I’ve had a strange series of health events in the past few months. Sequence of events: 9/17/2012 I got a bikini for a weekend trip and realized I had gotten chubby. I got the largest size this bikini came in and it didn’t really fit. A few days later, went on a ketogenic diet and…
I am on a rampage – if you are a vegetarian or animal lover, you may want to click away from this blog. Ever since getting a pressure cooker, I have decided to cook a new animal in it every week. So far I’ve made cow, veggies* and pig. *Veggies are totally an animal. Especially…
My adventures in pressure cooking continue with a new animal finding its way into my pot of doom. The animal last night was ‘pig’. The part of animal was ‘pig shoulder’ aka ‘Boston butt’ aka ‘butt’ aka ‘oink’. This is considered a ‘tough’ piece of meat and requires either a long time in a slow…
FYI I now have a whole site dedicated to low carb meals over at LowCarbKitty.com! I attempted to make ratatouille the other day in the pressure cooker. It came out OK – I ate it over cauliflower-rice. I’ll post the recipe here in case you want to try it, but note my modifications. Took the…
Mom was so impressed with my change in eating habits and attempts at cooking that she sent me a pressure cooker (6 qt) as an early Christmas gift. FYI I now have a low carb recipe site over at LowCarbKitty.com! I have never even seen one, much less used one, so last night was my…
Had a FANTASTIC Thanksgiving and I hope you did as well! For the first time, I hosted a Thanksgiving ‘dinner’ at my place, and did almost all the cooking. Growing up, and continuing in that tradition, we tend to serve at 2 PM. First, my sister convinced mom and I to do a 5k that…
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I loved having all our family descend onto our house, and it seemed that first snow always fell that day. So we’d be stuffed full and then snowflakes would begin to swirl. Thanksgiving is at my house this year and I’m REALLY in the holiday spirit! I now…
So I started getting a box of organic veggies and fruits delivered to my work place weekly, as described in this post. Also, I am happy to report I am now down 15 pounds and would like to lose up to five more. w00t. Now, this organic box has really broadened my range of veggies,…
I meant to eat well and exercise a lot after my thyroidectomy. I got one out of those two right. Even though I was training for a triathlon, working out all the damn time, I didn’t change my eating habits. In fact, I’d say my eating habits got WORSE. I work for a company that…
As mentioned, I’ve been training for a triathlon for quite some time now. In fact, it has felt like it’s been going on TOO long. So although I was nervous, I was very excited for the Big Day yesterday. The Nautica Malibu triathlon, which has been going on for 26 years now (!), has a…