Easter feast

The drive to make life meaningful…to have a purpose.

I’ve been thinking about this, and find a major purpose right under my nose: food and cooking. For example, my Easter dishes, vegan and oil-free, supplementing a family dinner where there were already going to be lots of dishes served.

I find this kind of cooking creative. And meaningful. Not for everybody, but since when does one person’s purpose have to be generally applicable? I do have a yearning to share this style of cooking with others, in person. It can be problematic to do something as simple as sharing a meal with other people. I don’t find that many people are interested. It’s enough to just do it for me and my partner, for now.

The carrot cake recipe is from My Quiet Kitchen, a cooking blog I follow. When I got ready to take photos, the cake looked so plain, so I dressed it up for the photograph with the only flowers I could find – falling tulip petals. Just the touch it needed. (I took them off before eating.)

And two more dishes, a tofu quiche and a broccoli salad with white beans, dates, and almonds. I started cooking on Friday, after making a master plan, and everything fit in easily. It was fun. It tasted good. And there are leftovers in the fridge.