Coffee. Lots of cream, lots of sugar.

Coffee. BLACK LIKE MY SOUL.

And ice cold?

Nah, fresh and hot. I haven't had much experience with iced coffee. There is a place in town, though, that has something called Nitro Coffee AND IT IS AMAZING.

Made a now extremely rare stop at Subway on the way home from today's medical appointment. Bought a foot-long Italian BMT as that was the $6 Special. Gotta say my low opinion of their sammiches hasn't improved. It served as an edible change of pace but that's the best I can say for it. (I think I'd like their sammiches better were the bread more robust.)

The ones here have flavored bread, and they will lightly toast it and melt your cheese for you too (which helps the taste of the sandwich tremendously). I get the "Hot Pepper-Jack" cheese = which also helps big time. Then a bunch of green peppers, black olives, and a dash of their house oil and vinegar and it is all pretty good.

Don't ever make the mistake of asking for tomatoes there, they are so tasteless that they can taint your whole sandwich and make the whole experience unsatisfactory.

Today is experimental recipe day! Khajiit found a recipe for a doctored up ramen noodle dish on the interwebz and decided to play with it. It's ramen noodles, chicken, and stir fried vegetables (Khajiit is just using broccoli and mung bean sprouts) in a peanut sauce.

*update*
Two things:
1. Ramen noodles have an awful texture. With a firmer noodle (like rice noodles perhaps), this recipe would've been more successful.
2. The recipe called for you to dump the whole sauce mixture into the skillet you cook the veggies in. This one thinks simply adding the sauce in increments at the end would have been better.

Yeah, I think all Subways offer both toasted and heated (in a microwave) bread options. As to veggies, I like olives too, on most but not all their sammiches. Green peppers aren't a favorite, but I get 'em on occasion. Onion was, for much of my life, my favorite sammich veggies, but I've lost a bit of my taste for them this past year or so. (Which doesn't stop me from asking for them.) I do usually ask for tomatoes but agree they are tasteless...just like the ones I have at home. <sighs> Their lettuce is blase, but then all lettuce is blase. Well, the iceberg lettuce I can afford is. I often ask for a few hot peppers spread evenly across the length of the sammich. As to cheese, I tend to rotate between several variety depending on what I order. Haven't yet given Pepper Jack cheese a fair evaluation, I must admit.

Not as big on Subway as I use to be, but a Cold Cut Combo has been my standard for years.

Here they don't heat the bread in a microwave or steamer, but on a kind of grill type toaster oven made just for toasting bread in loaf form.

I always buy Roma tomatoes for a better taste = NEVER Beefeaters. So when I go to Subway, I do not ask for tomatoes, (they use the worst of the Beefeaters) = I bring the sandwich home and slice up some good Roma tomatoes onto it. Makes a huge difference from trying to eat their tomatoes.

I think you can get spinach leaves there now, but I just stick with the iceberg lettuce. My palate still enjoys its delicate flavor, lol.

I am pretty sure what you are experiencing is the medicinally caused loss of your taste buds. Some of the medications you are on are probably interfering with your ability to taste. The thing is, if they (the meds you have to take) are critical for your life, then giving up taste is just something you are going to have to live with. You probably have had to eliminate salt from your diet too, and MSG; so you have to get creative to find flavor that can overcome the dulled taste buds.

I'm just always happy to hear you having such a healthy appetite! It always makes me feel like whatever your health issues are, you will be stronger than they are.






Not much you can do to or for Ramen Noodles, lol. I always add a touch of hot sauce; and sometimes either add some peas or mixed vegetables or poach an egg in it while it cooks. You can drain off the fluid, melt a touch of real butter in it and sprinkle parmesan cheese over it; but what it all boils down to is = can't make a silk purse gourmet meal out of a sow's ear Ramen Noodles.

Not to say I don't eat them frequently, but ... they are quick, easy, and cheap to buy;

I'm eating goulash, I loves this stuff.

Made a nice chicken salad yesterday.

Dice up: chicken meat, sweet pickles, celery, onion.

Add: macadamia nuts (walnuts or pecans work fine), black pepper, curry powder, salt, mayo, sour cream

Mix above together. Fold in some halved grapes (green or red). Chill. Enjoy.

Very nice with a goblet of Tamikas (white zin works fine) and some crackers.

Huevos con queso y chili con Andouille sausage! That is right, I said it.

We had chili leftover from last night's dinner = that was made with Andouille sausage. I shredded some Colby-Jack cheese over my eggs when I turned them over, then when the cheese melted I put a scoop of hot chili over it = MMMMMM !!!!! Delish !!!

Oooh, that does sound awesomely delicious!

It was amazing!!!!!

Just finished eating a bowl of mixed grapes and dates.

Better stay close to a restroom for the next couple days, lol.

Mmmm, fiber!

Trying something new for me this week. Instead of a banana, wheat toast with butter substitute and jelly substitute, and a glass of milk for breakfast, I'm ditching toast/butter/jelly for Oatmeal with sugar substitute, cinnamon and a fruit mixed in. I bought strawberries for the fruit, and like them well enough. Problem is, I like milk with bananas, but drink milk only at breakfast (except those lunched when I have Wowbutter sammiches). I'm gonna go with bananas in tomorrow morning's breakfast and hope for the best. When I'll eat those strawberries is anyone's guess.

