Ellie New Cat and Things That Don't Go Well On Chicken

[thistlechaser]

Cream of (something) soup is generally a winner to top a chicken breast with. Cream of chicken has the right number of carbs to have with a meal, so that's been my go-to soup. While picking up more, I eyed the other options.

Cream of Potato soup. Hmmm. Chicken + potato = Sunday night dinner, right? Maybe so, but the soup was a poor match. On its own, the soup was surprisingly good. (I worried it might be god awful.) I ate the chunks of potato out of it. But the soup with the chicken was just wrong. Somehow the texture was horribly terribly scary awful.

Have I mentioned how tired I am of chicken breasts? I've lost track of how many months I've been eating them now, with only two ways I know how to make them. lokyst suggested I try garam masala spices, so that's the next thing I'm attempting, likely Monday night.

In Ellie news, I can't believe I've had her her almost a year now. She came home with me on February 26th 2011. It's even more surprising that she's still making progress (or maybe I should word that 'it's even more surprising that a year later there's still progress to be made').

Over the last couple days she's turned a really big corner. I've been thinking about how to describe it, but I haven't come up with a better way than this: She's finally seeing me. She looks at me and sees me. She meets my eyes and sees me, not just sees a horrible cat-eating monster.

While she still doesn't like being picked up, she likes being held. When I hold her to my shoulder, she puts her head against mine and purrs. It's such a wonderful thing.

I know this will sound awful, but I still don't feel love for her. I'm not blaming her, but it's hard to feel a connection with something that doesn't look at you and expects you to hurt it. It's only now with her starting to see me that I'm starting to feel more, feel a connection. I'm really, really happy I do. I'd like her to become more than just "a nice cat I happen to live with because no one else wanted".

Comments

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

I hate vegetables too. >_> My mom gives me hell about it but they just don't taste like anything to me ever. I like a salad but that's because I go into it with the expectation of lettuce. I don't much like mixing veggies in with my meat even if the vegetables pick up the flavour because then I have meat-flavoured something-that-has-a-weird-non-meat-texture. Blegh. I wish I could magically like vegetables, but I don't. :/ Outside of salads and eating green peppers as a snack item, I tend to avoid them. So you are not alone! XD

I don't remember if you said you liked spicy food or not. :o I am super picky about chicken, so when I make it I tend to make a sauce. I love spicy food so I use some butter and hot sauce to make a good buffalo sauce to roll them in. Actually, a variation on that I've made is to dice up the chicken breast, coat it in the sauce, and then make it into a wrap with a little bit of shredded lettuce for crunch. It was so derp quick and easy that even I could handle it. XD

Squall also has a sauce he makes when he doesn't want to eat my spicy stuff that uses a smokey BBQ base. I like chicken because you can dress it up a bunch of ways. So maybe exploring sauces will make dinner more exciting for you!

I also get what you mean with the cat situation. I kind of feel like that about our dog right now. He's really Squall's dog, so while I like him, I don't really feel love for him yet. He's kind of a dog that lives in my house right now because we really haven't bonded, even when he sleeps in the bed. :\ I think it will definitely be better for you now that she's warming up to you. Yaaay! :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

something-that-has-a-weird-non-meat-texture

That's what gets me, too. THERE'S A PLANT IN MY MOUTH! Ugh!

I wish I could magically like vegetables, but I don't. :

Me too! Liking them would help so much.

Nope, I'm not a spicy food person at all. My tongue is a wuss.

Hopefully you and the dog will hit it off, soon! :)