STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

B: blueberry vitamuffin

L: LC chicken parm

D: pasta primavera, salad

E: day off.

B: egg beaters with cheese

L: going to a Brazlilian steakhouse so I will have a yummy salad and some meat.

S: 2% cheddar cheese

D: Chicken with some veggies

E: 30 min elliptical and some weights

getting back on track.  had  a rough weekend.

b: sweet potato pancake, coffee

s: 3 tiny homemade almond pasteries a coworker made.

l: enchilada pie (made from greendiamond's recipe in the food & dining section), orange

s: sweet potato pancake, 1/2 luna bar

d: salad and 2 slices of pizza

e: none, I'm too stuffed from dinner and want to watch Lost and Project Runway.

Well... today wasn't so good, and tomorrow will be bad because my coworker is retiring.  I have to shoot for the weekend to be good!

-- Edited by Alikat at 22:26, 2006-01-11

B: 2 slices w/w light bread (1 point); 2 tablespoons whipped pb (3 points)

L: lean cuisine roasted veggie pizza (6 points)

S1: spinach salad with 2 tablespoons light blue cheese dressing (2 points) & 1 tablespoon light feta cheese (1 point)

S2: 2 servings carrots (1 point) & light sour cream ranch dressing (1 point)

D: cheese fondue with boy. oy! I just sent him a list to make it light fondue, so we'll see.

E: Day 1, Week 3 of Couch to 5k. (I tried Day 1 on Monday and couldn't make it all the way. Pathetic, I know. So today I'll do Day 1 again. I know I can do it.)

B:  2 scrambled eggs w/ red bell pepper, parsley and a little cheese on a tortilla (my husband rocks)

S:  Green tea w/ honey

L:  Ham and cheese in a wrap

S:  Apple

D:  Hubby's making me french onion soup since I feel like crap (have I mentioned he rocks?  Yet he's the reason for the weight gain  )

E:  Took a 10 minute walk at lunch.  Arm weights, squats and situps when I get home.

copied from the wed pity party post cause i can't really type well. WAAAHHHH - i'm such a baby.

I wasn't going to join in because w/ my weight loss results yesterday I was all happy. Well, I decided I wanted baked sweet potato fries- I have no idea why - I've never made them in my life. Well, I used that pampered chef ultimate slice & grate to make them like scalloped potatoes & I sliced my finger pretty dang bad. After an hour & I still couldn't get it to stop bleeding, I called the doctor. My doctor's office was out to lunch. THE WHOLE OFFICE. And ER copay is $150. So I went down the street to a new doctor's office & had to get stitches. The first stitches of my life. And they put a numbing shot in the cut. And then gave me a tetnis (SP?) shot. Then the doctor - who is obviously right out of school,but sweet enough, says "that's really going to hurt later". And it's my right thumb & i'm right handed.

Then I had to come home & clean up my kitchen, because seriously, if anyone had come into my house & didn't know where I was, my hubby would SO be in jail for killing me. I had blood everywhere.

Laken that sucks!  Ouch! 

Don't let that turn you off from sweet potato chips though!  I make really good sweet potato chips by cutting the sweet potatoes into 1/4" rounds and then baking them in the oven w/ salt and pepper until they're cooked.  Then I make a dipping sauce using black beans, light sour cream, salt and pepper.  You just put all that in a food processor and blend it up and it's SO good.  Excellent with a shrimp taco too and not bad for you either.

blubirde wrote:

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NCshopper wrote: Laken that sucks!  Ouch!  Don't let that turn you off from sweet potato chips though!  I make really good sweet potato chips by cutting the sweet potatoes into 1/4" rounds and then baking them in the oven w/ salt and pepper until they're cooked.  Then I make a dipping sauce using black beans, light sour cream, salt and pepper.  You just put all that in a food processor and blend it up and it's SO good.  Excellent with a shrimp taco too and not bad for you either. Okay, you say "baking them ... until they're cooked." When is that exactly? Also, how come it's so freaking hard to chop sweet potatoes? IS it because I let them hang around too long and they get hard?

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Yeah, I guess I was avoiding the specifics.    I think I usually put them on a baking sheet in a 350 degree oven for about 30 minutes or so.  They're not crispy, but I suppose you could turn the broiler on during the last few minutes and get them golden brown as long as you keep an eye on them.  (Yes, I'm looking at you blubirde, Ms. Leave-The-Gas-On-The-Stove-On-For-A-Few-Days-Until-I-Almost-Carbon-Monoxide-Poison-Myself!  )  I'm also thinking you could put the slices on a cooling rack and put the cooling rack on a baking sheet so the air can get to both sides of the potatoes and then they might end up crispier.

I'm not sure why sweet potatoes are so hard to chop.  They're just hard potatoes and they take FOREVER too cook if you cook them whole.  Like well over an hour.  I don't think it has anything to do with how fresh they are...in fact, I think they keep pretty well.

-- Edited by NCshopper at 18:58, 2006-01-11

Funny hardass sweet potato story:

We have a Thanksgiving sweet potatoe recipe that's been in my family for many years anf my first Thanksgiving in my own place, I decided to make them so I could have the leftovers.  Well, you have to microwave them to soften them up so you can slice them and then saute them with butter and brown sugar, but before you microwave them you have to stab them with a knife a bunch of times so they don't explode in there ..... so there I was, happily stabbing away when I hit a particularly hard part of one potatoe.  The knife went in just fine, and as I pulled my hand back to remove the knife ... handle slipped right out of my hand.  Knife stuck in sweet potato.  I naively thought that the sweet potato is no match for me, and go to town trying to wrench the bugger out of there, when CRACK ..... the handle and HALF OF THE KNIFE BLADE comes off in my hand .  The sweet potato won that fight ....