Quaker Quick oats, with seven prunes mixed in while it’s still nice and hot. Additional additions: a splash of Rice Dream (Original Classic) and a handful or so of cashew halves. Adjunct: a nice mug of Eight O’Clock French Roast whole bean coffee. Mmm. Fairly healthy, and definitely delicious.
Enjoy please mah new podcast. It’s me eating milk and cookies. I know, how very exciting! It’s four minutes and six seconds of thrills.
Edit: Apparently I still suck with numbers. I guess it’s four minutes and twenty-eight seconds. I gotta get this stuff right, it’s important.
I forgot to take my pill (metformin) tonight with dinner/supper/whatever, and it wants to be taken with food, so I whipped up a little snack:
Here is goat cheese, a few Triscuits (garlic and roasted tomato flavor), some really good garlic-flavored rye crackers, grapes, and this really killer turkey salad made by a place in town. It’s way too expensive, but I have to have some now and then. It’s just too good. The raisins really make it.
There are also a couple of Anna’s ginger thins, and a little cup of goat milk. Goat milk, like the turkey salad, is expensive, but it’s darn good. And as you can see, it makes the bunny on the cup happy. Yeah, I’m kind of weird :^)
Some time after 2:30 in the morning, when I knew I should be getting to sleep, and was already cleaning off my bed, I decided I needed to eat something. I had two farm eggs left from the dozen my friend Leslie had given my mom (who gave most of them to me). I decided to forgo toast, and had no turkey bacon or anything like that. I washed up a few dishes and melted a little butter in a small skillet. Then I chopped up a fresh jalapeño I had bought, and a bit of onion which Mom had given me. I drizzled in a little olive oil and then added the onion and pepper; after a couple of minutes I tossed in some fresh spinach and wilted that. After removing the veggies, I cracked the eggs into a bowl and mixed them up, then put them in the pan and scrambled them. Finally I added some pickled garlic and some red thing (tomato, maybe, but I think some kind of pepper). (This was an antipasto I got from the grocery store and had been snacking on. It originally had jalapeños, too, but I’d eaten all those already.) I garnished it with a few black grapes and some fresh spinach leaves, then remembered the mascarpone cheese I’d bought (if the grocery store keeps having this at a reduced price, I’m going to be a happy man, if perhaps a fatter one). I added that, and half an avocado which was just about ripe enough. Of course, I dusted the eggs, veggies and cheese with fresh-ground black pepper (I put this on almost everything; I may have to try it on my cereal).
Man, it was good. Looked good, too:
It was great, but almost too hot with the jalapeño and the pickled garlic. To cool myself down, I went back and had a little more mascarpone cheese, a few more grapes, and the other half of the avocado:
I just read that mascarpone is a double- or triple-cream cheese, consisting of 60% to 75% milk fat. No wonder it’s so incredible. I’m gonna have to leave it alone–once this tub is gone….
…if only to say that yerba mate has come back into my life, quite unexpectedly, even as I’ve been thinking about it, and I’m glad.
It was a snus connection, too. These are two things I like: one new but well-established, one from the past but in a way new again.
I do have reasons to be grateful, and I don’t mean just consumables like snus and yerba mate.
Start with some brown rice and a small can of pork ‘n’ beans. Add a few hamburger dill pickle chips, some freshly-ground black pepper, and a couple of dashes of yellow mustard. Stir it a bit, and eat with a few Wheat Thins “Toasted Chips” (Great Plains Multigrain).
It probably sounds a bit weird, and it really is, but it’s surprisingly tasty. And I’m gonna keep telling myself that until I believe it ;^) No, it’s really pretty good. The pickles & mustard & pepper give it a nice little zing.
Finish it off with a small quantity of cold skim milk. Oh, what a good boy am I.
