Thursday Cooking and thoughts

First, off i don't know how i get so busy I never thoughts running a household would ever require this much energy or maybe I am making it harder than it has to be.
Second, today, its gonna be chicken breast with rice. I basically boil a chicken breast in water, with some veggies, think one onion, celery and a carrot, and i take out the Vegies just to make a bit of stock. Salt pepper to taste, you don't need to over season foods, let the flavors come out of the food. Since it is only a chicken breast or two if you have a larger family it requires about 45-60 minutes of simmer time. You could add the veggies about 20 minutes before it is done. Use the stock to make a pilaf, with rice. Get some rice lets say about a cup and a half, look at how much liquid the rice takes, its usually about one cup to one and a one half ratio. And saute the rice in some butter then add the stock. You can stick it in the oven and bake it with the chicken breast or just make the rice in a pot on the stove and shred the chicken and put it on top of the rice. The key is not to over season foods, you can add some lemon on top of this if it seems to be missing something when you serve it.
Now, what I have been thinking about it detachment from religion and how in a sense Greek Orthodoxy has become in my opinion a very detached religion, however, i am severely leary of persons that have an emotional religious slant, in that i find this a bit juvenile too. I mean this kind emotional attachment to religion, and this group emotionality. However, to a degree it is what i find interesting is an intelegent approach to an Emotional Jesus. Well, this is the cultivation of a feeling which one doesn't necessarily share with others, to a degree. I will give an example I was sitting in the park in my neighborhood, with two churches i happen to live in a Catholic pocket in Athens, i don't know why Catholocism follows me where ever I go, i lived in a Catholic neighborhood in the States too. And a Greek orthodox church, then this woman who has four kids, who is trying to be a good Christian, comes up and starts, oh we were just in Sunday school, and why don't you come it is so Great, and we all love it, and honestly i said i don't like it. The reason, was because of people like her being there, if i had to spend time with this trying to be a Christian, person, i would slit my wrists, let alone go to sunday school with her and her four kids. The reason, being she exhudes this kind of we have to... or it should be... or it is this way... or yes, this is the way it is Christianity. Which goes back to my original disdain towards churches in that they can't enforce love only obedience, and to a degree lose the entire aspect of Christ in that Christ was a revolutionary bend the rules type, although i can never understand this whole circumcise, yes, no o.k. do it... stuff. Some day later, it never seemed significant anyway.
So to a degree there is a need for an Emotional Jesus, however, not a stupid Santa Clause kind of sentiment. I feel it is more an energized motion, where there is feeling, thought and action combined.
I personally, would like more emotion expressed which is intellegent, and do appreciate raw emotions too, however, they have to be balanced out to some degree too, not drawn out, think wailing widows still wearing black their whole lives in villages here, its a bit drawn out.
anyway, these are my thoughts today. Tomorrow a party, if i ever get the address to it!!!

Of course i have been thinking of things to write and cook

My fingers have been hurting lately, it can be due to too much housework, working out with weights, and also, typing and internet activity. I have had a lot of ideas lately, primaraly about dreams and how they compensate for what we aren't getting maybe in waking life, who is to say that dream life is not real. I also, am a firm believer in being able to sit still. I feel neurosis is basically, an inability to sit still with yourself, to fully stop. You get some terrific neurosis from this constant trying to do stuff.
Throughout the years, i have come to some conclusions, one is i can't be around people just to be around people, i gotta find them intelligent, and or gracious. Otherwise, why bother! I like spending time with myself, and doing stuff with myself.
Next, thing is atheletics, this has been also interesting for me, i like challenging myself, i used to do it with swimming, in the past, and will get back into it as soon as anastacia is able to dive in thirty feet of water, without worrying about it, in the sea. I do it now with strength training at home, and i don't push myself all that much anyway, just enough.
As far as cooking goes, well, i have made cinnabons again, trying to improve my recipe, which to some degree I have, and then, i have frozen some to take to friends to see how they stand up to freezing and thawing out.
Will see.
The other thing I feel is important is for older people to realize when they must not play key roles anymore, its a shame, one thing that annoys me about Greece, is the age of most people in positions, where younger energy would be better. I can't help to think it must have something to do with ancient cultures, look at Egypt and Mubarekh, as well, he is like close to ninety, come on, give it up man!!!
My pet theory is that older cultures, have this thing for real old people in what should be young positions, it keeps things rather, moldy though, and rotten!
tomorrow i will write more... i had some other thoughts but, i will be better in the morning...

Stress and starting a new venture in cooking

I have been away from blogging for the past two weeks, due to illness of child and a lot of school holidays, couple that with no time for thinking, and no blogging.
Although, i did do a lot of cooking and thinking, and deliberate non-thinking and feeling.

I think that I have finally come into my own, why does it take women age forty to GET this? I don't know better late than ever.

The things i have baked in the past few weeks, pretzels, cinnabons, and i really wanna make a leak pie this week at some point i have some leaks, but, i am so lazy i may just make them with pork, the key to this stew dish is to add prunes, in it, while it cooks, it takes the onion smell away and sweetens the dish too, and also, it takes the pork smell away if the pork bothers you.

I had some interesting conversations concerning doing a business with foods baked stuff, with a very old friend, who has come back into my life. We are both capable and i know we can do this. I also, have space as a test kitchen and it will generate an income for both of us, and also, it could be a great little venture, to be creative, and do our thing. We are gonna meet to plan particulars and get it going. Its a good proposal. I feel Greece is a good place for marketing, it really still is, for certain things.

The other thing I was thinking about is how much a product of our upbringing, education, and identification with a persona we encounter somewhere around the late teens still sort of dictates who we are at age 40.

I was thinking of how some people take things way to much and identify with them. Like writers, and artists especially, and how i definitely could tell which art school some painters went too, by looking at their work. Its hard not to be molded by our educational experiences. I think at some point though, and its not a happy point the real personality must surface, out of all this. I mean we may idolize Sylvia Plath, but, we must be careful not to become Sylvia Plath, cause her life was not great. I think it is important to have filters to our personality. I have always loved the idea of wearing masks in Greek drama, and fully believe mask wearing is a healthy thing to do, and being aware of this is also very psychologically healthy.

I do hope we get this business venture going, and it will definitely keep me out of trouble.