Life, the universe, and the rest of it
So mostly over the last little while I've been posting photos of food.
I should take more photos of the food I cook at home - I made a really excellent dinner tonight that hasn't made me sick, so hooray!
Today I went to a Brown Bag Lunch Presentation at the university, by the Executive Chefs from a couple of the residential colleges here. These students eat so well! They prepared some great stuff in the kitchen theater and then we all got to eat it for lunch. (On the menu: Seafood medley, Beef Wellington (with portabella mushrooms instead of foie gras), and mascarpone crepes with berry flambe drizzled with strawberry jam, a balsamic reduction, and fresh basil.
HOLY COW.
I've also been going to the H-town Streats Food Truck, which is awesome, and full of deliciousness for very reasonable prices.
Also, I am obsessed with kale. I make it almost every day. Sauteed with olive oil or garlic, or baked into chips with a wee touch of salt. THIS IS LIKE THE LEAF OF THE GODS HERE.
I bought some beef and pork at the farmers' market, my first time with those two farms, and I made the beef today. (With rice and kale - see above.) It was delicious, and I have nommy leftovers. I will definitely be going back, and trying to frame my grocery shopping more around Tuesday afternoons at the market.
FOOD IS AWESOME. I feel much better in general when I am eating well, but not too much. It seems that the real trigger areas for me are sugar (which I no longer crave the way I did when I was younger, nor can I always stomach it. I find myself tragically less and less able to eat ice cream) and overeating. If I control my portions and split my food out over more than three meals, I have a much better day. It's been totally brilliant, and it's also cheaper to make tiny meals. Breakfast is the only exception - I eat my full ration of 3 rice cakes with cheese and a portion of fruit, or I will feel terrible.
I still need to address salt, though. I don't think I am yet in a danger zone, but given my family history I think salt is going to be the killer in the diet for me, not sugar. I crave salt so much, but I have really developed an aversion to sweets. So as I said to Kim the other day, I won't fight with her over the division of the lemon bar, but I might over the cheese fries. :)
Ok, that was more than I thought I'd type about food and eating.
On a different subject: reading.
I read The Eagle of the Ninth
and really enjoyed the heck out of it. I borrowed a nonfiction title from the office Liberal Studies Library, Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control
that should be an interesting follow-up to that. I don't know if I will be able to bring myself to see the film while it's in theaters. I might find that very fun, actually, but I have terrible motivation about going to films alone, and I don't have a movie-going geek tribe here. At least not movies in the theater. ;)
I also have on the back burner some Northern European primary source mythology - The Eddas and the Mabinogion and some others, as many as I can find in Public Domain libraries for download. (Have I mentioned that I love Nefertem the Magical Purple Smartphone/eBook Reader?)
And yesterday I spent the entire evening devouring in basically one sitting Anne Bishop's latest Black Jewels offering, Twilight's Dawn: A Black Jewels Book
. I have read much criticism of the series and even agree with some of it, but damn, they are addictive and I love them. I couldn't bear to put it down. And I thought it would be easier to pause since it was a series of connected novellas rather than one story! Ahahahaha, so wrong. I was very surprised, but not in an unpleasant way, by the turn of those novellas, so that's good. Kept me engaged.
Today's card: The Four of Air, Gaian Tarot
Oh, dear, it's the nesting card. I just put in some inquiries with my property management company and some warehouses in the First Ward about larger apartments and art studios for rent. I am taking active steps to pursue changes in my living and creative working situation. I am actually a bit amazed to be in a position to consider such, but again, that's part of why I moved back here. Options. Relatively low cost of living. Thriving arts community. I have to do some buckling down here, too, and make decisions.
It's a good card for today, I think.
Plus I did my taxes. Always a nice feeling.
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comments posted to original post.
I should take more photos of the food I cook at home - I made a really excellent dinner tonight that hasn't made me sick, so hooray!
Today I went to a Brown Bag Lunch Presentation at the university, by the Executive Chefs from a couple of the residential colleges here. These students eat so well! They prepared some great stuff in the kitchen theater and then we all got to eat it for lunch. (On the menu: Seafood medley, Beef Wellington (with portabella mushrooms instead of foie gras), and mascarpone crepes with berry flambe drizzled with strawberry jam, a balsamic reduction, and fresh basil.
HOLY COW.
I've also been going to the H-town Streats Food Truck, which is awesome, and full of deliciousness for very reasonable prices.
Also, I am obsessed with kale. I make it almost every day. Sauteed with olive oil or garlic, or baked into chips with a wee touch of salt. THIS IS LIKE THE LEAF OF THE GODS HERE.
I bought some beef and pork at the farmers' market, my first time with those two farms, and I made the beef today. (With rice and kale - see above.) It was delicious, and I have nommy leftovers. I will definitely be going back, and trying to frame my grocery shopping more around Tuesday afternoons at the market.
FOOD IS AWESOME. I feel much better in general when I am eating well, but not too much. It seems that the real trigger areas for me are sugar (which I no longer crave the way I did when I was younger, nor can I always stomach it. I find myself tragically less and less able to eat ice cream) and overeating. If I control my portions and split my food out over more than three meals, I have a much better day. It's been totally brilliant, and it's also cheaper to make tiny meals. Breakfast is the only exception - I eat my full ration of 3 rice cakes with cheese and a portion of fruit, or I will feel terrible.
I still need to address salt, though. I don't think I am yet in a danger zone, but given my family history I think salt is going to be the killer in the diet for me, not sugar. I crave salt so much, but I have really developed an aversion to sweets. So as I said to Kim the other day, I won't fight with her over the division of the lemon bar, but I might over the cheese fries. :)
Ok, that was more than I thought I'd type about food and eating.
On a different subject: reading.
I read The Eagle of the Ninth
and really enjoyed the heck out of it. I borrowed a nonfiction title from the office Liberal Studies Library, Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control
that should be an interesting follow-up to that. I don't know if I will be able to bring myself to see the film while it's in theaters. I might find that very fun, actually, but I have terrible motivation about going to films alone, and I don't have a movie-going geek tribe here. At least not movies in the theater. ;)
I also have on the back burner some Northern European primary source mythology - The Eddas and the Mabinogion and some others, as many as I can find in Public Domain libraries for download. (Have I mentioned that I love Nefertem the Magical Purple Smartphone/eBook Reader?)
And yesterday I spent the entire evening devouring in basically one sitting Anne Bishop's latest Black Jewels offering, Twilight's Dawn: A Black Jewels Book
. I have read much criticism of the series and even agree with some of it, but damn, they are addictive and I love them. I couldn't bear to put it down. And I thought it would be easier to pause since it was a series of connected novellas rather than one story! Ahahahaha, so wrong. I was very surprised, but not in an unpleasant way, by the turn of those novellas, so that's good. Kept me engaged.
Today's card: The Four of Air, Gaian Tarot
Oh, dear, it's the nesting card. I just put in some inquiries with my property management company and some warehouses in the First Ward about larger apartments and art studios for rent. I am taking active steps to pursue changes in my living and creative working situation. I am actually a bit amazed to be in a position to consider such, but again, that's part of why I moved back here. Options. Relatively low cost of living. Thriving arts community. I have to do some buckling down here, too, and make decisions.
It's a good card for today, I think.
Plus I did my taxes. Always a nice feeling.
This entry was originally posted at http://zephre.dreamwidth.org/481624.html.
comments posted to original post.