Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and what was my local grocery store thinking when they made this cake? It stopped me cold on my way to the sprouted bread rack, groping blindly for my phone, eyes riveted on this … sub Santa? It immediately made the top of my WTF Christmas Horrors list.
He looks frightened, like he knows what’s coming.
Next up, I made mayonnaise. I made mayonnaise because I got sick of eating canola-based mayo (or ANY vegetable oil-based mayo because it’s baaaaad for you) and I got sick of waiting for Wilderness Family Naturals to get some of their olive oil mayo back in stock. I’ve been waiting since summer. I thought, this is stupid, I make my own cheese, obviously I can make mayo. So I did. And it turned out pretty awesome, if I say so myself. It’s a little thinner than store-bought mayo, but next time I’d just use an extra egg yolk without the white to thicken it up. I used a mason jar and a stick blender. I made a double batch, which was a mistake. I wasn’t sure if my hands were going to die by the thumbs falling off from pressing the blend button, or because they caught on fire from the stick blender motor getting so hot. Anyways, don’t try to double up this recipe.
(Many props to Melissa over at The Clothes Make the Girl for the great recipe and tutorial vid!)
I’m going to skip the grain-free experiment for a moment. And what a moment it is. I captured this rolling tribute to ghetto fab out in the rolling hills of Rubicon, Wisconsin, a full hour’s drive from ANYWHERE remotely populated or interesting. The license plate was something close to “MizStarry”. Like, it’s a “MizStarry” why anyone would pay thousands of dollars extra for this paint job.
So won’t the real Slim Shady please stand up.
Now, for the grain-free bit. I went grain-free on January 3rd. It’s more of experiment than anything. I have some constant allergies that I take an OTC claritin-type pill for daily, and it’d be awfully nice to not have to take it. My weight loss has plateaud over the last few months so maybe this will help kick-start it. I’m also reading Wheat Belly, which is very interesting and makes you never want to eat grains ever again. Even “properly and traditionally prepared grains”. Anyways, I’ll write more about it when I’m not sick as a dog from a bad case of self-induced low carb flu. Ugh. Just shoot me. I’d better feel like I have Red Bull wings on my freaking feet after this passes.
Finally, I want to thank you, my dear sweet readers, for reading my alternately boring, silly, and profane bloggity blog in 2012. I hope I can entertain and inform you at *least* as much this year. I love your comments and encouragement. To those of you who blog, I am awed by your consistency and effort. This is quite a community we have here, and I’m just tickled Audi-pink to be included. Here’s to a wonderful 2013!
As a former victim of the low carb flu (sometimes all I have to do is think about a low carb diet and I’ll get sick!!), may I not so humbly recommend the Romancing The Bee Diet? Totally Paleo, but enough low glycemic carbs to prevent one from turning into Jack Nicholson in The Shining!!
xo Deb
Oh, I’m going lower carb/grain-free, but no Jack Nicholson here. I think it’s more of a regular flu than low carb flu, or some monstrous marriage of both. It’s pretty yucky. I like your diet though! It very strongly resembles mine. I had no idea you blogged about that. Thanks for pointing me towards it!