Monday, December 9, 2013

What I'm eating right now #2

I only finished about 2/3rds of yesterday's ricotta and avocado.

But right now I'm having a fabulous supper.  I'm busy soaking some cauliflower in order to make a cauliflower quiche to enjoy over the next several days but since there's no way it's be ready in time, I peeked around the fridge and came up with a great dinner.  Cheese blintzes!

I mixed some of the 5% goat's milk ricotta with an equal amount of 5% cottage cheese, added cinnamon and vanilla sugar (my plan does not require me to be off sugar.  I limit it of course, by my dietitian said to think of myself as not being on a diet ever again.  I have to use my head and eat reasonable things, and my body limits portion sizes of course.  I still trained myself to be off sugar for coffee but a dash of vanilla sugar in my blintz?  Hell yeah!).  I also mixed an egg with almond milk, salt, a bit more of the vanilla sugar, and a couple of teaspoons of flour to make a thin batter.  Made a crepe, added the filling, and wallah!  Cheese blintz.

My diet is lacking in vegetables which is weird for me.  I'm a freaking vegetarian, after all.  But I find cooked veggies need to be really soft or else they don't go down well.  I'm looking forward to the cauliflower tomorrow and for lunch today I had some ground veggie burger mixed with tomato sauce and well-cooked green beans.  I generally prefer my green beans bright and crisp but they just wouldn't go down that way, no matter how well I chewed them.

I do, however, plan on trying peeled, fresh cucumbers this week and, if I can find some fresh kale, I may make kale chips.  I'm usually a salad-o-holic and being without fresh veggies has been hard.  Mmmm, now I'm imagining a salad with greens, chopped tomatoes, shredded carrots, beets, and kohlrabi, slices of cucumbers, garbanzo beans, maybe some quinoa, shredded salty cheese, a dash of lemon juice and olive oil with salt and pepper....yummy.  Some day.

I think couscous with stewed veggies may be on the menu for later this week.  That should work well enough.

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