The good news is...

.. no one reads this! So there's no one to disappoint! Haha! But I did make this yesterday. Tuna salad is not particularly beautiful, so I'll spare you a photo, but can I just say, this was DELICIOUS! And I always thought I hated tuna!!! If I had known it could be like this, I would not have felt that way! Give this a try!

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/260368/keto-tuna-salad/

Vegetartian Shepherds Pie from the past!

This was delicious and fun to make! A vegetarian shepherds pie made with Boca crumbles. (My preferred ground meat substitute.)

Finished product!

Yum! I need to make this again, ASAP!

SOOOO it might be a minute...

before I post anything new, but this is pretty, so here are some grape tomatoes, onions, garlic, artichoke hearts, and olive oil I prepped for some angel hair pasta.

Second disclaimer

I used the title “Klonopin Kitchen” as a joke, because cooking relaxes me. I’m not cooking with klonopin. 

BACKTRACK- this was lunch!

Ok I took a picture of my lunch creation today, too!

Since I am trying to eat healthier/go vegetarian, I made a veggie taco bowl. It contained: Mexican cauliflower rice, ("Mexican" as in I seasoned plain cauliflower rice with cumin, cayenne pepper, paprika, garlic powder and sea salt) taco seasoned Boca crumbles, shredded lettuce, cilantro, green onions, tomatillo salsa, a drizzle of guacamole salsa, Go Veggie vegan "cheese" shreds, and Valentina hot sauce! It was SO GOOD. I have some left that I could also take for lunch tomorrow if I feel more like Mexican than Asian when I wake up.

I really need to start watching my sodium, but I think I can only handle one or two dietary changes at a time!!

Tonight's delicious tragedy.

Lately I am obsessed with stir fry. And tofu. So I found this recipe~ PAN FRIED SESAME TOFU WITH BROCCOLI.

I changed it up a little, like I used deluxe stir fry veggies instead of just broccoli. Also, I didn't have rice vinegar, so I omitted it. I added sriracha. Because I am a sriracha fiend. But perfecting tofu is a challenge. I don't claim to have done it, either, but coating it with corn starch as this recipe advises, is definitely a great improvement over flour, as I'd previously been doing. It tastes fine, so whatever. I placed it on a bed of jasmine rice. (Which is my favorite.)

It turned out GREAT! And now I have lunch for work tomorrow, which is always a challenge for me, because I hate working on Saturdays, so I absolutely never have my shit together enough to pack a lunch! (I end up eating chips out of the vending machine or going to Church's chicken across the street for sides..) So YAY ME! Who'd've thunk it! Thinking ahead does actually happen! Sometimes. SOMETIMES.

Lately I've been wanting to make some baked goods for work.. That will possibly (no promises) be next!

Welcome to the Nuthouse (jk)

So.. don't take this blog too seriously. I probably need to pin this post somewhere.

As a PSA, you probably should NOT be cooking under the influence of Klonopin, however, it generally just makes me feel ~normal~ so, how it affects me may not be the same as someone else.

This is a dark humor blog. If I don't make fun of myself, my anxiety, etc, I'd probably just implode. And as I said, cooking helps. It's distraction. AND IT'S DELICIOUS!

I do not claim to be any sort of amazing, gourmet, or even particularly GOOD cook, but I DO finally know what a spatula is after like, 32 years of never paying attention.. so there's that.

I imagine this blog may be half cooking/recipes and half self-care. If you're interested, stick around. I promise I'll try to make some good stuff! Plus this will inspire me to cook even more! Also, I am attempting to become vegetarian, but I am only 97% there, and my 16 yr old son is rather omnivorous, so there will hopefully be a nice variety of things to post.