It's Saturday. Three weeks later - maybe "posting on a regular basis" should be one of my goals...anyway, here's how the week went.

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It's Wednesday, so I thought a quick update is in order.

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I have struggled with my weight and body image for as long as I can remember. I have finally come to the realization that I will never, ever be a size 2. And I am ok with that - I truly am. Size doesn't always matter. Hee. Seriously, though, I've got some goals I want to set. They won't equal a model's body in the end, but they will make me feel better physically and mentally.

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This weekend, I decided to be ambitious and make mini pumpkin pies from scratch. They ended up being way more labor intensive than I could deal with on a Sunday. I had half of the pie filling left over and didn't want it to go to waste. It has been a while since we've had Breakfast for Dinner and pumpkin pancakes sounded like the perfect dinner.

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Jimmy stares towards the bright Pleiades / It's so strange what his distant eye sees / Who knows why you start rediscovering your heart / you just do it again and again

I woke up early this morning from a dream in which I was talking to Jimmy Buffett on a very large, very cushy, very white bed. He had given a performance outside somewhere and I had managed to get to the front of the line to have my picture taken with him. He was wearing a white linen outfit and was surrounded by women in saris, fanning him with giant fronds.

When the picture was done, I thanked him for writing Frank and Lola and he said, "Don't you want to climb up here and chat with me?"

Since I'm on a flexitarian kick, I've been trying to use up some of the random food in my house. There was a package of lentils in the cabinet begging to be cooked. Here's what I came up with.

This soup falls under a lot of categories: vegetarian, healthy, budget friendly and Specific Carb Diet (the later stages, anyway). I hope you enjoy.

Inspired by a recipe in The Cook's Encyclopedia of Vegetarian Cooking, J made this dish tonight.

I baked our weekly bread today, but I just wasn't ready to get out of the kitchen. The question was, "What to make?" I looked in my cabinet and found peanut butter and cocoa powder. That was a step in the right direction.

I woke up at 8:00 this morning like I was late for work. It's Sunday. Give me a break, internal alarm clock. Seeing as I wasn't going back to sleep anytime soon, and J was busy in dreamland (probably killing zombies or taking back Poland), I decided to get up and make breakfast for him. I have been craving Eggs Benedict lately and decided that's what I would make. Only, as I surveyed the contents of our fridge and pantry, I discovered a few slight problems with this plan.

We didn't have English muffins.

Or Canadian bacon.

Or the makings of Hollandaise sauce.

We did have eggs, though. A whole carton, in fact. We also had leftover steak from last night, a whole bag of spinach (buy one get one baby!) and half a loaf of Italian bread. After two sips of coffee, I was inspired to come up with a variation of Eggs Benedict that would make J fall in love with me all over again. After you read this recipe, you may just do the same. Sorry, I'm taken, but "Have Whisk, Will Travel."

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The February 2010 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession.

The original recipe sources are:
Mascarpone Cheese – Vera's Recipe (Baking Obsession) for Homemade Mascarpone Cheese.
Savoiardi/ Ladyfinger Biscuits – Recipe from Cordon Bleu At Home
Tiramisu – Carminantonio's Tiramisu from The Washington Post, July 11 2007

Seeing how J and I are still sort of doing the Specific Carb Diet, I adapted the recipe to fit the guidelines. It was definitely a challenge, but that's ok – the results were quite tasty, even if it wasn't technically tiramisu, but more of a Tiramisu-Inspired Stacker.