Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Enchiladas, part deux, and other stuff

Here's the recipe for homemade enchilada sauce, which sounds delicious. I have been so frustrated that nobody, I mean NOBODY sells anything but Mild enchilada sauce, even International markets! Appalling. Anyway, I have a great recipe for green enchilada sauce, but this one sounds much more like what I grew up with: http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianmexicanrecipes/r/enchiladasauce.htm

ALSO, I would like to humbly apologize to my Peruvian chicken for finding it less than satisfactory last night. I just had some for lunch, and it was delicious! I guess it just had to rest a while (don't we all), but it was very tasty today. I did add some more lime juice to the dipping sauce; it tasted a bit too mayonnaise-y (which is saying a lot, coming from a mayo junkie). I was bummed to find that I didn't have any yellow mustard (how is that even possible? Does anyone Ever run out of yellow mustard??), so I used dijon, which just doesn't have the right flavor for this sauce. Maybe that's what I found disappointing last night, who knows? The extra lime juice definitely helped.

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New Topic (see that cute little line up there?):
Yesterday and today I have for some inexplicable reason neglected to eat breakfast. I realize there are some people out there who Never eat breakfast, but I am not and have never been one of them. I like breakfast. I am hungry in the morning, so I like to break my fast. Except yesterday and today. What the hell. Yesterday was particularly bad, because I also didn't eat lunch. I just didn't even think about it until I was on the train on the way into DC in the early afternoon. This just never happens to me. Because I was going to a sketching session at a museum, I did not have the opportunity to rectify the situation (mostly because I didn't want to pay buttloads of money for crappy food in the museum cafe) until I got home, around 5:30. NOT GOOD, people.

You would have thought that after a day of hunger like that I would have been more attentive to my needs today and actually eaten breakfast. Huh.

It's kinda funny, now that I know that I have blood sugar issues, I am much more aware of what I put into my mouth (which is obviously a good thing); and having cared for my diabetic mother I definitely know such things as the importance of regular meals to maintain more steady BS levels (knock it off... that stands for blood sugar, Not bull sh*t, of which I am admittedly a prolific purveyor), so why why WHY would I allow myself to go all day without food??

This behavior must be nipped in the bud.

I'm wondering if it is partly due to my lack of imagination when it comes to breakfast. Eggs and toast is pretty much my norm, and it's pretty boring; I'm not a big cold cereal girl - not because I don't like it, but mostly because I never have milk in the house, and when I do it goes bad before I've had a chance to consume it; hot cereal seems cumbersome to make in the morning, and honestly... oatmeal?? UGH. Probably wouldn't kill me to develop a taste for it, but I think it would need some serious embellishment.

SO. If any of you dear people have zippy quick and tasty ideas for breakfast (and cheap. Cheap is good, too), feel free to share them. Thanks for playing.