MARCYINCNY1's Dec 2007 CalorieKing Blog

Is it Really Monday?

Monday, December 31st 2007

It doesn't feel at all like Monday, it feels like another Sunday. We woke up to a winter wonderland but the snow's already melting and it's just gonna make the trails more muddy. Phooey.

Meanwhile I've reclaimed the kitchen and got things back to what passes for normal. One thing that's been packed away until next year is the steamed pudding mold:



My mother used to steam puddings in a standard cake mold which she covered with foil. I use this covered mold I bought years ago ...

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Figgy Pudding (on Grandma Donovan's plate)

Friday, December 28th 2007

1/2 cup softened butter
2/3 cup (132g) sugar
1 egg
1 t. vanilla
3/4 t. cinnamon
3/4 cup finely ground dried Calimyrna figs (140g)
1 1/3 cup sifted flour (170g)
3/4 t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
1/3 cup milk

Mix and steam in a mold for 2 1/2 hours.
Serve warm with lemon sauce and/or hard sauce.

Less Damage than Usual

Thursday, December 27th 2007

No setting Cold Moon this morning; it's heavily overcast and now it's raining. I may not get to the park today.

I'm still trying to assess the past week. I think I've made so many changes in my perspective regarding food & diet that I have to really concentrate to see them objectively but in thinking about how I used to do things compared to how I did things this year, the changes really are significant. I think Drs. Roisen and Oz (the RealAge docs) would be proud.

The bottom li...

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Surveying the Damage

Wednesday, December 26th 2007

I'm pooped but not quite done. The oven is such a mess after roasting two geese that I have to do some cleaning by hand before I can set it to self-clean. I want to make goose stock today and do the first reduction before freezing it and I still have a couple of figgy puddings to make/steam.

But the first order of business is hauling my sorry self over the park in the first sunshine we've had in several days. I'm not feeling the least bit guilty about what I've been eating/drinking the l...

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Oh What Happened Here?

Sunday, December 23rd 2007

1632 calories yesterday as best I can figure and all pretty much consumed after 6pm and most of the excess from fat! I don't really know about the sausage; the label on the Portuguese churico seems low at 180 for 3oz but the database lists 387 for chorizo and that's what I used. I have no idea how to figure the small piece of ricotta cake but there was no way I wasn't going to have some after smelling it's heavenly aroma since Friday evening when I pulled it out of the oven.

I think I'm g...

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