Behold: an apple. It is good for you (vitamins, fiber, blahblahblah), and it tastes good to boot. What could be better?
Cheese, that’s what. Melted, gooey, cheddar cheese.
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From the monthly archives:
March 2010
(picture from the movie Tristan and Isolde)
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day and all things Irish, I’m interrupting the confessions of a sugar addict to share a real life Irish fairy tale with you.
It was the early 1800s in Ireland. John was a strapping young blacksmith from the County Waterford. He fell in love with a beautiful lass from a neighboring county. Her name was Eleanor.
Eleanor’s parents were Irish nobility, and she was their only daughter. She was destined to marry a nobleman, not a blacksmith. Her parents objected to John and would not allow them to marry.
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As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to tell you a little about some of the changes I’ve been making to bring my eating and my life into balance.
I’ve been going to spin class twice a week since the beginning of the year. This is a big improvement over the end of last year. Even so, I kept thinking: Isn’t exercise supposed to make you feel better? Aren’t you supposed to lose weight? Why am I not seeing progress?
Then I’d sit on the couch for 5 days moping. The closest thing to a vegetable I ate during the mope-fest was lemon-blueberry yogurt cake which is seriously good stuff but sadly does not qualify as a vegetable or even fruit in the real world.
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Hello, my name is Patricia, and I am a sugar addict. It has been ten days since my last binge.
By now you should know that I love sweets. Even if this is your first visit to my blog, it is pretty obvious with a quick glance around. From brownies to biscuits, and from cravings to obsessions, I have been at the mercy of that dynamic duo of butter and sugar my entire life but never as much as in the last year and a half.
I started baking after work as a way to escape the stress. And then I started keeping track of the food here on this blog. And while baking and blogging have brought me joy, stress relief, and a black belt in cookie baking, it also brought with it a spare tire, bigger jeans, and a matching set of saddle bags.
So I started this year with the intent of losing that extra weight. I even joined Ten in 10 to help get me over the hump. But after eating pancakes one night for dinner and then making another batch for breakfast the following day and then baking 3 versions of this lemon yogurt cake in 3 days, it was time for a reality check.
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Is it just me or are macarons popping up everywhere? I’ve even seen some at Starbucks and the freezer section of Trader Joe’s. Macarons are the new cupcake. Or at least they seem to be from where I’m sitting.
Remember not too long ago when I gushed over dinner at Masa’s and their candy cart? It was my first taste of macarons and I fell hard. I became infatuated. Like that first magical kiss, it was all I could think about.
I wanted another kiss. I searched high and low until I found a bakery not quite nearby but close enough. Pamplemousse has over a dozen flavors of macarons and for a special birthday treat I took home a dozen little beauties just for me… and Dan. It was his birthday week too so I had to share.
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