That's probably what most parents would repeatedly say to their kids during meals. I for one used to abhor veggies or anything that resembles it when I was a kid. I was willing to take the time to isolate any unsightly greens from a dish just so I could eat that plate of mee goreng or curry puffs. My mom told me that I wouldn't even taste it once it has been cooked to a pulp but when you hate it, you hate it right?
Fortunately, I've overcome that period of veggie-intolerance. Now I really enjoy eating my greens. I even have my house specialty which is salade niçoise and ratatouille.. and these two dishes hail from the Provence.
The salad is a meal in itself when eaten in large quantity as it consists of boiled potatoes, tomatoes, french beans, leafy greens, chunks of tuna, olives, hard-boiled eggs.. toss all of them together in a lovely vinaigrette dressing and voila, you have a healthy meal packed with all the good nutrients. Serve it in a handsome-looking
saladier and it looks all the more appetizing.
Ratatouille is a vegetable stew make colourful by all the different ingredients.. and aubergine is one of them.. that's one vegetable that I don't normally eat but when cooked in a stew like that, it's a different matter.
Well any salad will taste good with the right dressing. So kids, eat your greens cause they're good for you.
Eversince we got the cable, we've been watching good movies almost daily and the best part is that we now have the option to watch the movies in their original version and also the option to turn on the subtitles, which for the moment is available only in French. I've always preferred my movies in their original version with subtitles on (of course) if it's foreign. Imagine watching a Hindustan film 'baptized' in French.. SO wrong! Speaking of which, the movie "Lagaan" was aired on the cable not that far back.. that was the second time I saw a Hindustan movie on French tv.
That translates to "Mr Crunchy" and obviously, that refers to food.. another cheesy kind... and with a name like that, it has to be of French origin. Well it's basically a cheese and ham sandwich French style. Trust the French to turn something basic into a gourmet-looking food.
That looks like rows of mineral water bottles you'd find in a typical supermarket but those bottles are actually sitting in our kitchen. That by the way, is our daily source of drinking water. That's how we do it here.. we don't drink from the tap as the water here contains limescale or what they call hard water. Some people don't mind drinking from the tap here but I find the taste pretty awful even after the water has been boiled. That's why you'll notice people stacking up their trolleys with packs of bottled water in supermarkets here.
This morning, I woke up looking at heavy snowfall. Our windows were covered with snow and I stood by the big window admiring those fluffy white flakes falling from the sky. It's amazing how intricately design snow flakes are.. and if you were to look closely at the window, you can actually see the crystalline structure of a single snow flake and it is really fascinating... 
what's more amazing is that snow crystals come in many different shapes and sizes but always with hexagonal symmetry.
The salad is a meal in itself when eaten in large quantity as it consists of boiled potatoes, tomatoes, french beans, leafy greens, chunks of tuna, olives, hard-boiled eggs.. toss all of them together in a lovely vinaigrette dressing and voila, you have a healthy meal packed with all the good nutrients. Serve it in a handsome-looking saladier and it looks all the more appetizing.
