Anyway, I woke up this morning thinking about food, nothing exotic, but just to be able to walk into my kitchen back home, filled with nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables and other favorites and make myself breakfast. I am not sure this feeling was triggered by the McDonald’s hamburger and fries I ate yesterday afternoon in Skopje or a walk through the aisles of the adjacent grocery store looking for something as basic to me as whole-wheat flour! I finally found it in the organic cereal section in a small 500g packet.
I made myself oatmeal and raisins for breakfast – not using Quaker oats, but a German brand. For lunch I had a delicious tomato-cucumber-lettuce sandwich using whole grain bread. Doesn’t it look absolutely delicious? It was. I finished my meal with a cup of Indian tea. Dinner was a homemade piece of poppyseed cake and muesli with milk.
With whole-wheat flour in my pantry I was ready to make Indian style food on Sunday, starting with chicken curry and with full intentions to make paratha or roti to go with it. While I was preparing the curry late - about 11 am, I was interrupted with an invitation to visit some new people in my town and I immediately took up the offer. 5 hours later, I served the delicious chicken curry with ‘integral’ or whole wheat bread instead and a tossed tomato and cucumber and lettuce salad to my Macedonian language tutors. I had to skip making the roti's because I just didn't have the time. Here is the accompanying salad.
On Monday, I am still talking about food. After my afternoon English lessons about food, I expressed a strong desire to eat beefsteak. Guess what, a coworker who was in the city of Prilep for an errand, volunteered to stop and purchase steaks for me! I am in food heaven. Ce la vie!
