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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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We had half of a chicken breast with Alfredo sauce left over from last night and one pack of GF gnocchi in the cupboard. Pauley asked me what I wanted to do for dinner. I said we could dice up the chicken and put some more sauce in the pan and heat it up and spoon it over the gnocchi. The gnocchi only takes 3 minutes to cook.

So we did and OMG it's delicious! I can't wait to get the 12 packs of GF gnocchi so I can experiment with different sauces. This weekend is gonna be the first experiment: garlic pumpkin Alfredo gnocchi with shredded rotisserie chicken. I've had it myself but pauley hasn't ever tried pumpkin in anything savory. I'm very excited.

Delicious food doesn't have to be complicated or unhealthy. I'm a very happy puppy right now.

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Today we got groceries pretty early. I ordered some fancy stuff I can't get from Aldi. But right now 2 of those things that go together are making me super happy. Cinnamon raisin English muffins and cinnamon sugar butter. Holy hell where have they been hiding all my life?!? So delicious!!! I just had 2 of them for a little snack. Or lunch? I dunno, time has no meaning.

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