weight off week 35

[cornerofmadness]

I'm puzzled as to why I bother. I haven't made progress in all this time. I am looking harder into the aryuvedic healing texts and found that chiles actually help burn fat and decrease ulcers in the stomach (in spite of the fire in the mouth). I like chiles. So here, have a rub made from them. If you add dry rubs to meat, you don't need to add fatty sauces later.



Cocoa Rub

¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ cup of ground cumin
2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons ground coriander
2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp coarsely ground black peppercorns
1 tsp sea salt
1 tsp allspice.

Combine all ingredients and keep in an airtight container out of heat and light. Rub into pork or chicken @ an hour before grilling. Add a tablespoon to bread stuffings.


I ran up today to do the wash thinking I had meetings all week and my surgeon to meet this friday but I'm a week ahead of myself.

Other than that I've been working on springkink stories and class lectures. Oddly enjoy two of the SK stories I've written this time, have had better written, more lyrical and moving (IMO) than stuff I've written professionally. WTF? and WAAAH





okay not the most interesting of pictures, the back of some brat's head, no ghosts so why include it? Most of the time you go in these houses and you never see the servant side so I thought it was cool they led you up thru the opulence and brought you back down on the side where YOU would have been had you been around back then

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

You have a LOT of new eggs. *clicks*

Okay, are you saying you enjoyed writing your SK fics more than some of your original ones more? Because your paragraph is implying that. Or did someone else say it?

And even for servant's stairs look at the wood turned on the bannister spokes. Sheesh.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i do

i am saying i enjoyed certain scenes in 2 of my SK's versus some of my original ones. The sex seems more passionate and less mechanical. Points to the vampire one for instance

I know, right. Isn't it great

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can understand that problem all too well re: Writing.

It is so cool.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

How are you managing to get any new eggs? Since they changed to the "forest/volcano/desert" blah blah format, I can't find anything new or good. :P

I can't lose any weight, either.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there was literally NO ONE there two days ago at 10 pm. I just grabbed everything. It was however hard to find something in 'desert'

it's frustrating that weight crap

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Well, there's never anyone there anymore -- the same "slimy blue" or "speckled" or "livid green hue" sit there endlessly... (whinging, I know.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well yes this is also true

[yuukihikari]

O.o interesting about chiles. Hm. D: Ive supposed to have been a good girl and gone to the gm and eaten properly and whatnot since school started, but the gym facilities at school have been closed because of the Much Annoying Strike. No excuse for not eating properly though :/

Ouuu I like the handrails on those stairs...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's easy to find reasons not to eat properly and doing that is HARD in college. oh geez to the strike

aren't they nice?

[spiderling.livejournal.com]

The bestest burniest but not Mexican fire burn pepper for my money is the Indian chilli bhut jolokia. It has a long slow burn that will make you sweat and it adds a wonderful vinigery tang and a unique flavor. I add it to soups!

http://www.myspicesage.com/?main_page=search&query=bhut%20jolokia

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i do love that and that one was just on a yahoo headline as one of the pricest things you can buy in the produce section. I would definitelyhave to use the online for this since it's not sold around here

[spiderling.livejournal.com]

Really? I wouldn't want to handle it fresh! But the powder is easy to work with! And I'd never heard of it until a couple years ago when I recieved free sample from myspicesage with my asafoetida order. Then I was hooked!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you can probably only get it fresh at the indian markets

you might like the book i'm reading. Healing Spices by Aggarwal & Yost

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

You can grow these yourself. Thompson & Morgan sells the seeds, and I'm pretty sure I've seen them elsewhere, too. I came so close to buying the "chocolate" jolokia this year, but I already had Black Pearl, Red Peter and serrano peppers, so...sigh. T&M also has the regular, red jolokias.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's interesting. does anyone actually trust me to grow peppers that could be used as weapons?

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Well, I know you're good at growing peppers, since you still have your Black Pearl. That means you'd have lots of weapons-grade peppers to deploy on neighbors and co-workers when they annoy you. Or to booby-trap your front porch with when the neighbor kids run across it. I think you and nuclear-strength peppers are a great combination.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahaha i love how you think

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*howls with laughter.*