There is no reason for it, but I was really cranky today. The kind of cranky where I could hear the irrational words coming out of my mouth and could almost laugh at them, but they were coming out anyway. With feeling.
Perhaps it was a classic case of expectations effing up the situation. Here’s what happened:
My new camera arrived yesterday. I got as far as taking it out of the box and charging the battery. Slightly afraid of the thing. My plan for today was to write up a grand post about the lovely art of soup making. It all felt so romantic to me. You see; soup is sort of how I got my start. It’s the first thing I mastered, and a source of comfort, both the making of it and the eating of it. I had this picture in my head of me, floating through the kitchen with new camera in hand, doing this new thing I was learning while at the same time doing the thing that felt so much like home to me.
Sweet, right?
In real life, it looked more like me, swearing, making a mess, and angry about the fact that the camera wont. just. take. the. picture. I. want. it. to.
It’s sort of funny now, because of course it wouldn’t. I have no idea how to use the thing, and haven’t used a real camera since real cameras had film in them.
We all have those days, right?
Even with all of my ridiculousness, everything turned out fine. I made two soups, roasted a chicken and even took some pictures with my new camera.
I know, anyone can take a good leek picture.
We started the day with coconut pancakes. Big ones. We each took two and ate half of what was on our plate. Those things are seriously filling. And frankly, a bit difficult to choke down without maple syrup. I’m a New England girl. Pancakes without maple syrup are almost against my religion.
Coconut Pancakes with Butter and Cinnamon
Lunch was leftover zoodles with bolognese. Simon had the same, but with no zoodles ’cause I ate them all. Cranky, remember? Not thoughtful.
We can talk about my problem with cheese later.
The afternoon was spent making soup, as mentioned above. I posted the recipe for one, the one we had for dinner: Spicy Tomato Soup with Chicken and Lime. The other one will be posted soon.
Tortilla Soup, Hold The Tortillas
I hope no one was as cranky as I was today. I’m better now. Soup does that.
I was pretty cranky a few minutes ago! I had eaten a very good, late lunch, and didn’t really east dinner last night; just snacked on a few things. Then around 2am utter starvation hit, but I just stayed in bed knowing that the only things that were readily available to snack on were radishes, cucumbers, and almonds – pretty much what I had snacked on earlier. And those blasted coconut muffins, which I wanted to save as a *treat* for breakfast. Well, I just choked down three of those puppies; at this point I think I’d rather eat the butter with a spoon.I’ve been trying to be quite strict with the sugar (as I”m actually doing this to try and get rid of what I think maybe a major candida overgrowth in my body), but I just grabbed that green apple in the fridge and I’m chowing down. And I’m eating ALL of it! I definitely need to make those almond crackers today so I have something to snack on. I think the most challenging part of all this is just that I have to prepare everything to eat it – I miss the convenience of just ripping something open for a heartier snack. And have you been loosing weight? I’m not normally a paleo person, though I’ll probably start steering in that direction after this – I’ve lost 9 lbs since we’ve started! (It’s not horrible that I’ve lost weight, but I didn’t necessarily *need* to either.) I think I’ve stabilized, but at times I’m definitely having to shove more food down my throat than I care to eat. Okay, that’s all the complaining. Thanks for listening.
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