Status Update

As if you (dear Internet) really wanted an update. But I want to talk about me, so here goes.

I haven’t posted a new recipe in a couple weeks, but it’s not for lack of cooking. Jeremy and I have been resetting our metabolisms (I don’t think that’s a word that’s usually plural) by doing Phase 1 of the South Beach diet, and while we’ve eaten well, I haven’t really cooked anything new. I’ve repeated some favorite recipes, and generally made very simple food, like last night’s sauteed Brussels Sprouts, with a little butter, a little garlic, and not much else. (They’re delicious like that, by the way.)

I’ve called off the diet a few days early, it was impacting my training for The Relay. The thing about a diet of vegetables, lean meats, and low fat cheeses, is that while my energy level over the course of the day was quite good, my energy for running was not so hot. When on Day 9 I still hadn’t kicked the feeling that my muscles had been soaking in lead after the first, oh, 60 seconds or so of running, I decided it was time for some more carbs. Oh yeah, baby, gimme some sugar. So we’ll see how that first run goes tomorrow with the store of glycogen in my muscles somewhat replenished.

The other thing that’s happened recently is that I’ve just gotten lazy with the camera. And it’s so unrewarding to post a recipe without a picture. It makes me feel like a total half-ass. I know I don’t read blogs without pictures, so why should I expect you to? And, I already have it on my to-do list (my mental to-do list, at least) to go back and make the recipes I posted before we got the camera, and add an image or two to those posts, so the last thing I want to do is to post yet another recipe of something I haven’t taken a picture of.

So you see? Many reasons for the lack of recipe posting. But I promise that will all end this weekend. I have big plans. I may not get to them all, but I promise to make something delicious, and show it to you for your reading (and viewing) pleasure.

In the meantime, here’s one of my favorite photos. (I still haven’t eaten much refined sugar lately, so I’m drooling a bit over chocolate.)