Mini popovers
Henceforth to be known as caviar carriers.
These are definitely “smack your Mama”
good! Same routine as yesterday, crème fraîche w minced onion, egg salad and caviar.
These are definitely “smack your Mama”
good! Same routine as yesterday, crème fraîche w minced onion, egg salad and caviar.
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I would like to place an order or 3! Looks divine!
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Belated happy birthday - wish you health and happiness, and many more to come!
Everything looks wonderful, and appropriately festive and celebratory!
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Happy Birthday. Looks delicious. Many more happy bakes to you.
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Thanks everyone, it was a special way to celebrate!
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Seafood paella (clams, mussels, shrimp, calamari), from my first visit to the Kensington (CA) farmer’s market this year. I added the feta and red pepper.
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Your photos are crave able. Do you have baked goods daily? Jealous of you do. I would be on my 600 lb life…
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Desserts are very frequent, but portions are very small which you can’t tell from the pics. For the record, I’m 5’5” and 120 lbs. My husband is also slim, we are not between meals snackers, not for any particular reason, but no desire for it.
We have been fortunate in not having to restrict food choices but I’m very conscious of saturated fats, etc.
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I’m in awe of you.
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Oh please don’t be!
Oh I am. In my wildest dreams I won’t be as light as that or as tall! at the end of my weight loss journey. I’m working it but you and I are on two different planets! Could be you are a marathoner. Or just one of those people that don’t gain. I probably haven’t been 120 since high school.
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I’m 5 foot 6. I managed to keep my weight at 125 lbs for a year in my 20s when I subsisted on diet Iced Tea and around 1200 calories a day, while walking around 2 h a day.
That’s my ideal weight according to the Met Life Tables.
I’d be happy to get my weight back down to 150 lbs. LOL. I’m still walking 90 minutes to 2 h a day. LOL.
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Ah, to be young again! 
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Lol
That weight and the activity goals would be good for me too. I’m a ways off from both. TBH with my job I can only spare time for a 2-3 mile neighborhood walk most days. As for the 150, well I’d have to lose double what I already have to approach that number. I am in it for the long haul tho. My husband who is young and was always active started to have a lot of health and chronic pain issues in the past 3 yrs which no provider has been able to diagnose much less fix. He’s in with some medical person weekly and spends hours per day stretching, pt, meditating. That’s my real motivation to get healthy. Life and aging comes at you. The baseline deterioration could be bad. I don’t want things that I sort of control to make things worse than they might be otherwise if I don’t get a handle on it. And I think that’s why I managed to stick with it for this long despite 6 months of averaging 1400 cal per day. It’s a stronger motivation than wanting to look pretty in some dress or for some reunion.
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I hear you.
There’s no way I can maintain 125 lbs for the long haul. I was around 125 lbs at 16, 155 lbs by 19.
I took it off for a year when I was 22, through a restrictive diet and exercise. Once I was working, that 20 lbs came back. I gained a bit more my first year of law school, then took that off over the next 2 years.
I was weighing 140 lbs when I graduated law school, and I maintained that weight while writing the bar exam. The same 20 lbs crept back on over the next 2 years.
I managed to lose a bit of weight after a health scare in 2014, bringing me to 150 lbs for around 6 weeks, on a no sugar and very little bread or pasta diet. I had another health scare, which led to me adding back more complex carbs.
I still hope to get to a weight somewhere between 125 and 150 lbs again, but I’m not there yet.
A simple dish to enjoy the long overdue atmospheric river in my area. Creamy miso soup (Red miso, butter, flour, milk, nori strips) with a toasted baguette drizzled with mirin and tamari.
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Lunch at the new Turkish place with my friend with whom I reconnected after almost a decade on NYE. I ordered the spinach börek
that was much bigger than I’d expected, so I took half of it home for my PIC to have, who enjoyed it more than I did.
I also ordered a very good lentil soup garnished with a flavorful chile oil & a slice of lemon, as well as really good croutons — I don’t really care much for croutons, so that’s saying a lot.
No pic even tho I coulda sworn I took one 
The owners know me by name as we’ve been going quite regularly since their official opening, plus I am the Grand Poobah of Food in our tiny town 
at least in our local food groups online & off. I’m sure my glowing reviews about them everywhere didn’t hurt, either, and so we got a few freebies — like a couple of delicious cigkofte we should’ve eaten wrapped in the leaves, but ate them with our hands like savages bc we had no idea 
Very tasty & a nice level of heat. The dolma were also very good.
My friend got the manti for lunch & let me have a taste. They were also quite delish.
Turkish coffee for “dessert.” We’ll have to go back for the big Turkish breakfast some time 
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Belated birthday wishes 
In your honor an appropriate cake will be consumed! I might even make it myself!
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