The sun came out today. It was out yesterday too. This has been very important, because I’ve been in a fit of the blues lately. I think it may have had to do with the cold, and the dark. I’m hoping with slightly warmer weather, my mood will lift – as will my willingness to post things on the blog. I’ve been in such a funk, I haven’t wanted to do anything.

And yes – for now – the Project is dead. I had a bad week of it – and I really felt like I was spending way more on groceries – just for ingredients for the Project – which was killing my budget – and at this point, I can’t justify the expense in making a whole lot of dishes that don’t lend themselve to left overs, and that didn’t go over very well. It was also affecting my weight loss. So – the Project is dead for now. Though it may come back for special occasions.

I need to get back on track with my weight loss – which means I need to stop the emotional eating. And baking stuff for people that is high in carbs and not good for me at all. So, hopefully I’ll be able to do that.

I do have some reviews coming – I just need to find pictures and put them in the post.

Welcome spring, even if it’s still a bit chilly – you are very much welcome and needed.

It is just so ironic, that the week I manage to get the podcast out about my goals for the year, that I’ve completely fall off the wagon.  So to be honest – here’s how my goals stand:

Weigh less – I’m off my eating plan and haven’t weighed myself in a week.  I’ve also been eating like crap due to the storm.
Knit More – I’ve actually burned through some yarn.  I’m another ball in on my cardigan, and I finished up my hats for the Boom Effect.  And I started a pair of socks.
Stuff in the Basement – last week – instead of exercising like I had intended, I instead emptied five boxes, and filled three trash bags, and bag for donation.  And made sure that stuff was gone.
The Project – I have not been able to bring my self to cook this week.  Time is running out, since I’m going to be going to Farpoint this weekend, and will be in a hotel, instead of in my kitchen.  I’ve got three of the dishes planned out – so since tomorrow is supposed to be a snow day – maybe I can get at least three done.  As for the veggie dish – I may need to catch up with that in a later week.  I’m not sure what I’ll do. Read the rest of this entry

In this episode, Sara and I talk about our goals for 2010, and our submission for The Boom Effect.  And MA has technical issues and loses the best part of the podcast.

Better show notes in a future episode

Promos:

The Balicon Podcast
The Empress Sword

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Another week down!  I’m almost 10% of the way there.  Slow and steady is the way to go?  Anyway – today’s dish is a dessert dish called No-Pan Pear Pie.  And pound cake is one of the ingredients.  Now this seems like sacrilege – how can there be cake in pie?  Isn’t there an ancient feud between pie and cake?  Then how can they exist together in the same dish?  It’s a little shocking.  Now AB calls this not a true pie, but a fruit gallette.  So maybe it’s okay for cake to be in a gallette.  But – this is not the whole way that this dish is deceptive.  There are not only pears in the pie.  There are blueberries!  So – the question I ask the great Alton Brown – why not call it No-Pan Pear/Blueberry Pie?  Maybe it was the whole alliteration thing.

20 Recipes down, 188 to go.

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Sigh.  It’s week 5.  Week 4’s dishes were done last night at the time.  I had hoped to go for a gold star again this week, but I had to spend an hour an a half one the phone with Turbo Tax, trying to figure out why my tax information for last year had up and disappeared, since I’ve been using their online service since my 2001 taxes.  Yeah.  So no No-Pan Pear Pie, that actually has cake and blue berries in it.  Yeah – that’s a weird one.  Instead we had a meal, I’m going to call the Big Hot Mess.  Because really – nothing went right.

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I’m an early riser. I get up earlier than anyone else in my family. It’s actually helpful on weekends, I’m most productive in the morning, so if I get up, I can get all sorts of stuff done before the rest of the family rises.

This morning, I had every intention of getting up and doing the much needed cooking on the Project. I found lard at the grocery store today, and was going to work on my Biscuit Progression, as AB shows us in We’re Just Here For More Food. And I was going to make other meals.

Then I started getting my recipes together. I’m out of several key ingredients for stuff I planned to make this weekend (which would be week four and week five of the project. Damn. Now I still could have made biscuits and eggs, but I couldn’t find the shortening, though I know I had some.

So instead, I used my early morning time to record the last part of the next podcast, explaining why the show was cut off. That was a succes, and I should be able to finish the podcast this weekend.

But the cooking – will have to wait till later. We need to go get Dan’s passport, and go get eye examinations for the both of us. So – cooking when I get home. Will I make my goal for this week of the Project? Signs point to probably not. I will try, but this week really kicked my ass. Sigh. I wasn’t hoping to lose momentum so soon. But tomorrow is another day. And another week.