(#63/365) Offerings

"The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment." Echart Tolle


Title: Stopwatching Time
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Hey! You got your nutmeg in my alfredo! You got your alfredo in my nutmeg!!

Tonight I made a Alton Brown's nutmeg ricotta alfredo recipe - it's a pretty standard alfredo up to where he suggests adding 1/2 a teaspoon of fresh grated nutmeg in the white sauce. I served it hot from the pan on spinach ravioli and sauteed mushrooms with a side of fresh papaya.

This time is the first time I've not been on board with Alton - the nutmeg in the alfredo tasted well..... really weird. Its also the first time I'd grated fresh nutmeg rather than using a spice jar kind.

I mean - the meal was yummy (good god do I love papaya!) but it wasn't something I'd leap at to do again. Dave doesn't like white sauces (too cheesy!) - so with him at two-step night it was a fun experiment and I'm always up for trying something new in the kitchen.