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"i made a half batch of no-bake oatmeal peanut butter chocolate cookies and ate about 3/4 of them, half of that before they even cooled off." Would you be able to post the recipe? (My oven is on the fritz again.) |
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oooh i know that feeling. it's hormonal, usually. you know what you might try doing - this is something that has worked for me lately. try adding a couple tablespoons of oil (flaxseed or olive oil preferably) to some of your food. i've added about 400 calories of fat to my diet over the last month, and my appetite feels normal for the first time in well over a year. even during high hormone times, my cravings are not as all-consuming, i'm not as ravenous or constantly thinking about food. my theory is that my body is getting enough fat consistently, at very regular intervals throughout the day, and doesn't go into some fake starvation mode. i can go much longer periods without being hungry or even thinking about food, and i'm eating regular meals, and even indulging in treats and wine regularly. in fact, it's hard to believe, but very effortlessly and surprisingly quickly dropped back down *almost* into my size 6 jeans again - but more importantly than that - physically i feel better than i have in a long time. anyway, yeah, let me dig around in my recipe index and i'll post it here. they are really yummy. |
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ingredients: 1-1/2 cups white sugar 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup milk 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup peanut butter 3 cups oatmeal directions: mix the sugar and cocoa in a saucepan. add the butter and milk. Bring to a soft boil, but do not boil longer than one minute. add vanilla, peanut butter and oatmeal. Stir till completely mixed. before the mixture cools down, quickly drop spoonfuls on waxed paper to set. or be a piggy like me and just eat it right out of the saucepan with a huge wooden spoon. |
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oh, also i recommend using natural peanut butter, not like Jif, and butter but NOT margarine. it makes a big difference, taste-wise - especially the peanut butter. |
It could be that I'm not getting enough fat, too. In the past month I've tried hard to cut out most of the fat from my heretofore eat-whatever-you-want diet, and now that I think about it, I'm now getting probably under 15 g of fat a day. How about adding cheese instead of oil? (God, I love cheese. I miss it. Parrano, manchego, cheshire, caerphilly, laughing cow cheese, mmmmmmmmm.) Cheese has got calcium and protein, too. |
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yeah, cheese is fine. i mean, fat is fat. cheese doesn't work well for me because i'm kinda grossed out by most dairy products (except ice cream). cheese also has other nutritive value. but the reason i recommended olive oil or flaxseed oil is because they're considered "good" fats. though personally i don't believe in the idea of "bad" fats. as for the cookies, i think the original recipe calls for 2 cups of sugar, but i found that to be WAY too sweet to my taste. it tasted much better and richer when i used 1.5 cups. but if you prefer things really really sweet, make it 2 cups of sugar. |
The whole concept of good fats used to be utterly foreign to me. I don't concern myself with the particulars, all I know is that I buy and eat peanut butter and guacamole on a regular basis, which I thought I would never do. I seem to have a much higher metabolism than I used to and I'm not sure why. I think it's the elimation of processed foods and all the soy protein I eat. I tried to cut down on carbs once. That was a big mistake, a scary moody kazoo appeared. I'm eating peanutbutter and strawberry-rhubarb jam on some kind of hippie-sprouty-bread for lunch. |
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oh man, i love sprouted bread. i get this stuff called soy nut crunch sprouted bread from central market that rocks my world. it is the BEST for pb&j. btw, i meant i added 400 fat calores *per day* to my diet over the last month. not 400 calories over the last 30 days. when i'm not paying attention, i find myself easily slipping into a low-fat diet. it's like my brain has been programmed to think fat=bad. but that's when all hell starts to break loose in my body, and then i can't figure out what the hell is wrong. but when i'm diligent about making sure to eat a lot of fat - like at *least* 40 grams a day, preferably more - my hunger stabilizes, i don't suffer severe cravings, i have more energy, i can concentrate better, i don't get depressed, i sleep better, and i lose weight really fast. |
A year or so ago, I went a month eating as few carbs as possible. I lost about 10 pounds (since gained back), was fuller of energy than I can ever remember being, but was mentally screaming from the torture of eating nothing but meat and leafy vegetables for every meal. So forget that. Bring on the pasta, fruit, and chocolate. |
