the hungry chef

So as I alluded to in my last post, B is not eating.  Literally.  Not I-am-not-eating-carbs or I-am-not-eating-after-9pm but literally not eating.  For 42 days.  He's half-way there.  Well, almost - he's on day 21 tomorrow.  It's been tough, and I am constantly amazed at his resolve and spirit. I won't go into detail because he does it much better, but suffice to say that I think he's just cleared a major hurdle recently.  The obsession about what his next meal will be (even though it's three weeks away) seems to have gone.

He obviously still thinks of food - I don't see how you can't when your entire existence at the moment revolves around the fact that you are not eating,  especially when you couple that with the reason why you're not eating (to lose weight as opposed to it being a spiritual fast for instance) - but instead of obsessing about the fact that he wants to eat these foods and when he can eat again, he has started channeling that energy into doing something constructive - and that is to MAKE those foods for US to eat!!!

I think it has helped that J is here visiting from HK - it's always nicer to cook for 2 or 3 people than just one person (i.e. me).  So yesterday we had a lovely beef stew that he apparently stewed for 9 hours.  He used up most of the stuff in the fridge that was slowly rotting away (I've not bothered cooking much lately either - like I said, it's just not as satisfying to cook for one person) and the results were rather delicious.

Today he's made us a couple of quiches - one with prawn, scallops and capsicum and the other one with salmon, stilton and onion.  Here's a picture of the prawn and scallop quiche -  (the salmon and stilton one is still in the oven).

And just to compare it to A's efforts, this is what the kitchen looked like after:

 Do you hear me complaining?  Absolutely not!!!