Food Equals Fuel

OK, yes I agree with the title and have been working on getting it more into my life. Have been looking at this "opportunity" to see all my food this way due to this low idodine diet have had to keep too.

But, in general, and especially today, I MISS BUTTER!!!! I also miss other things, but butter seems to be the biggest and most FLAVORFUL ingredient to any vegetarian cooking. We won't get into other issues right now, like missing the flavor of some soy meat substitute flavors. Butter, as a base of soups and stews is just necessary.

Well, maybe not "necessary" according to many diets,but man... this morning I took a left over veggie prepared in olive oil a day ago and turned it into a stew. IS "good" and healthy and wonderful in it's own right, but it needs butter! It needs, if not butter, than something with the meal of it including cheese. ugh... this diet may kill me. Well, actually, I think with including an organic (not GMO) soy sausage or like that would make it better, but butter is the most missing!

Anyhow, I piled the leftover sauteed swiss chard, celery, mushroom, with onion veggie that I made  the other night into a soup pan. I added cups of water (the swisschard (some parts of it) as it had seemed a little tough even though decent flavor previously. I cut into it, pieces of carrots, potatoes, more onions, celery salt and pepper and bay leaf. Cooked that for a half hour and added, skinned tomatoes, frozen lima beans and more non iodised salt, pepper aAnd some wild with white rice. Cooked that for another 10-15 minutes and turned off.

Let that sit for awhile and then finally ate. Good, but STILL bland to some extent! Missed the butter. Sorry all you vegans... A few pieces of swisschard were still hard so as I ate it, I moved those aside. I ate it with the thought "this is good for me. I need this. I can not have anything else. I spent an hour or more cooking it and cleaning kitchen. EAT this!" so I did. but I missed the butter....