eat same thing everyday and a special shout out

inspired by vito and four bags of bargain mushrooms. really. loads of portobello, oyster, crimini, huge buttons. all for three sixty. i basically followed mastianich's recipe. garlic. parsley. by the way, a friend gave me bags of organic parsley freshly picked. lucky me. so i throw in a chinese touch. ginger. and my top fave aroma enhancer. onion. at the end, turn off the flame, sprinkle generously garam masala and a herb mix of thyme, oregano, fennel. and yes, it's a gift from another friend. i have forgotten to mention i pour in chicken stock at the recommendation of rebecca. indeed, a special shout out to rebecca. she took me and hwubby to the grocery store. we haven't been there for several weeks already. and she's tons of fun to be with. getting back to the mushroom concoction. i use it in my chuk, rice porridge chinese style. hwubby uses it as spaghetti sauce. all great. it would be a fantastic soup too. now a full tub sits in the freezer. another tub in the fridge. enough for a week. did i mention i can just about eat one thing everyday if i love it that much. hwubby says, how can you do that? i say, why not, i love you, i don't say i want to have a different hwubby every day:)

pure pasta. pure practices.

these days the only pasta i eat is uncle vito's. let me explain why. first of all it's after doing spiritual practices together. we sing vedic hymns and om and meditate. by the way we are now singing om on a deeper level. we focus on the nasal resonance. the result speaks for itself. we glide into this meditation that, in shivaa's words, quick and still. half an hour go by in no time. i am deeply absorbed in the subtle throb. i am all full in this gentle and rich pulsation.

then, pasta. the pasta sauce is a recipe from vito's fellow italian, lydia mastianich. mushroom, garlic, parsley. how can it be not terrific, right? and then vito throws in his own touches. sage. a cheese that is not reggiano. i can't remember the name. but what it does is not drowning out the delicate mushroom flavor but enhancing it. you can't taste the sage but the whole thing is that much more interesting and richer. i scrape off every drop of it.

this is pure pasta. perfect complement to the pure practices.