should eat now, i can't spare the neurons. I need some one to just make nutritious meals for me. |
sorry...couldn't help my little nerd self...and if I can't help with dinner, then grammar...maybe? |
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...but I plan on craving chocolate and being cranky within the week anyway |
I'm expecting mine on Halloween or Wednesday. No chocolate, it's a shame, but plenty of red vines to tide me over. |
I just made a massive bowl of curry and wrote a great post about how much I've come to love okra as a result, but then the computer ate it. Damn, damn, damn. The cats just had something with liver and alfredo sauce, I guess. They probably eat better than I do most of the time. Although fatty. Mr. Bell in particular is looking a little chubby. Hm. I have some Green and Blacks in my secret choclaty stash, far from the hands of marauding housemates. Er, make that *the* marauding housemate. Maybe I'll go eat some. Maya Gold. That stuff is the bomb. |
This is trippy cause the two girls I sit with at work are also due around the same time as me. |
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I couldn't go to the store yesterday for the oatmeal, so no cookies were made nella casa di Spider. I'll slip out this afternoon on my lunch break. |
shit, Lapis, i tried the Keeper once, and you just reminded me. *shudder* first i thought it was the best thing ever invented, imagine, almost a whole day without changing anything? And no more spending a fortune a year on 'supplies'! And it was easy enough to get in. I was in heaven. But that evening.... me and my hand went on a far, FAR too scenic journey. At depths that no man had ever dare tread. And i left the bathroom 45 minutes later, shaken, and knowing that i'd just learned far more than i ever wanted to know about the south. I never spoke of it. damn. |
spider, you and i are most definitely in league with one another, because every month we post overly emotional things at the same times. i'm convinced of it. moonit, i believe you and i have discussed this before, and indeed we are in league. where's sarah's hand? |
That is nasty. 'But you may try it RISK FREE (except for nominal costs of mailing). If you are not completely satisfied with The Keeper Menstrual Cup, you may return it within 3 months for a full refund, less shipping and handling' So uh do they recycle the ones that people send back? ewwwww Yeah Agatha we have - its so wierd. |
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of course, i still experience some sort of cycle, though it's always unpredictable both in terms of when it comes and how long it stays. but the weird thing is, i haven't had one of those bloated / hungry/ emotional spells in an amazingly long time (knocking very hard on an enormous piece of wood). |
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goddammit. you ladies jinxed me, and i'm a day late for halloween. where's the fuckin chocolate? it's time to eat. |
I got up early this morning and fixed myself an egg, ham slice (with my car back, I could go to the grocery store again!), and glass of grapefruit juice for breakfast. Delicious. |
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ooops, false alarm. i simply forgot that i forgot to eat dinner last night, and woke up ravenous. all better now. |
I had a slice of evil greasy pizza yesterday. It was wonderful. |
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i was wondering the very same thing this morning. last year we got to see photos of cleo dressed up. oh, and don't you worry kazoo - i'm saving up my chocolate consumption for tonight :) the false alarm was thinking it was PMS. |
regardless, she's so cute that she probably got about five pounds of candy. |
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Speaking of which. Has anyone else ever noticed that "scented" tampons get so much slimier than others? Sometimes it'ss downright disgusting. |
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this is about the funniest thing i've ever read about one woman's menstrual terror: http://evany.diaryland.com/021018_22.html she talks about chunks! |
c'mere, dave, give me some sugar! sorry, joe, i'm sure i could be making more of myself right this very moment, instead of telling all about the "brown phase" of my cycle. i'll get on with that self improvement immediately. |
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when i went to flush, my portland crap had sealed the bowl. i had to go in with heather's toothbrush and break it up before it would go down. |
was it an electric toothbrush? |
it's a normal toothbrush! |
How can crap be Portland? |
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what the hell you been eatin' boy? |
bourbon, 7up. pizza. yup. |
Yous should eat more veggies and drink more water. |
