Current Obsession June 26, 2008

I love these:

I’ve always loved Cheetoes and other type of cheese curl snacks, but these Micheal Season’s Lite Cheese Curls are definitely my favorite by far!

I bet Boom has maybe eaten 10 of these, and I have likely eaten close to 5 bags of ‘em since discovering them soon after arriving in H-town.  The other days I really wanted some and didn’t have any in the house, and I found myself “jonesing” for them - like I am a hard core smoker!  I guess I could have a worse vice than pigging out and hording cheese curls for myself.

I am also really enjoying flavored drinks these days.  Honest Teas are awesome b/c they are barely sweet - not syurpy sweet like most teas.  And I am also really liking Wild Oats Limeade.  I think it is the heat (well, duh), but you have to constantly stay hydrated down here, and sometimes water gets a little old.

I am excited for lunch today b/c Yarbs and I are going to heat up some of the choc chip cookies I made yesterday and top them off with light whip cream, sprayed from a can.  That could be one of my most favorite homemade desserts.

Avoid this combo June 10, 2008

Lots to post updates on and I guess I never posted past the first day of packing.  I meant to, but just didn’t happen.

We are back in H-town… Yesterday we swept, dry mopped and then wet mopped all the floors in the house.  Fun times.  Not that they were really dirty, per se, but more dusty, especially with Geroninmo coming in and building built-ins as well as changing the fireplace mantel.

(Here are the lovely new cleaning tools we bought - I think they are so nicely branded and pretty, in a way.  Hopefully that keeps me willing to use them…)

We had to clean all the floors b/c we want to paper them tonight before the movers come tomorrow.  I am just really afraid that our new floors will get hacked up with all the furniture and boxes coming in.  So we are gonna do what we can to minimize that.

Anyway, we took a break and had some cherries.  Cherries are my favorite fruit in the world.  Basically, the month that they are in season, I will eat and eat and eat them (washed and cold - I am not a big fan of cooked cherries, like in pies) until I am so sick of them that I can’t put another one in my mouth.  Then by the time they are in season next year, I will have missed them so and the cycle starts again.

So I washed a big bowl of them, and Boom maybe had 5.  I probably had around 50 of them.  Yum.  Delicious.  We did some more work and then decided to have some cheese and bread before dinner.  My cheese tooth was in full effect.  and I had gotten us some 10-grain, very hearty bread from Central Market.  I noticed that my tummy was kinda gurgling, but I ignored and just continued on with my cheese and bread snack.

After showering, my tummy was in full revolt.  I had the worst tummy ache I’ve had in recent history!  I literally had to go immediately to bed, only to awaken a couple hours later with an aching tummy.  I guess my intestines / stomach didn’t like the combination of cheese and cherries.  I was a tooting machine last night.  Good thing it didn’t bother Boom or Ruby - they were sound asleep when awoke again.

Now I am rather wary of cheese and cherries - I will really have to show some self-restraint in the future.  But please learn from my mistake and never mix the two!

Food these days May 23, 2008

Although we moved down to H-town will just the bare necessities, we are  getting by.  I am cooking a little, mainly when Boom is around, but also just to eat healthy.

Yum!  A poor man’s succotash over spinach and French lentils… used organic frozen corn and edaname, and just tore up some spinach (the heat from the lentils and succotash wilts the spinach), and put it all over French lentils.  Has been my lunch for the past 2 days!

A day or so before we left Richmond, we went to the local healthy grocery store, Ellwood Thompsons, and grabbed dinner.  I had quinoa topped with their fancier succotash.  Since then, I have been a little bit obsessed with making it - I have already made it once with quinoa for Boom.  I think he liked it, but that it didn’t fill him up all the way.

That is the problem these days - since I am not cooking meat, Boom is growing thinner and thinner.  I feel kinda bad, but I do think he eats meat at lunch and when we go out to eat, which is fairly often.

I wish I would grow thinner and thinner - but my crazy cheese tooth isn’t helping that any…

Today I finished all but a little nub of the cheese.  Figured I could save that for Boom tonight - likely should have saved him a little more - opps!

Why I am not Vegan May 23, 2008

I like to cut (and eat) the cheese too much!

Wednesday:

Yesterday:

Lovely hunk of cheddar with stripes of blue cheese. Now whoever came up with the idea of putting cheese inside of cheese was a genius!!

Wisdom February 27, 2008

I find it hard to drink as much water as I should in the winter, so I am loving this new tea I have been enjoying for the past month or so.

My favorite flavor is African Red Bush (not Lemon Ginger, as pictured). It is yummy! I also put a scoop of honey in my tea - I never have really enjoyed honey on it’s own, but really like just a little in my tea.

The best part about this Yogi Tea is that the little paper “tag” on the end of the string of each of the tea bags has a few words of wisdom - different for each tea bag! Mine today was “Show off your strengths, not your weaknesses”. Sage advice.

Rice Crust January 23, 2008

After yogidy last night I went to dindin with Cubby last night at Can Can - a local French-esque restaurant.  I had an entree of all seasonal squashes with spinach and arugula - very yummy!  Boom had headed over to C’ville for interviews yesterday and he thought he was going to have to stay for dinner.  (Thus the reason I made dinner plans with Cubby even though I just got home Sunday night).  Anyway, because I went out, I told Boom to head up a frozen pizza I had picked up at the grocery store earlier on Monday.

As we all know, I am trying to lead a veg head lifestyle, and am up for trying different things.  So I got 2 Amy’s Kitchen pizzas - 1 with a rice crust and 1 with soy cheese.

Boom had headed up the rice crust pizza, and when I got home he was practically scraping his tongue - it was SO DISGUSTING to him.  I took a bit and it seemed ok to me, but I had just eaten a large meal, so perhaps my taste-buds were a little full already.  He had to put half of the pizza in the ‘fridge, claiming it was “too much” for him. and then he made himself a peanut butter sandy.

Anyway, I ate his leftover pizza today for lunch - honestly, I couldn’t tell that they were made from rice as opposed to wheat.  When I emailed Boom as much, this is how he responded:

Threw up in mouth.

What a little DB!!!!  I bet if I had heated it up without letting him see the box, it would have tasted just fine to him…  hmm, that will be a good test in the future…