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Irrational Aversions and Pancakes + WIAW

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We can’t always be rational.

I may abuse this with my irrational aversions.

Water sports are fine, but as soon as you want me to dunk my whole head under water… no dice.  I abhor white potatoes… but I’ll eat hash browns and french fries if they’re burnt extra crispy.

There are certain words I cannot stand.  “Chunked” shouldn’t be allowed on any restaurant menu.  “Privileges” makes me relive a lot of teenage angst.  While I love my chocolate cake to be such, the word “moist” makes me want to gag.

Moist Flow Chart

This WIAW is really some of what I ate Monday and some of what I ate Tuesday.  We went out for Vegas’ birthday last night and I wasn’t about to rush home to blog it immediately.  You understand.

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Read on for my eats, and then check out Jenn’s blog for everyone else’s delicious creations!

Meal 1:

The usual morning cocktail, followed by my morning sludge.

In honor of Vegas’ birthday, I make her pancakes and served them in bed with coffee.  #wifeoftheyear

These are based on the Pancakes Queen’s recipe.  I turned them into chocolate chunk bourbon pancakes by adding chocolate chunks (I know, I know… it says it right on the package though!) and replacing the OJ with “buttermilk” (1/4 C almond milk + 2 tsp apple cider vinegar) and the orange zest with bourbon extract.  Topped with syrup, cool whip, sprinkles, and a candle.

Birthday Cakes

Meal 2:

Sea Bass (aka Pork Belly of the Sea) with lemon and Italian herbs.  Eaten with sugar peas and purple sweet potato.

Pork Belly of the Sea

Meal 3:

Made my Easy Dijon Baked Chicken.  It looks darker than the original recipe because I added balsamic glaze to the mix as well.  With roasted brussels, mushrooms, and eggplant.

Dijon Baked Chicken

Meal 4:

Pre-leg day snack was the soon-to-be released Detour Simple bar.  They sent me a box of the Salted Caramel Cookie Dough flavor to sample.  It has a pretty clean ingredient list, is stevia-sweetened, and packs 20g of protein.  I assure you I’ll be buying more.

It was also delicious.  Vegas had one and said she liked it even better than Quest?!  *insert look of horror*

Detour Simple Bar - Salted Caramel Cookie Dough

Meal 5:

Post-leg day meal with my trainer and Vegas.  We went to our favorite Korean BBQ place, Hae Woon Dae.  Short rib.  Mmmm…

If your with your trainer, calories don’t count.

Hae Woon Dae - Koren BBQ short rib

Meal 6:

Vegas is throwing off my dessert game (it’s serious when you can distract me from dessert)… but here’s the dinner we had Monday night instead.  I made my Turkey Beer Chili and manchego cheese-stuffed bacon-wrapped dates.  With cheese toast.

Turkey Beer Chili

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Don’t worry – hell isn’t totally freezing over.  We had dessert for Vegas’ birthday.

What do you have an irrational aversion to?

What is your favorite birthday breakfast?

Comments

  2. Happy belated birthday to Vegas :)! The Korean meat looks fab! As great as the food scene here in Mumbai has become, we still lack Korean BBQ options…needs to change asap!

  5. Where do you find your purple sweets and your seafood? I would love to try the purples but can’t ever find them in ATL!

  10. Birthday breakfast? Why have I never thought of this? I do, however, make my kids their breakfast of choice on their birthdays.

    I can’t think of any food aversions, but I did have a childhood friend who loved cherry pie..but not the cherries. Um?

    • It’s not just for kids! I’ve also been known to make it a bloody Mary birthday breakfast… 😉

  11. I had to go check out those detour bars. I still haven’t tried quest bars yet though. I live under a rock right 😉 I hate the word aqua as well as moist. I hate cucumbers but love pickles. I see this as totally ok though since they are no longer like a cucumber. My husband, however, thinks this is weird.

    • They’re totally different than a cucumber! I am with you… though I prefer cucumbers to pickles.

    • I think mayo is one of the most despised food items in the US. I can’t believe they dip fries in it like ketchup in Europe.

  15. What is it with the word moist? It doesn’t bother me, but I know I’ve heard others gripe about it.

    Will you come make me pancakes too? Vegas is a lucky girl!

  17. Do I have irrational aversions? Me? No way. I just don’t like getting my face wet and if a hair from my head falls onto my body it drives me crazy until I get it off. But all that is normal right? 😉 Btw, those pancakes look tasty!

  20. HAPPY BIRTHDAY VEGAS! lucky lady, with those pancakes.

    girl, I have so many irrational quirks. food related, I cannot stand to hear people chew. even those who do it correctly, with their mouth closed. some have a WAY of making it noisy! GAH. I agree with you about chunk. just, no. someone used the word “fluid” instead of “liquid” in a recipe once, that just completely turned me off.

