Adios

Hi Everyone, I believe this will be my last guest post as Krissy may be back tomorrow. We'll see in the morning how she's feeling.

And now.....

Dinner.

When we were in the Bahamas my Mom ordered eggplant that was so delicious we decided to recreate it at home. It's basically eggplant parmesan but baked and without bread crumbs.

I made some tomoato sauce. I sauteed garlic and onions and added a can of crushed tomatoes, a little red wine, oregano, garlic powder, salt, pepper fresh parsley and basil and a little crushed red pepper.

I put the sliced eggplant into a dish sprayed with pam and drizzled the eggplant with olive oil and sprinkled salt, pepper, garlic powder and oregano on top.

I baked the eggplant for about 25 mins at 350. Then topped with the sauce and mozzarella cheese and baked until the cheese melted about 12 minutes.

It was quite good if I do say so myself. Krissy had some pasta with a little butter and was a bit jealous of what the rest of us were eating.

You can all breathe a sigh of relief as Single Serving will be back to Krissyville tomorrow. Have a good night =)

Mex I Can!

Good Afternoon all. What a beautiful day out, I think I'm going to go for a run at the local high school track later. Hopefully there is no track meet, lacrosse game or annoying people at the track who try to strike up a conversation as I pass them.

Now on to the real exciting stuff. I made guacamole the other day and took some pictures. (side note this taking pictures of everything you eat is a bit annoying and my dog barks at me every time I take a picture) Anyway I think my guacamole is pretty BA (badass). The key to good guacamole is ripe avocados. If they aren't ripe enough they don't mash well at all.

** Tip: If you need to ripen avocados in a hurry put them in a brown paper bag for a while. Its speeds up the ripening.

I then add some onion, jalapenos (removing the seeds they is hot, ya'll) and a plum tomato- all chopped.

Then I add fresh lime juice. In this batch which was three large avocados I put the juice of a lime and a half. I like lime a lot so you may want to add less. Then I put in some kosher salt, cracked black pepper, garlic powder and cumin. Mix it all together and enjoy.

I put some of the guacamole on the black bean burger I had for lunch. I made these burgers a while ago and froze a bunch. The recipe is from Sandra Lee.

The black bean burgers are good but without some sort of condiment they are what my Grandfather would call "dry as a fart" Ketchup or mustard doesn't work, the guacamole goes perfectly.

Krissy had some soup for lunch and more Ritz crackers.

Be be back later with some dinner deliciousness.

Gallbladder-less Breakfast

Hello! It's Jen again. Krissy is recovering on the couch watching the food network. I'll keep you posted on what she's been eating as well as what I had for breakfast.

This was mine...

Frosted mini wheats and a cup of coffee.

Krissy had some ritz crackers and a grape ice pop.

I'll be back later with my guacamole recipe. Have a great day!

Oh I did have popcorn while watching Lost last night. The popcorn does not help me understand what the hell is going on on that show.

Post-Op

Krissy is out of surgery, everything went well and she should be arriving here shortly. I plan to eat yummy fatty foods in front of her while saying "yuuuummmm don't you wish you could eat this?"

I didn't really eat anything too fatty today. I had a little snack of guacamole and blue corn chips. I made the guacamole yesterday but I'll save the recipe and pictures for my Cinco de Mayo post tomorrow.



I ate many more chips than are pictured. I have a major weakness when it comes to tortilla chips. I luvre them.

For lunch I had Sesame noodles with chicken that my dad got me yesterday from a local deli. They were Aight. (Aight (Ai-Ght) (adj.) from the english Alright. Meaning so so, Ok not great, but tolerable.)


I did not feel like exercising today at all. However I made myself at least do something. So I went for what I like to call a Ralk. I ran to start but ended up walking most of it. Probably 2 miles total. Not really great but better than nothing. Also my dad asked me before I left the house if I was going to pass a local store that had ice cream on sale. Big Joe (dad) knows every item that is on sale at every store within ten miles. So I ran a bit then walked home with a bag full of ice cream.

For dinner one of my personal faves chicken and rice. Chicken was baked in the oven seasoned with a little salt and pepper. I had some string beans, corn and rice on the side. I love rice as much as Krissy loves peanut butter, dark chocolate, crab cakes, cedar's garlic hummus, shrimp, etc.



