OCTOBER PLAYLIST 🎧 SEPTEMBER MONTHLY BLOG 📝

OCTOBER PLAYLIST 🎧 SEPTEMBER MONTHLY BLOG 📝

Before you begin reading, please play the October playlist. It makes the experience different, in a good way. 🙂

This September has been charged with the Virgo energy for sure. I’ve been planning and doing too much stuff.

Apart from breakfasts, I really didn’t have much time during the first half of the month to cook for myself so I ended up eating whatever was in the fridge, outside or salads in a plastic package. 

tapas in A coruña. Cunqueiro restaurant. Free tapas. A bowl of stewed lentils and some pintxos: tortilla, cabracho pudding and salami. A glass of beer
Taberna de Cunqueiro (Coruña) complimentary tapas.
tapas in A Coruña. Victoria restaurant. Txangurro tartalette and toast of smoked sardine and tomato jelly. A glass of beer. All on top of a red table
Victoria (Coruña) A smoked sardine toast and some Txangurro.

I know packaged salads aren’t the most sustainable option and that’s why I try not to buy them too often and make my own with pre-prepared items in my fridge. 

salad in a plastic box, a peach and a glass of wine

But, sometimes, you have to go with the flow of things and sacrifice one of the many things in order to feel better. 

drawing of a cat and hearts. Pink and black colours are used in the illustration
Lovely cat I’ve drawn. A quick sketch.

That week of salads helped my mental health a lot, allowing me to focus on the work I needed to do. It’s not finished yet, but when you’ve found yourself a way of living instead of working, it’s never really done. 

Breakfast oats with walnuts, hemp seeds and membrillo (quince jelly) and a fig on a girls lap

Before the rain came again, and the heat was among us in Galiza, I went and had one last pistacchio ice cream. Because I love pistacchio too much. This was my first time (ever) eating just one flavour of ice cream. 

A pistacchio ice cream a woman's hand is holding in front of a shop counter that says heladería (meaning ince cream shop)

I am becoming a minimalist with food. A mindful food picker. Not really, but I just wanted to mindfully eat one flavour. I made a little ritual about it and now I can still feel the flavour if I really focus on that particular moment. Moments that last forever 😌

A mosquito biting the arm of a woman with her blood visible inside the bug

Talking about picking…I didn’t make a scientific investigation, but I found out something about mosquitos. One of them was picking me all afternoon for her lovely bites, so instead of shooshing her, I simply let her bite me. I found that after she got full of my blood (picture above) she left and didn’t come back. One bite versus one hundred mini-bites. That’s a win for both of us.

arepa with ham, green pepper and habanero. A handmade ceramic pot with walnuts
Arepas are the “I have no time today”‘s best friend.

My conclusion: if you want just one bite from one mosquito, let her until she’s fed up and leaves. Fun fact, that stung less than the other semi-bites. Just leaving this info here in case it’s needed. 

I  was almost ready to celebrate the Equinox and I received a package from Kike (@labudaneta at Instagram) We’ve become instafriends this Summer and started talking. He’s been so freaking nice sending me such a lovely assortment of fruit and veggies. Couldn’t be more grateful.

aubergine baked with red pesto and feta
Baked aubergines with pesto rosso and feta.

I deeply thanked him and I am still enjoying some of the peppers. 

Tomate, a tabby cant, smelling a handmade ceramic turquoise bowl with a citron tartalette and some walnuts. Also, a white mug with a frothy matcha latte and a spoon.
Tomate trying to steal my Citron Tartalette 🙂

My neighbours kept bringing me fruit and veggies too, I am surrounded by abundance lately and I couldn’t be more grateful. 

two toasts of soudough bread with chopped organic tomatoes and some extra virgin olive oil
Pa amb tomàquet reinvented. I couldn’t throw away any little part of these tomatoes 😁

So much abundance! It made me ground myself a little bit in the urge of consuming all those beautiful vegetables I got gifted. 

