The eye sees more and intense, that's how I feel it any way.
Along the small side roads there where the boys sell their small puppies they bargain today about yellow.
Corn in leaves, lemon as carpets on the earth, heavy branches under the weight of mimosa blossoming. The seasons of trees are endless or just almost eternal while the last blossoming has been a short while.
I see corn in my kitchen, smooth sweet to grill served with large sea salt and parsley butter. Lemon pie and thirsty girls like lemonade: water add with pressed lemon and a spoon of sugar.

Nutritionally optimise oils an article by Scientist Live created for Food and Laboratory Scientists

Nutritionally optimise oils an article by Scientist Live created for Food and Laboratory Scientists: "There is nothing wrong with good food fast - because responsible fast food operators have long changed their frying oil to non-hydrogenated oils, low in saturated fatty acids and practically free of trans fatty acids."

Sources from the European world, there's a role for all food related business to make s step towards a traditional proved way of cooking with oils and flavors making the difference.

Junk food revisited

What's in the name, junk food, an expression, a way of pointing out to some food industries who make most of the food we find from breakfast through lunch into dinner on our table.. (Food Inc Documentary)
Junk food has something to do with an addiction, I mean being a junk has it all in the name.
Or it is all about trash,
food we rather not taste,
probably without any flavor, prepared to be consumed as fast as junk food can be eaten, waiting in line for another plate.
For me it is easy, allergies made us on a distance from all these kind of dishes, prepared food is just not something we'll have in the fridge, on the table or during a long drive from Africa to Europe.
Junk food though has a certain attraction factor it is undoubtedly a pressure that makes that young people like this food, want to taste it, like to have it, ti obtain it at least some time now and then.
So many minds, so many tastes, the easy side of the fast food read junk food is you won't cook, you pick it up, you just drive in, you only need to dump the boxes at the end of the food intake. I mean dishes aren't really necessary so the minimal time investment is really interesting. Where time is an issue it seems to make sense, be honest, to pick up food. I mean the future dream house is totally equipped with it's own drive in.
So as we don't do the fast food nor the junk food we need to find out some alternatives, meaning small portions, finger food, boxes with snack varieties etcetera.

Tips:
small cakes in colored cups: cups cakes frostings  with coloring without any adds
chicken Bio, grilled with thyme and Estragon  in folio
macaroni salad with fresh herbs like basel, corn, red pepper, tuna fish or fried turkey served in small carton recycled containers
corn tortilla's home made filled with smoked salmon, chives, cream cheese; cut in small pieces wrapped in grape leaves. Find yourself some small baskets, or fancy decorated small plastic recycled bags. Museums have fashion boxes for meals, cool bags for snacks, go out and search for eye catchers.
No doubt that in all of this no traces of peanuts or nuts and no artificial adds. Try to buy fresh, if you have time, make more than you need and freeze. vary with any fresh herbs and that's the same for the veggies, radish or cucumber. Colors to make my day and it says something about the fruits you eat, red and blue is definite healthy. 


Tonight we had pasta. a nice butterfly pasta with 4 fresh green herbs, chopped  and mixed. Add to your warm pasta and pour olive oil! Fresh Parmesan cheese, I can find a nice one here in Rabat. The calcium is a plus of this particular hard and dry cheese.

Eprise de cerises exquises | Clin d'oeil gourmand

Eprise de cerises exquises | Clin d'oeil gourmand

Wow wonderful cherries, they are so cute when my youngest girls wears these red small glittering miracles as her most fanciest earrings, variety of cherries means variety of moments, variety of names, variety of regions, mother nature cherish these cherries with her ultimate patience.

I admired the two cherry trees we used to have in our garden in Lausanne, Switzerland, the trees with their old branches gave the garden a ancient , romantic character.

It's sad that my colorful allergy girl can't have these beauties, it's itches her throat so easier to avoid, we enjoy them and I love to make a cherry cake. In Rabat the cherries do arrive on large wooden chars, on every street corner and in the old town, The Medina you can find the purple ones for small prices. When the girls were young and we lived in France we went out together with dear friends to a farm of our cleaning lady and the children could climb in cherry trees and pick the red treasurer and fill their small baskets. It's wonderful how memories of cherries go all along back in time, cherries seem the perfect link between the present and the past, it's the classic appearance of this tiny fruit that seduces us every year again.

