Pork with woked haricots

This is pork with haricots I made today. Typical southeast maybe. The haricots was a little bit over cooked because the phone rang and I went to answer it. It was delicious, but I would have been happier if the haricots was perfectly done. I like vegetable almost in their original color whenever I make food. That means the haricots should have been a little bit more greener than in this photo. Next time, I´ve promised myself.

Photo: Le Ly / Food and design: Celina

Anyway, I later noticed that I was wearing my green dress, so I thought it compensated the question of green color. And the food tasted really very good anyway. It´s not exactly as making excuses for anything, it´s rather like parking my mind in harmony with the circumstances I´m in probably. Anyway it must be the zen teaching I was taught since childhood. "You´ll rich not because of how much you have, but rather of how satisfied you are with what you have". That ´s probably great about zen. It´s a win-win case no matter what.

Haricot was almost an everyday scene at home when I was young. It was one of those days when my father would sigh about the british-chinese opium war. It was unforgivable he would say, and he was probably right specially when one has actually been there like his ancestors did, and has tasted the bitterness of it, like a tea would taste when somebody is not in the mood for it.

Should we let bygones be bygones? Forgive and foget? I never really tasted the bitterness of that war. What I heard are stories, written history and deep sighs of my father. So now living in Europe, it feels like I have two legs in two different boats. The horror of a war that had happened a long time ago, and the wonderful things that the responsible british stand for too. Life is a constant weighing of goodness and evil, and indeed like zen is supposed to be, it is just a matter of putting your mind in a state that is most peaceful and in harmony with your circumstances. So probably it´s really no use digging in the past, but better see the brighter looking day today and enjoy what it can give.

I´m still not over with my music fever yet, so I´d link to this talented british born performer David Robert Jones again or better known as Bowie, with his adorable and brilliant bass player, Gail Ann Dorsey, in their unbeatable duet:

Under Pressure...

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Oh my God!! ... David Bowie is in my webb!!! I can´t believe this! Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!! Scream of the year....