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June 25, 2005
The Goddess Triumphant -- And Bearing Hors d'Oeuvres
This afternoon I'll be going to a fundraiser for a US Congressperson at the home of one of my co-workers. It's a significant event because the last time I went to this co-worker's house, it was also for a fundraising party for this Congressperson (then candidate) and I had one of those realization-of-health-crisis moments that led me to start CR.
It was Februrary 27, 2004, just a month before that bright and glorious March 26th when I embarked upon my CR journey. I had spent what seemed like forever trying to find an outfit I wanted to wear because at 137 lbs, I felt like everything I put on made me look fat. I got to the party early because I was helping out with the food, and ate a ton of bread with cream cheese based dips before the guests even arrived. I stood around munching on deviled eggs, brie and crackers, and watching everyone else in the room do the same.
At some point I went up to the bathroom, and I have this distinct memory of looking in the mirror and being so horrified at the direction in which my health was going that I thought to myself, "This must stop."
I spent the rest of the evening eating and drinking and feeling out of control, fat, and powerless to do anything about it.
To paraphrase Don Henley, I dropped down and I called out to heaven send me some wy to save my own life. Heaven shot back, you get the health you create for yourself. And I started CR.
Now, 33 pounds lighter, in the best health of my life, I will return to the scene of my dramatic revelatory moment in triumph. In a really fantastic blue dress that I couldn't have gotten into this time a year ago. And bearing a tray of delicous CR friendly finger foods.
Remember how I got that book High Calcium, Low Calorie as a present from my friend whose wedding I was in? It had lots of recipes using fat free ricotta, so I started using ffr and have discovered that I love it. For only 60 calories in a fourth of a cup, you get 30% of the RDA of calcium. Now that's a steal. In a truly MR-esque move, I noted the other day that ffr was on sale, 2 for $4 instead of the usual 1 for $2.99, and decided to make a ffr dish for this party so I could take advantage of the sale. I also bought 5 twelve packs of TAB while they were on sale, 5 for $10, marked down from the usual 1 twelve pack for $2.99. That's a savings of $5! I am starting to get the hang of this buying food on sale thing, and may have to acquire a larger house to accomodate all my stockpiles.
Anyway, here's the recipe for Goddess Triumphant Pizza Bites:
multiple red peppers, organic or well washed
fat free ricotta
fresh basil, washed and diced
half salt
garlic powder
1 can tomato paste
extra virgin olive oil
Slice the red peppers such that each red pepper yields four pieces that are slightly concave. Mix the tomato paste with a tablespoon of evoo and spread a thin layer of tomato mixture on the inside of all the red peppers. Mix the ricotta with garlic powder and half salt to taste, spread ricotta mixture on top of the tomato mixture on top of the red peppers. Sprinkle with diced basil. Serve cold on a pretty dish.
Not sure on the exact crunch because it depends on the size of your scoops of ffr and your peppers, but it's a very low calorie dish for a fairly high volume. It's even vaguely, though not perfectly, Zoned... just like me, vaguely but not perfectly Zoned.
May the Goddess accept this humble sacrifice of red peppers and fat free ricotta as a sign of our gratitude for our new life in CR. And until the dawn of radical anti-aging biomedicine when she comes in triumph, bearing drugs that will reverse biological aging and wearing a fabulous outfit, let us keep the (low calorie) feast.
Posted by april at June 25, 2005 3:05 AM
Comments
A new recipie!!!
Thankyouthankyouthankyou April!
Posted by: Jacob at June 25, 2005 9:21 PM