Praising The Forest

These days I've been wondering the Croatian forests of the North-Western regions of Istria & Kvarner in search for mushrooms, especially one sort - #chanterelle - cause the spring temperature & humidity made perfect conditions for these #mushrooms to grow. & of course I found some:

In one of the forests I've visited, I found for the first time in my life few #cork trees growing naturally. I thought there were no more left in the natural environment, only growing in parks but fortunately I was wrong!

All these days I held a special & very stricked #diet to prepare myself for #ayahuasca #ceremony. I was also banned from eating any mushrooms but I was still picking them...

Anyway, cause of this diet I've changed my views on #food & ways to prepare it but also the combinations of #groceries.

Smoothies

Smoothies were my most common meals these days but without #sugar, #honey or #chocolate... But #banana makes is sweet! 😉 Fortunately I could find a lot of #strawberries everywhere! In the one below I added #melon, banana, #orange & #grapefruit juice, #cannabis #protein dust but also strawberries & #mangolg from my garden.

Pasta w/ Lentils & Fresh Spring Salad

As the ceremony has finished few days ago, I decided to slowly go back to more diverse diet & decided to cook #spelt #pasta with #green #lentils & to prepare a salad aside...

From the photos above you can see the ingredients of salad: #cherry #tomatoes, #rucola (from mom's garden - recently she has started to garden too & I'm so happy for that!), #paprika called "horn" & #emery. Later I added #chia #seeds, extra #vergine #olive oil & some orange juice.

Lentils were sitting in water first for an hour or two before I started to cook them. I added some #carrot too & in only last 10 min I added pasta. In the very end I dropped in some #cumin & some #chili #peppers growing in the vase on the balcony.

I added only a bit of salt in salad cause it's also banned during La Dieta & now I needed slowly to return to the old diet not to shock the body. I served it with #sesame & #sunflower seeds.

While I was #cooking, the chanterelles & the rough stemmed bolete were drying in the Sun:

Thanks for reading! I hope this gave you some ideas & some cooking inspiration!

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