Sweets and Stuff

Boy, do I stink at staying regular at this blogging stuff.  So much for my resolution.  I'm still going to try harder, I promise!

I'm not sure if I've lost any more weight since my last post.  My scale isn't working right after repeatedly being abused by my son, so I can't get an accurate read.  I don't feel any smaller, so I guess that's my answer. 

I've realized something this month.  Sweets don't really agree with me.  My father's birthday was this past weekend, and I made this awesome cake that looked like a plate of spaghetti and meatballs.  Devil's food cake, white frosting and strawberry jam for the "sauce".  Oh, and white chocolate shavings to simulate the Parmesan cheese.  Delicious.  And hell on my system.  This is the second time I've had cake and had the lightheaded/shaky/sweaty/nauseous feeling.  I have to wonder if it is because I have had these two desserts after eating dinner, because it is not the first time I've had sweets period.  Cookies, candies, even an occasional "fun size" candy bar with no ill effects.  As a matter of fact, I just had one of the cookies I made for my daughter's class snack.  Yeah yeah, I know, bad me, blah blah blah.  I know all about how bad it is.  If I deprive myself of these things, this is never going to work.  Anyway, I'm going to avoid the dinner-then-dessert combination and see what happens.

I've been spending a lot of time in the kitchen, and adding some recipes to my recipe blog.  I don't think many of you look at it, but I use it as a kind of cookbook for myself.  Already I've gone back to it to see how I made something.  I'm really enjoying doing it, even if it is only for me and my mother.

Spring is just around the corner, and I know we're all looking forward to it.  I'm looking forward to it not only for the nicer weather, but also because that's when the grill comes out of storage.  I don't have a covered deck and I'm not opening the sliding glass doors in the living room to let in the cold and track snow in onto the carpet.  No thanks.  But it is something else to look forward to!  Most of my cooking gets done on the grill in the summer.  Meats, pizzas, corn on the cob, potatoes...you name it, I'll try it.  It helps to have the side burner as well.  I'm really looking forward to seeing how grilled food works for me.  Now if this snow would just melt...