tl;dr - chickpea mush, oil and baking powder doth not a bread make. A couple days ago I proper cooked the bag of chickpeas I'd soaked previously. They visibly expanded, which is a good sign. All that remained was to blenderize them to a paste and figure out how much baking powder to add, and plop the resulting dough in a pan with some olive oil and see what I end up with. How much baking powder? Better question to begin with: how much chickpeas? 1 bag of dry chickpeas makes a bit over 4 cups cooked. ... (...more)

Got and cooked down ground turkey last night. I needed cheese slices for scramble dog wraps so on a hunch I grabbed a package of Dutch Farms sharp cheddar slices at Western Beef, because it looked like about the same protein-per-calorie ratio and maybe cheaper than my usual Sargento XS cheddar clices. And I was right on both counts: same nutrition, 60 cents cheaper. I thought the pretzel-bread-turkey-bacon-cheese Lean Pockets were 14g protein per pocket. Recently they changed the package art a bit, and ... (...more)

I knew I needed to run dark laundry. Yesterday I thought today I might also hit a movie (Gatsby), and the gym, and Total Wine, but by the time I got laundry done, relaxing at home was compelling. So, no wine unless I splurge on something from Pubilx. I do need groceries. I thought I blahged about this recently - a snatch of lyric, perhaps "waiting for so long" or "away for so long" sung in a Kate Moss class soprano - but in fact it was that Underworld song, "Stagger", that I blolged about. This snatch w... (...more)

Missing Monkey. Playing fetch, and how she would run around meowing with the shoelace we called her "string friend". Sometimes she would put her string friend in their water dish, we were never sure if she thought she was drowning a snake or taking care of a kitten. Did an "easy" 4 miles last night: 1mi at 5.7mph, cooloff, 1mi at 5.4, cooloff, finish at 5.7. Scale at the gym said 184#, scale at the Palmetto Park Square Pubilx said 179.5, scale at the West Boca Plaza Publix said 180.75. So let's say 181.... (...more)

Late night led to late morning. Today I got some chicken tenderloins (4 garlic-and-herbed, 4 spicy chili/cayenne) and turkey dogs precooked for meals, and a yummy dinner of whole-wheat fusilli, chicken, broccoli, spinach and olives lined up. Per somebody's Facebook response I gave pre-sliced olives a try. Specifically, Vigo Kalamatas, because they were the cheapest thing on the shelf. I really liked the Vigo black olives (with pits), but they were so soft I thought maybe they were overripe. They were s... (...more)