Cooking is love made visible

The theme of Kim Klassens Texture Tuesday and Create with Joy's Friensdhip Friday is Love. Besides loving feelings, care and thoughts, love is also a matter of will and concrete actions. My focus has recently been in manifesting love in action in the kitchen - Love to my family as well as to myself :)

I've been doing menu plans for each week {which I've so far posted only to Mietteitä matkanvarrelta, my blog in Finnish}.

The aim with menu plans is, for the first, to focus on both eating various vegetables of the season and serve fish more often - and to be inspired to try new recipes.

Another goal is to plan the dinners in such a way, that we can use the most left overs from the day before.The left over rice can for example be used in a paella or risotto the day after.

And last but not the least, paying attention to the weekly special bargains, when making the menu plan, we can both reduce the times when we do the groceries, and limit the amount of the impulse purchases (that happens though still every now and then).
We've said no thanks to the food advertisement in a paper form, since we get the advertisements from the internet, which is more environmental friendly than the paper ones (in Denmark most of the supermarkets do publish the weekly bargains online.)

Well, now it's time to warm the scalloped potatoes (I made a double portion yesterday) and set a portion of butter beans to soak overnight ... Beans and lentils are delicious and easy-to-prepare, once you get to the rhytm of setting them to soak in the evenings. There's so many nice recipes with beans and lentil, that I look forward of preparing ... I'll promise to post the most tasty ones here on the blog!

PS: A warm welcome to Tish, my newest follower!



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I've used Kim Klassens texture Edith on the photos