Maybe those new mood light alarm 'clocks' are a great invention after all? If you live in some place like Siberia or even Helsinki, with so little light in wintertime, how can you ever get up with a smile? But those lamps can fool you into believing that there is a lovely sunrise...And dshabummm, up you are. Like a shot of coffee. Italian strength! Coffee? Did I mention that I am totally cutting down on this dark brew? Not that I ever liked it much, it is the 80 to 20 - MILK to COFFEE ratio that is my kick. I am a huge fan of milk. Milk maiden, of course, it suits a German. Muhhhhhhhhh...muhhhhhh... that could be my good morning!
Here is my daily(not working!) schedule of health and spot-free-ness:
*Wake up call: 1 glass of water with 2 spoons of apple cider vinegar
*Followed by 1/2l of water
*Multi-rainbow-colored fresh juiced veggie-fruit cocktail (hell of a mess and work, but it is good for me, I think)
*Coffee with milk, just some
*1 spoon of barley grass, 2 capsules of vitamin C, 2 capsules of MACA MACA and 2 Zinc-copper pills, all mixed with water, face pulled into funny mode and gullllppppp, down the health
*fresh fruit
Later morning: 1 cup of oats, 3 dried figs and 4 prunes, 2 spoon brewers yeast, 2 spoon wheat germ, 2 spoon flax seeds (ground) and 1 cup of fresh or frozen(and defrosted) berries drowned in 1 cup of kefir
lots of water with fresh lemon juice
Noon: I eat what I cook for Prince - healthy stuff, like broccoli, spinach and beans with turkey breast or fresh fish or sardines from a can (for the calcium - must be eaten with those spiky bones)
green tea with lemon juice
Afternoon snacks: goji berries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, 3 brazilian nuts
more green tea with lemon juice, more water
dinner: whatever is cooking on my stove, but again: HEALTHY with lots of greens
red wine
water
This regime has now been on about 6 weeks, but the awaited outcome, the magical Cinderella-turn-Princess - moment has yet to arrive.
I will keep you updated with news!
Promise
Prince is going for a breakfast meeting at the Setais, my faire beauty, but I decline the offer to join. Instead I will do some more washing and cleaning... Fishing the big wet load of clothing out of the washing-machine, I am far from overjoyed. That old dress (ebay) of mine, washed over and over, has bled and now Prince's pink shirts are some sort of purple and so is my favorite hippy sundress. Damn, and I make sure to never mix colors, how could it have gone so wrong?
Luckily Prince does not mind, he actually likes the new tint. Let's see about that, when he wants to wear them.
My red and white sailor shirt-ruined too. (this one I really loved... ZARA children, sometimes the best bet for summer fun sexy...)
Another day in the valley of problems.
I convince myself that it's the fault of the house and as soon we will leave the valley for a sun drenched home, bad things will be over. I do believe that a house can lift you or drown you. Maybe this is the simple truth of Feng-Shui? The direction, the orientation, the elements surrounding it. To think of it, our house is surrounded on 2 sides by a river. It sits in a valley, which makes it lovely and green, but the sunlight reaches us only in the morning hours and some rooms, like our bedroom, never get direct light. It is on the other hand very quiet and we can hear ducks, frogs and all other sorts of unknown creatures. Our garden is magnificent and blooms in healthy greens, has fireflies in spring (yes!!! they still exist), but our pool has such low PH, that when I swim my lips turn white and start peeling and it feels like a bath in sour milk, or KEFIR for that matter. (could that be healthy?) The gardener has tried everything, but no success. If he pours more chlorine, to bring up the ph, the pool turns green in minutes. It is a rare phenomena, I guess, and if I would not want to swim so much it would be lovely to have a green pond with aquatic life instead.
Besides this Feng-Shui issues, the house has a habit of falling apart. If you fix one thing here, sure enough something else falls off in another room. And of course, the ants, the mold, the spiders, the rats and who knows what...
I say our little house is tired! Very tired. It needs a holiday or better even a beauty farm vacation. With some botox, some massaging, some peelings and laser resurfacing procedures, the true beauty that hides behind this cracking make up, could be set free once again.(I think it also could work for me)
But can we be bothered to send our rental on such expensive trip?
No...!!!
So I am convinced, that we need to move, as much as we love it here...
I take the freshly changed colored items upstairs to hang them up at the curtain rail in the guest-room
(my drying room when it is raining), when a horrifying look into the bathroom reveals that we are sinking. But aren't we on land???
