who are you

Me? I'm an obscure blue-eyed inspiriter of all things scientific, epicurean, artistic & spiritual.
that's all... today anyway.

Roadblocks suck.

Soul Hunger

My soul often hungers; it seeks nourishment.

When I feed it, the inspiration I am blessed with blooms aggressively and I see beauty and possibilities everywhere, in everything.

Suddenly my future is a serendipitous abundance of endless experience - any, all, or none of which I may choose to enjoy.

And I SMILE...

Namaste,
gracegoddess
ask the epicurean goddess
Beth Ward 

 

LC Journey, Day One: "I Embark"

Today I began (finally) my low carb "way of eating". I hate saying that. I mostly see that acronym referred to as "WOE". WOE as me.. *snicker*. I really wish I could think of a new way of saying that, so instead I say "Journey" or "Embark" as they sound more intrepid and daring! Okay, so I know the photos you are going to see here are NOT great. I am not a photographer (yet). So they aren't all that pretty but lemme tell ya... the FOOD WAS DELICIOUS!! Day one couldn't have been easier. I don't know if I'll be saying that by tomorrow, but we'll see.

 

I got up too late to eat "breakfast", so I ate lunch upon arising. I made a simple salad of pink salmon with bacon, dill relish, sour cream and mayo and put it in some romaine lettuce "cups". Yum. For dinner I had some rotisserie chicken breast with roasted asparagus and a zucchini/summer squash veg. medley seasoned and roasted too - on the same sheet pan because I am either lazy or a genius.

 

What I really took time to make today?

DESSERT!

 

So, I heard about this new sweetener I'd never seen or used before on some low carb/ketogenic websites I had found while perusing recipes. As Brent (my fiancé) always says, I look at several recipes and use them as "suggestions" to formulate my own recipe, 'cause I'm "just psycho like that"! It's called Swerve. I would see it and roll my eyes thinking it was some chemical sh*tstorm of a product, thinking all the while that it would be worth it to rip open a few hundred packets of Stevia until I got however much sweetener I needed for my recipe(s). NOW all that said, I don't mind, if, when on a diet, using an occasional sucralose or aspartame product (such as Splenda or diet drinks) when I have no other choice and options are limited, but overall I try to avoid artificial sweeteners like a brain-eating zombie. While great in practice, sometimes when sugar has landed you were I am right now - 25 lbs. heavier then you want to be and realized, 10 lbs. ago, that you needed to get the weight OFF before you gain more - YOU DON'T CARE!! At least not for the time being. I'll get back to "cleaning up" my diet but I have to start somewhere and FIRST is getting the sugar OUT.

 

Back to Swerve. I did some research out and about and realized that, while it may not be the BEST thing, it is certainly WAY better then actual sugar because of the SIGNIFICANT calorie reduction and the fact that the carbs in it are non-digestible fiber...which means that it will not spike your insulin and cause your body to store fat.

 

The best part? IT TASTES EXACTLY LIKE SUGAR. No bitter or weird aftertaste, no feeling of dissatisfaction afterwards. Honestly I felt really guilty with every bite, until I reminded myself that it wasn't going to affect my insulin and was low carb and low calorie. I've never had that luxury when dieting before so I really didn't know what to do with myself!

 

The recipe for my cheesecake is here and yes, it was absolutely magnificent! Even my fiancé loved it and could not differentiate the taste of it vs. a sugar-filled, scrumptious cheesecake! He's a tough critic and according to him, it was "better then store-bought cheesecake"!

 

 

This was the finished product. Before I ate it. 

 

 

Hopefully day two will be okay or just as good, that's really all abody can hope for while dieting!

 

~Namaste,

 

the Epicurean goddess



About

...a quote to sum it all up:

"Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure. The caretaker of that abode, a kindly host, will be ready for you; she will welcome you with bread, and serve you water also in abundance, with these words: "Have you not been well entertained? This garden does not whet your appetite; but quenches it." 
~Gate Inscription at Epicurus' Garden.
  

...enchanting reflections of a spirited epicurean goddess on delectable food, exotic experience, aesthetic beauty and bountiful health. ~~Notions, Knowledge, Recipes, Experiments and Reviews for your sundry consumptions of body, mind & soul~~  

 

Literally Literature. Sometimes.

"Thoughtful Notions, Knowledge, Recipes, Experiments and Reviews for your sundry consumptions of body, mind & soul". *snicker* I wrote that.
 

So please, beloved food-lovers of mine, keep in "mind" that the "mind" also needs said sundry consumptions. So does the soul. Therefore, while lots of my posts will contain pictures of raw nature, delectable delights, amateur beauty blends, and other home-spun concoctions; reliable reviews (of all sorts), random recipes, food-pornish prose, and mind stimulating content will always be part of what I consider relevant. Maybe not to the world -but in my world, and I find things that are thought-provoking every bit as sexy as delicious food (whether healthy or indulgent), sensual beauty products, noteworthy science, natural health treatments, soulful wisdom, or exotic escapes and experiences. Desire to be at our prime level of our happiest self, inside and OUT, to me is the definition of FUSION of body, mind and soul.

What is mundane to one person is magical to another. This is MY garden. A garden of pleasures in all forms: explorations, thoughts, fantasies, expressions, curiosities, energies, philosophies, questions, and above ALL, liberties. Isn’t that what life is all about?

Oh, and by the way, sometimes I'll just have mental outpourings of nothingness, that if tangible, might resemble vomit. I know that sounds gross, but sometimes I will just write...because it's my blog...and because I can.

So, as one of my greatest teachers so eloquently told me once, “take what you need, leave what you don’t”.                     

~Namaste

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Summer Garden Lust

ABOUT

I look so forward every year to the fruits, vegetables and herbs available locally, and when I am lucky; in my own backyard garden. Following are just some of the ones I can't wait to eat and cook with!

Heirloom Tomato varieties from my garden last year.

 

...after first planting

 

ON IT'S WAY

 

 

YUM... juicy fresh necarines

 

Our lone sunflower

 

Yellow Heirloom 'mater! Made a great addition to my grilled bison burger!

What is The Epicurean Goddess??

...a quote to sum it all up:




Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure. The caretaker of that abode, a kindly host, will be ready for you; she will welcome you with bread, and serve you water also in abundance, with these words: "Have you not been well entertained? This garden does not whet your appetite; but quenches it." 
~Gate Inscription at Epicurus' Garden.
  

 

...enchanting reflections of a spirited epicurean goddess on delectable food, exotic experience, aesthetic beauty and bountiful health. ~~Notions, Recipes, Experiments and Reviews for your sundry consumptions of body, mind & soul~~