Beirut, Lebanon
A weekly cooking practice

Real food.
Real cooking.
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I cook weekly meal plans. Five to seven recipes a week, a shopping list in season, and short videos that show every step. The food is tasty. The portions are satisfying. The grocery run is fun.

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Salmon, avocado, sesame rice, a weeknight in twenty
N° 01

This week on the plan

Week of August 23
7 recipes / 1 shopping list
Recipe of the week
N°01

Two toasts, one plate

Avocado mash with a runny yolk and herbs on one side, feta with cherry tomatoes and za'atar on the other. A breakfast that does not make you pick a side, on a Tuesday morning that needs both.

Time 15 min
Serves 1
Level Easy
Tags PMOS / VEG
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A note from the kitchen I started cooking this way because my body asked me to. What I learned along the way is that food is not a project. It is a small act of care, repeated five times a week, that quietly changes a life.
Perla
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N° 02

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10 min / Breakfast /PMOS / ANTI INFLAMMATORY

Spirulina bowl with berries and toasted seeds

Spirulina, frozen berries, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, a spoon of peanut butter. Antioxidant overload in five minutes.
20 min / Lunch /High Protein

Loaded omelette with herbed green dip

Eggs with bell peppers, served with a punchy herbed dip, pickles, and cherry tomatoes on the side.
5 min / Breakfast /PMOS

Chia pudding bowl with seasonal fruit and granola

Overnight chia in milk, topped with whatever the week brought home. Berries, kiwi, banana, granola for the crunch. Five minutes the night before, breakfast the morning after.
5 min / Breakfast

Yogurt parfait with kiwi and pomegranate

Greek yogurt, fresh kiwi, pomegranate seeds, pineapple chunks. Almost dessert, technically breakfast.
15 min / Lunch /PMOS / High Protein

Salmon sashimi prep with avocado and sesame

Raw salmon on a bed of avocado, two kinds of sesame on top. Lunchbox lunch that takes fifteen minutes and travels well.
5 min / Breakfast

Blood orange and kiwi breakfast bowl

Blood orange, kiwi, oats, a spoon of peanut butter. The simplest bowl that takes the day seriously.
N° 04 / Story

I cooked because my body asked.
I kept cooking because I loved it.

In the spring of 2020 the world locked down, and so did I. A few months in I started seeing acne, my body shifted in ways my clothes did not forgive, and I was tired all the time. The doctor said PMOS (renamed from PCOS). The medication came with side effects I had read about before he finished writing the prescription, so I decided to work on myself instead. My mom helped with the cooking. My dad gave advice. Healthy eating, exercise, sleep on a schedule.

Almost six years on, the symptoms are gone. I could let the habits go in theory, but this version of me is the one I prefer, and the cooking is what carries it. Perla's Cooking Options is the practice I built for myself, written down for anyone who needs the same.

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