making it through the day

[jmtorres]

Yesterday I had the realization that if I were still a ballerina (I was for ten years of my childhood) I would be dead by now. See, here's the thing: if I were a ballerina, I would need to weigh literally a third of what I do. And if I had that pressure on me, the things I'd do to control my weight combined with the alternate coping mechanism I'd develop if I didn't cook and eat as coping mechanisms, mean that--yeah, I think I would be dead by now.

Wow, I've carried "if I still did ballet" guilt around with me for years. That totally puts paid to that.

I think the most hilarious part of this is I was out to dim sum with friends talking about it and all the women nodded along with the original statement of "if I were still a ballerina I'd be dead by now" like "yeah, that is a totally obvious conclusion based on ballet == pressure zone and you == fruitcake" but one of the men of the party looked at me very quizzically and asked, "Why?"

*laugh*

Today I went to Whole Food's for cope and with one basket, not even a cart, a basket, spent twice the minimum exit fee. I don't even know how that happened. I guess that makes deciding about the contacts easier.

Anyway, I thought some folks might find it amusing to know what qualities as comfort food with me, so I'm going to type up my receipt (and cry a little). I am currently drinking a glass of pomegranate wine and eating almond goat cheese on crackers and cracking up over the fact that I associate that strongly with the pastiche fanfic Dr. Jackson's Diary and not with the book it was based on, which I would not be caught dead with.

• 2 bottles pomegranate wine (I would not have bought two except it is only available at Whole Foods and I do not go there often, like, I think last year was the last time, because WTF HOW DID I SPEND THAT MUCH)


• shrimp bisque (for the freezer: lunch later)


• three rolls of sushi (spicy salmon avocado, shrimp tempura, eel and avocado)


• smoked salmon candy


• smoked salmon


• salmon chipotle burger patties


• green chili shrimp


• thai curry shrimp


• raspberries


• blueberries


• blackberries


• almond flour (thought I'd give give the berry tarts a go with pro nut flour, it's less crunchy than me chopping nuts in my food processor)


• rainier cherries


• unsweetened rice milk


• almond milk (I am still experimenting with what I want to replace cow dairy with; so far I have determined I like rice milk better than soy milk and I like goat milk a lot but when I drank cow milk I drank skim and you can't get goat milk skim or even 2% and sometimes it's just too much. Previously I think I had regular, read sweetened, rice milk, and I don't think it should need to be sweetened? I am pretty sure break down of rice carbs should be mildly sweet in its own right)


• dried mango slices


• peanut butter pretzels (these are for echan)


• goat milk ice cream in two flavors


• goat milk yogurt in three flavors


• lemonade


• hot food bar: tamale and mushrooms and potatoes and butternut squash (freeze for later in the week)


• salad bar: what I suspect is chicken curry salad even though it was grouped with the tofu, and cous-cous with exciting things in it (freeze for later in the week)


• goat almond cheese ball/log


• goat cheese with fennel

Comments

[everysecondtuesday]

Goat cheese logs are so delicious. Also, omnomnom dried mango slices and fresh berries. It sounds like you came away with lots of amazing stuff.

[jmtorres]

mmm berries. I think I'll have some berries now.

[raine]

:-) Ah, food, the great comfort. Especially gourmet food you like.

One alternative to cow milk I've seen in the last few months is coconut milk; I've also seen potato milk in a few places.

[jmtorres]

I use coconut milk in cooking but I'm not really fond of it for drinking.

I just tried some almond milk and found it pungent to smell and bland to the taste. How odd.

Re: almond milk

[raine]

Interesting. Maybe it's that brand? The recipes I've seen online for it seem to indicate there's not much need to add stuff to it...and invariably prepackaged stuff seems to come with added stuff (sweeteners and stabilizers usually.)

[giglet]

re rice milk -- have you had horchata? (Then again, you said you were looking for something not sweetened, which horchata definitely is.)

I don't like it myself, so I don't have a recipe.

[traykor]

It's easy to come by ready made in this area anyway, if she does want to try it.