    • Thanks! It was a fun birthday. 🙂

      Fluid… that’s just wrong. It’s a recipe not a hospital order.

  21. Hi Laura! I’ve been seeing a lot of purple sweet potatoes lately and haven’t tried them yet. I need to get on that. Your meals look great, of course. And irrational fear? I don’t have one. But I do hate it when people speak with poor grammar. hehehe 🙂 Happy WIAW!

    • Let me know if you do try them. I like them better than the orange!

      The grammar thing annoys me too!

  22. Those pancakes look adorable and delicious – what a sweet gesture.
    There are certain textures I hate feeling with my hands – like clay, could never handle pottery class it just ugh -can’t do it.

  26. I’m sure I have many irrational aversions but none are coming to mind. I’m a grammar lunatic so when people say things like “I could care less” I FREAK and want to yell “couldn’t!!!!”
    And I must have manchego cheese-stuffed bacon-wrapped dates immediately. Holy yum.

  27. Those pancakes look awesome! (must not make….)

    I love sea bass and purple sweet potatoes (for the person who couldn’t find them, check the Stokes web site http://www.stokesfoods.com they’re the folks who “own” the purple hybrid and they can help you find places that sell them.

    The dijon chicken and roasted sprouts look yummy. I’ve never liked eggplant – may have an aversion to it. 🙂

    I ate Detour bars long ago. Now I eat Quest but only apple cinnamon and chocolate brownie (the original formula, all their new ones with xylitol are nasty and gritty) though the vanilla almond are ok in a pinch. I’m not really supposed to eat chocolate (and I make a dairy exception for whey). They are both great warmed up, especially the brownie one.

    Never had Korean bbq though I think I might like to try.

    Happy birthday Vegas!

  28. haha i feel ya on the word “Mois….” ick! Same with Juicy or tender. I see a reoccurring theme here. But you my dear, are on a WIFE of the YEAR theme. Keep at it!

  30. how dare you not come home and blog about it. You fail at blogging.

    If I didn’t like you so much, I’d have to throw a mug cake gone wrong at you for not liking potatoes, but then you would probably use it in some way cos your damn creative!

  31. Never had a birthday breakfast before….maybe lunch (can’t remember) but dinner for sure. I know I have irrational aversions but my mind is drawing a blank right now on what it is…

  32. Escargot! I ate them once but was pretty grossed out. NEVER NEVER again! There isn’t enough garlic in the world to hide that they are slugs… and very MOIST! hahaha!

  33. Happy birthday to Vegas 🙂 All that food looks delish! Especially the pancakes nom nom nom. 🙂 Hope you gals had a great time and take care Laura! -Iva

  35. I just thought of an aversion to do with the spelling of my name. It’s C-A-S-S-I not C-A-S-S-I-E. It didn’t bother me at first…until someone said their dog was Cassie. Since then I shudder whenever I see a person named Cassie and grit my teeth whenever someone spells my name that way, especially after I’ve sent them something so they have the correct spelling.

    I don’t know why that still bothers me, especially since so many people think my name is Cathy/Kathy….

  37. as soon as you want me to dunk my whole head under water… no dice. <——- MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

    Story time: I did not learn how to swim until I was 7 years old, and even then, I just learned the doggy paddle. Prior to 7 years old, I had a baby sitter who tried to teach me how to swim. She would chase after me and grab me and then dunk me under water – and I was told this is how I would learn to swim… Um, no. After the age of 7, whenever we would have "swim class" in school, I managed to either A. stay in the kidding pool or B. get out of it completely! WOO WOO!

    • We’re going to get paddle boards and kayaks. You can come over and play… and both our heads will remain dry!

  38. My most irrational food fear is a tied between Jaegermeister and butter. One shot of jager won’t kill me….but the smell brings back memories of regret. Gross. On a lesser level, butter makes me freak out. It really isn’t so scary, but I swear…whenever i eat ANYTHING with butter in it, it leaves me in an intestinal struggle, begging for mercy. This year, Thanksgiving, I ate a clean meal including beets, brussell sprouts, salmon, cornbread stuffing, and….bread pudding…which was LOADED with straight butter. I felt like a champ after the main meal. About 10 minutes after my bread pudding dessert, I wanted to curl up and die. Butter. I fear butter…it’s irrational, but I refuse to negotiate.

    My favorite birthday breakfast? Let me sleep! Kisses and cuddles when I wake up. =) If it’s Saturday or Sunday, I’m flexible.

    • Oh god… yes to the Jaegermeister. Regret with an extra side of nausea.

      Word to your breakfast.

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