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and just like that, out of the blue, i got my period this morning. should i blame it on your girls? actually, here's the weird part: i mentioned this a week ago, but it bears repeating because it is so unusual. for what seems like a long time now, i have not been craving chocolate or sweets at all or have been experiencing any PMS type cyclical symptoms that usually torture me. in fact, haven't had much of an appetite in general, which is *very* rare for me. so yesterday around 2 p.m. i suddenly became ravenous. and i tried to talk myself out of it, and get zen about just noticing and experiencing the hunger and not acting on it, because i had already eaten a big breakfast and a big lunch. but around 4-5 p.m. i couldn't take it any more. i was literally shaking from the need to eat. so i grabbed the leftover gourmet chocolate bars that have been stored in my freezer since my birthday. there were half of three large bars - one was bitter chocolate, one was dark chocolate, and one was milk chocolate with hazelnuts. i thawed them out and dipped them in peanut butter. then i scarfed down four servings of baked tofu. then i had two pieces of the most epic homemade apple pie ever (agatha, i'll email you the recipe later today). i finished off the little binge with a few big handfuls of mixed roasted nuts. then i stopped not because i was full, but just because i had stopped shaking. i could have kept going, but had enough sense to stop before making eating myself into feeling totally ill. this morning i woke up and discovered i had started my period... without progesterone pills! without gaining 10-12 lbs from bloating. without a week prior of severe emotional disturbances. without days upon days of insatiable hunger - instead just a few hours of intense chocolate cravings. and i love that now i can explain rationally my little food episode yesterday. |
I weighed myself on Saturday. I weigh 20 lbs. more than I expected. Complete shock and horror. Is it possible to gain that much weight and not change in size? My clothes still fit me perfectly, and some even feel looser. WTF? Some may be attributable to water retention, but 20 lbs?? I've been lifting weights this past month, so perhaps maybe possibly a couple of pounds might be increased muscle mass, but 20??? |
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oh, that has happened to me before. i mean, 20 lbs is on the high side, but i wouldn't fret about it. i can gain 10-15 without noticing much in the way clothes fit. i'm sure once you have your period you will lose most of it again. plus, just eating a lot of sweets - even if you're not overeating - will make you retain water and make your body mimic weight-gain. be careful though! i know how difficult it is to fight biological urges, but try not to let yourself get too comfortable with disinhibited PMS eating. |
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Insomnia was disappointing, what with having Pacino and Robin Williams. Pacino did some kind of weird half Southern, half Brooklyn accent and was ostensibly a detective from LA. The story dragged and never really caught on fire, although I did enjoy the Alaskan scenery, and his name in the movie (Will Dormer) and the fugitive Robin Williams' (Walter Finch -- bird flying away, get it?) Two thumbs sideways for so so. Frailty was much better. Bill Paxton directed it and acted in it -- Matthew McCaughehey (sp?) was great, and the story was excellent. It was slow in exposing the story, but it worked as opposed to Insomnia. I'd definitely recommend it. Speaking of insomnia, I couldn't sleep to save my life last night, and the only thing I did differently than usual was that I had 2 big glasses of white grape juice before going to bed. I seem to remember that happening once before. Anybody know if grape juice has anything in it (beside the sugar) that would keep one awake? |
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I don't know anything about white grape juice and insomnia. |
It seemed like every time I was about to fade into sleep, a noise would roust me out of it. Either a car alarm, or a clunking noise from the baseboard heater, or my favorite -- a wheezing/whistling noise from my nose, when I would go from mouth breathing to nose breathing in the transition from being awake to falling asleep. That's a pisser. I got up twice, once at 12:30 and once at 2:30 and flipped mindlessly through tv channels. I've had that ringing thing too. |
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did i ever mention that i have a silly crush on my boss? i would never get with him, not only because he's my boss, but also because i'm not attracted to him that way. but the man baked me thick, chewy brownies with white chocolate chips and brought them in for me today. is that love or what? just in the nick of time too, with all this menstrual hell you women have jinxed me with. i didn't share them with anyone either. |
