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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

My Weaknesses: After Eight Chocolates


Ohhh boy. *Someone* cute and fuzzy got me a box of these for xmas. Someone very naughty! Now I'm trying not to think about them and he now has to hide them on me. LOL

Evil temptation. EVIL!!

Christmas 2010

Aside from being sick with a cold, this xmas went pretty well, albeit at light speed. All of a sudden it's over, and we have a huge mess to clean up. I've done pretty well with my food intake, merely sampling goodies here and there. I had a small homemade shortbread cookie for dessert (skipping the black forest cake!) at Dad's, and a small slice of pumpkin pie at my sister's. Oh, and I inhaled (not literally lol) the milk chocolate penis pop that was also found in my stocking. ;)

Other than that, when I've been hungry I've eaten good (better) food. Not quite primal, as the leftovers from Dad's included mashed potatoes mixed with mashed turnip with gravy on top, but better than junk food. Ohhhhh the curry goat my step mom made is to die for...

I got a couple sexy santa's helper outfits (HO HO HO, lol) and some nice tops from my sister which accentuate every bump there is to see, so I really need to start working on this belly fat. Starting tomorrow (cause I have a headache today).

Friday, December 24, 2010

All year long...

...I've been moaning about how my co-workers are always taking sick days and I never get a day off work. Well, my time has come to get sick (just a gross cold), but now that the holidays are here we get to work from home anyway, so I'm still not taking a sick day!

BOOOOOO!

Well I guess it's actually a good thing...but dammit, I'm gonna take some sick days next year even if I'm not sick! So there!!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Four!

Four batches of almond cookies! Ah ah ah!

These are being handed out for xmas to various peeps, and I still need to make more. Somehow, before Saturday, I need to pump out two batches of my cereal, too.

And finish wrapping the gifts. Ugggghhhhhh.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Today's Eats

Today was an experimental day of sorts; I cooked breakfast this morning, which consisted of bacon and an omelet of sorts which started with some of the remaining bacon fat, a bit of garlic and lots of mushrooms, to which I added a bowl of 7 scrambled eggs. We both loved it. The bacon was...well, crispy, juicy NOM-NOM-NOM bacon as usual. :)

Another experiment was using the self-clean cycle of the oven to also get some rust off our cast iron skillet so that we could start seasoning it. We both got some reading time in while it was doing its thing (me: The Primal Blueprint; him: The Feeling Good Handbook).

It took a few hours for that to finish, then I had to wipe everything down, and then I warmed the pan up again to open the pores before rubbing it down with flaxseed oil. Then, back into the oven it went at 500F for an hour. It's too late to do the second round so that will have to wait until tomorrow.

The third experiment today was what I just cooked up as a light dinner/late snack. We had some collard greens in the fridge from our last Wanigan delivery (which I've cancelled for at least the winter), and they were close to going bad so I had to do something with them. I sliced them into strips and followed the same recipe that I make my delicious swiss chard, and I also added the rest of the cremini mushrooms that we had. It came out okay, but collards certainly aren't chard. We ate the shit out of it anyway. :D

Tomorrow after work we'll do the second coating on the pan and I have to start wrapping gifts! I finished my shopping nice and early, but procrastinated on the wrapping...DOH!!

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Today's Eats

Breakfast: Roughly 1/2 cup strawberry yogourt

Lunch: 1/2 left over steak (*DROOL*)

Dinner: Will be roasted pork shoulder, onions, bell peppers, and bacon-wrapped asparagus. YUM!

Weighed myself this morning (no BM, unfortunately) and I'm 149.3! Now that all the evil shortbread cookies are out of the house (and into my belly :(), I can get my carbs down to a better level again. Damn those cookies all to hell!!! (YUM lol)

Saturday, December 11, 2010

What really grinds my gears...

...is when *whoever*, when they know I no longer eat things like bread and sugar, etc., goes on and on about how the bleached flour is no good for me, but whole grains certainly are, and how white sugar is no good for me but go ahead and enjoy the brown/turbinado sugar...yadda yadda.

Listen. Just because I don't eat it anymore doesn't mean it's up for discussion or I need a "talking to"! I'm not telling THEM not to eat it, so why do they feel it's okay to tell ME to eat it! I know what works for me, and I've been just fine without that crap, thank you very much, so BUZZ OFF.

If they want to eat it, FINE. Leave me the hell alone. I don't want the pressure and the wasted time arguing about it.

*sigh*

Why do shortbread cookies need to taste so good?? WHY??? *facepalm*

Saturday, December 4, 2010

What to do with boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Rinse and salt them with sea salt. Coat them in a mixture of yogurt, lemon (or orange juice), garlic, and parsley. Then coat them in ground/finely chopped almonds and put them in a buttered baking pan. Slap a pat of butter on top of each one before baking, covered in foil, at 350F for an hour. Remove the foil at about the 45-minute point. (You may need to put the broiler on to brown them nicely.)

In another pan (or two), put sliced sweet peppers and wedged onions coated with EVOO, low-sodium soya sauce and sprinkle with steak spice. Bake everything at the same time (best if you have a convection oven) for the hour at 350F.

For a second side, I made swiss chard on the stove, using my favourite recipe here, except I used bacon fat instead of EVOO.

So good, it didn't last long enough to get pics. :)

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Mmm, Salmon


These delicious morsels were cooked up in butter, then seasoning and coconut milk was added to make the sauce. YUM!