ZUCCHINI EGGPLANT LASAGNE

Ingredients

1 large eggplant cut crossways in 0.5cm strips
1 large zucchini cut crossways in 0.5cm strips
1 medium onion diced
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tablespoon rosemary
1 tablespoon italian herbs
1 can diced tomatoes
2 medium tomatos diced
3 tablespoon tomato paste
1/2 cup hot water
Lasagne noodles
1 cup chopped basil
1 cup ricotta cheese
black pepper
salt
olive oil

1. Preheat to 180°
2. Arrange eggplant on a baking tray and sprinkle salt on top. Leave aside until ready to use.
3. Heat oil in a pan - add onions and garlic. Frequently stir until onions soften.
4. Add 1/2 salt, black pepper, rosemary, italian herbs, diced tomatoes (canned and fresh), hot watter and tomato paste. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir occasionally.
5. Combine basil, ricotta and black pepper in a bowl.
6. Spread tomato mixture evenly on the bottom on a baking dish coated with olive oil. Arrange noodles over tomato mixture. Spread a layer of ricotta then top with zucchini and eggplant slices. Add lasagna noodles on top. Continue until all ingredients are layered.
7. Bake for 60 minutes until insides are hot
8. Enjoy!

This recipe isn't vegan - no matter how much I want to be vegan right now, it's hard on my parents because they are the ones who make my food when I'm at work etc. The plan right now is that I make vegan and vegetarian dishes on the weekend and during the week, I'm pescetarian. So yes c:

IN WITH THE NEW

Recently I feel like I've lost touch of who I really am. Starting a new job, my parents moving back home, learning to become an adult under adult supervision; things have made me shift my priorities and somehow, I lost the person I thought I was.

Someone said to me recently "it doesn't matter what other people say or do, as long as you hold your values and remember who you are, you'll make it out the other end." I know this was said in the context of living the corporate life but isn't it easily applied to life as well?

I used to be very clear who I was and what I wanted. I wanted to find happiness around me, I wanted to spread positivity. I believed in fighting for equality, I believed finding a way to make a change. But now, I believe in making money. And I believe in fighting my way up the corporate ladder, to make a name for myself, to make myself believe that I have what it takes.

Even if I lose myself, I know one thing. I have high expectations for myself. If I set my mind to doing something, I plan to succeed. But it's terrible for myself to notice how much values have changed in a little over two months.

But it's a good thing. To know. To notice, without judgement. Without judgement but will wishful to change. In the back of my head, I know who I want to be and where I want to go. I just need to believe in myself and remember what I believe in.

Balance, love and life.

That's all I need. All the money, the status, the perception I give to the world doesn't matter, if I can't look into myself and say I'm proud of who I am.

So let this be my journey.

To finding who I was, am. To remember what is important to me.

Love, C.