From Comfort-style and French Food Junkie to Macrobiotics

I want to actually remember the dishes I cook, so here's my attempt at blogging.

This year for Lent, I thought about going vegan or even all raw (strong desire to lose ten pounds...), but then I started reading about macrobiotics. This seemed much more interesting to me than just eating less because it would also require learning a new method, new rules, new foods even.

So, for a few weeks, let's try this:

Step 1: no more dairy.
Okay, so I'm still going to put a splash of lowfat milk in my morning coffee (no, I'm NOT giving up coffee just yet), but otherwise, no butter, eggs, or (gasp!) cheese.

Step 2: incorporate sea vegetables into daily diet.
I went to the local co-op and bought dried Arame. We'll start there and see if I can stomach plain Nori by the end of this experiment.

Step 3: hugely increase amount of whole grain intake.
Barley, millet, quinoa, brown rice, oats, udon noodles all found a home in my pantry.

Step 4: actually eat these things.
I guess this means I need to learn recipes using these ingredients in tasty ways since all of my usual recipes include bacon fat and take 3+hrs to stew, braise, roast.

Ok.... here goes.