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dougie, speaking as the world's foremost authority on insomnia, i can pretty much guarantee that grape juice, white or otherwise, is not specifically the cause for your sleeplessness. in fact, sugar at night time doesn't keep you awake, it makes you sleepy by releasing endorphines and hitting your seratonin receptors. you know what helps me sleep when i don't have valium or ambien around? i invert my body. i do a head stand or lay on my back with my legs over my torso and my feet back behind my head. it's really relaxing after you're upright. if you have back problems though, just be careful. i also find that sleeping with my head at the foot of the bed puts me to sleep too. but that's kind of a last resort tactic. |
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or if you're drunk. |
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Moving around a lot (getting up, tossing and turning) makes you more awake, and thinking about anything in particular keeps your brain up. You need no thought and no movement. (Sometimes I imagine that the body is like a snow globe and sleep comes in the form of the snow particles. The particles need to be settled for you to sleep, and moving around stirs them up.) |
It all ended rather suddenly. Silence. No car doors, no gunshots, they didn't move out of earshot. I threw on my bathrobe and looked up and down the street. Nothing. The next morning two of my roommates were talking about it, so I know I'm not crazy. Went outside and walked up and down the sidewalk, searching for bloodstains, but the end of the arguement remains a mystery. * * * My insomnia is because I share my small bed with six large pillows, an assortment of blankets and sometimes the cat. I'm getting a new bed tomorrow, whoohoo! |
where do you live anyway? sounds like you live in our apartment complex. we have a commune that lives in the upstairs apartment. It used to be, what, 4 girls and two guys (all single, none of them dating), but some of them have already fled, so now I think it is down to 3 girls and one guy. They all moved here from Mass... There are always hispanics arguing around here. they feed thier kids tons of candy and sodas and chips and do not ever get on them for anything, and the kids run all over the place. car alarms go off all night long the shower upstairs running at all hours of the night, footsteps up and down the hall all night, i dont think i could ever sleep without chemical assistance. |
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Arguements on the street are a seldom occurrence. There's been the odd drug deal on the corner but with more yuppies moving in there's more police patrolling the streets as well. |
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Pear and Ginger Cake (coffee cake) 3/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup butter + 2 tbs butter, softened 3 eggs 3 teaspoons ground ginger (or 2 tea if you want something a bit less gingery) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1-1/2 cups self rising flour or 1-1/2 cup all purpose flour + 1 tbs baking powder + 1 teaspoon salt 2 large pears - peeled, cored, and sliced thinly 1 tbs brown sugar 1-2 tbs finely diced crystalized ginger (optional) Directions: grease and line 2/ wax or parchment paper a 8-inch round deep cake pan. beat together eggs, butter, sugar, ground ginger and cinnamon. mix in self-rising flour or sift together flour, baking powder and salt and mix with sugar mixture. mixture will be thick. scrape into prepared pan. arrange pear slices on top, sprinkle with brown sugar, and dot with remaining 2 tbs butter. springle crystalized ginger on top if desired. bake at 350 degrees for about an hour. (if you want a moister, less crumbly cake, add a heaping spoonful of sour cream to the sugar/egg/butter mixture.) |
holy hell did the batter taste good. White Chocolate Apricot Cake Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 6 oz white chocolate baking squares 1/2 cup white sugar 4 eggs 1 + 3/4 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 or slightly more chopped dried (soft) apricots Directions Grease and line w/ wax paper a 9" round or square cake pan. Break up the chocolate squares in half and melt over very low heat with the butter. Whisk until smooth. Beat sugar and eggs together until fluffy. Pour in chocolate/butter mixture and beat until smooth. Fold in flour, baking powder and salt until just combined. Stir in chopped apricots. Pour into pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. * optional, i added a 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract. i think 1/3 cup dessicated coconut would be yummy too. in the morning i'm going to frost this cake with cream cheese frosting mixed with a little apricot preserves and decorate it with the new icing syringe (came with 5 decorator attachments so i can make little stars and flowers and shit), which i bought at target for $2.99. |
