100 things #3 Sautéed Kale With Beans & Pancetta

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( #3 Sautéed Kale With Beans & Pancetta )

This turned out better than expected. It's not necessarily a diabetic recipe but overall is a good one for diabetics (If you're worried about fat, omit the pancetta). I got this from one of my Italian cooking rss feeds and with my usual brilliance forgot to notate where it's from. Kale is a particularly healthy dark leafy green that doesn't get a lot of play. It can be bitter and mostly unfamiliar and that's usual why people avoid it. Cooked well, it's tasty and this is was very tasty, not bitter at all (the salt can help with that).

It helps to remove the stems from the leaves before cooking. Also if you can't find pancetta or it's too pricey, bacon can be used though the dish will have a smokier taste (not that that is a bad thing). You could use this as a side dish or a main vegeterian course.

Well now my vacuum is bunged up

yeah spring cleaning sucks. Somehow or other vacuuming ended up with it going up the hose attachment which is now compacted from top to bottom with cat hair, my hair and cheap fucking carpet fibers. I can't figure out how to take it apart. Guess I better google it.

Have had a migraine for three days now. I broke down and took my OTC migraine medicine which is basically one tylenol, one aspirin and caffeine. I've been avoiding it because of my stomach but I took half a dose. I might as well have drank battery acid. I've been gagging up pink mucus all day, hello gastritis my old friend. Have some tums? still no? Double my prilosec? a little better but dinner wasn't much tonight. I have to make a doctor's apt outside of Holzer. I was screwed over by the gastroenterologist there. My PC thinks I need another scope. The bloody mucus would suggest that too (and no I'm not that nervous about it, this has been my life since I was 12). I'm not going to another guy in that practice. I've been jerked around by two of them. Time to find someone new.

On the upside, the apartment looks better than it has in a year. It still looks a mess but it looks less like a hoarder lives here.

I think Kanda loves having no Soul. He's been playing all day. He's been in the tub. He's been running around. He's been TALKING to me. Either he's happy or he's terrified he's next.

I had to run to walmart, the DMV and the library today. Yesterday the neighbor everyone hates (well they hate her husband) knocks on the door and offers me money to drive them to the truck stop so they can pick up stuff for their vehicle. I told her no because i had to go to the vet but I could do it today and I told her when (not that I really want to do it mind you but she's a disabled old woman and I feel like I ought to act like the so-called good christians in this place say to do but utterly fail to do). I go knock but no one was there so maybe they found a way there.

So the DMV got devestated by the rains this past week but at least they had the part that gives you the tag was open. The library ordered me two Holly Black graphic novels. I do love my library (another reason to live in the Jackson area) and I was NOT going to buy any plants. The bastards at walmart had them right at hte door and I have no will power.I got oregano, and some flowering stuff and spurge.

( NCIS finale, spoilers )

I'm kinda hoping I can sleep without coughing up stomach juice into my lungs and getting pneumonia again (as if all this dust and mildew isn't going to do that in the first place). I need to take a picture of how damaged my kitchen door got from the rain.

Good news in the writing side of life

One I did edit Machiavelli Moon today (one day after posting my schedule I flip flop monday/tuesday).

But better than that I have this: coming soon

click on the link and check it out. My 1930's urban fantasy m/m erotica is on the coming soon page. Also check out the cover art. It's gorgeous. I'm thrilled. How exciting is this? Feel free to pimp it to anyone you know who might be interested.

Those who might be interested in a review copy PM me where to send it. All I ask is for you to post a review on amazon/goodreads and whereever else you'd care to. Thanks