Lucullian delights
Köp ärtgröna converse! Genast om det gör dig lycklig. Själv surar jag för att jag inte kan köpa några nya converse alls (och de har rea på massor med roliga här i närheten) just nu, men mina gravidsvullna fötter gör det omöjligt att lista ut vad jag kommer att ha för storlek om en månad.
Undrar om jag måste vagga iväg till en häslokost för att hitta kikärtsmjöl, en sån där knepig ingrediens här, men det låter ju så gott det där receptet. maken få kanske handla på vägen hem i stället.
I have never heard/seen the question posed better Ilva!
How old am I? I've always believed my mom was right when she said "You're as old as you think you are." It's that behaving thing that scrambles everything.
I'm older now than I ever felt myself to be . . .
Once when I was ranting (somewhat like you did here) a very wise woman once told me to buy a purple hat and learn to spit on the sidewalk (thanks Tanna!). Every age has its advantages and disadvantages. I agree that there is nothing more pathetic than someone (either male or female) who try to dress like some teenager. It's embarrassing to see. But you just blast that music as loud as you like, Ilva. Peopl be damned. (Besides - they'll just think you're eccentric, and that's a good thing!)
mm, yummy dish, again! I like and recognize the question about feeling different ages.
I work on the principal that while I am at work, I am diligent and serious (not too), wear a nice shirt and try to act and look professional.
Day over and at the weekends, I do my thing, my way. If my friend doesn't like my shirt, their hard look. If I look short in my All-Stars, well it because I am. If the t-shirt is too tight - ok I might buy a baggier one! (vanity is allowed to kick in now and again)Oh, and lastly, Hair at work sensible, Hair at home spikey as hell :o)
ask your daughers and they'll tell you if you are OK or not ! Mine is almost 13 and she is quite right when I'm too seriously dressed or not !!
Corinne
I'm 58 and still drive with music blasting. Why not?
I like what you said--"I am all the ages I have passed through"--what a great way to put it. An accumulation, not a loss. We can be 58 and 42 and 35 and 17 and 10, when we wish to or when circumstances demand it. When I get down on the floor and play with my grandsons, I move back to 2, not quite, but almost.
If you ever get it sorted let me know, will you?
I don't think I dress like a teenager - I just dress like me, but, now that I spend more time in gardening clothes than office clothes it's sort of hard to figure out...
And I worry that people will think I'm just talking to myself instead of singing with the radio.
And then I think - who cares? I should be old enough to do what I want!~
Oh and I forgot - I am so looking forward to being retired and a lot older because a) I hope to be somewhere warmer where I can sit in a town square and have people say hello to me, and b) I want a walking stick to be beligerent with and to point with ;o)
A few years back we bought a silver topped cane for a friends mother who wanted something, in her words " a bit different" - she was enamoured at first then delighted when we showed her that it had a flask in the top too! She still uses it, brilliant!
Ilva honey you are as old as you feel....I loved your sentence "I feel as if I am all the ages I have passed through", very profound - let that be your guideline and don't worry too much about people not accepting you. I finally learned, at the grand old age of 50, that it really doesn't matter because people love you for your heart and who you are at the end of the day - not your clothes or hairdo or the music bellowing out of your car. If they are that shallow walk away. My 50th year was my best, I learned to really love ME and be comfortable with myself. Kids are a great plumbline for telling you honestly if you embarrass them! Listen to teenagers while they still know everything!! Life is short, embrace and enjoy it!! And those wonderful looking Chickpea fritters are definitely a great start. You go girl!!! 
Such good questions! My mother, very classic and business-like, always wanted me to cut my hair. Eventually she gave up and said, "Well, I guess you'll do it when you turn 40." Forty has long since passed and she's still waiting. 
Well Ilva, you are obviously young still, because you mind what people think about what you look like and what you do ... I am beginning to think that I must be getting old, because I care less and less what other people think about how I dress, how I act, what I do - and I wouldn't let anyone else's view stop me playing my music loud or wearing pink Converse if that was what I wanted to do! Be true to yourself (and remember that you're not doing it right unless you're embarressing your children). And I'm not sure I really believe a word of what I've just said, but I definitely half believe it!
Best wishes,
Joanna
Hi Ilva -
As always, great pictures, great prose. I, for one, am one of those who was born old. My husband, young forever. If it weren't for him, I'd have a lot less fun, and if it weren't for me, the electric bill wouldn't get paid! Maybe love does make you whole...
I always enjoy your ideas and the way you phrase them. I think we should try not too care about what people think, but I´m also old enough to know that most of us do care. But I say yes to the Converse for sure (my grandpa is 82 and he still wears similar shoes!). And about the music, I think it brings one of the purest joys anyone can experience, young or old, so turn up the volume!
