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Well, I have been asked many times “what do you cook?”, specially by my Indian friends, so I though it would be a good idea to show you, and them, what do we eat on a common weekday. It is not that we always eat pizza! hehehe.

Well, today I made some very typical Spanish soup. We call these kind of preparations something that could be translated as “spoon dish” (plato de cuchara para los españoles). It’s made with chickpeas, potatoes, carrots and spinach. Very nice for winter season. It’s not winter here but we had a few very cold days so I felt inspired

I boiled the chickpeas, potatoes and carrots and I fried the spices (asafetida, cumin seeds, cummin powder, coriander powder, turmeric…) and spinach in a pan with olive oil. To get some thickness I blended a part of the soup and added to it with the spinach, then some salt and pepper and that’s it. Simple and pleasing to the heart!

And then I made rice with corn, red capsicum and looots of black olives. I don’t know if olives are used in rice dishes but I love them so I put them everywhere! I used some bay leaves, dill, yellow asafetida powder and salt for seasoning…and olive oil of course!

Offering time! Everything ready to offer to Srila Prabhupada

I offered also some bananas with “dulce de leche”, some kind of typical
Argentinian caramel… every Argentinian worships it, but that’s
another story…

“Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of
life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and
satisfaction. Such foods are juicy, fatty, wholesome, and pleasing to
the heart.”
Bhagavad-gita 17.8 (Click here for full Bhagavad-gita).

So this is an example of what I cook… what do you think?

ys, Sol

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