Peaceful Cuisine
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My annual detox is still ongoing and this year I decided to continue for a longer time than in previous years. I hope it will be a lifetime change rather than once-a-year deal. I am in my mid-40's and my body does not adjust easily anymore. So instead of trying to fix the problem once a year, it makes more sense to prevent having problems. I cook 95% of my family meals, including lunch. I usually cook vegetable-heavy meals but my other bad habits - like eating too many carbs, drinking too much wine and cocktails, and over-eating when we go out on weekends -always adds about 5 - 8 pounds at the end of the year. It was not a big deal to loose 5 pounds five years ago but it takes a lot more effort to loose the pounds after 40. So my goal this year is not gaining weight once I succeed to loose these excess pounds in a few months.
On top of my own diet changes, my husband wanted to start a low-fodmap diet. I will write about the low-fodmap diet later but I needed guidance since I had no idea what a low-fodmap diet was. So I have been reasearching a lot for low-fodmap diet and healthy recipes. While I was researching, I stumbled upon a youtube video channel called Peaceful Cuisine. As soon as I finished watching the first video, I was totally hooked and could not stop watching other videos. Peaceful Cuisine is produced by a Japanese vegan chef and he cooks such a good-looking vegan food. Most of his videos do not have the usual annoying background music or speaking voice. The only thing you hear are the sounds of cutting, opening a package, pouring water, clicking a spoon with a pot and so on. Of course the videos come with beautiful visuals as well. The recipes are all very impressive and every time I see his video, it makes me want to go to the kitchen and cook.
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He shot many DIY videos (he has an amazing kitchen) which were really interesting to watch too. And I found out that he is an amazing potter and there was one video about making pottery. As a pottery enthusiast myself, I am totally obsessed!
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I am not intending to become a vegan (yet) but there are many techniques that I can definitely steal for my new healthy cooking routine.
I guarantee you will find a lot of inspiration from his videos. The Peaceful Cuisine channel is here.
