So last night we got really crazy and had cookies & cream martinis (sort of a cross between chocolate martinis & white chocolate martinis), which leaves us only one cheat each the rest of the week. It's a bit scary to do that early on, but we were feeling wild.
Last night I fixed a chicken/vegetable/rice dish using every fresh vegetable we had, Balti spice from Penzeys, and jasmine rice because I just didn't think ahead enough to bother with brown rice. It turned out really well, and we had the leftovers tonight. I will say, we're certainly eating healthier than we ever have--even if we did split a piece of chocolate cake with our afternoon coffee. Unless it's a fruit or vegetable, there's nothing we can just grab and eat without thinking, which saves us both from lots of extra calories.
We continue to enjoy the sourdough oatmeal bread each morning for breakfast--Andy topping it with the homemade spiced blueberry jam (nutmeg, honey, and blueberries--it's excellent), though I prefer mine with just butter--margarine being totally off limits. We've gotten pretty good with the breadmaker (thank heavens we have it--this would be a really long year otherwise), but regular homemade bread is still far better.
AND.....Andy made fresh pasta which we had with the pasta sauce I canned this fall, and it was really quite good. We now know that if the noodles aren't dried so that none of them overlap each other we sort of have to get an "average" of al dente, but we're off to a promising start! Our first pasta was just made with white flour as that was what we have, but when I finally locate semolina flour, we'll try that as well. I'm not a fan of the Adkins diet at all, but I will say that when carbohydrates are no longer as easy to come by, one does eat them more sparingly. Which is best for us anyway.
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Bob's Red Mill has an excellent semolina that I've used to great success with making pasta. No eggs required, either, when you use semolina.
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