My food photography has been a bit disappointing in recent weeks, partly because it’s very hard to get enticing pictures of the simple French lentil soup I’ve been obsessing over, and partly because I’ve been in such a hurry to actually eat what I cooked that I haven’t taken the extra time to set up the shot. I’d rather not share blurry and unappetizing pictures with the world, and I hope you agree.

There has been a lot of good cooking, with the exception of last week, which was at the monastery, in which case there was just a lot of good eating. The food there is nothing especially fancy, but it’s got fresh ingredients and is prepared with a lot of attention and love, truly food that Vegan Man thinks is the best.

Looking at the menu for the upcoming weeks, I hope to have a lot more to share. I’m working up some of my own recipes as well; being as I’m not a cookbook writer, it takes some getting used to the process of cooking with the intent of writing a recipe in mind. It takes me out of the act of cooking in a sense.