Simple pleasures

So I did some heavy duty cooking this week but the best things lately were my simple recipes.

I made fried rice with green onion, garlic, and mushrooms. Added a cold boiled egg and some soy sauce and it was delicious!

I made a radish cheese pie and used the extra Gruyere cheese pie dough to make a simple popover. Some extra cheese, a cheddar curd, some green onions chopped up. The best thing ever. Pictured with radish compote and rosehip and hibiscus iced tea.

I get lost sometimes in all the fancy recipes and complicated techniques. Sometimes it pays to remember the basic simple fact that cooking should be about joy. The food need not be complicated to be delicious. A simple salad or fried rice at the right moment may be much better than any fancy recipe. A simple mug of hot milk with honey, rum and mint may be the best thing in the world even if it is easy to make.