Greetings World!
I didn't get the chance to pop in here yesterday to update and I'm sorry about that. I did fine on my eating, even with the spaghetti and garlic bread dinner I made last night. I'm still feeling positive and I'm looking forward to (although I'm not invested in - BIG distinction) getting on the scale tomorrow to see what it has to say.
The only reason I didn't write yesterday was that I had another writing project going on that I needed to pay attention to - for a blog that my husband and I began together a while ago. I actually haven't written a single update for that blog since last June! I was about ready to let the domain name disappear from our control, actually. But then, we took a look at our blog and realized that although we only have eight posts - we have had over 6000 views. Obviously, there is an audience out there that wants to hear what we have to say - so I decided to renew the domain name: ourculinaryadventures.net and keep things going.
If you haven't guessed from the name, it is a cooking and food blog. Our loftier goal is that we want to make every recipe in Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course - but time and money are going to be making that a very slow process. When we started on that blog, my hubby was working outside of the home at a job that paid - well, not great, but an hourly wage nonetheless - and since then, he has been working from home as a freelance writer with me. Our income has gone down a great deal in the process. We always manage to work enough to pay our bills, but that's about it. I will even take a deep breath and admit that, on occasion, we have gone to the food bank. However, we don't get any other kind of assistance and we are paying our own bills from our earnings and for that, I am proud of us.
THAT is the biggest reason the wind was taken out of our sails with our website and now, I'm trying to regroup. So yesterday I spent a considerable period of time writing up a recap for the first episode of Season 12 of Hell's Kitchen. I had no idea how long it took to write a recap for a show like that! ACK! Today, I have to edit it down to a reasonable amount and then get it posted. Then I have my regular writing to do - the stuff that earns me a paycheck every month. I am very behind in that. So yeah, it is going to be a busy day.
A couple of days ago, our housemate used the crockpot to cook up a beautiful corned beef and he made us all sandwiches that night. OMG, delicious! It left behind a crockpot full of this wonderful meat juice, though - basically "corned beef stock" - so yesterday evening I threw in half a bag of 13 bean soup I had and let it cook overnight. This morning, I added the rest of a bag of medium grain brown rice that I had. In a little while, I'm going to chop up at onion and throw it in there, and possibly some zucchini and yellow squash (and anything else that sounds interesting at the time) and that will be our dinner later. I'm all for cooking like this - it's one fantastic way to keep your costs down while serving fresh foods - and with all the veggies and beans, the calorie count should be reasonable, even if I have a big piece of corn bread with it.
Dieting sucks. I just want to cook and live and enjoy my life, doing the things that truly matter to me. I feel more and more ready for new adventures every day!
Blessings!
Witchymom
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