About a year ago, two things happened: my significant other became a vegetarian and I gained twenty pounds. The connection between the two was an overall increase in carbohydrates, dairy, sugar, and processed food in our diets—lacto-ovo vegetarianism doesn’t exclude fettuccine alfredo, chocolate cake, or Pizza Hut. Even Oreos are vegan. Twenty pounds later, it was clear I needed to revamp my diet.
So that was the inspiration for this blog—me revamping my diet to use wholesome “clean” foods. It may look like a foodie or cooking blog, but I generally don’t critique recipes or take pictures of the fruits of my labors (I’m too busy eating them at that point). And I’m not a chef or a brilliant cook, just an everyday person trying to prepare her own food. Therefore, the blog essentially celebrates whole foods in their raw states (occasionally there is a “finished product” but it’s not often) and documents what it was like to discover and rediscover them. I guess in that way it’s an advertising campaign for foods that are never advertised—my way of encouraging myself and others to expand my diet in healthy ways.
The blog does provide recipes and tips and all that because it didn’t make sense to me to wax poetic about say, string beans and then not provide some idea about how to prepare them, but the recipes are the sorts of things you can find almost anywhere. I did make them all, however, so I can attest that they’re at least easy and edible. But in the end, I think that enjoying food and cooking doesn’t have to be a gourmand affair and the blog reflects that—the naked little apple or stupid-easy homemade applesauce can be as much of a delight as apple-veal strudel with applewine reduction. Most people, myself included, eat somewhere in between apple-veal strudel and stupid-easy applesauce, but on a day-to-day basis, cooking has to compete with a million other things and what stands up to unwrapping and microwaving, timewise, is the applesauce. Hence, simple cooking is a running theme for the blog.
Eye Watering features one clean food a day and one accompanying little tidbit or recipe about preparing that day’s food. And yes, those are my pictures—taken literally as I prepared the featured foods. If anything, this blog demonstrates how little kitchen literacy clean food requires, since a dunderhead like me can and is doing it.
I hope you enjoy it. Clean and simple.
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