My Hobbies

Breakfast has been delayed this morning, due to a combination of adventuresome…ness…and laziness. I had no pita in the house when I got up, so I decided to try and make some. Anything to avoid going to the store. It will probably be another 45 minutes before I find out if I succeeded.

I think I should put up a post at Manly Grub, exposing myself as a tremendous fraud and hypocrite. I should put up a photo of the breakfast I eat five days a week. Piles of fresh vegetables, pita bread, cottage cheese, sour cream, hummus, and boiled eggs. The only things in there that are even slightly unhealthy are the eggs and sour cream.

What am I supposed to do? If I ate good food every day, my BMI would be a googol. So I eat crap. Rabbit food. Shh. Don’t tell anyone.

On Saturday, I fully intend to have a mouth-watering Mickey D’s breakfast, to get the salad taste out of my mouth. And I plan to make a pizza this weekend. Until then, I will suffer.

I can’t understand how Mickey D’s makes such great breakfasts. Their other food is just sort of okay. If they quit making McMuffins and bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits, I am going to have to kill myself. There is no sound alternative. I have to have my biscuits and McMuffins, and I have to dip them in a big glob of Hunt’s ketchup while I eat.

There is something addictive in that Mickey D’s grease. It’s not like bacon grease. It’s not like butter, lard, or Crisco. Maybe it’s lithium grease. That would explain the mood-elevating effect.

An hour after eating this stuff, I get a headache and feel depressed. Maybe it’s an MSG thing. But even though I’m depressed, I’m happy. Because I’m depressed for a good reason.

You can be depressed and happy. The hippies tell us you can have global warming while temperatures drop all over the world. If that’s true, I can be depressed and happy.

A reader told me to put butter beans in my hummus to make it smoother. I thought he was high, but it works. This week I used one can of cheapo garbanzos plus a can of Winn-Dixie store brand butter beans. And the hummus is very good. I was too lazy to cook the garlic before adding it, but it doesn’t seem to matter. I’ll give you the ingredients again.

2 cans garbanzo beans, drained OR 1 can garbanzos, 1 can butter beans
juice of 2-3 lemons
several cloves garlic, pressed
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon salt
2-3 tablespoons tahini
hot peppers (seeded) or hot sauce to taste
2-3 tbsp. olive oil

I think that’s right. I just blast it in the food processor. If it’s too dry, I put back some of the water from the beans.

Thank God I like vegetables. Maybe they will in some way balance the other junk I eat.

I’m hoping to slap another 50 rounds of .357 ammunition together today and hit the gun range. I haven’t gone in two weeks. The weather and other factors have deterred me. I can’t wait to take the new old 27-2 out and see what it can do. I just hope I don’t have any squibs. I think I’ll take some .40 S&W ammunition and a Glock, just in case.