Cooking with love

I always try to prepare food with love, even when I am tired or not at all in the mood to cook.  As a mother, I am quite frequently tired and not in the mood to cook!  One of the great, superable challenges of parenting is putting the needs to your child before your own and cooking more than three meals per day falls into this bracket.  And so, at lunchtime, I find myself making “pastasciutta”, more commonly known just as pasta to those non-Italians out there.  My partner, being Italian, would find life near-inconceivable without at least 5 weekly rations of pasta.  Since I am only just starting out on this raw path, I feed my daughter mostly the diet that she ate before.  And that, people, includes pasta at lunchtime.  The challenge now, of course, is finding a way to prepare it with love.  Knowing what I now know about cooked food vs raw food, I find it increasingly difficult to muster enthusiasm for plates that I know may temporarily fill yet ultimately harm my lovely child.  Now, I am not an extremist.  I realise that a plate of home-cooked pasta is far better than a McDonalds meal or any fast-food from the supermarket.  But, from the other perspective, it’s also a far cry from a raw smoothie or a green juice.  And so, with a foot still firmly in both worlds, I try to straddle overcome my negative feelings towards cooked food in order to make meals with love.  I think that I need to buy Evie’s Kitchen and get going on making raw food for my little one.