Mlaka krompir salata sa začinskim travama - Lukewarm potato salate with aromatic herbs - Insalata tiepida di patate con erbe aromatiche

Kad vani zakuha onda svi maštamo o totalnoj svježini, vanjskoj i unutarnjoj, pa bi onda i hrana trebala biti hladna da se iznutra ne bismo pretjerano zagrijali. Mislite? . . . Zapravo bi trebala biti mlaka, da termički šok ne napravi suprotan efekat i prouzroči znojenje, ali ne zbog vanjske visoke temperature nego zbog prehladne tvari koje unosimo u organizam. Hrana treba biti lagana, vrlo lagana, tek toliko puna i teška da nas zasiti, jer prepun želudac i žega nisu dobar par!

Iz istog raznoga u pustinji nomadi piju topli čaj pod suncem koji peče i suši sve oko sebe i odbija se od kvarcnih zrnaca kako bi još jače svjetlilo. Eto, umjesto da pretjerujemo s razno raznim hladnim i prehladnim obrocima i razgolićeni šetamo pod suncem i riskiramo ne samo da nas opali toplotni udar nego i da zadobijemo opake opekline i još ozbiljnije posljedice opaljene kože, trebali bi češće pametno kopirati one čiji su primjeri korisni, jer sunce ne oprašta, koliko nam godi u minimalnim dozama, toliko nam loše čini ako se ne zaštitimo.

I to nam pustinjski nomadi lijepo poručuju dok pomno zamotani u njihova tamno plava ruha posmatraju jantar žuti čaj svojim plavim očima obrubljenim crnilom.

Meksički krastavac pečen na gril tavi - Grilled Mexican cucumber - Cetriolo Messicano grigliato

“Is this a vegetable or a fruit?”

This was my first question after observing for a while this tubby form.

Its intense light green collour is shiny and its surface is spiny.

The taste is very neutral and aqueous! I'm not sure if it has some nutritious value, for sure the visual effect is certain. Imagine a kind of big horse-chestnut with very tense and thin peel. This is its outlook!

When I first saw it, I thought that it was another growing experiment donated to my parents by a farmer-friend and arrived from who knows where. In that garden - my parent's garden, you can find any kind of vegetable-wonders. Edible, or not, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that it grows, sometime it even surprises us with its bloom, but most of the time it produces some kind of food. Food means vegetables or fruits. Until the unknown "food" doesn't show its products, we never know if it should be called fruits or vegetables. Well, we know how to call it, of course, but it is the product that has never been experimented in my family and no matter if, botanicaly speaking, it has been classified as fruits, or as vegetables, the moment it get tasted is the crucial one for us to decide how to specify the new grown baby!