Winning part deux! Lookie what I scored today!!

Yay, it's over! (Christmas, that is...)

Gone are the cookies and other crap. Any gifts of chocolate received were passed on to others who still eat that stuff. Yes, a small few were eaten by moi, but now things are back to normal - back to eating real food.

Hmmm...and mmm!

I'm not sure if it's stress-related due to my next exam being on Thursday evening, but for several days in a row now I've been fighting off headaches. Maybe it's the change in weather...hmmm.

Last night a few co-workers and I went out for dinner to celebrate the completion of a pain-in-the-ass client...I mean, project, and I tried bison meatloaf! It was incredibly tasty, likely due to the bacon wrapped around it, the rich gravy, and whatever spices and unmentionables added, but I would absolutely order it again! I'm not supposed to touch any sugar, flour or alcohol during the YeastBusters program, but I had a chocolate martini anyway. I'm not experiencing any "yeast die-off" symptoms (unless that's what the gassy ass is all about! haha!!), so I figure I don't have a severe-enough case of yeast overgrowth to worry about one drink.

Hunnybun made dinner tonight while I did some studying:


Salmon is on special this week so we stocked up. The rest of the dish consists of onion, celery, red/yellow/orange bell peppers, garlic, and shredded coconut (!). It really turned out delicious and he kept the celery crunchy so it was a nice light, refreshing dinner. Two thumbs up! :)

Our Fridge...and gas???

This is the fullest it's ever been, and most of it is leftover meals and fresh food next in line to be cooked. Ignore the bottle of Coke (that's his) and the KFC (the chicken, fries and gravy are mine and the salad is his...we had nothing ready to cook for dinner on Thursday past so we ordered in. It happens.).

There's a shitload of delicious food for us to eat for the next few days. It's never looked so appetizing (again, except for the crap already mentioned lol).


The other thing I wanted to mention is the insane amount of gas I've had for the past few days. I don't know exactly what's causing it, but it's fucking lethal!!! Is it the Greens+?? Anyone know??

Tonight's Dinner...Leftover Chicken on Cabbage and Bell Pepper

We bought a new pan!! So far so good (though I can't stand Rachel Ray her pan is nice lol). We glopped a few blobs of bacon fat in there, tossed in the chopped peppers and cabbage for awhile...


Then we added some seasoning and the leftover chicken that was in the fridge to warm it up. Et voila! Tasty!

Tonight's Dinner...Roast Beef on Mashed Cauliflower

Roast...messed another one up. :(

I try. And I'll keep on trying. Next time I'll watch it closer and take its temperature more. Or maybe I'll put the meat thermometer right in there and leave it in there. I don't know. I just hate ending up with a dry, over-cooked roast. It sucks.

Anyway, here's what it looked like. I cooked it in the oven at 250F with some water and seasonings in the bottom of the pan. The good news is that the gravy (which I reduced in a pot after it was done cooking) turned out AMAZING.




We had a big salad to go with the roast, but ended up with quite a bit left over, so this morning I cooked up some bacon and we had bacon salad for breakfast!

Foooooooood.

I've got two pork tenderloins in the crock pot, one in the oven, and a belly full of sardines (canned in olive oil).

Pics of the tenderloins to come later!

Edit: It's now later:

First, here is the oven-roasted pork tenderloin (at 250F for 2 hours) that was juicy and tasty as all hell:



This was a piece from the two tenderloins I cooked in the slow cooker (which for some reason turned out dry - overcooked, I guess?):


Served with cabbage, onion, carrot and leek.

The "Mother In-Law"

My "MIL" (in quotes because Rabbit and I are just common-law) came over yesterday (Sunday) to make dinner for us here, so she arrived with most of the fixings and got started. The main dish was going to be a hunk of roasted beef (no complaints there!), but the one side dish she brought was something she called dumplings, but it consisted of tiny little balls that resembled pasta. There were three ingredients, one of which was flour, so I wasn't too keen on eating this stuff, but I had told my honey that I was going to shut up and eat whatever she made, because it was her who previously droned on about how there's nothing wrong with eating (whole) grains, etc. I'm not interested in hearing it anymore and I'm tired of explaining myself. Anyway, she had asked what we might have on hand for sides and she chose cauliflower to go into the oven with the roast.

When the beef was done she wanted to use the drippings to make a gravy. I said we had some corn starch (I'm not sure whether this is any better than white flour, but offered it anyway), but noooo she only wanted flour. She knows darn well that I do not wish to consume flour/grains, but like I said, I shut up and ate what she made anyway. I honestly think she's trying to provide her son with these CW foods because she feels I'm depriving him. She even mentioned she'd bring ingredients to make bread next time, since my stand-up mixer came with a dough hook. *facepalm*

This must be why people don't usually get along with their in-laws, right??

When she comes over she usually brings the supplies to make her apple crumble dessert as well, and this time was no different. I had some and shut up about it.

Tomorrow I'll eat what *I* want to eat.

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!!

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)

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.

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. :)

Mmm, Salmon

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

*drool*

These lil' darlin's will soon be marinaded in evoo, low-sodium soya sauce and steak spice, then BBQ'd. YUM!!

Tomorrow's Dessert

BAS and Fried Bananas!

Today was one of those days where we didn't really have any leftovers in the fridge and hadn't taken anything out of the freezer to defrost. Soooo, since we had some lettuce to use up from last Friday's Wanigan delivery, we made a salad. A BAS (in case you don't know; a big-ass salad) with tuna!
His:

Hers:

For dessert I decided to fry up some banana slices in some virgin coconut oil and dusted them with coconut flour:

Unfortunately they turned out a bit smushy because I had too much oil in the pan at first, so hopefully next time they'll be firmer and crispier. They were awesome, anyway!

Hamburger Soup

Ahh, one of my faves, especially when there's yam to be added to it. Mmm, sweet goodness.

This contains:
- 2lbs medium ground beef, browned with Worcestershire sauce
- sliced carrots, celery, onion
- diced yam
- Italian seasoning, garlic, Montreal steak spice, and seasoned salt

Slow cooked on high for maybe 4 hours.

Tonight's Dinner...

Farm-fresh honey garlic sausages, steamed broccoli and roasted fennel.

On the fennel is a very light coating of olive oil (EVOO) and balsamic vinegar. Roasted uncovered at 400F for approx. 20 mins. Very interesting flavour, and the house smells divine!

WIN! Red (Swiss) Chard Recipe

Made this tonight and we inhaled it! I still have the BEST aftertaste in my mouth. Mmmmmmmm.

Recipe - Simply Recipes

(My substitutes were to use Montreal steak spice instead of crushed red peppers, and thus I didn't need to add any more salt.)

Today's food intake started out good enough, with farm-fresh bacon and eggs, but then I got into the apple crisp and birthday cake from last night. I am powerless when this sort of stuff is in the house! If I see it, I have to eat it! I just love the taste so much. :(

Anyway, that was early today and I'm back on track now. I had some of the chard after finishing off the sardines I had cracked open a few days ago (canned), and then because my tummy was still craving cake and possibly the lasagne in the fridge, I had a cheese stick (mozza and cheddar) and a small apple. If I feel the need to have anything else I might have a square or two of dark chocolate and/or some almonds. Yeah.