As my grandfather´s wife says "viejos son los trapos" ("only rags are old").
Sometimes I still think I am young~until some young wipper-snapper refers to me as 'that old lady" ~spoiling my day. We are as old as we feel and think. There is no denying that age takes its tole on us, slows us down some, but basically, I do believe it is" mind over matter". If you act old, you will be old. Dress however you want and in what you feel comfortable in. As far as being concerned about pleasing eveyone and what they think about you, ,that will age you. People should be more concerned about what you are thinking of "them!" Be yourself and enjoy your family and life~time passes so quickly! I know, I am old now....
What a great post. I'm just getting into this with the gray hairs and seeing how old my skin looks compared to my kids'. If it's any consolation, when I started reading, I thought you were just a very mature, together 36-year-old. And, for all I know, you are.
What a delicious-looking recipe.
Here's my take on aging:
1) You don't have any choice in the matter. You either age, or you die. I think aging is preferable.
2) You DO have a choice on how you wish to age. Do it your own way. Have fun. I do.
I think you are great, I never expected this response and each one of you with great opinions. A good blogging friend of mine who is older than me once told me to "Do what you feel like, life's hardly coming back as a rerun is it?" and I often think about that, why bother so much. But sometimes I do and I think it has to do with two things, one is that there's a real discrepancy between the age of my body and the age of my mind. The other is that aging scares me because I'm afraid of getting Alzheimer's disease like my mother and some of her family, this kind of tinges the whole thing with a blackish hue. But if I get it, I wont be able to worry about these things which in a way is good, there's always a positive aspect to everything!
I think Roo has a very good solution to what I wrote about, you dress and behave as you are supposed to do in those situation where it is important for your credibility and then as you feel like when you are out of it.
Then I would like to say to those of you that I should ask my children well, I don't agree because they are not in the position to give me good advice. Not that I have any problems with them, maybe because I don't bother them about how they dress apart from when their grandmother comes and I know she likes to see them well dressed. I'm not interested in their approval, I'm interested in finding a balance that feels good for me and how can they know that when they hardly know who they are themselves? Plus that I know how embarrassed teenagers can feel about their parents whatever they do so there's no way to please them anyway. I actually think it's probably better to do what makes them feel embarrassed or is that the 2 1/2 year old in me again? So I just have to ride this out, with you backing me up like this it's easy peasy but the big problem is that the majority of the people I meet are not like you! But I never really cared before so why start now?!
Thanks again, I just love your comments and support!
The saying - you are as old as you feel - is the best test. I dress, talk, drive, listen to music etc in the way that makes ME feel good. I love being in my 50s with all those family responsibilities behind me. I wouldn't turn the clock back for a gold cow.
I have to tell you a funny story that happened to me in Barcelona. At the time my hair was very long. I usually wore it up but this day had let it donwn. I was sitting on the wharf, looking out over the ocean with my back to the walkway. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a very good-looking, very young macho Spaniard saunter up behind me. As he came around the bench to make his move (about 10 feet away) he got a good look at my not-so-young face and did a double take and swift turn about. I pretended not to notice - which was hard because I was laughing so hard I almost fell off the bench. I figured I still must look damn good from behind!
I also decided I reall didn't need waist length hair any longer and cut it...shoulder length...
Can I just live in your kitchen? I'll sleep under the table.
Yummmmmmmmm....
Thanks for the inspiration! I'm unable to eat wheat & gluten and miss being able to have bruschetta, and this was the perfect way to have a delicious tomato & basil topping on something equally tasty! Thanks!
Ilva, these chickpea fritters look and sound delicious. And they look so light. They look like they could be the centerpiece of a great summer dinner!
I know I've said this before, but your pictures are so gorgeous! The interplay of light and shadow and perspective transports readers. What a gift!
VERY sweet picture - the middle one.
Sans bite...
I bet you could create a Gelati flavor with this...
Di-Neither would I! Thansk for the encouragement!
katiez-hahaha! I understand that you laughed!
tongue-in -cheek- ok, but I'm sure I'll find a bed for you somewhere!
Maggie-Oh, how happy your comment make me! Thanks!
deborah-Thanks, you are such a nice person!
paris breakfast- well maybe, a kind of sorbetto for between the courses! Thanks!
Ilva, I finally made this recipe today. Wow, was it fabulous. I did not use the sundried tomatoes in the batter, as Antonio doesn't like them, and they were still delicious. It's great to be able to use a protein flour instead of bread under this kind of a topping. Thanks again for your continued inspirations. Jeni
Jeni-Thanks for the positive feed back, it means a lot to me!
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