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okay, not only did every single person at the party take me aside to say how amazing the above cake was, one of the guys at the party asked me if i would bake his wedding cake! and he was serious! i made a white chocolate frosting to go on top, which made it just perfect. White Chocolate Frosting 3 oz white baking chocolate 4 oz (1/2 package) cream cheese, cold 2 tablespoons butter, room temperature 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 + 1/4 cup powdered sugar melt the chocolate for 1-2 minutes in a glass bowl in the microwave, stirring half way through and stirring until smooth. using beaters, beat together the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla. beat in white chocolate until well-blended. beat in powdered sugar, starting with one cup and adding more as you go until you get the desired consistency (some like smoother and some like firmer frosting - the more sugar you add, the firmer it gets). |
I would eat that frosting by itself. White chocolate and cream cheese? MMMMMMmmmm. |
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i think that would be cool. Especially if it was one fo those 3 or 4 layered ones with every layer on a little pedistal with little baby roman colums holding them up, surrounded with lacey frills and roses and etc. I know i've been complaining about wedding planning on another thread but i think that pointless little detail crap like that is hillarious and would be so fun to do, for $$$. A cake that takes 3 days to decorate... it's so insane, i love it. Then you end up with this frilly white monstrosity. of course we know sarah would make the most brilliant, stunning and delicious cake of all time. How much could you charge for that? |
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Honey Carrot Cookies 1/2 Cup softened butter (1 stick) 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 3 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 1/4 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking soda pinch of salt 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 cup shredded carrots granulated sugar Preheat over to 325F. Beat butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs, honey, and vanilla extract, and beat until thoroughly blended. In another bowl, sift flour, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg together, and slowly add to butter mixture. Stir in carrots. Flour hands and shape batter into 1-inch balls. Sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 12 to 15 minutes, or until edges are golden brown. Makes 3 dozen. |
Cajuzinho (i've nicknamed these treats "Brazilian Orgasms") ingredients: 1 14-oz can sweetened condensed milk 1 tablespoon margarine 1 cup roasted peanuts, ground in a food processor 3-4 tablespoons cocoa powder about 30 peanuts to decorate instructions: over medium-low heat, stir the sweetened condensed milk, powdered cocoa, margarine and ground peanuts using a whisk or fork. cook the mixture for about 10 minutes until it thickens enough to show the pan bottom during stirring. pour the mixture in any greased dish and let it cool to room temperature. Take small amounts of the mixture with a teaspoon and make 1-2" cones or balls. roll the cones or balls over granulated sugar and stuck a peanut half on top to decorate. - if you don't want to use peanuts, you can use dessicated coconut as well. - i took half the balls and dipped them in melted (but not too hot) dark chocolate to make bon-bon candies. holy fuck. |
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I'm going to copy that recipe and give it to my mom (also a condensed milk lover) tomorrow night -- we can have the cookies on Easter! |
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here is a photo of the White Chocolate Apricot Cake that was such a big hit at the birthday party back in february. and yeah, we actually did shots of goldschlagger. like some kind of sick joke. you can dig around in that april03 directory to see photos of my garden (taken back in march... looks MUCH different now) and of me and darryenne and i think there's a photo of the bitch basket in there too. |
btw: as most could tell by the description, the rice/peanutbutter/tortilla/french-toast thing was completely fucking over the top nasty. goddamn marijuana. |
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oh shit. you actually made that? i thought you were kidding. dude, promise me next time you'll make your munchie food *before* you pick up the bong. |
these are really good, a mild version of the above: tortillas two at a time for 15 seconds in the microwave to soften them. spread a thin layer of peanutbutter in the middle of a tortilla (crunchy is best, in my mind) and add about a teaspoon of good jam. fold the sides up so you have a little trapazoidal package. fry in regular (salted) butter until nicely browned. sprinkle with granulated sugar. fucking good. especially when you're baked out of your mind. |
bacon. some crispy bacon. bacon seems to go good with the sweet, much like the bacon that gets drowned in syrup on your waffle plate. |
