Scallops & Broccoli with Butter – Cheap Primal/Paleo Meals

November 28, 2011 | Filed Under Health, Tips | Leave a Comment

Bay Scallops with Broccoli & Butter

I made this for lunch today in 10 minutes, straight from the freezer. It was awesome. Plus it’s Primal/Paleo. And cheap!

Total Cost: $3.50

Ingredients:

2/3 cups bay scallops
2 cups frozen broccoli pieces
1.5 Tbsp butter

Approximate Macronutrient Profile:

28g of protein
16g of fat (all healthy fat)
16g of carbs (all healthy carbs)

Food Experiment – Pumpkin with cinnamon, Bailey’s and roasted pecans

November 28, 2011 | Filed Under Fun | Leave a Comment

I love sweet potato casserole. But it’s always made way too sweet for my tastes and usually with corn flakes or some other off-limit food.

Today I’m going to try to make something similar:

1 can of pumpkin
1 handful of roasted pecans
10 shakes of cinnamon
1 shot of Bailey’s
5 shakes of Pumpkin spice

I’ll let you know how it turns out.

There are no princesses … but plenty of pandas

November 28, 2011 | Filed Under Relationships | Leave a Comment

Acoustic Gaslight Anthem & The Horrible Crowes

November 28, 2011 | Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

This is my band of the moment. And their acoustic stuff is just amazing.

You be the sea

November 27, 2011 | Filed Under Relationships | Leave a Comment

Welcoming, yet ominous
Vast, yet comforting
Knowable, yet not fully known
Permanent, yet dynamic
Enticing, yet dangerous
Strong, yet vulnerable
Reliable, yet spontaneous
Embracing, yet potentially violent
Calm, yet adventurous

Stand tall. Be proud of who you are.

November 25, 2011 | Filed Under Quotes, Tips | Leave a Comment

“When you get older you find that people are actually drawn towards individuals with different points of view who are proud of who they are and who make interesting and different and unique choices… Stand tall. Be proud of who you are.”

- Neil Patrick Harris

The Best Green Bean Casserole Ever

November 25, 2011 | Filed Under Tips | Leave a Comment

For Thanksgiving this year, I made the best green bean casserole of all time. But I can’t take credit. The recipe came from The Primal Sophisticate.

Now, it took me forever to prepare this dish (especially since I didn’t pre-make the condensed soup base). So I can’t say I’ll make “the best green bean casserole ever” more than once a year. But damn was it good. Creamy, crunchy and totally kick-ass.

Abandonment Paralysis

November 25, 2011 | Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

There is a fairly common human emotion that I’ll call “fear of abandonment” – and this is a perfectly grounded fear. People abandon each other. However, the response we have to the fear of abandonment can either be freeing or paralyzing.

I moved around a lot as a young kid. Around 12 times before I was out of high school. I got used to friendship abandonment (of course I was usually the one doing the abandoning). So I can resonate with lyrics that say “Everybody leaves, and I’d expect as much from you. Everybody leaves, so why, why wouldn’t you.”

Life is an adventure full of surprises. We all have these great expectations of how that adventure should unfold. And we exert tremendous amounts of energy in order to preserve stability and to fight the fear of abandonment. But I’d like to suggest something: the more you try to lock something up, to own it, to possess it… the more it suffocates, dies. Fear of abandonment is grounded in reality but life is far more rewarding when we stop tightening down, and closing ourselves off from joy. Loosen up to the freedoms of life. Smartly, wisely of course.

So yeah, I’ll say it again: life is an adventure full of surprises. You can either live wide-eyed and open to the surprises of life, prepared to engage them as they come your way. Or you can live your life in paralysis, fighting change, forcing your “great expectations” onto the world, and being sorely disappointed when the world continues to surprise you.