Monday, August 8, 2011

Something out of nothing...?

Making something out of nothing would be almost considered a magical power, true?
We as human beings do have that power and use it often, huh, you say?
Did you ever look at an egg and turn it into a gourmet omelet, just add spinach and your favorite cheese, huh?
Or as I did tonight take left over lean chopped beef (only 15% fat) that last night with a little bit of minced onion, Worcestershire (low sodium) and garlic powder was the making of our hamburgers, a couple made it into meatloaf style sandwiches for lunch but the remainder became the binder in our meat sauce for over our angel hair pasta (you can use more substantial rigatoni or bowties or linguine or whatever you so desire, but I like the angel hair since it takes about 4-5 minutes!) and heart smart tomato sauce with our additions of sautéed onions, mushrooms, scallions, and garlic cloves not to mention a dash of oregano and basil too! (The sautéing is in just about a couple of teaspoons of virgin olive oil).
Now my homemade croutons were the tiny ends from our bakery loafs of multigrain and marble rye with me cubing them and putting them into a Pam sprayed square baking pan and then tossed with extra virgin olive oil, rosemary, garlic powder, parsley and parmesan cheese and then placed in a preheated 350F degrees oven for only ten minutes.
These were going over my Romaine lettuce, mushrooms, red onion and scallions Caesar Salad with my homemade light Caesar dressing, which extra virgin olive oil is mixed with apple cider vinegar, light mayo, and powdered garlic and parmesan cheese, and stirred with love.
Cool those croutons while putting the rest together and voila, dinner!
As I said, we all have the power to make something from nothing voila, magic!
The best part of this menu is using leftovers and other items that are hard to find a good use for.
It is also the lower cal version, as well as lower in sat-fat and sodium of many other recipes.
Today was a strange day, since my sinuses have still been causing me to lose some sleep at night. My ears and neck and head seem to chime in too when I lay my head upon my pillow, not great and a BIG OUCH! I do use my eye drops for my very dry eyes that I have had for years, and since with all my other maladies I cannot take over the counter decongestants with my high blood pressure medication so I have been using saline sprays or my netty pot, but still no help, even the Vicks Vapor rub on the tissue method is not that long lasting. I even put alcohol soaked cotton balls in my ears due to their pain as well. My neck is nasty, but is it from all this sinus stuff, or my MS or my cervical stenosis? My headaches must be also along with my bloodshot eyes and eye socket pain, all too crazy, and this is seriously no fun! But I have gotten a doctor’s appointment and once seen I do hope I will suffer no more from this additional problem added into all my others!

I need to sleep.
Even taking that extra cup of java has not helped with the headaches or my exhaustion.
On this tiny dilemma in the bigger scope of things please allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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