A la plancha Sweet Italian Green peppers with chopped habanero
Lovely green peppers a la plancha

But still, some days with all the chores and new stuff to do piling up, I just grabbed whatever was on hand. Like these meatballs, that, for your interest, had a delicious homemade tomato sauce. I would actually order the tomato saucee and fries alone next time. 

a black bowl with meatballs in tomato sauce and french fries
Sanpaio Restaurant (Coruña) Some meatballs in a delicious homemade tomato sauce.

But in case I am boring you, I’ll switch the topic.

A black cat yawning with a very funny face
Cocotte was bored too 😂💙

I’ve been drawing and designing a lot lately. Only when you pick up a habit again, you notice how much you missed it for so long. 

legs of a woman with a face drawn in ink
I really love painting on my skin when I am a bit stressed. It soothes me.

And between meal prepping and eating outside, I got the chance to make some nice work I am quite proud of.

Veggie toast with tempeh, yogurt and walnuts
I am proud of this toast too, but I wasn’t referring to that 🙂

But it’s not just working what life is all about. I got the chance to reconnect not only with a habit I missed, I also got the chance to reconnect with a friend I haven’t seen in a very long while. We’ve been talking through insta a lot, but you know that’s not the same. 

Two girls huging themselves with their arms and legs, laughing and happy.
We literally couldn’t hug each other with more limbs 😂💙✨

And, if you know me well, and by now you should…everything around me turns into food. We met in Lugo, where she’s from, and I got the chance to eat some excellent tapas. Lugo is the most amazing place for that. 

Free tapas in Lugo. Restaurante Paprika. Toast with prosciutto and tomato spheres.
Paprika (Lugo) Complimentary delicious tapas.

We hugged a lot, chatted a lot, and shared some deep thoughts about health, life, spirituality and the universe. I am much more profound talking when you know me well. 

Friends in front of a mirror taking a picture of themselves, smiling.
Mirror selfies always capture the moment.

We also laughed a lot. I’d love to add that Alejandra is the best laugher I’ve ever met. I love how she laughs like it’s the first time each and every single time. Her vibration is so high you only want to be around her. 

Vegan mushroom ravioli with tomato, kale and red chilli

She’s been studying a lot lately and I am really looking forward to see her pass the exam very soon, so we can celebrate 🤗

Thai and chinese food to go. Take away boxes with wheat noodles and veggies with peanut sauce. Another box with rice noodles, shrimp and peanuts (Pad Thai), the remaining tray is made of tin and has cucumber and sesame seeds in a salad. Also, ac an of beer.
Pad Thai from Koh Lanta and Veggie noodles with peanut sauce from Wok Two (Coruña)

I really appreciated how the sun kept shining for a while. One heavy storm came one afternoon and just 10 minutes before I was at the beach, eating and befriending the seagulls, unaware of what was coming. 

Dessert tray with Tarta de Santiago (almond cake from Santiago de Compostela, Galiza) and a swiss roll with custard (creme patissiere) and membrillo (quince jelly)
Tarta de Santiago and Brioche with custard and membrillo from a patisserie in Coruña.

But it’s not only about old friends. New ones are always something beautiful. This month, I met this little woman. She came to my house asking for food. And soon we started a very beautiful relationship. 

a calico cat aproaching the camera
Ain’t she cute? 🥰

I hoped she stick around, but from my experience…cats always stick around with Sílvia, we witches have a je ne sais quoi. You witches out there get me, right?

Vegan gluten free tacos with cavolo nero kale, chicken and tamarind chutney
Tacos with tamarind chutney, cavolo nero and chicken. As easy as it gets.

So much excitement and balance came with the beginning of the Equinox. A very needed balance actually. 

Balance and abundance. That would be the focus of this season for me. So much abundance, that my family is growing. The little cat I told you came back, stuck around and brought some tiny little specks of stardust with her. Yes, you hear me well. Now my workplace is majority cat-ruled. The world is finally where it needs to be 😁

A clowder of cats. Calico cats, orange cat and black and white cat in nature
Drool is falling from your mouths and it’s not because of food, who would have thought that? 😂

As always, have fun and keep fooding!

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