Quiche Recipes and Basic Formulas

I love quiche.
My mother tells a story I wish were apocryphal (but sadly is not): when I was a teenager, we were in Manhattan on vacation at some famous kosher deli and I ordered quiche — to the horror of my parents and our waiter.
My mother’s famous quiche was a bacon and swiss “Quiche [...]

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Skin Care – “Fountain of Youth? Go Wash Your Face”

I am not certain where I read/heard that women of a certain age have to choose between their skin and their figure: the skinnier you are, the more wrinkly and haggard you can look.
I am obsessed with skin care. When I was 26, I began getting weekly glycolic acid peels at a day [...]

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Clean That Man Right Out of My Condo

Everyone copes with break-ups and loss differently: I write and I clean.
The ex and I are still close, but that does not mean I did not have to take some serious steps to reclaim this space — and, by extension, my life.
It took me a couple of months to get started (mostly because of [...]

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Roasted Carrot Soup

Before I left for the holidays, I realized I could cook.
I mean, I have had dinner parties and cooked for myself frequently over the years, but it never occurred to me that I could actually create something wonderful in the kitchen.
I had a bag of organic baby carrots in my fridge on the cusp of [...]

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Making Progress – Day 3 – 154.2

Down 3 pounds so far. It’s all water, since I know it’s impossible to lose more than 2 pounds of fat in a week, no less 3 pounds in 2 days. Still, at the start of Day 3, I’m down 3 pounds.
I am fighting a bit of a cold — mostly by taking [...]

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Food Intake for Day 2 – 1043 cal, 20.72 carb

Today has been a much better day — in part because I was able to get all of this stuff out into the ether; and in part because I had a 154 minute conference call in which significant progress was made.  I stuck to the new new plan: I ate as I should, weighed [...]

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Things I Already Know: “Drinking and Dieting”

FitSugar has a little quiz entitled “Drinking and Dieting”.
I scored 100% (not that it was overwhelmingly challenging) because I know not to drink when I am dieting.
It’s not about the carbs in alcohol (when I drink, I drink wine or vodka and soda so the carb impact is negligible); it’s about the liver processing alcohol [...]

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The Food Plan

After doing the Zone, pure calorie counting on myfooddiary.com, Perricone (which I loved but lost no weight while working out with a trainer — also, extremely expensive for all that wild salmon), and my own mishmash, I am sticking to what’s always worked for me: carb limiting. I am not going to say I [...]

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Pondering Change – Day 2 – 156.2

It’s Day 2 and I’ve dropped a pound. It’s water weight, since I flew a few days ago, but that’s still a good feeling.
I am a bit out of sorts. It’s been a rough few months and I am not my usual ebullient self. I may wander around the lake today, though [...]

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A Fresh Start – Day 1 – 157.2

This is a chronicle of my new new plan.
I intend to hold myself accountable, semi-publicly, as I make some serious life changes.
I had been on a successful path to lose 45 pounds, which got a bit derailed when I broke my foot. My hour a day of exercise, six days per week, went completely [...]

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