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shalmestere talked about last month. I just made it home in time to meet Mr. and Mrs. greenman73 for transport to their Love Nest Among The Eateries. I packed masks and my good outdoor chair and sheet music for the Sunday demo. They made some very healthy meat sauce over veggies for dinner (I asked not to eat grains and they were very kind). There was lots of music (including a 2000 Harpers' Retreat CD) and I introduced them to cat macros, the favorites of which were http://porchtalk.com/upload/files/12/proof.jpg and http://a2.vox.com/6a00c2251d84868fdb00cdf3aad91acb8f-500pi .shrinkyohead made) and Sunday lunch ( I prepared nothing, but windsingerbard made pesto to cover angel hair and shrimp, with a side dish of fiddlehead ferns with some truffle butter from Wegman's. The ferns looked sort of like tight-curled leafy snails and they were delicious 8) I had no idea until a few years ago, that my family was different in that three or four of us otherwise-territorial females can cook in the same kitchen at roughly the same time and still sit down to dinner wanting to speak to each other 8)windsingerbard introduced the rest of the family to cat macros, and shrinkyoheadgot to see a macro-captioned 'Net version of a Trek classic, renamed "We Has Tribbles And Also Troubles" (link here -- http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/ in case y'all haven't seen it. ) shrinkyoheadin Manhattan. They were here with some friends who took my sister to see Madame Butterfly at NY Opera for her *mumblemumble*th birthday. (I missed the opera. I lack a proper appreciation for operatic singing, so all is well 8) We met at Lincoln Center and walked to Restaurant Row for dinner. She told me she cried quite a lot and preferred the performance of the serving-maid to that of the leading lady. For the first time since I started Atkins over two years ago, I made chili. I've been avoiding most beans all that time because of the carb level, but last year I discovered edamame (soy beans in the pod), and that I liked them. When shelled, they resemble more vividly-green lima beans but taste less mushy/pasty. Last week I found frozen edamame in the kosher market ("Dr. Praeger's" brand). The price was more than I like to pay for beans, but since I wanted to try the chili with a bean I already liked, I gritted my teeth and paid for them.
The chili looks a bit odd with green beans instead of red or black ones, but it tastes like chili, and the beans only have 4 "net" carbs per serving. (I think the tomatoes have about five and the seasoning mix adds one or two).
Next step is to look for canned soybeans and see if the carb count remains low.
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