Buttery, flaky, sweet….

I’m about ready to commit a crime for an almond croissant.    Seriously.  I would jump someone if they walked by with one. 

Ignore the bunny picture for now.  It’s just there for looks.  And as a reminder of how I am eating lately.

So since Black Friday – when the scales fell from my eyes – I think I’ve lost about 4-5 lbs.  About 10 lbs. down from my heaviest (where when I saw the number on the bathroom scale I quickly looked away and decided there was something dreadfully amiss with the mechanics of said scale).  So all good progress. 

Food is rather boring though and I miss fat (the edible kind) just dreadfully.  So goes the longing for flaky, buttery baked goods.  Mmm.  Instead I chop up vegetables and put them on the prettiest plate I can find and make an event of the thing.

Along with the pretty plate thing other tricks I employ are to make things as spicy as I can stand them and to eat as high a fiber content as possible without turning into a brood mare.  The spicy business is tricky because a lot of spicy foods (even low fat, low sugar ones) are generally very high in sodium and I woke up yesterday morning with elephant eye.  This is where your eyes swell up to alarming proportions while you are sleeping and then deflate, leaving you with baggy, wrinkly elephant eyes upon awakening. 

The plate laden with cucumber and radishes came from a lovely antique shop near me.  A smaller place but one of those ones where there are a number of vendors renting space.  There was a stack of eight of these plates (about the size of a small bread plate) and a price sticker on the top one that said $10.  I brought the stack to the front desk and asked if the $10 was for one plate or the stack.  The cashier had to call the vendor to confirm but it was for the whole stack.  I still feel like I got away with something.  I love to put them out when I serve hors d’oeuvres – they are the perfect size.

They don’t make radishes taste like an almond croissant, however.  Can’t have everything.