Birthday Wishes, memes and my sad life.

[cornerofmadness]

First off happy birthday to caffeinified. Hope it was a good one.

And I'm taking a page out of her book and doing the 100 things meme here too (yes that means I'll be doing a total of 200 things but for me that will not be an issue)



{Take the 100 Things challenge! 110 (mostly diabetic) recipes}

Don't know if Caffeinfied will like these but..



Ginger-mint single cup lemonade

1inch of fresh ginger peeled (or 1 tsp of powdered)
1 spring of mint
1-2 oz of water
1 wedge of lemon
1 ½ tsp of honey
1 oz bourbon

Muddle in a glass the ginger, the lemon and the mint. Add the water and the honey and stir well. Add in the bourbon and some crushed ice.


My thoughts on this were: tastes good, easy to make but not as easy as most cocktails. The bourbon made me flash back to nights at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house (I'm not a bourbon drinker).


Grilled rosemary steaks

4 strip steaks
2 tablespoons fresh rosemary
2 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 tsp grated lemon peel
1 tsp black pepper.

Score steaks in a diamond pattern (stabbing with a fork all over works too). Mix all the other ingredients in a bowl. Rub mixture into the steaks. Cover and refrigerate for @ an hour. Take steaks out and let come to room temp so not to shock the meat. Grill to preferred doneness.


Simple. Tasty.

and while mostly these will be separate from other posts in the future, I didn't feel like doing it tonight.

Life today went like this, write, go clean something, write, plant something, write, clean more crap, write, weed, write, OH GOD WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO CLEAN.

Soul amused me today. He wanted to clean himself but he didn't want to get up so he was wiggling on his back, tongue going in and out but he was nowhere near a body part.

It was a good mail day. I got my state income refund and written confirmation of my tenure.

I've already lost track of the days. I don't like not working. oh well summer school starts soon.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Most normal people like time off, you know.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i've had two days this week. bored now

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

come visit

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

can't

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

D:

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

It's been cleaning day around here all day, too. I have to self-clean the oven before I go to bed (fortunately that's a pretty no-brainer no-stress activity.) I even made arrangements today to FINALLY get my car detailed, which it has needed forever.

That rosemary steak recipe sounds absolutely amazing - and I just passed up fresh rosemary at the farm coop Friday, dammit. Hopefully they'll have some next week. I definitely gotta try that recipe out. That would even be good with chicken breasts or pork chops. I love rosemary - and add garlic, lemon, and pepper, and you have a total WIN.

The ginger-mint lemonade sounds good, too, but I never have bourbon on hand - Mr. hg is not a drinker. But then again, that recipe is a good excuse to buy a bottle... it would be handy to cook with, too.... (And truthfully, I wouldn't mind a little shot of Jack now and then... hmmm.... )

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i need to clean the car too. sigh. I loathe cleaning. LOATHE IT

it is good and definitely good on chicken too. You just described the whole mediterrean spice palette there

i bought the bourbon to cook with. I don't particularly like it but i saw this recipe and had to try it. it wasn't bad.

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

yean, well, it probably will come as no surprise then that Greek food is my all-time favorite when it comes to ethnic cuisine. *lol* A lot of work to cook, some of it, but SOOOOOOOO tasty.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

agreed. i do like Greek food

[ishte.livejournal.com]

I actually have the Rosemary Steak recipe stuck to the side of my fridge we liked it so much. It's super low in carbs which is good for both me with insulin resistance and one of my roommates who has full blown type 2 diabetes which he ignored for 10 years after diagnosis until an unpleasant personal infection sent him skulking to the ER one evening where he discovered that it was because his sugar was completely out of control. Now he's relearning his menu and that it doesn't necessarily suck to eat right.

The boozy one sounds yummy, but too much sugar. I'd have to substitute splenda or stevia, but I would not know if that would be enough. I think I'll stick with the Rosemary Steak.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the boozy one isn't bad on sugar and alcohol spikes sugar down so... I mean I'm diabetic. I'm not going to put up anything that's too out of the realm for a diabetic to have.

glad you like the steak though

[ishte.livejournal.com]

I did not know that. How does that work? I suppose it would be too much to hope for that if your blood sugar was through the ceiling you could just have a beer and get it right again! Haha!

[ishte.livejournal.com]

Course I get the pub to put Splenda in my Irish coffee instead of cane sugar. Now I wonder if there is any point...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it wouldn't hurt

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

what happens is your liver can't produce glycogen or break it down while it's busy detoxing the alcohol so while there's an immediate bump up from whatever sugar is in the alcohol the overall effect is lowering.

it's not uncommon to see severe hypoglycemic events in the face of several drinks