SOS, because we are taking water!!! Water has now come up midway of the bathtub and midway up the Bidet. Soon I will have to start scooping it out, just like on a boat... Weird things going on! And funny, that only last night that businessman talked of leaking sailing boats...
Don't panic Anna!
What to do in such emergency?
Time for juicing:
1/2 red pepper (a huge one)
1/2 pineapple
bunch of parsley sprigs
2 celery stalks
1 apple
Yummmmmmmmm, what sounds awful came out delicious. Surprise, surprise...
Time to do some writing, but not before I venture once into ebayland. I have not been there forever. No new-old!- dress in weeks!
I find nothing that excites me today, but one seller has this very cute and inspiring message:
MAKE THE WORLD A PRETTIER PLACE -- WEAR A DRESS!
I could not agree more. Dresses make the world go around in a much more alluring way. Women should always wear dresses... swirling around like fairies and butterflies, creatures of colors and love. Bewitchingly gorgeous.
How can you swirl and be lovely wearing pants?
That reminds me of my latest delivery from AMAZON.
Audrey Hepburn : "How to be lovely"
A great little read.
Will quote some later.
Must go now, dogs and Prince are hungry!
I do a wok kind of stir up, lots of veggies and turkey stripes, not very exciting, but very HEALTHY.
Bon Appetit!
Somehow I feel called again, by this inner voice that has been calling lately... I will go into the garden now and meditate under that special tree. First I shower though, I don't feel it's right to be unwashed when going on a thoughtful journey of ommmm. I will also take an offering this time. Wish me luck, as for now, my meditations always seem to end in some funny anecdotes, without any ommm or zen or enlightenment.
xxxxxx
I failed... I took a blanket and some chestnuts as an offering, but my 2 dogs followed wildly excited, the puppy then ate the offering and the neighbor's dog went ballistic, so I had no way of concentrating. Anyhow, I planted myself under the tree in lotus-position, just listening to the sound of the river, the wind ruffling the crowns of the trees and the wooofffffffwoooofffffffffwooooffffff...
Let's just write... Maybe writing is my meditation. I will figure it out, one day...
PS: And what's for dinner?
Porcini pasta, if anyone wants to know.
I am a huge fan of mushrooms. Where I grew up, in East Germany, mushroom picking was a common weekend entertainment for our family. Autumn, when the earth is still warm and the late summer rains arrive, the forests get wet and humid, the perfect condition for those delicious fungis.
Butterpilz und Steinpilz (porcini) where always our favorites. We would venture out very early - just to be sure that nobody else 'steals' OUR mushrooms - and fill our baskets in no time. We had a knife to cut each fungi gently, so they can grow again and we would have more to collect next time.
When I met Prince I took him into the woods for a mushroom hunt and he was devastated when I cooked him our treasure later on at night. He had grown up with an ancient fear (like his parents) of the wild and every collected fruit, herb or fungi could be a deadly visitor.
Yes, and there is some truth in this. You must be sure to know your mushrooms very well, or you can easily escape the world as you know it. France by the way has done it perfect. Since the French are a food-loving bunch, autumn is a time of crowded forests. Of course, those wild delicacies can bring in some good income, so a lot of market-folk is searching for the extra bucks. To be sure about each species, one can visit any pharmacy and have the collection checked. What a lovely concept!
Since it is no fungi season, I will use frozen porcini, the next best thing to fresh
PORCINI PASTA for 2
300 g spaghettini (or pasta of choice)
600 g frozen porcini (or a mix of wild mushrooms)
1 large onion, finely chopped
3 table spoon butter
3 sprigs of parsley, chopped
olive oil
salt
1. In a big pot, bring salted water (with a few drops of olive oil) to a boil. Add the spaghettini and cook accordingly to instructions till al-dente. Drain, sprinkle with olive oil and return to the cooking pot.
2. Melt the butter over medium heat in a large saucepan. Add the chopped onion and cook till golden and soft, but not brown.
3. Add the frozen mushrooms and let them cook over medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes. Stir occasionally. They will shrink a lot along the cooking process, as they really are just made of water. In case they start sticking to the pan, add a little extra water and a little olive oil. Stir in the parsley and season with salt and pepper.
4. In a big pot, bring salted water (with a few drops of olive oil) to a boil. Add the spaghettini and cook accordingly to instructions till al-dente. Drain, sprinkle with olive oil and return to the cooking pot. Stir in the mushrooms and serve immediately.
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