I may have some popcorn while I watch Lost in a little bit. I'll let you know tomorrow. I'm sure you all won't be able to sleep tonight in anticipation.

Shout out to my Aunt Beth. Blog About It, Blog About It, Blog About It. =)

Drink Your Breakfast

Hello, I'm Krissy's sister Jen stepping in for her as she mourns the loss of her gallbladder. She wasn't all that worried about getting it out until I told her I read a study that shows the gallbladder has a direct relation to a persons ability to Zumba. Krissy loooooves to Zumba and to say the word Zumba. I'm not sure which she loves more. I have never done Zumba. Just one of the many, many ways my sister and I are different. I also don't eat as much peanut butter as she does.

For breakfast this morning I had a Spinach Smoothie. Sounds gross? It isn't.



I use:
ice
small banana
strawberries
blackberries
blueberries
about half a small container of plain greek yogurt
skim milk (just a little to make it easier to blend)
Spinach (a lot of it)



You cannot taste the spinach at all. My mother who barely eats any vegetables and would never eat spinach normally has had this smoothie and likes it. Although she drinks a tiny glass of it. I also had a cup of coffee.



Today I am going to work and after may be going car shopping since some donkey did this to my car as it sat in front of my house the other night and then sped away.



I have a couple of pieces of their bumper that I am going to dust for fingerprints and trace back to them CSI style. The police told me that unless someone is hurt or killed they don't really investigate. What about the death of my Saturn Ion? They don't even make those anymore, it was a classic.

I'll be back later with another exciting post. Have a great day!

Guest Post: Fattie Fatterton/Lawgirl

Greetings form the sandy shores of the Bahamas. One of my favorite bloggers has graciously offered to help me out. I find her blog to be entertaining, informative and insightful and I hope you do too!

Hi all, my name is Angela and I publish two blogs, Lawgirl and Fattie Fatterton. I have been reading Single Serving for some time now and Krissy was kind enough to let me do a guest post while she’s busy saving the world. :D

Last year I started my journey to getting healthy. I’m still on it, but as you know, the hardest part is getting started. To me, it’s the difference between “can’t” and “won’t”.

I’ve talked about this in my classes I teach (I’m a Corporate Trainer when I’m lucky enough to have a job.). Whenever I teach Time Management, I hear people say, I can’t do my job differently – I can’t change this. I then turn around and say, can’t or won’t?

This stops them dead in their tracks. Their mouths drop open, their eyes widen….and they realize that 99% of the time, the truth is, it’s won’t. So the difference is:

1. Can’t – I physically or emotionally or mentally can not do something.
2. Won’t – I physically or emotionally or mentally will not do something.

We all make decisions every day. And the truth is, most of these are won’t decisions disguised by the word can’t. Take, for example, the following dilemma:
I can’t go after that boy I like, because he might reject me and then I’ll be hurt.

No, the truth is, you are physically, emotionally, and mentally capable – you just don’t want to do it enough. The payoff for you doesn’t outweigh the risk.

And why not? Because we are too afraid to be happy. We only see that one scenario – either he will take me or reject me – but we are so afraid of what happens afterward. What if he doesn’t reject you? What if he says, yes, I have the same feelings and I want to be with you? Then you’re hosed!! You’ve only thought far enough ahead as to you asking the question – not necessarily him saying yes.

Every romance movie ends at Happily Ever After. We never see what happens next. We don’t see that this is just the beginning of the compromise, of figuring out what fits together. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies, How to Make an American Quilt.

Young lovers seek perfection.
Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together
and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches.

There is no perfection in love. There is no way that you will find someone who has every interest that you do, that will react and think the same way that you do. It’s impossible. And you wouldn’t want that. You would be bored. If you really liked dating you, well, then you would just date you.

It’s the same thing in health, if you think about it.

What if I try and fail?
What if I look silly trying to exercise?
What if it doesn’t work right away and I don’t loser 100 lbs in two days?

There’s an old saying that nine women can’t take one month to have a baby. It takes one woman nine months to grow and give birth to a baby. It can’t be rushed. Nature forces us to be patient.

Be patient with yourself. You will have a learning curve with learning how to eat properly. It will take some time to find the exercise that you absolutely love to do, no matter what kind of day you’re having (for me, it’s now Yoga, which I just discovered).

But never forget, you have to get out of your own way to be successful.

Love and peace, Angela.