WHY?!!!

This question, "WHY?!!!" I found one morning written in BIIIG letters on a cupboard in Slovakia where I was volunteering for just three days.


When working and living with other people there are always differences that make us unique and add colour to community life but at the same time drive us mad if not open to difference.
So this is WHY I am letting you know what this is all about and opening a conversation with you in which you are welcome to leave comments and discuss so we don't end up writing on the furniture in big letters "WHY?!!!" when all there is is wonderful difference.

And this blog is just about that, differences and hopefully their appreciation by you, the reader. I have been volunteering for the last two years all around Europe while at the same time being a vegetarian. A peculiar vegetarian that doesn't buy eggs, milk, yogurt or any other animal products at that. It's been an interesting period for me. I found so many nuances of vegetarianism, from people who don't eat any other meat than fish to people who don't eat any animal products (vegans) but also lots of different religious and personal beliefs driven diets and life styles. I realize myself am not a typical vegetarian so I am using my own term coined from the two important life choices that I adopted, VOLUNTary work and the vegeTARIAN lifestyle.

The next big step in my life I will take in Luxembourg where I will volunteer in a free radio station for one year on a limited budget that I want to use to cook mostly vegan, whole, organic and fair trade food. Will I success and at what level? Will I afford it financially? Will I still have a healthy life style without to many cheap refined foods? Lots of questions I will have to answer in due time. At the moment I can just prepare. I will be at home, here in Constanta, Romania for one month and I will cook and buy ingredients with my mum and learn from her experience with combining Romanian traditional food, Ayurveda and Yoga with vegetarian cooking for the last 11 years. Hopefully after this one month I will have enough information to last me a year in Luxembourg and enough recipes to satisfy every one's interest in delicious Romanian traditional food (with a vegetarian twist).

LATER EDIT: Since I'm now in Luxembourg and I've already started answering some of the questions I was posing before I will start answering them on this blog from now on. Read more about it here.

Poftă bună

Raw vitamins will be ever-present.

Bon appétit

They look so good there by the bed!