LivingGood

Soak two cups of red lentils, rinse them until foamy water runs clear.   1 tsp of coconut oil    One small yellow onion   Two garlic cloves   A pinky nub of ginger & a nub of fresh turmeric root diced fine.  Sauté in a heavy cast iron dutch oven until the onion is almost transparent. Add the Lentils and Three cups of water and cook the beans until liquid is almost gone and Stir in   1 can of coconut milk   1Tbsp of gram masala spice Season with salt, pepper, and parsley leaf. I put the Dahl over rice and topped it with sautéed leek, squash, yellow peppers, and shrimp.

This year I am serving with AmeriCorps at the Regional Food Bank, and money has been really tight. This surprise disease, hello Breast Cancer, has added more stress to my already tight budget. I wasn't planning on diverting my small monthly stipend towards medical bills. I have all the bills and rent to pay.  Before I signed up for AmeriCorps, I cancelled all my extra expenses, no cable TV, radio subscriptions, fancy entertainment or going out to eat for me this year, I had intended to live frugally and commit my life to service for the year. well you know what they say; nobody ever expected the Spanish inquisition. Thankfully AmeriCorps offered me a decent insurance plan and I have been in a position to get food assistance to help with most of my nutritional needs. Its forecasted to be a painful road ahead, a road of surgery, treatments, and sickness. I'm open to whatever help is available so that I can make the ends meet. Before I was diagnosed I was working at temp

Friday was my first round of chemotherapy. Since Friday I’ve eaten bagels with avocado, mashed potatoes, and popcorn happily. My belly has been soured by most foods that I like to eat. I feel sickened and get a bad taste in the back of my tongue when I think about bread dough, I ate quiche on Friday following treatment, and the crust was buttery, like a good quiche crust should be right, nope. So, every time I think of bread I think of the buttery crust and am completely sickened. I was also drinking a Puer tea and I think that the tea enhanced the buttery taste in the quiche, so I’m also skeptical of tea.   I asked my sweet man, Jason to bring me some mashed potatoes on Sunday night on his way home from visiting with his friends. It was later than I had thought, and If I would have known the lengths he went to bring me tatters I would not have even asked. The thunderstorm started about 9pm and because it was Sunday in the bible belt all the usual mashed potato joints; Popeye’s. KFC