My sister is visiting and she is a foodie. I can’t believe how much I’ve eaten this long weekend, and she is preparing pork chops for a late dinner tonight. I’m actually about to get on the treadmill before dinner… I need to burn some calories!
She also brought me 3 versions of a family pepper sauce that I love and I’ve already had a meal where I portioned Spanish rice into three sections to try each sauce. This made me think about how different people spice their meals. Growing up, I had a friend who added salt to everything he ate. He wouldn’t even taste the food before giving the salt and pepper shakers a shake over his plate. I do this with black pepper into any cream soup. And certain meals I add pepper sauce to without tasting it first. For example, pasta with a meat sauce always tastes better with some of our family recipe pepper sauce. I don’t need to taste first before adding spice.
How often do we do this, we add a spice before even tasting what we are about to eat? We layer on the sauce or the gravy, or we add salsa or cream cheese to a meal. We get accustomed to what we like and we spice things up out of habit. This time with my sister has made me appreciate what it means to enjoy food and eating, and to think a bit about how to spice up my diet. It has also made me question my portion sizes when I enjoy a meal. Spicing something up and enjoying it shouldn’t mean that I also consume much more… but this weekend I really overdid the volume of food consumed.
I think I need to spice up my workout too!
Cant take the Bajun out of the boy…my dad had that recipe too..likely from the same original source…I’m an avid eater too..and the calorie burning is important, so eat and be active… it’s good for ya….I’m assuming S did the chops…thinking Truss skip the dishes time got an AB delivery? Great read….again.
Kar is here, not Shar:)
Both are awesome cooks!
Pork chops were soooo good! I had 2, and then 1/3 of my kid’s second one. Sitting on the couch wondering how I could write what I did above less then 2 hours ago then proceed to eat so much more than I needed to. 🤪
Tell her I think of her often and so fondly..Kiss her for me. Oatmeal with some fruit most mornings is my ticket to great food later in abundance later…it real is a super food…and I find adds so much to my energy.
She sends greetings back. I gained 4.5 lbs in the 3 days she was here. I’m still full from that dinner last night! I’m not a fan of oatmeal, or breakfast for that matter, although that didn’t stop me this weekend. I’ll be ‘breaking my fast’ at lunch today when Kar comes to visit my school. I need to get back into my regular routine, and portion sizes, after that! 😃