Oh… I’m happy you're cooking!

Last night, at 1.30 am in the morning in fact, I noticed a text from my son who is 6 hours in time-difference away in the USA while I’m in France. He wanted to cook for his girlfriend. He’d written the message an hour earlier and I knew his evening was well on. I wanted to respond, and I did. The only problem being… I used to eat fish a few years ago even though no other animals for ten years-plus, (yep I didn’t have any education on true animal kindness or health) and he wanted the method to my fabulous Pesto Salmon that he’d had through childhood. Being 20 he would not be available by phone or text, there and then, via my methods of communication, so… what to do? The real back story here is I had just watched the amazing film-doc Eating Our Way To Extinction and would not want anyone, never mind my beloved child, to eat Salmon today. But his immune system was likely ok for this one dish and his efforts to impress his girlfriend with such an easy dish (not that she would know as it is a good one) seemed more important there and then - especially at 1.30 am in the morning. I gave him the method but added: “don’t watch Eating Our Way To Extinction for at least a couple of days or you may wish you hadn’t had salmon. It’s not the salmon that go extinct if you know what I mean”. I had in fact given him the link to watching the film earlier that day! He may not watch it himself but I will sit with my kids and have them watch it with me, in time. Their well-being, not getting terrible health through an accumulation effect of the food they consume, is a special gift I can give them these horrific days. I do care for the survival of our planet of course too - and it’s certainly the next thing I will remind them of, (the dying seas with pest control/farmed fish slurry etc./ never mind land soil and rivers due to land usage) but their health is my first thought. So… I am in the process of writing some great methods of cooking various vegan dishes which I will send one by one to my son for future impressive cook nights!!! Yay. The best ever fried rice will be my first (my daughter likes it with chickpeas instead of eggs). @eating2extinction