Lenten fast, Days 25 & 26.

[angledge]

Saturday

Sleep: awful. I had something in my eye & I could NOT get it out. Didn't get to sleep until almost 2 AM. Up around 6:30 AM.

Breakfast: made shakshuka. While chopping the onions, my eyes started watering & got the eyelash out of my eye. Ahhh, blessed relief. I ate shakshuka (two eggs' worth) over reheated spaghetti squash, 2 slices of bacon, & 2 cups of coffee. I think I will next try shakshuka over a mixture of red potatoes & spinach. Maybe with mushrooms.

Exercise: working in the yard, raking gravel, pulling weeds, cleaning up leaves, etc.

Lunch: leftovers EXTRAVAGANZA. Tuna salad, Asian cauli-rice, & the last of the lamb meatballs on more spaghetti squash. I may not be doing great on veggie variety, but I am crushing veggie quantities.

Went grocery shopping & started up the slow cooker with Balsamic Beef with Rosemary.

Dinner: spring roll & pho at Pho Real in Littleton. Not Whole30 because of the rice wrapper & noodles, but still - lean meat, bone broth, fresh veggies. It was a nice low-key date night with HPG.

Sunday

Sleep: decent.

Breakfast: went out to Breakfast King. Coffee, two scrambled eggs, link sausage, half an avocado, & skillet potatoes. Eh meal.

Exercise: more yard work, planting stuff before the rain started.

Lunch: Balsamic beef over spaghetti squash & spinach. Eh. The beef is surprisingly tasteless & I put too much arrowroot powder in the sauce when I was thickening it, giving the whole dish an unappealing gelatinous texture.

Snack: bag of donuts. FAIL.

Dinner: N* & R* had us over for dinner to try out their new 50,000-BTU outdoor wok. They made a delicious Thai red curry (chicken, several kinds of peppers, bamboo shoots, pea pods, coconut-based red curry). It was HOT! Served over rice (non-Whole30). Then we played Cards Against Humanity - N* poured me a bourbon without asking (he's my Scotch-drinking buddy) & I drank about two sips of it.

Comments

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Interesting thing about cooking: we've been doing a lot of it. No, I'm still terrible at it, but Blue Apron works wonders for our collective schedule and allows us to prepare meals that are reasonable and probably healthier than a box of hot pockets. HG does all the thinking parts, and I do things that involve destroying components... or "mincing", as they say in the cooking world. Sometimes they say "large dice" or "roughly chop", but those are just synonyms of "mincing" in my vocabulary. Let's be fair: I will mince the shit out of anything.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

I've thought about giving one of the meal prep services a try. But here's the thing: I actually really enjoy cooking & I'm not bad at it. When I'm home (i.e., not traveling for work) I usually have the time to cook. So I'm unlikely to give up what is arguably my greatest creative outlet.

You need to come visit - I'll make you dinner.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

No, that makes sense. If you know what you're doing, you can do it on your own, and you're wholly competent and confident, then you don't need Blue Apron or whatever to tell you what to do. You can probably come up with stuff on your own that's even better. We don't have oodles of time, and this saves on shopping time and helps offset the thorough incompetence of one member of the team whose name may rhyme with Fonz.

I still do need to come out and visit though. Food or no food, always good to see you again!