Ack! Blogger has changed! It took me forever to figure out where the "New Post" button had gone!

I am back from a lovely two weeks visiting my parents and friends in Maryland, and also a somewhat bad eating week. Though I continued exercising, and the odd phenomenon has once again occurred where I continue to lose weight while eating badly, my jeans continue to get tighter (let's not also mention that I tripped on the drive back and ripped the knees of my favorite pair), so I'm going into a few weeks of South-Beach-phase-1-type cooking to lose the bit of pudge that seems to be gathering on my body. Silly body! Too much Five Guys and Cheeburger and beers and gin & tonics for you.

So, that means lower carb counts, lower fat (to which I typically say meh), lower calorie, and no alcohol. Tonight I cooked for myself another rendition of chili because it's essentially all I could make with what we had on hand in the freezer/pantry. Tomorrow and Wednesday, I'll be hitting the store/market and picking up MANY vegetables, fruits, and lean meats for recipes to delight you all with!

I have a recipe for Chicken Paprikash on hand to post, but I'll do that tomorrow, as tonight I'm just completely out of it and formatting the post would merely serve to annoy me.

Oh, did I forget to mention that Charles is in London now for three weeks on work? Yup, that's what he's doing, so many recipes may be especially light or vegetarian-friendly (since I can get away with making that when he's not here and I don't have to hear man-complaints about the meal not having meat).

In the meantime, it is Iago's hatchday today. He is one year old! One year out of around fifty, and he's spent the day being either very happy that I'm back or very angry that I left him for two weeks. But his thawed blueberries seemed to have appeased him a bit, and he's in better spirits than this morning! So, happy hatchday, Iago, you silly baby bird!

New posts coming soon! Stay tuned!