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or HOT DOGS. check it out. diet for a small corner of the planet at certain points in time. (note: some prefer bacon to hotdogs. just listen to your body.) breakfast (7am ish): 2 hotdogs 2 bowls "Corn Bursts" cereal 1 can "Dr. Thirst" soda product. lunch-type-meal (2pm ish): 3 hotdogs 1 can Beer post-responsibilities-burn (6:45 ish): 1 bowl (or) 1/2 joint (or) 1 bong load Dinner-type-meal(7pm ish): 3 hotdogs 1 can Beer 2 bowls "Corn Bursts" cereal 1 can "Dr. Thirst" soda product pre-sleep-bowl (9:30pm ish): 1-2 bowl(s) (or) 1/2 lrg. joint (or) 1-2+ bong load(s) Supper-type-meal (9:45pm ish): 1 hotdog (or) 1 bowl "Corn Bursts" cereal (plus) 1 can Beer (or) 1 can "Dr. Thirst" soda product (plus, optionally) More cans Beer (and/or) orally induced sexual gratification (and/or) chocolate (and/or) bubble bath (and/or) endorphin highs achieved through your particular preferences. adapt freely for your particular timetable, tastes, moralities, and social lives. go forth and prosper. disclaimer: poster may or may not agree with content of pilfered material. you figure it out, since you've got so much free time. ha ha. |
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i know a guy here who essentially eats that very diet, minus the bong hits. he's not overweight, but he smells. i mean, the boy showers at least once a day, but he smells. he smells like a ballpark floor after a game. |
oh, i get it. |
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I'm reminded of the Kids in the Hall sketch in which the two guys eat nothing but Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and develop huge tapeworms. |
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so glen wanted to visit the garden yesterday afternoon. it IS quite a sight these days. it appears that my relentless working of the soil with a few cubic yards of fresh compost is really paying off, despite the lack of rain. i'm growing flax for the first time. glen and i pinched off the dried flower heads of the plant and munched on the flax seeds while he oooooh'd and aaahhhhh'd over my garden and i picked weeds and talked to all my plants. my plants are fucking with me on purpose, in a good way. they're sneaky; one day they are completely covered in flowers but without any fruit, and the next day i go and those flowers have become fully grown squash (or peppers or tomatoes or cauliflower) overnight. it's trippy. so anyway, the point being, we were munching on flax, and it reminded me that i have a lot of flax seeds sealed away in the back of my baking cupboard of rare goodies. i also had one left of three mangoes i had bought that morning. this is what i came up with - and it turned out great: Flax Seed Mango Bread Ingredients 1/3 cup flax seeds 2 cups Atkins ketogenic baking flour* 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 oz cream cheese, soft 3 tablespoons butter, soft 1/4 cup sour cream 2 eggs 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon coconut extract 1 cup mashed ripe mango Directions: grind up the flax seeds in a coffee grinder until very well processed. combine ground flax seeds and next four ingredients in a bowl and set aside. get out your electric mixer. in another bowl beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. add sour cream and eggs and beat well. add brown sugar, extract and beat some more. you can beat in the mango as well, which is what i did, or wait and add it at the very end. if you want chunks of mango in the bread, add it at the end. if you blend it you'll have a more evenly distributed mango flavor to the bread. anyway, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients until just combined. the batter will be very, very thick. scrape it into a greased standard bread pan and bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. note: this is **NOT a sweet bread**. even though there's a 1/2 cup of brown sugar, it comes out tasting more like a very hearty bread rather than cake-like bread. it's really, really tasty. * if you're not on the low-carb kick, you can use regular all-purpose flour instead of the Atkins baking mix. if you do use the Atkins baking mix, even with the brown sugar and mango, if you slice the bread up into 10 slices, that gives you approximately only 15 grams of carbs per slice. also: i decided not to break things off with glen. he's not really as gay as i thought he was, and, well, as it turns out, he's REALLY good in bed. |
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on labor day i put my own personal twist on the oatmeal chocolate chip cookie, which arguably turned out to be a batch of the best cookies i've ever baked. seriously. i'm going to pat myself on the back and say that the texture was perfect. just a little crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside. ingredients 1 stick of butter at room temp 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1 egg room temp 1/2 tablespoon real vanilla extract 1 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/8 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 and 1/2 cup regular oats 1 cup dark chocolate chips (or semi sweet if you prefer) a handful of hazlenuts a handful of walnuts 1 giant heaping spoonful of Nutella directions preheat oven to 375. using whatever tool you like, grind together the hazelnuts and the walnuts til they are similar in consistency to the percolator setting for ground coffee. just make sure not to overgrind them. using a regular ol' whisk, combine the first five ingredients. if you're fussy about clumps of sugar (i'm not), then start by just combining the butter and sugars til smooth, then add the egg and vanilla. add the next five ingredients, then mix it all up. add in the oats, nuts, chips. mix it a little. then add the Nutella. mix some more. drop that love onto a baking sheet. i like to make balls out of the dough and then flatten them out so the cookies look pretty and uniform. that's my thing. bake for about 12-14 minutes. |
