Relaxing Sunday

Had a most relaxing and enjoyable day yesterday, my stay-at-home day. I didn't even have to go out for groceries. I made hummus for the first time and it's awesome. My daughter used to make hummus and I didn't particularly take to it back then but it is really nutritious and will be incorporated into my diet. Then I made some almond nut-butter. Awfully good and good for you.

Then I made a chicken-garlic pizza from some dough I had refrigerated. I wasn't too happy with the performance of the dough and I will have to experiment further. The successful recipe I have for whole-wheat pizza dough makes enough for three pizzas so I would like to be able reliably to freeze or at least refrigerate the dough. That way, I can make pizzas as desired and not have to freeze them in meal portions - although that works extremely well. I make a 12-inch pizza, cut into four portions, eat one, refrigerate one and freeze the others in individual freezer bags.

I made Greek cinnamon-stewed chicken for supper. Simply awesome. I scrapped the orzo it called for though and served it on whole-grain rice. Orzo has a slippery-slidey texture that I find disturbing,,,it feels pre-digested. Rice is bold and substantial. I have four portions frozen and waiting for me.

All the while I was working in the kitchen, Phil Mickelson was winning the Masters and Tiger Woods was not redeeming himself. Doing all this cooking in one day kind of screwed up my eating schedule but not as badly as usual. I now have enough information on nutrition to develop my own personal meal and snack plan and will do so this week. I am pleased with the results of my weight loss program. I hope to get a set of bathroom scales today so that I can monitor my progress and maintenance when I reach that level.

Had a lovely walk on the beach this morning. I committed today to get a new pup. It's a Shar Pei-Yellow Lab mix and the pups are beautiful.

I plan this week on experimenting with sprouting some grains. I'm advised the only bread I should be eating is sprouted-grain bread so I hope to give it a try. I used to sprout mung beans and alfalfa back in the vegetarian days - should be fun.