The week in food.

Food & culinary playing around log.

Used last week's fresh seafood to make up crab cakes, a garlic-coconut shrimp sauce/soup, and some crab salad.  Plus the normal proteins, cheeses and salad fixins.  Started throwing down a protein shake post wkout - when I remember - plus vitamins and EFAs.  Made a batch of no-sugar fudge, riffed from this recipe, mostly because I was curious.  Not bad, but didn't eat all of it, basically because what I think I really need to do right now is just is attenuate myself off of sweet flavors.  Was putting some artificial sweetener in my coffee as well, but stopped that.  A reminder that even artificial sweeteners can trigger a brain/insulin response, which is sabotage-y of what I'm trying to do here.

On the spouse food prep front, fighting off a bit of a cold early in the week led to several days of comfort food, reducing my role to opening and heating various Campbell's soups, plus the occasional sandwich... grilled cheese, preferred.  Otherwise, later in the week... taco salad, broccoli and cheese soup, mango-orange smoothie, crab cakes & coconut garlic shrimp and rice, baked chicken, mashed potatoes and home fried corn tortilla chips.

 
 Sunday afternoon spent baking up a couple little chickens we had.  One with salt, pepper, olive oil, rosemary, basil and herbes de provence and the other with salt, pepper, butter, garlic and hot sauce.  Both turned out pretty well, and we got another day or two of leftovers out of them.  Actually digging the whole cooking process these days.  Groovy.