Today's Eats - Won't You Take Me to Twinkietown?

If you read over at my other blog then you already know about my homemade twinkie calamity. I'll try and give a brief summary. Since we've decided not to eat any processed or chemical laden foods, we've had to put the kibosh on snacky foods like twinkies. A couple of days ago, my youngest was positively begging for some in the grocery store and was difficult to console when I told him no. He calmed down when I said we could make our own twinkies....little did he know that the first batch would be a disaster. Thankfully though, he was able to find another use for them and if you follow the link above, you will see what I'm talkin' about. Well this morning I decided to give it another go and, using a different recipe, made a beautiful yellow cake and filled it with cream. Not exactly like twinkies but much better for you and pretty damn good, if I may say so myself.



After doing that all morning, I still had to get ready for my lunch with Krista. Thankfully, I had planned something simple so once I had the kitchen cleaned up it was ready for me to destroy it all over again. I sauteed some chicken breasts in olive oil having seasoned them beforehand with garlic salt and black pepper. Along with it I fixed my trusty mashed potatoes and haricot verts. I meant to make tea but just didn't have time to do it and wouldn't you know it's the one thing Krista requested?! Anyway, here is my plate from lunch today:



You might look at that plate and say, "Wow, that is A LOT of food!" But it's not. It's half of a chicken breast, 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes, and about 15 green beans and that was plenty of food. The plate I used makes it look like a lot of food. It's an antique dinner plate and it's 7" in diameter. Okay, wait. I'm lying to you because I don't know for sure. Hang on and I'll go measure it.

Good thing I went and checked because I don't want to mislead anybody. It's actually 8" in diameter. Just for kicks I measured one of my current dinner plates and it's 11". That's a huge difference and it really illustrates the point that it's easy to overload yourself when you use a plate that big.

Krista and I really took our time getting through lunch today and probably took an hour to eat. It was a nice, slow lunch filled with good conversation. She and I only see each other about once a month so we always have a lot to catch up on when we get together. I really enjoy her friendship!

Not sure what dinner's going to be tonight but I have a whole breast leftover from lunch so I'll probably fix that with some rice and a veggie. You know what I'm going to say...come back and check for the dinner update!!

DINNER

Leftover chicken from lunch, Long grain and wild rice, and yellow squash and zucchini. I forgot to take a picture before I started and by the time I remembered my plate looked like this:



The rice was a prepackaged "natural" product. The squash was cooked in olive oil, butter, chopped onion, sage, thyme, and Jane's Krazy Mixed Up Salt. Tasty! I also had one of the heart biscuits that was leftover from the chicken stew from a few nights ago along with a glass of iced tea.

It feels like another good eating day!