Peanutbutter banana cookies. Vegan plain and non-vegan with chocolate. I realized today that peanutbutter banana is too long; I should call them Elvis cookies. |
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pretty much any replacement thing, no dairy (which i am also not eating) or no salt. which is a strange take on what's-his-face's sadness bowl where it came from. |
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sadness cookies, that is so awesome. i fell out laughing when i read that. that right there pretty much sums up vegan and/or gluten free baking. about four or maybe six weeks ago i read The China Study in about 1/2 a day. i don't recommend it, it's very dry, and you can skip most of it. the funny thing is that they actually had me, right up until the part where they listed the foods to avoid or limit, which included olive oil and fish. then i became furious and got in my car and drove to the library and crammed that book down the return shoot. i was furious because i was on the wait list to read that book for like four months. what a waste! however, since reading that book (not necessarily because of reading the book) i have discovered that my diet is about 80% vegan. 10% includes eggs (we eat a lot of eggs in this house), 5% dairy in the form of butter, half n half in the coffee, and just a tiny bit of cheese. the last 5% is fish, and occassionally lamb or the meat from the meat truck. when i realized i was starting to gag at the sight of chicken and beef, i ran to walgreens and bought a pregnancy test (negative). but that's just how it is suddenly. it's got nothing to do with saving the animals or the planet or a purposeful radical change in dietary philosophy. it just happened. currently as an 80% vegan, i even moreso do not understand a 100% vegan diet. but to each her own. or 100% anything-free diet. sometimes i just feel like eating a regular ol' oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. friday is always dead day on the boards. i'm supposed to be in the office today but i'm not. |
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oh, and i almost forgot. the best thing so far about eating 80% vegan is not having dropped two sizes. it's my skin! totally glowing. i need to use just a fraction of the amount of moisturizer i typically use. the worst thing about eating 80% vegan are the visions i have of my body, in search of adequate protein, eating away at its own muscle. |
I made granola bars using corn syrup (Ms Syrup wouldabenproud) but added the dark chocolate chunks while it was too hot (before baking) and they all melted into the dough and turned it all into chocolate granola. So glad tou are here on a dead friday sarah |
so glad its the weekend, managed to sleep until 7.15am, which is better than 5am, but did wake at 4 something when another aftershock hit and then at 5.45 when andrew left for work. |
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Moonie, I am joint venturing with an Aussie company which has me a plan to come down under soon. In the interim, we meet in Florida or on the west coast. |
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i'm so sorry, moonit. that sounds awful! you must be in shock by now if you weren't already. have you taken any photos? how are the dogs? |
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246409&id=786408693&l=ad4431483b I think I am getting there - managed to catch up on some sleep this weekend, but its just bizarre. |
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I think the shock has passed now, and now its grieving time - all the buildings that are coming down and damaged is pretty awful. |
While ago, There was a earthquake in L.A. area, then a year later, Japan got hit with earthquake. Just saying that we all got to be careful, see, Chile recently got a quake and then New Zeland got one. |
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Pepper, I have waited 11 years for this wedding, so no it won't be on hold - its six months away! |
I guess it helps that we were camping in the mountains, and I was one of two who didn't even attempt unicycling. But I tromped around a lake over pumice and basalt instead. I was the only tromper. |
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sadness bowl". SIDE NOTE: For my birthday this year i had one such sadness bowl, topped with candles. I bought + ate it in what seemed to be possibly the worst KFC in Philadelphia. |
