She has nice what??

I’ve been feeling poorly, so I had vodka with pomegranate juice for dinner. Antiseptic with antioxidants.

Just made avgolemono soup for dinner. Yum!

It's not difficult to make, and so healthy delicious!

Serves 2

Heat 2 TBS olive oil in a soup pot over medium high heat.

Cut up 8 ounces of boneless chicken breast into bite sized pieces. Season with salt and fresh-ground black pepper. Toss into the oil and cook for 5 minutes. Set aside on dish.

Add half an onion, diced, one celery stalk, diced, and handful of baby carrots, diced with 2TBS of chopped fresh thyme (can use 1/2 TBS of dry) and cook for five minutes, or until onions are tender.

Add 2 1/2 cups of low-sodium chicken broth to pot, bring to boil. Add 1/2 cup orzo. Simmer for 8 minutes, or until orzo is tender. Reduce heat to keep soup hot but not boiling.

Heat another 1/2 cup of low-sodium chicken broth in a small saucepan until hot but not boiling. Beat one egg. Gently whisk 1 1/2 TBS of fresh squeezed lemon juice into egg. Gently whisk warm chicken broth into lemon-egg mixture. Note: This tempers the egg so it doesn't solidify on you.

Add lemon-egg-broth mixture to soup, gently stirring or whisking all the while to keep everything well mixed. The egg mixture will thicken the soup and make it amazingly creamy without getting all heavy. Season to taste with salt and black pepper.

You can serve it with a side of green salad, or with crusty bread (my favorite is Gonnella's - the long French-style bread that Al Capone loved so much), or by itself, as my mother and I usually do.

Right...I'm sure the buzz is good as well XD

EDIT: i decided to cook a bag of pinto beans on a whim, since they've been sitting in our pantry in case of emergencies, and we have nothing else. Not bad at all.

Soup from a tin #studentlife

Cold turkey and cranberry sauce on a soft roll. Yay Thanksgiving!

Pumpkin pie and coffee for breakfast. Yay Thanksgiving x2!

Mmmm...Having finished the morning slog on my sunday of weekend working...Grrrr...I decided to break out the emergency microwavable faux-McMuffin...Mmmmm...Heated greasy carboard... ...

Oh, and the obligatory PG Tips...Oh yeah!!...

Snickers and coffee

Pea soup and pomegranate juice. For breakfast.

A couple of apple bakes and a cup of tea. A nice mid-afternoon snack

Breakfast here. Milk, OJ, banana, coffee and a quart of water. Booorrrring.

Rustlers Chicken and Mayo sub.

Ew, what?!?!

Well, not together. I tell you, today, between the pomegranate juice and the Fresca, I feel like I should've mixed a cocktail or something.

Shreddies and a cuppa fer me brekkie

10:47 here. Breakfast time.

Some homeade orange juice freshly peeled and blended and eggs and ham and bread.

Stir-fried peppers and onions with rice. Leftovers.

Tomato soup, with a buttered home bake half baguette fresh from the oven.

A late lunch, and bloody good.

Grrr! I'm getting hungry reading all this yumminess.

Coffee now, but pizza later.

Me too, and now when you mentioned pizza I got cravings for frozen pizza!

I made some eggnog for my teacher's retirement surprise party.

Guava! With larvae/mites inside!

Yum!

At first I was like what the hell are those pale, squirmy things in there? Then I saw the others eating them like it was no big deal and finding out they eat it regardless, I decided not to waste my fruit.

In any case it´s gotta be so much better than what you get at a McDonalds restaurant!

D:

The larvae are gut-loaded with guava. Best larvae ever.

Wait, if they're larvae loaded with guava, shouldn't they be called guarvae?

-groans-

Brownies.

Too many brownies.

Too much sugar

Ugghhhhh.

Ate pizza a few hours ago

We’ve been flooded with cookie gifts since I’m not baking this year, and Mr. Grits just brought home a bunch of treats from the local frozen custard stand. (It was 70 degrees today, but they stay open all winter even when it gets chilly.) Sugar shock. Good thing we have more cookies.

Tea and sandwiches

(Btw Grits, 70 degrees??? )

I live in the US, so that’s 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Also I live in the southeast, which means that a warm day in the winter is unusual but not unheard of. Mr. Grits and the kids are heading to the beach until Monday to take advantage of the weather. Yes, they will be swimming. (I’m still on the injured list, no car ride for me.)

And this morning I’m eating rosemary-pepper almonds with my tea. The damned cookie tin is winking at me!

A lunchable. Everyone here is a jerk for flaunting the sugar XD

Leftover bhindi bhaji from the restaurant up the street. SO good. I should never cook for myself again.

And more tea. Constant Comment, a spiced tea that I’m sure is familiar to all residents and former residents of the mid-Atlantic states. When I was growing up everyone’s house had a hint of Constant Comment in the air. Anyway, it's keeping me out of the cookies.

Mmm. Constant Comment.

In preparation for the laterness...

For Xmas dinner we shall be having chicken wrapped in bacon with side-order of apple sausages, roast potatoes, carrots and gravy...Oh, and some stuffing-ball stuff...Possibly the wife will have Yorkshire Puds too...She wanted parsnips too, but she forgot to get them from the Mother-in-law's...(BWAHAHHAAA!)...

We don't go overboard...We used to, but we always cooked too much...So age and experience have whittled it down to the stuff we like most...

Oh, pudding will be chocolate cake and cream...Mmmmm...I likes that...

All of this will be washed down with a decent cup of tea for me, cider for the wife and some sort of coke/lemonade or squash for the kids...

Tea will likely be cheese and ham filled pitta-breads...Before I settle down with my SOUTHERN COMFORT!!!!!...*Cough*...And Doctor Who on the tele...*Sighs contentedly*...

Bet you're all well-jell aren't you?... ...

I am utterly jelled!! My kids are doing the cooking this year, so we’re having spaghetti dinner. We all like spaghetti so that’s not quite as dire as it sounds, but I expect there will be roast beast on the menu as soon as I’m off the injured list.

Mr. Grits was in charge of the lunch, so we will be having cheese. Luckily I have some dried fruit, crackers, and nuts to add to the plate. Otherwise it would be breakfast: cinnamon rolls. Lunch: cheese.

But I peeked last night, and he got a bunch of very good cheese.

This year's Christmas bakery selections from me:

Bread: Cranberry Walnut celebration loaf. It's an enriched sweetened bread filled with a generous portion of cranberries and walnuts, shaped in the traditional double-decker 3-braid loaf (which you see quite a lot if you are Jewish and you serve Challah for Hannukah).

Dessert is homemade apple pie, my own secret formula, which I am told is quite tasty.

The roast this year will be ham, as well as my signature mashed potatoes, butternut squash puree in place of yams, and our guests will be bringing a salad and green beans.

I got a giant pack of Whipsa bars....bit disapointed it isn't one big bar though.

Lots.

Christmas dinner was homemade lasagna and red wine!

Oh my god, we had ham, turkey, potato salad, greenbean casserole, pies, cookies, cheesecake, and every damn thing was made from scratch!

Delicious! We have homemade cheesecake too, but that's coming in an hour or so.

A key.

I'm not even lying here, I'm eating a key. A giant chocolate key. Yuuuuum!

My ma got me a [censored] bag of ghirardelli chocolate squares for Christmas, lol. Yum

I'm drinking something of my own invention, although I'm sure thousands of people drank it before I did. It is a mixture of hot chocolate, ice, and peppermint schnapps. Tastes like a peppermint patty. It is delicious.

Tea and Rolo Pretzel Candies.