Le Monde.fr : Résultats de recherche

Le Monde.fr : Résultats de recherche: "Les aliments anticancer n'existent pas, selon l'Agence de sécurité sanitaire
LE MONDE | 26 mai 2011 | Pascale Santi | 685 mots
'Il n'y a pas d'aliments anticancer.' Telle est l'une des conclusions du rapport intitulé 'Nutrition et cancer : légitimité de recommandations nutritionnelles dans le cadre de la prévention des cancers', publié, jeudi 26 mai, par l'Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation de..."

Balance in spirit and body, food and exercise, culture and art!

Fruits and veggies, limited amount of animal fat, breastfeeding for the first six months.....

All together I think we are doing fine. While taking care of allergies and eczema since baby time until teenage today, a basic diet valued by local products , seasonal linked vegetables and fruits, a modest intake of meat I have seen good results. Golden rules like no many adds, just 4 ingredients for a main plate and for a home made dessert as well makes life simple and very comfortable, if this mean that we can avoid a lot of health issues that's really terrific but not a guarantee for staying untouchable for cancer.

BBC News - Culture linked to improved health

BBC News - Culture linked to improved health

Wonderful, wonderful!

We'll never have enough of culture: be an artist or enjoy artists, both is simply an add for life, live long art!

I feel these last days were much about life,
spirit, empathy, vulnerability.
Life is unpredictable, we wouldn't change that, and yet this makes us fragile.
We want a good end.
I like the playing with thoughts and the plate that composes a variety of flavors.
Slow motion.
An image that can stand for some time,
longer than just seconds,
a mood that appears.
Moments that slip away and could disappear without having a deeper meaning, timeless seems the opposite, the picture that turns us in the opposite direction.

Between thoughts there is a nice lunch, at the terrace,
all with our own thought, taste, perception and imagination.



 

Life

Life is to be admired,
often we take it for granted.

NOS Nieuws - Regels voor bloeddonoren onderzocht

NOS Nieuws - Regels voor bloeddonoren onderzocht

Blood donors research on behalf of peanut allergies!

Pound cake

Pound Cake or like the French say: quatre - quarts!

I love cake, the girls love it and most of the time it's simply the best. Pound cake. my father was pretty good in making us a Sunday cake, his father was the best, as I mentioned so often already. he was able to turn every moment into a celebration. he was delighted to be in the kitchen and looked after his grand children and I easily recall his attitude, a pure way of baking. Wooden spoons, simple tools, ancient balance and aper bags that did well instead of today's fat free paper.

We had pound cake with a frosting not on the outside of the cake but on the layers. my grand father cut the cake in nice slices, all seemed exactly the same size. (Today I all understand better. The exactly equal size seemed to be of an life threatened importance, but it was all connected to the scarcely food they had during the last winter in the second World war. )

On the slices he creamed a nice 'mocca' cream. The cream was made of butter and sugar and fresh made dark, dark coffee.

A recipe for pound cake:

5 eggs, separated
About 2/3 cup unsalted butter
About 2/3 cup sugar
About 1 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind


Preheat the oven 325 F.
Grease a deep 8 inch cake pan.
If you like the pound cake.... then weigh the ingredients. Compare the eggs withe weigh of of butter and later on with the flour.
Melt the butter.
When starts melting take the pan of the heat
beat the egg yolks with the sugar and the lemon.
When mixture goes pale than add the the butter.
Gradually add the flour.
Beat your whites into snow. Peaks like the Alps!
Fold the snow into the mixture, all with gently movements.
Pour your mixture into the cake pan and into the oven!


Enjoy the pound cake warm with fresh fruits of the season, blueberries and all berries will do, or melon and watermelon, or make a nice butter coffee cream!

The News Tribe » Teens’ allergy fears ‘mistaken’

The News Tribe » Teens’ allergy fears ‘mistaken’: "She added: “Allergy is a big problem for some people. Our concern is that if the world and his wife say they have an allergy, those who really do will find it increasingly hard to be taken seriously.”"

Teens With Food Allergies May Feel Unsafe at School - healthfinder.gov

Teens With Food Allergies May Feel Unsafe at School - healthfinder.gov

More about risk taking adventures, please let's take care that we're all safe, don't play with the risk inherent to play around with allergies!

