I like to reflect, at the end of each day, the highlight of that day. It sounds silly but somehow I find it therapeutically. When I lie in bed, running through in my head those things happened during the day - the things I've done, particularly those things I have never done before; the food I've tried for the first time; the interesting or strange people I've met on the street or at work, it is to me rather a kind of life enrichment.
I am thinking now what my highlight of today will be. It has to be the lunch I cooked for Peter, my hubby. It was a simple but effective lunch - lentil, schaeufele and home made pasta. Peter loves lentils, particularly when it goes with pasta, a taste of which is often teased by me. For me, lentils, like soy beans or other legume, are counted as carbohydrate part of any meal. Lentils with pasta is like having rice with bread, it can not possibly be a balance meal, let alone tasty. Anyway, since Peter is particularly fond of the two things in a meal, I thought I'd better make a bit effort to please him.
The shaeufele was bought in Germany when we were there last week, I am not sure if I can buy it in this country. It is sort of like a piece of gammon steak. I cut it into pieces and brown it first. then add the cooked lentils, garlic and green pepper corns; slow cooking until it is tender. While lentil and shaeufele were being cooked, I started making pasta dough by just adding water and a little salt to two cups of semolina, which I bought from a local Asian food store. I normally make the dough a little harder so the pasta will taste more al dente after cooking. It takes no more than 1 minute to cook the freshly made pasta and I have not bought dried pasta for a long long time, it takes far too long to cook and waste a lot of energy I think.
I actually did not expect how tasty the three things were together! I could have sprinkle a bit parsley on top but it was too cold to go out to the green house to get some. The highlight for me today is that I cooked something so simple but made my hubby very very happy. And it actually changed my views on lentils with pasta, perhaps they are indeed best mates :-).
