Posted on November 14, 2009 - by Ashley Jackson

The Glaring Dog

I don’t know, does it count as glaring if he won’t make eye contact?

Yes, Baby Heathcliff got a bath, and then he got mad and pouted. I think he’s all better now, though.

I, on the other hand, am looking at pictures from the past two days and realizing that I really need to lay off the cookies. I am not quite incapable of buying them and keeping them in the house without eating all of them, but I’m darn close.

For instance, this was Friday’s breakfast. There are no more of those chocolate peppermint cookies left now. They were good.

This was Friday’s lunch:

Some blurry grapes from Whole Foods.

And a chicken wrap, done as usual for this week.

Dinner was  a lot like lunch–I cooked some onions, green peppers, and mushrooms, then added some bold taco seasoning, then once the seasoning had a chance to set I threw in some cut-up ostrich  and quickly cooked it.

And into a tortilla it went, along with some tomatoes, sour cream, and lettuce. Nommy! I had some more of the same after this serving minus the tortilla, because it was mostly veggies. But it was all good.

One of those peppermint cookies disappeared during the evening while I watched movies. And I had some candy too. Bad me.

Breakfast Saturday morning was my other container of Liberte yogurt–peach and passionfruit.

I liked the plum and walnut better, but this was almost as good. Gotta get more of this! It’s like eating a fruit-flavored cloud.

…oh, that’s where the last cookie went…

I ate it for lunch? Okay. And then I also made some crackers and cheese.

I had seven or eight Mary’s Gone crackers with Snofrisk cheese, topped with some Penzey’s Garden Salad Seasoning. And some bacon. These crackers are intriguing–they have a burnt-toasty taste to them, and they definitely taste “healthy” and not much like a regular cracker at all, but at the same time, they’re pretty good. They’re also gluten-free and wheat-free. I think they’d taste really good with some smoked Gouda. But anything would taste good with smoked Gouda.

Dinner was some grapes…

And this weird stuffed salmon belle mar thing I picked up at Trader Joe’s…it was stuffed with fake crab meat and jack cheese and rice. Very strange. I cut it in half because it was almost 400 calories for the whole thing. It was good, but it kind of creeped me out at the same time.

I also made some garlic bread with a whole wheat dinner roll.

And had some extremely awesome stuffed mushrooms. I wish the pictures had turned out better–I had four and this was the biggest, and it was still too dark in my kitchen to get a good shot that wasn’t a little fuzzy.

The “stuffing” was sauteed mushroom stems and onions seasoned with Bouquet Garni, then mixed with some bacon crumbles, some crunched up Mary’s Gone crackers, and blended with some Snofrisk. This time I heated them up in the oven but didn’t leave them in there long enough for the mushroom caps to cook. They were much easier to eat basically raw–none of that rubber mushroom texture to deal with. And I loved all the different textures in the stuffing. I’m going to buy some big portabella mushroom caps one night and just have huge stuffed mushrooms for dinner.

Gotta go, the Glaring Dog wants out and I owe him that at least…