3awzin nakol Hum.. Hum ..Hum..

And here it comes! My husband prophecy, me and food..sooner than I expected ..that I can’t hide my fondness  of  a good meal..

So  hard to talk of food when u are on a diet. Well.. mesh diet awy..it is a “Life style” as my doctor puts it.. I have to change my life style to lessen my high cholesterol risks but how could I? when I just love to cook and mess things up in the kitchen..

I am a fabulous cook, no, really, may be you don’t believe me but it is true or so every one who ate my food tell me..

I am a big fan of Italian food, leih ba2a? aslo creamy w fatty w full of cheese and pasta!
 I love to cook, I love this feeling of being able to create a nice meal out of scratch, I love being able to know the ingredients of a dish in a  restaurant just by smelling it though my husband hates it when I do..

It is too hard for me to enjoy healthy food.. kelmat healthy aslaha bested elnafs..I enjoy a good meal that’s for sure,  I love to have my friends over for lunch or create them a great brunch..

I love having a 3ozouma and getting myself too exhausted and tired and cooking for 3 whole days before the big day , then looking back and telling my self : how was I able to cook all this?

I love it when my friends call basically every couple of days asking me for a recipe they ate at my place.. I love buying new colorful napkins or sheets, picking new skillets or a new grill, I love buying cooking books and I  must own more than 50  of them.

 From Julia child to Jamie oliver, from mastering the Art of the French cooking to Mediterranean street food. from Mexican cooking  to Turkish cooking, from Spanish to Indian, from Grandma’s best recipes to Egyptian food..

And isn’t it a bless when your husband tells you by the end of a meal : teslm eidk, elakl 7elw awy 

For sure all of you say by now what a chubby woman I must be, as my best friend tona mocks me when I complain a low budget:”7an3ish ezay min gheir cooking cream?”!!

For sure me and her shared lots of meals and laughs and disappointments..I love it when she comes at my kitchen door like a kitten asking: ha, 7anakol emta? Or tell me, I will make the salad bas 5alsy enty ba2a..

One of my favorite movies is Julie and Julia, a movie talking about a wife who has a very small kitchen ( just like me) and decides to make a blog challenging herself in cooking over 500 recipes in 365 days of Julia Child’s mastering French cooking.. (Julia child is the one who taught Americans how to cook)

The book, the movie and the idea inspired me a lot, she resembles me in a lot of ways.. she is a wife aspiring to be more than a wife.. she has a fascination about cooking and buying expensive ingredients no matter how broke she is.. We both have small kitchens which drives you crazy when you love to cook and bake and make a mess.. we both love to write and made a blog to express how we really feel..

One of my happiest moments when I get this craving to make a new recipe to surprise my little family and  decide  to try it that very moment.. having a cooking book in my hand and skimming the pages till my eyes are laid on “The One” and then running into the kitchen and start turning the dream into reality..

Another lovely moment when my kids share in this.. we set a table and we all wear kitchen aprons and we go.. it is a great moment when we spill flour every where or cover a cupcake with the most naïve icing color.. it is an amazing, endearing moment  when we laugh at our doings and can’t wait till we taste it, when my 3 year old son decides he wants a turtle out of the dough instead of making into heart or star shapes.. to hear them laugh and watch them trying to make a creative shape or color.. it is the best feeling ever.. the worst ba2a when I have to clean all this up J

It won’t be my last talk on food. But actually it isn’t on food, is it, it’s on cooking..a pleasure I feel every time I buy a new cooking book  and boy!  I do this a lot!!

Go3to sa7?? mesh men kalamy ..min elpic?  well, Bon apetit whatever you are eating.. no no..Bon Apetit whatever you are cooking..

Books, books and books...

Min gheir za3l, I can’t conceive those who don’t read, I can’t understand their mind nor what they do in their spare time.. what they do in front of the sea lying on a chaiselong or in a long car trip. What do they teach their kids as an essential to their life, what do they sleep on while lying in bed after a long exhausting day.. how do u relax away from your children or your every day house work ??

mesh 7a3mal fiha ma7saltsh w a2ol I am the best reader in the world, being dodat kotb though, is the best feeling ever, in this blog 7ykon fih kalam ketir on books.

My parents taught me this in a very young age, I remember me and my brother fighting over the newspaper in a very  very  young age, f papa Allah yer7amo 2asmaha, ana  read it first Saturday w Sunday w Monday , my brother Tuesday w Wednesday w Thursday w Friday ely yel7a2 ba2a J

My best gift – w mesh 2asdy ay 7aga 5abisa ya as7aby ely 3arfin en 3id milady 2arrb - would always be a good book, a lovely novel, a great self help book, wise saying books, a cook book J, an autobiography that gives you a push on your life that you TOO can make it.. Salah Jaheen , Paulo Coelho among many many many others.

I try as much as I can to plant this in my children , my big fairy daughter is a junior book worm just like me, her dad and her grand parents , my son is in love with ostaz fawdawy, a Mr. messy man, whose best friends are ostaz tandif w ostaz tartibJ ..

I bet you all read at some level of your life.. 7abibi 3ala mar el3esor is Adham Sabry, he is more a hero than Batman, Superman, Spiderman, James bondo2 w mission impossible with all its parts. He is a life time hero though we know eno min elost7eel an y7okk sha5s ma kol haza , we love the legend, that is Egyptian..Masr heya omy after all..

Read with a cup of coffee, with a lovely piece of music as your back ground, in front of the sea.. take your kids to get a nice coloreful book they will love.
It makes you  feel better for sure, it will N E V E R  make you feel worse..