The unexpected

I’m sorry I haven’t been around lately. I have been thinking of you though. It’s been a busy couple days with learning my new town and learning my new job. But I’m starting to feel more settled and more at home which means I’m getting more comfortable making fun meals. But let me tell you what has gone over the past few days. First of all it has snowed, but I’m sure as you noticed in my past pictures, there was snow her to begin with. But it’s funny, as a girl who grew up on the coast, I’m not used to walking up, day after day to new snow. But that’s how it goes here. And guess what’s underneath all that snow, ice! And I bailed pretty bad on my way home last night. But I took control today and bought myself some Yak Traks, which are basically teeth you put on the bottom of your boots to help you grip the ice. But back to the food.

Do you ever have those nights where you want something quick and easy? But for me, I try to steer clear of the pre-made, “easy”, “fast” meals. Because lets face it, those things have nothing good for you in them. One of my favourite ways to fill my belly on a lazy evening is with brinner, what is brinner? you ask. It is Breakfast for dinner. And, I admit I had brinner twice this week.

The thing with the GI diet is that your meals need to be made up of grains, protein and most importantly a lot of veggies. It’s hard to think that way sometimes when a lot of our meals are centered around a lot of pasta, or a lot of meat. I’m still working out that balance. Also, I’m not supposed to have eggs. I’m supposed to have the liquid eggs in a little jug. But I just can’t bring myself to do that. Anyways, what I ate, right. I had a piece of high fiber toast with grainy mustard, some back bacon (yes, it’s on the diet), poached egg and as you can see, some steamed green beans and some lovely Roma. I know you’re probably thinking, “well, that isn’t very exciting!” And my response is, there is beauty in simplicity, and some of the best meals on earth are the simplest ones.

Like last night for example, I got home late after an meeting in town and needed something in my belly that was quick and tasty, basically I ate what I eat for breakfast every morning: blueberries, low-fat, no sugar added yoghurt, and Kashi Go Lean cereal. It’s basic, but delicious and has everything I need.

There it is. My Wednesday night dinner. Isn’t it beautiful? I know you’re wondering what that yellow stuff is. Well I have introduce Udo’s Blend of Omega fatty acids into my breakfast. It actually tastes pretty good. And I don’t mind the oily-ness in my cereal. I also added Chia to my breakfast this morning, my mom told me to, and well I do what my mom says (within reason.)

But all good things must come to an end, and brinner three nights in a row would have been absolute madness. And I was feeling wild tonight.

I can’t have potatoes right now, or I can but shouldn’t, or something like that. But I love gnocchi, and found a recipe for Ricotta gnocchi on thekitchn a few months ago. Ricotta gnocchi, that can’t be bad, right?

I thought I followed the recipe, and I dropped them in the pot, and do you see what happened? They pretty much fell apart int he pot and floated to the surface in gross little clumps. I thought maybe I could salvage it. But well, it would have been pretty mushy. So I abandoned ship, flushed the pot of gross clumps, and went for the whole wheat pasta in my cupboard, and pulled a pork chop from the fridge.

The pasta sauce saved the meal. It was one of my best. I was eating it with a spoon right for the pot while I was waiting for the pasta to cook. So, sure my gnocchi fell a part, but that’s life. Sometimes, things just go awry. Sometimes, the unexpected hits you right in the face and knocks you on your butt, but it’s how you deal with it. It’s the old when life gives you lemons thing, only in this case, it’s clumpy gnocchi.

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