HealthyChildren.org - Hidden Dangers: Food Allergies and Teens

HealthyChildren.org - Hidden Dangers: Food Allergies and Teens

Education, information, sharing, updates, empathy!

''Although parents expect teenagers to take risks, the poor choices food allergic teens make are especially dangerous because they could lead to death' (in this article)

Why Risk It - Live

Why Risk It - Live

Yep! Live and be careful with the risks you take.

This site is well done, informing and honest.

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Sunshine

Because of a birthday and there's not the one who's having his birthday, but we will party later, that's what we said early this morning. While Rabat awakes and the day starts warm already with no breeze at all, but this is exactly what I like, it's the weather I live for, at least that's the time of year I admire the evenings, long and warm and the no border between in and out , inside and outside, doors seem transparent, when day ends and evening steps in slowly via the back yard I clean the kitchen after supper and we watch Julia Child, for the I don't know how many time we looked the movie together, the girls and I. 

The supper though I made in the afternoon, I thought of making the day longer and having the dish done and then all is so easy when the sun shines, the girls are happy and somebody is having his birthday.

I quickly fried the broccoli in olive oil and garlic. Cook 250 gr of three color pasta. Cut two small red pepper in small bits and sliced the garlic.

All ingredients nicely together as one fresh family of vitamins into a glass bowl and pored some olive oil, black pepper and sea salt. Bowl until supper in the fridge.

Served the salad with some mozzarella and smoked salmon,bread with grains.

I loved the colors, fresh and bright; the girls took more than one portion!

Any moment

Don't quiet sure about the direction.
The blog at a matter of fact.
Put in / in put
The art sculpture in The Petit Palais in Paris is on my mind, the huge red sculpture, you need to go into it and that you will discover the outside when you come out, the artist liked to make the set up in a upside down manner. The people who went into the sculpture felt themselves comfort, unless the immense surface, may be it's the color red, the warmth that reflects fro the plastic structure.
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'consoler'
and all that happens
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the daily
circle
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the frustration
the joy of the moment
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the diets
the changes
the girls
their bodies
growing up
puberty
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my age
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Amazing
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Butterfly

The weather as it seems to be is one of the real aspects that causes here in Rabat the feeling of her allergic fevers, in all aspects and varieties. As we welcome the Summer and time laps , longer in the evening , sitting outside and endless skies to high to catch the night, stripes at dawn , pink and glittering drops, the green of the trees colors deeper, leaves fall already because temperature rises and season change while we are not yet ready to say good buy to another year in Rabat.

Enjoying food in the warm evening air, we find our rhythm in dishes that bring back memories. Artichoke dipped in vinaigrette. made of olive oil, mustard and balsamic vinegar.
French baguette with the Moroccan touch and cheese: goat, emental and comté.
Watermelon deep red in beautiful slices and bright laughter in the blue evening.

Dermatitis May Be More Cause Than Effect of Food Allergies Information on Healthline

Dermatitis May Be More Cause Than Effect of Food Allergies Information on Healthline

The dramatic connection between dermatological issues and allergies. The envelope though seems to be sometimes a source of sorrows and heritage is certainly linked. I notice the case - highlighted in this article- in our family situation. I see and discover too that awareness of parents and perseverance are most important when facing children with these kind of afflictions.

My advice: Follow your heart when you have doubts or questions, go and see doctors, insist that you feel something is wrong, that this intuition may be a pure emotional matter but could be a matter where medical diagnosis and treatment is needed.

Traveling

When those who are allergic like traveling, life is an easy adventure, at least mine is........meaning I am a traveler, saying I remember those who couldn't understand so well my eager to leave, to go, to discover, to change environment, to collect impressions, smell flavors, cross cultures and people from elsewhere. It's certainly something that appears as an atom and evolves in a stream of unrest. Restless legs, spiritual minds, chasing a sunset or the mother of pearl. New horizons.
Today we couldn't just simply not buy the melons at the side road driving home from Marrakesh. They stand in line  along the road, young Moroccans with their plastic trays packed with melons. Soon after and having taste the slices of the so fresh orange fruit we continued our way home, the car smelled like a fruit garden.