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January 30, 2006
Scallops, Advice
Just made dinner for a good friend of mine who comes to me for relationship advice. I am better with nutrition advice, but I am fairly good at decoding the behavior of girls. It always makes me feel so relieved that I am straight... girls are so complicated! How do lesbians do it? They are clearly much smarter than I am, cause I have all I can handle with the much simpler male.
Here was dinner:
Salad:
50 g kale
69 g grapefruit
39 g tomato
10 g almonds
sake wasabi vinegarette with red wine vinegar
Entree:
scallops cooked in fire roasted tomatoes
(100 g scallops for me, twice that much for my friend)
artichokes, 60 cals for him, none for me
64 g olives, more for him
1 teaspoon flax oil
Dessert:
Apple Cinnamon pizzas!
I am exhausted from a long day, and tomorrow will be no less tiring. Day long hearings before the Labor Board, and I have to come up with something to pack for lunch. Am thinking I will throw a megamuffin, a Quorn dog, or both, into my handbag to eat for lunch.
My friend says a friend of his says that you shouldn't settle till you find someone whose baggage matches yours.
Here's my relationship advice:
Don't settle until you've found someone who considers your baggage either neutral or cute. Don't settle until you've found someone who loves you the way you are. Don't settle until you find someone who shares your core beliefs... and is willing to fight for them.
Don't settle until you've found someone slightly orange... or maybe that's just me. I think there is nothing sexier than beta carotene.
Posted by april at January 30, 2006 9:58 PM
Comments
you beta-carotene fetishist!
You wonder what lesbians do because girls are so complicated?
We fuck, suffer fuck and suffer suffer and suffer, than we kidnap some cutie pie, teach her the ropes, have some great sex, and we let her go if she wants to, then we come upon the right one sometime. The one we can share life with... They are very few and in between, but they exist nevertheless. Then we fall in love and become taken.
But we always look for the next one, the next pleasure, the next sensation... We never stop...
Hopefully, our partner understands it, since she is a lesbian too and just loves girls from a sexual point of view...
Posted by: zeynep at January 30, 2006 9:00 PM
Lesbians spend a lot of time complaining about how difficult girls are, that's what we do :)
I'm a new reader, I've really been enjoying working my way through the archieves. I'm not CR, and I'm not particularly interested in life extension at the moment, but I've learned a lot about nutrition from you! And I'm definitely interested in the short-term effects of CR, I really notice a difference when I clean up my eating. I'm kind of in the midst of some eating issues at the moment, but someday I'd like to eat more or less like you do - plenty of protein, good fats, veggies and fruit, and the smallest amount of gak possible :)
I recently learned how to make a new dish you might be interested in - it's a Japanese savory steamed egg custard, called chawan mushi. Basically you mix a little egg (I just use the whites, of course), some broth or stock (dashi or chicken) and steam it. I like to add some soy sauce to the egg/dashi mixture (before steaming). It's very good and you can eat a whole bowl full for the calories in 1-2 egg whites (plus a little sodium). Usually people add veggies and/or shrimp, but I love the texture without them. There's a pretty good reciepe/explanation of the technique here: http://brunch.allrecipes.com/az/72231.asp or you can google "chawan mushi" for recipes.
and I'm excited to try a bunch of your recipes!
Posted by: Emily at January 30, 2006 10:34 PM