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March 18, 2008
Celery Dreams
I woke up in the middle of the night thinking that I should stuff celery sticks with kalamata olive tapenade. Then I started thinking of all the other things you could stuff celery with, like a roasted red pepper nonfat cream cheese, or a hummus. Then I thought, I should write about this. It's a bread-less CR friendly appetizer finger food. Great to bring to parties. Then I tried unsuccessfully to get back to sleep. I am still an insomniac.
I went back to sleep and had dreams of having an argument with my partner in running the union. We've been working together for five and a half years, usually blissfully harmoniously, but we do argue from time to time. I woke up and gave up on sleep (not the imaginary argument.) MR was already up. He's not as bad an insomniac as he used to be, but he still wakes up earlier than he wants to sometimes. Which in our house means before 4:53 am. We get up at what most would consider an obscenely early hour of the day, but I for one like to go to bed early. It's 8:40 pm, I've just finished work, and I will be asleep within twenty minutes.
As soon as Danny C calls me in a report and I write it to Edward and everyone can go to bed knowing that every nurse in the hospital knows what the plan is for our upcoming event.
I need a vacation.
This weekend I am going to my dad's for Easter! I'll get to hang out with my beautiful, fun grandmother, eat dinner at her community dining room, which is so cool because there's unlimited salad, a free glass of wine, always a baked or steamed fish, very healthy. Giant fresh cut fruit bowl. Then we'll go to my Dad's church for Easter services.
Today's food was good and very quotidian. Eggwhites, brewers yeast, Texas Pete, nonfat cheese, flax oil for breakfast. At lunch me, Danny C, Susie hit the gym for an hour, then I had my quotidian salad with yogurt and parsley vinegarette. Plus almonds of course for fat and vitamin E. Snack when I got home: half pint grape tomatoes and laughing cow light cheese cube. Dinner: brussels sprouts with brewers yeast, flax oil, 1 cup cottage cheese, red wine. Slice of cheese on the brussels.
Then back on the phone for work.
Now to bed.
Posted by april at March 18, 2008 5:40 PM
Comments
Yes! pre-cr, my diet was stupidly just full of crackers. It didn't take long to realize cruciferous vegetables for dips and some of the more exotic mushrooms(like maitake) serve as perfect bread replacements for dips/soaking liquid up and actually have more flavor!
The world was ending tomorrow and you gave me a choice between my vegetable dips and chips and I'd choose the vegetables.
Posted by: Chuck at March 20, 2008 5:56 AM
At the restaurant, we stuff the baby celeries (the roots not the stalks, the smaller ones) with their own greens and the celery that comes out after you carve them out to stuff them, some spring onions, mint, salt, onion and cook them with very little water on low heat, adding olive oil after they're done. I guess they can be cooked in the oven too. My friend says that they turned him into a celery freak! I am sure you can be creative adding red peppers, etc. to the filling. They're very delicious!
Posted by: zeynep at March 20, 2008 4:57 PM
I hate insomnia so bad! Finally after 5 months I have gotten massive relief from it, and I'm sleeping almost normal again the majority of the time :)
Posted by: matt - uk at March 24, 2008 7:46 PM