I tend to like to celebrate little occasions when I can. I don't necessarily need to celebrate them in a big way, but I don't like them to pass quietly into the night. So yesterday was my two month anniversary since I started dating the boyfriend and I wanted us to have a special dinner. Well, everything that we would have normally done could not be done because of this diet, so I had to get creative.
In the booklet thingy the doc gave me there are recipes and one of the recipes was for bacon burgers. I decided to do those. I also purchased some sweet potato fries from the grocery store and made sure they were okay to eat. They were good to eat and since I baked them I didn't have to worry about any oils or anything like that as well.
So for dinner, I cooked up some turkey hamburger patties and then also cooked up some turkey bacon as I could also eat that as well. After the meat was done, I took the patties and put each one inside a big lettuce leaf and then topped it with some bacon. I then put chipotle Tabasco sauce, cucumbers, and a couple of fries on my bigger and then wrapped the rest of the lettuce around the burger. My boyfriend did the same but also added mustard and onion to his as well. We then served the burgers with the fries. All in all things tasted fairly well, but the while I was eating I kept thinking that it would taste better with a big fluffy bun, cheese, tomatoes, and ketchup as well.
It's nice to know that when we hit the three month mark in our relationship, I should be able to eat more things again. I have four full days left in addition to today, and I am very much excited to be done. Today when I speak with the doc I am hoping to find out what they would like me to add back into my diet starting next week. The end is near!
I shall continue to blog about this because I find it has helped me a lot. I suspect that if I hadn't had this blog, I probably would have failed all over the place. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read my words and support me in this endeavor quietly. It has been very much appreciated!
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Bacon Makes The World Go Round!
I love bacon! I don't eat it all the time but I do enjoy it! I finally had a chance to cook tonight! Tonight I made Penne with Bacon, Butternut Squash, and Spinach. Pasta is one of my favorite things to eat!
Probably the most time consuming part of this dish was the butternut squash but it didn't take me that long to prepare. Last Thanksgiving I made a butternut squash dish and so I learned how to peel the squash. Use a vegetable peeler! You have to run the peeler down the squash a few times, but it gets the peel off safely and pretty quick.
I was concerned that the recipe didn't have enough moisture but it turned out to be enough. The spinach was a nice compliment to this dish as well. It cooked quickly upon adding it to the pasta squash. I am surprised I liked the spinach as much as I did. I am typically not a fan of spinach, but this was tasty!
I should have read the recipe a little closer. I was only supposed to cook the pasta part of the way and then finish cooking it with the squash. Well, I cooked the pasta all the way before adding it to the squash. To compensate I cooked the squash a little longer by itself and then I added the pasta. The pasta was a tad overcooked, but it still tasted good. My favorite part of this dish was the bacon and Parmesan cheese! Yummy! The cheese and bacon brought this dish together.
The recipe says this meal serves four, but I think you could get 6-8 servings out of this if you served this dish with something else. I plan to take this to Thanksgiving tomorrow and serve it along side the turkey. It is a tradition in some Italian families (such as mine) to serve pasta as well as the standard Thanksgiving dishes!
Well, I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving! I am going to be trying a new cheese fondue recipe, so I will blog about that. I possibly won't blog about it tomorrow, but I will be blogging about it for sure! Again have a great holiday and happy shopping on Friday.
The finished pasta:
My serving:
Probably the most time consuming part of this dish was the butternut squash but it didn't take me that long to prepare. Last Thanksgiving I made a butternut squash dish and so I learned how to peel the squash. Use a vegetable peeler! You have to run the peeler down the squash a few times, but it gets the peel off safely and pretty quick.
I was concerned that the recipe didn't have enough moisture but it turned out to be enough. The spinach was a nice compliment to this dish as well. It cooked quickly upon adding it to the pasta squash. I am surprised I liked the spinach as much as I did. I am typically not a fan of spinach, but this was tasty!
I should have read the recipe a little closer. I was only supposed to cook the pasta part of the way and then finish cooking it with the squash. Well, I cooked the pasta all the way before adding it to the squash. To compensate I cooked the squash a little longer by itself and then I added the pasta. The pasta was a tad overcooked, but it still tasted good. My favorite part of this dish was the bacon and Parmesan cheese! Yummy! The cheese and bacon brought this dish together.
The recipe says this meal serves four, but I think you could get 6-8 servings out of this if you served this dish with something else. I plan to take this to Thanksgiving tomorrow and serve it along side the turkey. It is a tradition in some Italian families (such as mine) to serve pasta as well as the standard Thanksgiving dishes!
Well, I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving! I am going to be trying a new cheese fondue recipe, so I will blog about that. I possibly won't blog about it tomorrow, but I will be blogging about it for sure! Again have a great holiday and happy shopping on Friday.
The finished pasta:
My serving:
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