Another consideration, a one-serving size bowl of oatmeal is more filling than I'm used to at breakfast. I feel bloated after eating it. More bloated than I want to be at any rate. Now, so long as I don't gain weight, feeling bloated isn't a lease breaker. We shall see, I reckon.

Forgot to mention that I'm making this change after watching a YouTube video that numbers strawberries, cinnamon and oatmeal as "healthy" foods to eat.

ROFL !!!

I have also switched to a small bowl of oatmeal since the cold weather started setting in. I put a tiny bit of dark brown sugar in mine, and a dash of cinnamon.

Khajiit likes honey, cinnamon, a shake or two of cayenne pepper powder, dried cranberries, and either chopped walnuts or almonds in his oatmeal. It also must be made with milk and not water.

Hmmm...an interesting list of ingredients. Cayenne powder seems out of place somehow, but what do I know? Alas, nuts are a no no for me, being potential migraine triggers. Same with honey. Odd that. I've never seen honey mentioned on any official migraine trigger list. Yet I've had too many attacks following meals which included honey to not avoid it. I've thought of of substituting milk for water, but like oatmeal well enough as is, and besides drink a full grass of milk at breakfast. That being the case, milk in oatmeal seems overkill.

BTW, I switched from strawberries to banana this morning. Worked out rather well. Better than strawberries, truth be told. Think I'll go that route for the time being. I plan to continue eating strawberries for health reasons. Not sure which non breakfast meal I'll settle on, if it even matters.

The honey and cranberries make it sweet and the cinnamon and cayenne make it a bit spicy (Khajiit is not talking about a lot of heat here, but just a slight hint of it)! This one loves the combination of sweet and spicy.

An Arby's deep fried turkey sandwich. It is surprisingly good.

Oooh, Khajiit may have to try that at some point soon!

Bread pudding with butterscotch sauce:

Sounds like a great breakfast, lol

It was supposed to be my dessert last night, but I fell asleep waiting for it to cool, lol.

Well breakfast is supposed to be sweet anyway! One time in N'awlins, Khajiit had creme brûlée French toast. Needless to say, it was awesome.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grapes, Broccoli, Prunes, Cheetos and Root Beer.

What a combination!

But tasty .

Khajiit will take your word for it

A much younger me would have ditched Broccoli, and Prunes. The now me would ditch Cheetos and Root Beer. Both mes would ditch prunes, which I've never developed a liking for. (To be fair, I've not reevaluated prunes in decades.)

Good news of a sort, during today's weekly weight reading I weighed 140lbs, as I have for quite some time. Looks like switching to oatmeal for breakfast isn't going to ruin me. I'll want to keep a close eye on the scales another couple of weeks to be sure. (I'd prefer to be 135lbs, as I've always felt my pathetic best between 128lbs and there. But...to drop below 140 I need to do a more strenuous exercise routine than I am now able to. Some jogging mixed in with my exercise-walks at the least, which my knees no longer tolerate.)

Anybody ever eat a Date? (Not the bad ones!) I've always wanted to try one, but never met a single person who has them. S'pose I ought to just buy some for a taste.

Khajiit's mind went to a very dark place when he read that first part, lol.

But yeah, they can't be that expensive so just try them for yourself. This one suspects they are like oversized raisins.

Only dried ones, not fresh. Every other fruit you can get both ways, I've eaten both kinds, but dates are the exception.

Wikipedia says they're grown in California, but that Italy is too cool for them(?)

They taste like prunes but sweeter with the texture of a banana.

My man - er, cat - er, cute thing.


Hoi.

I recommend a Ploughman's Lunch consisting of


* One cracked biscuit
* Spread-out, highly processed cheese
* One small, pickled onion


All expired years ago and served from a small, plastic bag. Enjoy!

*Khajiit vomits*

Sofa Man's recommendation!



No, wait. The other one..

Still auditioning my oats/cinnamon/sugar-substitute/banana breakfast. Other than the health benefits of adding oatmeal and cinnamon to my diet, I've this to consider:

PLUS
...totally removes my jelly/jam/preserves expenditure.
...reduces my bread expenditure by roughly a third.
...reduces my butter substitute expenditure by roughly a third.

MINUS
...adds an oats expenditure.
...adds a cinnamon expenditure.
...increases my super substitute expenditure by roughly a third.

Oats and jelly pretty much cancel each other out.
My current thought is that remaining minuses outweigh remaining pluses, but not enough so to worry over. Depends on how fast I run through containers of cinnamon.

Pork chop marinated in citric juice with cherry tomatoes; a combo of (steamed) winter and summer squash bite-sized cuts; with cantalope cuts for dessert. It was Mmmm-good!

I'm sticking with my switch to an oatmeal based breakfast. One possible cause for concern...this week's weigh-in found me about a pound heavier than my now normal 140lb. That's within acceptable fluctuation, so long it doesn't prove to be the first sign of steady weight gain.

Due to yet another week of rather rancid looking apples at Walmart, I settled for a variety unknown to me...ambrosia. If the batch I bought is representative, they're not for me. I like sweet apples. While ambrosias are sweet, it's a mild sweetness, too much so for my liking. (Last week's Fuji were about the yummiest I've bought this year.)

Little over a week until T-day, the one day of the year I eat a traditional "meat & potatoes" type meal. As last year, my bro and I will dine at his "city's" one true American style all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant. (Its one local rival, which we preferred, went belly up.) It's one of those rare times I don't worry about health and weight and pig out to my heart's content...within reason. No dessert...I draw the line there and will not cross it.