I believe that I mentioned here a while back that my diet pill was causing complete disinterest in food.\u00c2\u00a0 I was no longer obsessively surfing food blogs and watching food network to find new recipes.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve spent most of the last 2 months just eating whatever was easiest and fit within my calorie range.<\/p>\n
I’ve been feeling rather like I was stuck on a plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m keeping a spreadsheet of daily calorie intake and weight.\u00c2\u00a0 Up a pound, down a pound, up, down, up, up, down, down, down.\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn’t gaining back the 15 pounds I’d lost the first month, but also didn’t seem to be going anywhere.<\/p>\n
Mum and I went to lunch this week and I realized that the salad I had that day was the first one I’d had in a week or more.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought a bit more about it and realized that I was basically going through my days cramming 1600 calories worth of junk food down my gullet.\u00c2\u00a0 Not complete junk, but a high carb, low protein, low veggie, low fiber diet.\u00c2\u00a0 Starting about thursday, I started making a conscientious effort to add more vegetation to my diet.<\/p>\n
Also in the last week, I’ve found myself becoming interested in cooking again.\u00c2\u00a0 I blame\/credit Ree<\/a> for this.\u00c2\u00a0 Just before valentine’s day, she posted her cooking lessons on lasagna and chocolate cake.\u00c2\u00a0 I found myself thinking more and more about these recipes until I knew that I would have to make them this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 I invited the boyfriend over to share in this gluttony.<\/p>\n My mom used to make lasagna when I was a kid.\u00c2\u00a0 When she and dad split up, the relatives expected me to start providing them with this dish.\u00c2\u00a0 I refused, probably one of the first times I ever stood up for myself with the relatives, but definitely not the last.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d make manicotti (which is fairly close, but different enough to make me happy) and eventually I started experimenting with lasagnas that were vastly different than mom’s.\u00c2\u00a0 Ree’s lasagna<\/a> is almost identical to my mom’s.\u00c2\u00a0 I hadn’t realized how much I missed that flavor until it hit my tongue tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 I also sauted\/broiled some zucchini and garlic in just a bit of olive oil (must have a veggie!), warmed up a loaf of whole clove garlic bread, and whipped up a quick ranch dressing for a bagged salad.\u00c2\u00a0 I told pop not to completely hog out, as I’d be making cake in a bit, but it just couldn’t be stopped.\u00c2\u00a0 I think he’d missed that flavor too.<\/p>\n After letting dinner settle a bit, I headed back to the kitchen to get started on the chocolate cake<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Pop hollered at me that it seemed like an awful lot of work for cake, you can fling together a boxed mix in 10 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 After I let him taste the batter, he shut right up about any old box mix.\u00c2\u00a0 While the cake was baking, I made the frosting.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I might have done something wrong, as my frosting was very very runny, but it tasted damned good, so I didn’t care.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, with it being so thin, when I poured it over the warm cake it ran off the edges of the pan.\u00c2\u00a0 I just scooped a bit of it off and put it into a bowl, it’ll make damned good ice cream topping.<\/p>\n If this cake were human, I’d marry it.\u00c2\u00a0 Super moist and the most delicious cake I’ve ever had.\u00c2\u00a0 Caused a foodgasm, it was so tasty.\u00c2\u00a0 Altogether, an amazing dinner, start to finish.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone go visit Ree<\/a> and try these for yourself, then go back and tell her that she’s a goddess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I believe that I mentioned here a while back that my diet pill was causing complete disinterest in food.\u00c2\u00a0 I was no longer obsessively surfing food blogs and watching food network to find new recipes.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve spent most of the last 2 months just eating whatever was easiest and fit within my calorie range. I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}