Mind Pilot – Take Self Control

I know this website might be more about mood swings, but I’ll have to admit that my cooking standards have been a bit bipolar lately as well. Last night, I thought I was being well disciplined when I took a pizza and chips out of the freezer, and then decided to put them back and cook a stirfry, but it really did end up as one of the most disgusting concoctions (voice recognition says comic options — if only it was that funny) I’ve ever made. Unfortunately, I already had a bit of a headache when I started looking, so I was feeling extremely rough after I finished. I’m not sure exactly what I did to make it so bad, but I will certainly remember to never use frozen mini carrots in a stir-fry again — they had absolutely no flavour.

On the other hand, on Wednesday night I cooked pasta dish, which I was extremely proud of. I named it ‘Pasta Toulouse’ after the French ‘ville rose’ (pink City), and I guess it was a bit of an answer to spaghetti Bolognese, which does after all take its name from the redbrick city of Bologna, which I’m visiting next month! Whereas last night’s meal was almost toxic, Wednesday’s meal is what I would call nutritionally balanced — i.e. it had some very healthy ingredients (lashings of garlic, red onion, whole wheat pasta and harvest brown garlic bread) and some not so healthy (bacon, crème fraîche). Fortunately, Wednesday night was when I had agreed to cook for three guests, so at least I presented the best of my culinary skills to them.

Concurrently, this is often the way I am with my moods — most of the time when I’m out meeting people, I am confident an upbeat, and it is only when I’m with a select bunch of people I really know that I might discuss some of my more darker or downbeat moods. Hopefully, by having this website, I can make more people aware that there are two very different sides of my personality, and that I am far from alone in being this way. In the meantime, here’s to healthy eating and looking on the brighter side of life!

(21:38) — 4 1/2 posts in just under an hour , that’s enough for now.