Pie Filling For Dinner!

Shepherd's pie filling for dinner, anyway.

I will serve bread rolls on the side, because I have not yet made potatoes, and it is late. I will assemble and roast the pie tomorrow.

Fanciest goddamn pizza rolls YOU've ever seen!

Lookit that, aww yeah.

Those are just Totino's Pizza Rolls that we had in the freezer, and grocery store limeade, but now it's SO GODDAMN FANCY! And I sliced the apple, cut out the core bits, and reassembled it JUST LIKE THAT! WHAT?

I can't quit you and I can't quit food, obviously.

I tried to quit this blog, because people in my future line of work are encouraged to keep minimal to no social media presence, by one of the professors in my graduate program.

But here we are again. I can't quit you, you big pile of my own writing, you. So here we go.

For late breakfast today, I ate a big bowl of homemade beef and barley stew. For lunch I had a bowl of vegan ice cream because coconut fat is full of bad cholesterol and now so am I. And for dinner, I ate the most Spartan dinner ever (for me). Iceberg lettuce salad (for the kitsch) with cilantro dressing from Trader Joe's, apple slices, and whole-fat cow's milk yogurt with a handful (~200 kcal) of raw almonds in it. I feel adequately full of food, but over-the-top smug about it. Being smug feels good.

And now I feel like I've earned some kind of award. Like, I'm all, "where's my medal? Guys? Guys?"

Reasons why I want to give myself an award:

1. Because I fried my husband a pork chop for his dinner, and a second one for his lunch, and I didn't eat either pork chop. 

2. For a minute, right after dinner, I wanted to congratulate myself for going vegan for a day, just like the Vulcan T'Pol on Star Trek: Enterprise, who is very vegan all the time. But that would be absurd because I just ate yogurt, and I had beef for breakfast, and it seems like there was cheese in the salad dressing that I ate. But I WANTED to believe that I'd been vegan for a day. I wanted to believe!

And while I am giving myself lots of credit (too much credit?) for selflessly eating a modest bowl of vegan ice cream for lunch, that was only one meal, and T'Pol would never eat that much sugar in one sitting, unless maybe it was pecan pie and she was trying to better understand the ship's engineer Trip Tucker. Which was left unresolved, because the episode ended with her meditating in front of a slice of pie that had only one bite taken out of it. What did she do with the rest? Maybe I will know one day, but I do not know right now. 

But I did go vegetarian for 2/3 of my meals today, so at least that's something. And because I'll self-congratulate over anything, I'll self-congratulate about that. Wahoo!

3. The ice cream has "Galactica" in the flavor name, and I love that show. 

Here are pictures:

(Coffee) Roast of Christmas past

I just wanted to make that pun. Don't worry, I usually buy whole beans and then grind them a few seconds before brewing coffee because that's awesome. But these were ground beans for...reasons. Still delicious.

Of note: I'm not paid to endorse this, or anything so far. I have not (yet?) made money off of Painfully Enamored With Food.

Note to Self: Buy "Spelt Risotto with Vegetables and Chickpeas" from Trader Joe's again

Aww yeah, frozen food.

I didn't do this, but it rules: "Cook Your Comics"

http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/category/lifestyle/cook-your-comics/

Hey, look who's app allows links!!! That's right, we're super-fancy now.

And speaking of super-something, this link provides helpful recipes and tips for cooking an elaborate Thanksgiving meal that's inspired by superhero comics.

Disclosure: I don't know this writer socially, but Rachel Stevens is my friend and she does write for Women Write About Comics. I don't actually think that this constitutes a conflict of interest or anything, though. I'm mostly just using this disclaimer as an opportunity to brag about knowing Rachel, because she's awesome, and you should read her stuff, because she knows a lot about Transformers comic books.

You should also read the stuff that I actually linked to here, too.

Paneer cheese is no replacement for whipped cream, when served with pie

In good news, I still have a little pie left, and it's still delicious.

Everything else is bad news.