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what were you doing in philadelphia? happy belated. i thought i remembered the sadness bowl being related to a KFC product, but couldn't remember who said it first. |
the east coast to florida, to see a shuttle launch. This was in April. You know how i haven't really been around sorabji for about a year now? Some stuff happened. Phila works into it heavily. I love it there. |
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this stuff that happened, was it before or after the divorce? |
From me getting laid off last May up to the end of this summer, I lived more in one year than i had the whole rest of my life combined. At the end of march i went AWOL in america for 2 weeks, and in total went through 12 states. I had chowder in Boston, avoided Tim Horton's in NYC, saw Major Lazer in Diplo's hometown, saw Ayn Rand billboards in Georgia, got high for the first time in like 10 years, listened to The Wire theme while driving through Baltimore, finally saw Savannah, got endlessly lost in the Appalachians, watched a rocket go into fucking space- the 3rd last NASA shuttle launch in history and the last night launch. On the other hand.... I developed a drinking problem. In the three months leading up to my walking out (and i have just recently been able to admit that's what i did) i was loaded every single day. I crushed the person who loved me most in the world. I lost 40 lbs from stress and guilt. I slept for about 5 hours every other day on average. Didn't leave my childhood bedroom for about two months. Had complete emotional breakdown, multiple times. These still occur. Probably will never be able to trust anyone ever again. And i wanted to tell dear sorabjis everything, with these awesome people i've been sharing my life with since 1996. But despite missing everyone terribly, having much to talk about, and there were times i really could have used the advice... i was just... chaos. Still am. But when i'm ready to finally write that novel out, it will be here. So i dunno- *spoiler alert*? i missed you guys. seriously xoxo |
hang in there and continue being awesome, wisper. |
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could not go to bed tonight without stopping in to tell you that i'm sorry you've been going through all of that. but it's going to be alright, even if it feels like it won't. and you're not alone. i'm here, listening in, all the time... whenever you're ready. and thank you, wisper. you've really been missed a lot. hang in there, girl. |
little bit tearful from love and support of people i've never even met. It's been a low week. "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay... then it's not the end." The quote goes something like that. |
some amazing adventures and some rough times all jumbled together and...I know that feeling, of not knowing where to begin. I've missed you too, and like Sarah, I'm always around. (But not, alas, in Philadelphia.) |
I know what you mean about too much chaos to post about. |
i mean nothing creepy or weird by that (i don't think) because i like to keep to myself around here (and it is better that way) but it is true. This year 2010 I've watched so many things/people/places/things that I only ever knew through the INNNternet evaporate, not least among them the hottie I dated for a year+, she who stepped out from behind this screen and into my reality. Every day I miss making her happy. A once-thriving web project I've managed since 1995 has disintegrated into a cloud of bullshit. Unlike the hottie I do not miss that endeavor (and it is not my problem any more) but it is a sorry fucking sight. That is what Internet-only things do, is it not? They evaporate? Like they never existed? No evidence. Woosh? I am remembering Smoke. Haha. Good call on Tim Horton's. I don't know if it is better in Canada but here, well, that shit sucks. Among this, the earthquake, and a tiresome susceptibility to sadness, Iiiii...need a tissue. I am looking across the room at something beautiful. |
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smoke. i forgot it had a name. the yellow room. |
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i saw Rowlfe tonight. We hugged twice,hello/goodbye. The first time we hung out together in public (i mean we were both at the same table all night at a bar with a large group of friends), it was 3 months since i left, and someone said after "It's like nothing ever happened!" "Yeah," i said, "and figure skating looks effortless too." It was not always so smooth between us, obviously. This was a rollercoaster ride of terror that has just recently calmed, for now at least. It's been 7 months. I'm always happy to see him. He's doing so great. I think it would be such a waste and such a tragedy if we were together for 10 years and then can't be friends... eventually. I hope he can forgive me one day, because i never will. |
Love, kaz |
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