foodieadventures

I decided to do IQ Joe instead of brewing coffee. Pauley made it for me. I have hazelnut flavor IQ Joe and she mixed it with some eggnog hot chocolate mix and some sucralose and some almond milk. It was delicious! I swear it tastes better when she makes it. But I'm sad. Someone drank my bottle of coffee. Now I gotta go make more. I think I'm gonna also get some veggies and some hummus for dipping. Maybe some hearts of palm and some mushrooms. Maybe a few sugar snap peas.

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I was feeling peckish so I went to see what I had. I got lots of yummy veggies from Aldi today and yesterday I got dill pickle hummus. So I got some sugar snap peas, cucumber, and mushrooms and dipped them in the hummus. It was delicious! The hummus is so good. My favorite is the mushrooms.

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I was feeling very little and made some potato smilies and some toaster scrambles for lunch. I dipped them in dill pickle hummus. It was nummy.

My vision is really bothering me. My eyes keep going into double vision and it takes conscious effort to refocus. It's a lot of strain on my eyes. They're very sore. Just 2 and a half weeks till I see the surgeon. I can handle the wait, I've been dealing with the double vision for about 2 years now.

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Pauley heated up some pork carnitas for us tonight. I took a tortilla and melted a big fistful of queso quesadilla cheese on it. Then I put some of the carnitas on the tortilla and folded over the flapflaps. The only thing missing was guacamole. It was really yummy.

We're doing chicken tomorrow. We took a bag out of the freezer today. I gotta figure out what I want to do with it.

The infection on my boob is stingy but doesn't really hurt. But it's the size of a dime. My doctor said just keep it clean and put Neosporin and a bandaid on it. She said not to drain it anymore.

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We really are hooked on the gnocchi. Or at least I am. I made cheesy GF garlic bread and I'm going to make the sauce. If you want to play along with me at home, and frankly who doesn't, the sauce is 2 parts 4 cheese Alfredo and 1 part pumpkin puree. It's ridiculously good.

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I was craving sweet and salty. Yesterday I got 2 boxes of instant sticky rice. I have a bottle of Japanese BBQ sauce in my fridge which just tastes like sweet teriyaki. I've got popcorn chicken. And I've got salt free garlic and herbs blend seasoning. I did a little bit of my kitchen magic and created a sweet BBQ teriyaki chicken rice bowl. OMG it's so good! The only thing that was missing was some steamed broccoli. But next time I'll remember.

Just before lunch today I called my cardiologist and my doctor answered. I told her my feet hurt and are very swollen and stiff and the pitting goes up to my knees. She said "are you elevating your legs? I don't know what to tell you." And then she said we'll look at my legs at my next appointment on March 2something.

Then I called my headache clinic. I had an appointment scheduled for April but my doctor said if I wanted to do occipital nerve block I can schedule sooner. So I have that appointment on March 11th.

I've got the octopus test with my neuro-ophthalmologist on Tuesday and I'm getting labs done on Wednesday. My break from appointments was short. Time to dive back in.

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Pauley is vacuuming. We talked about dinner and I asked her to get me a small casserole dish, a piece of chicken, and the seasoning blend of her choosing. She was like...why? Are you eating? And I explained I'm making popcorn chicken so I can make a burrito. She decided she'd rather just make herself some sausage. We'll play with the chicken tomorrow. We're gonna cook a few breasts and shred them with the KitchenAid mixer. Then we can put some in the fridge and some in the freezer. I can make quesadillas for her and burritos for me. I got GF corn flour tortillas today for her. I tried ordering some egglife brand egg white wraps but they didn't have any. She's very anti sandwich and anti burrito but I think she'd really enjoy a cheese and chicken quesadilla. I'm slowly teaching her about how ingredients are meant to work together to create complex flavors. Most of her life she's just eaten the ingredients individually. Just recently I taught her about adding shredded cheese to shredded pork carnitas and she loves it. Baby steps.

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I'm having chocolate chip banana waffles with cinnamon sugar butter for lunch because I'm an adult... And because pauley is asleep. I made a bottle of IQ Joe cuz I was craving coffee but I didn't feel like making a pot. I was gonna make some cinnamon toast waffles so I could make a sandwich with cheese and turkey but I got excited about banana. They're really yummy! I only put cinnamon sugar butter on them, no syrup. It's just sweet enough.

Today is starting pretty good.

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