It's gotten to the point where I don't even ask myself what I've eaten at the end of the day. I just know I won't be able to remember, mainly because I essentially only eat crap and treat my body not like the temple it is, but the shack I have created.
It's hard, eating well. I'm on a hiatus in life, that's what I'm telling myself - when I go abroad next year, I'll have my own space, my own food, my own life. We all used to sit down at the dinner table, eat our veg and actual food and drink our water, and while I like not doing that anymore, it's really fucked me up. It's nearly the end of the Summer, and I've decided enough is enough.
The other day, I made pasta sauce from scratch, and it may well have saved my life. Dramatic? Absolutely. Delicious? Fuck yeah. I've always been a good cook, but my main fault in literally every aspect of my life is my reluctance to choose things so I don't regret my choices later. It's a catch-22 situation. You can't yolo and care about stuff at the same time, and I can't care about stuff if there's even a small chance I'll regret something. I just need to yolo so badly. So I've made a choice:
Living without regret, one meal at a time.
Yolo.
Here's the pasta sauce recipe I used, from 101 Cookbooks
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 1/2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
3 medium cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1 28-ounce can crushed red tomatoes
zest of one lemon
Combine the olive oil, red pepper flakes, sea salt, and garlic in a cold saucepan. Stir while you heat the saucepan over medium-high heat, saute just 45 seconds or so until everything is fragrant - you don't want the garlic to brown. Stir in the tomatoes and heat to a gentle simmer, this takes just a couple minutes. Remove from heat and carefully take a taste (you don't want to burn your tongue)...If the sauce needs more salt add it now. Stir in the lemon zest reserving a bit to sprinkle on top of your pasta.
Now - not gonna lie, I completely just looked at the ingredients and didn't cook the sauce. What I did was I made the pasta already, and threw these ingredients into the Nutribullet, blended and poured over my (drained) hot pasta and stirred it in, sprinkling some basil on top. I did feel a bit like garlic was going to be rationed soon and I was living it up by putting every garlic clove in existence into this sauce, though, so if you want a garlic fiesta, go wild and throw in 3 cloves. If not, I think 1.5 or even just 1 would be enough.