One Life to Love

...and I am talking about the love of food here :P

As Mark Twain said -

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." 


..and that is the diktat we follow..shoving aside guilt and remorse that will always come back later to haunt us..the ever agonizing thought of having to at least hit a road if not the treadmill sometime soon...the promises we make each other to support in our cause of collective weight loss...and the inevitable show of solidarity from the others when one of the gang skips her diet plan or gives in to temptation :))

....we ponder over elaborate menus..agonize over whether the chinese place twenty kilometeres away is a better choice than the new pizzeria much closer home..amazingly we never have the need to toss a coin! Somehow our stomachs are in sync with whichever gastronomic adventure they want to salivate on that day!



Sabine-Verde

 In this instant my friend and I decided to settle for a new Pizzeria nestled in a small corner of our favorite hangout and order a half and half Pizza - a compromise reached between us for her carnivorous instincts (Sabine - spicy salami, onions, jalapenos and chilly flakes) and mine honourably vegetarian morals (Verde - Pesto sauce, pine nuts, onion and rocket)- she believes that meat..red, orange, white can never be bad for you...although she might make a concession for the blue and green variety....(!!) and I refuse to eat anything that may end up in a grave someday.

This was clearly one of the best meals we have had...as shakepeare taught us to misquote..a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine and like (gastronomically) minded friends...is all one needs....

...there was nothing left to click once we had both done justice to our respective side of the pizza...except for long sighs ..an amazing feeling of being completely satiated......and something oddly resembling a guiltpang that continued to gnaw at us despite our attempts to pretend otherwise!!