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Good Morning, Jan 23 Tuesday

#TastyWords

#Tasty Treats

Substitute Sunflower Seed Butter! 🙂
I had been holding on to a jar of sunflower seed butter for a long time without ever getting use of it.  Until I spread it on a green apple and realized it tasted like caramel! 😀

There is a Cold Stone within walking distance of my boyfriend’s apartment.  Last Sunday, after a lovely and leisurely Labor Day weekend family dinner, I wanted chocolate ice cream to top it all off.  This isn’t my first ice cream post! ;D I had an inkling for some marshmallow in it, and Cold Stone didn’t disappoint.  I could sprinkle on some mini-white chocolate chips and a little caramel, too!  First topping free, additional’s .89.  Of course, I got a small!  I was kinda surprised when it rung up to $7.89.  Oops!  Definitely not a thrifty ice cream! ;o) ..More than a venti mocha!

Next night, Trader Joe’s, I picked out their chocolate ice cream.   Summertime munchies got me like salty crunchy caramel marshmallow chocolate ice cream toppings! 😀 Like magic, TJ’s chocolate covered marshmallows, pretzel slims, and a chocolate caramel bar fell into my hands!  Never mind what the expense was; this was stash for days!  I have been using my Magic Bullet for all my protein shakes for months and thought of blading together the pretzel slims, chocolate marshmallow and caramel.  It worked so well!  Made a perfect topping for ice cream, enjoyed better than Cold Stone’s, but thanks to them for getting me started in the right direction! 😀

Thank you Saturday morning comfort coffee and cinnamon roll. see you later maybe for a glass of wine ~ 😊

Oh man, I just exemplified “Haste Makes Waste” like a boss.

I tried to rush making a batch of ghee before work.  I had my doubts.  As I started, I knew that even if I had the window of 30 minutes to do it, I had other things to do to get ready for work during that time; I wouldn’t be able to keep an eye on the ghee the whole time which is how I like to get it done.  From the Irish butter I use to the classical radio I listen while it bubbles into liquid gold, making ghee is one of my most sacred symbols and source of yummy sustenance  in the house.

And this morning I botched a batch like a boss.

It was going well, I was listening to the sound of it sizzling from the other room, a stronger than usual sizzle; if i were in the room I wouldn’t let it be sizzling so, but I was aware that listening to it that more intently was not a bad thing.

But then I went back and forth in the rooms a little, and when I got back, there were dark specks bubbling up and I thought I had begun to overcook the bottom.  This is where I hastened.  Instead of just taking the pot off the burner and letting it begin to cool, I rushed to pour it into the glass jar awaiting on the counter.  So it cracked.  and leaked the ghee all onto the counter, and broke the glass, my favorite jar for it.  Now I know how perfectly a glass jar cracks when the fluid is too hot.  I couldn’t have used the ghee for anything else, since there might be glass in it, and the cloth I used to try and wipe down the counter might have to be trashed, and I’m probably backing up the sink for letting some of it drip in the drain.

Really, a waste. Many wastes. (I hadn’t had any coffee in the morning yet either.)  The “Peer Gynt” theme that underscored the sizzle suddenly felt less special, too.

Except  for the opportunity for voice that bubbled up awakened that said “I forgive you.” Like a little fairy, a tiny little me, still in my comfy clothes, flew from under the covers to my shoulder to offer forgiveness.

Yes, I am going to forgive myself for that blunder.  If only for the opportunity for practice forgiveness to myself.

Time to go to the store, pick up some more butter, and take my time to try again.

Ghee Gone Wrong:

Happy the other morning to see my office refrigerator shelf with my staples psyllium husk, pineapple juice, green powder, apple cider vinegar, flax seeds and special St. Valentine’s Day special chia seed, coconut milk, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon pudding with strawberry! 🙂

https://wellnessmama.com/59344/chia-seed-pudding-recipe/

nailed it.  Sep. 28, 9:28 a.m. ~

Today marks a very delicious, precious, rare, fine, low-day in carbohydrate high life ~
The holidays warmed me up! Veteran that I am, it is like riding a bicycle, and I am having a smooth ride in no time!
Decadent concoctions triumph like golden effervescent champagne bubbles!

Now beyond the holidays, that I am having to wean myself though my days, there is this weird wiggle area where complete satiety must be met before I can move beyond this thing!  Cold turkey is working its way in certain ways, like cold turkey: no more apple pie!  I can drop apple pie like a hot potato!  Last year, when my back was hurt, I wanted apple pie from The Apple Pan.  I ate said apple pie.  The scale then spoke.  Irrefutably, if I am eating apple pie and french fries, my weight is high.

At the moment, that is fine.  My weight has been high all year, even without apple pie and fries.  Imagine.

By the time I bought two pies at the store for New Year’s weekend, and ordered fries at the skating rink at my son’s saturday game, I knew I was at my lowest and my very best!  4 days at home to take time to read a book, and exercise and mat work to my heart’s content, equally stretching and lengthening through chapters and muscle groups, with a break for pie, sprinkled with tart frozen yogurt and chocolate chips ~ and the delicacies were ample and decadent.

http://www.chatelaine.com/health/diet/seven-easy-tips-to-reduce-insulin-and-lose-belly-fat/

As the years go by and excessive carbohydrate consumption continues, blood sugar levels get higher and higher. The pancreas has to yell at the fat cells by secreting even higher levels of insulin. Eventually the cells with receptors for insulin stop listening and/or the pancreas stops secreting insulin. Blood sugar levels rise, and when they get above 125 mg/dL, type 2 diabetes is usually diagnosed. Unfortunately, people don’t get enough support during the time they’re heading toward diabetes; it’s only after their blood sugar hits disease-state levels that they get attention, often in the form of drug therapy.

http://www.lifetime-weightloss.com/blog/2012/6/2/insulin-and-fat-storage.html

http://www.livestrong.com/article/256655-how-to-reduce-insulin-for-weight-loss/