Green bean-flavored popcorn is NOT good
Aug. 31st, 2011 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserAs part of my new diet*, I'm eating vegetable. None of this half-assed 'one new one a week' thing that I give up in the second week. Nightly. Sometimes I only eat a little (I could only get a few bites of broccoli down last night), sometimes I can stand it (I can eat a whole serving of snap peas -- I don't like them, but I can get them down).
Greek yogurt turned out to be such a great lesson. Remember early on I quoted someone who said it's a treat? A dessert? So creamy, rich, and sweet? And a bunch of us boggled at that? Well, that's how I feel now. It is so amazingly thick, creamy, and most of all sweet. I have no idea how I used to think it was too tangy/sour to eat, I don't taste any tang or sourness at all anymore, just overwhelming sweetness. I would happily have it as a dessert. If I can adjust to yogurt that way, then I can learn to eat vegetables. Or die trying.
(For new folks, my family rarely served vegetables and never forced me to eat them, so I didn't. All through childhood and into my adult life, I've not touched them.)
So tonight's veggie was green beans. I've been buying 'microwave fresh' pouches of various kinds. I could eat some of them (they were mushy and tasteless, which is a 100% win in my book -- no texture issue and no taste!) but they left an AWFUL smell in my microwave. I was still hungry when done, so I air popped a little popcorn in the microwave... you can see where this is going. What a disturbing, awful flavor for popcorn.
Using butter flavored Pam on air popped popcorn works well, it makes the salt/fake butter powder stuff stick. I will use that trick again one day, once my microwave airs out.
I was smart tonight. I got my chicken breast ready before going IC to RP! Hey, recipe writers? Please never, ever use "season to taste". How in the world am I supposed to judge that, especially on a raw chicken breast?! I used this recipe, sort of. I forgot the cooking spray, but everything stuck to the chicken just fine anyway. I left out the "Italian seasoning" because there's some herb in there that I know I don't like. I seasoned the breast with garlic salt, pepper, and some parsley, then put the cheese on top. Win. It's going into my chicken breast rotation for sure.
* I know "diet" is a bad word, I'm not on a diet, I'm "adjusting my lifestyle~", but there needs to be a nice, short word for this process. Something like 'diet'.
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In RP news, it's always feast or famine. I had people I wanted to RP with tonight, and two scenes I owed people. Almost no one was both around and free! Ha! I'mdoing a little archaeology on Clover to burn off rested XP writing this post, then might go look for random RP. I did get one short, fun scene in earlier though. Fingers crossed for more!
Greek yogurt turned out to be such a great lesson. Remember early on I quoted someone who said it's a treat? A dessert? So creamy, rich, and sweet? And a bunch of us boggled at that? Well, that's how I feel now. It is so amazingly thick, creamy, and most of all sweet. I have no idea how I used to think it was too tangy/sour to eat, I don't taste any tang or sourness at all anymore, just overwhelming sweetness. I would happily have it as a dessert. If I can adjust to yogurt that way, then I can learn to eat vegetables. Or die trying.
(For new folks, my family rarely served vegetables and never forced me to eat them, so I didn't. All through childhood and into my adult life, I've not touched them.)
So tonight's veggie was green beans. I've been buying 'microwave fresh' pouches of various kinds. I could eat some of them (they were mushy and tasteless, which is a 100% win in my book -- no texture issue and no taste!) but they left an AWFUL smell in my microwave. I was still hungry when done, so I air popped a little popcorn in the microwave... you can see where this is going. What a disturbing, awful flavor for popcorn.
Using butter flavored Pam on air popped popcorn works well, it makes the salt/fake butter powder stuff stick. I will use that trick again one day, once my microwave airs out.
I was smart tonight. I got my chicken breast ready before going IC to RP! Hey, recipe writers? Please never, ever use "season to taste". How in the world am I supposed to judge that, especially on a raw chicken breast?! I used this recipe, sort of. I forgot the cooking spray, but everything stuck to the chicken just fine anyway. I left out the "Italian seasoning" because there's some herb in there that I know I don't like. I seasoned the breast with garlic salt, pepper, and some parsley, then put the cheese on top. Win. It's going into my chicken breast rotation for sure.
* I know "diet" is a bad word, I'm not on a diet, I'm "adjusting my lifestyle~", but there needs to be a nice, short word for this process. Something like 'diet'.
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In RP news, it's always feast or famine. I had people I wanted to RP with tonight, and two scenes I owed people. Almost no one was both around and free! Ha! I'm
