Five for Friday

Five questions for you. Copy and paste to your own blog, then reply to this post with a link to your answers.

1. What type of food do you most like to eat?

• Homemade. I really enjoy the care someone puts into making a meal

2. What type of food do you most like to cook?

• I've been experimenting a lot with Asian influences lately. Kinda Thai, kinda Chinese

3. What ingredient could you not live without?

• RICE! It's so versatile

4. What do you never let in your kitchen?

• Brussel sprouts. Can't stomach them.

5. What is your favorite drink?

• Depends. I like a cold Bell's Oberon Ale on warm nights, a good Rioja, and plain old water

Baaaaa

At group last night, we met at Todd Burroughs house since Ryan is on a mission trip. Todd's wife, Racheal, offered to cook for us. Now, Todd sent an email earlier saying what was on the menu, but Todd likes to fool around so none of us believed him. Imagine our surprise when we sat down to… Ready for this? Ok - Racheal is from Uganda, so she made us a traditional Ugandan dinner of… Goat stew.

Yeah. Goat stew. I was a little unprepared for that. But I figured when was the next time I was going to eat goat stew? So I grabbed a knife, fork, and spoon (had to, the goat was in BIG hunks) and dug in. It wasn't the first time I had goat, I've had curried goat before, but still, I wasn't expecting to see a big hunk of goat meat in my bowl. It was pretty tasty, albeit a little tough. It was a little like lamb, and a little like beef. There were tons of veggies in the stew also; potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers, onions - a very satisfying meal.



Now, a couple of the guys are less than adventurous, and ordered pizza. Personally, I thought that was rather insulting to Racheal, since she went to the trouble of making us a meal. But, I can understand their hesitation. There are some foods I'd really rather not eat also. I did some research on goat, turns out that goat is the most widely consumed red meat in the world, and also the most heart friendly. Gram for gram goat meat has less cholesterol and saturated fat than chicken. 3oz of goat has 122 calories, 2.5 grams of fat (.8 saturated), and 23 grams of protein!

I polished off my bowl, got a little more veggies and broth, and turned down the pizza and later the ice cream that Todd brought out. Then we hit the book of Phillipians, and Paul said to us "Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe" Kinda like eating goat stew and not fretting about it.

Peace out.

Why I love Weight Watchers

This was my breakfast today: An Eggbeaters omelette with broccoli, ham, and cheddar cheese, and toast

So simple - 1/2 cup Eggbeaters (1 point), 1/4 cup Kraft 2% sharp cheddar (4.5 points), a cup of steamed broccoli (0 points), and 4 slices of Healthy Ones Ham (.5 points)

2 slices of Aunt Millies Fiber for Life Light Potato Bread (1 point), and an 8oz glass of Tropicana Light and Healthy Orage Juice (1 point). The I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray on the toast and the Garlic Tabasco are free in normal servings.

So I had this killer, very filling breakfast for 8 points, and I've lost 56 pounds since July 14th. Since I'm going to walk over to Kroger after a bit, I'll earn a couple activity points also. Weight Watchers is a plan that works - it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.

Silky like Milky

So I walk into Kroger this morning to get some bananaanananas and I pass a display of Kashi - 2 boxes of GoLean Crunch for $5.00, plus a coupon for a free half-gallon of Silk Soy Milk. Intriguing... I'm not a big fan of soy milk - milk comes from cows, not beans. But for $5.00, what the heck, I eat a box of GoLean a week, so I went for it and I picked up the vanilla flavor Silk, along with 4 bananananananas.

Once I got to work I made myself a bowl of the Kashi and splashed the Silk over it. I looked at the color - it was kinda yellowish, like a pale butter. Not good; I like my milk to be white unless it's chocolate. I tentatively sampled it, and it wasn't bad. A different texture than I'm used to, but the flavor wasn't bad. I polished off the bowl and had a banananananana and now I'm full.

Don't eat that Steve, you'll die!

Was Katie's reaction to my lunch today.



Octopus salad from Wild Oats. It's very tasty.