Color me skeptical.

[constance]

Other members of The Daily Plate often eat the following foods with cheese quesadillas:

Plain Organic Steamed Brocoli
Banana Bread
Hershey's Milk Chocolate candy bar
Marinara Sauce with Pasta
balsamic salad dressing
Tomatoes
Pineapple
Chicken, Breast
Lettuce

:::

Alas: I have nothing to say that requires any thought at all. It's year-end at my office, and I'm lucky I can still remember my way home at the end of the day. Also, my brain is being eaten by Sudoku, which up until two weeks ago I scoffed at. Certain coworkers who shall remain nameless have much to answer for.

Comments

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

That's an interestingly placed comma in that list, there. I wonder if the latter tastes like the former?

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

I feel like there should have been exclamation points instead. "Chicken! Breast!"

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Yes! Yes!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Doesn't everything taste like chicken, unless specifically stated otherwise? :D

Also, weren't we going to have an exchange of some kind? If you're still up for it, I'll email you my mailing address.

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

I am if you are. I promise not to out you or stalk you. I can't promise I'll be entirely prompt in mailing the envelope, though; I did find the two clovers, but this is the week before classes start and I have more meetings than is strictly necessary.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

That's quite a leap from Plain Organic Steamed Brocoli to Hershey's Milk Chocolate candy bar.

And I get just plain annoyed at the term "cheese quesadilla," since quesadilla basically means "cheese thing." I just finished what I call a "perrito," that is, a hot dog in a tortilla. This one is a 98% fat free Oscar Meyer Wiener in a Carb Balance ultra whole grain tortilla with a stick of string cheese melted in there for dairy. Pretty yummy and four points.

Here endeth the Weight Watchers New Year's Resolution lesson.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Well, I know my favorite meal is a broccoli-and-choclate-bar quesadilla. If you don't have an adventurous palate, don't blame me! O:)

Hahahaha, and here's a schoolgirl-French-only-style paradox for you: now that I'm on weight watchers, I order my quesadillas without cheese. Should I be asking for a dilla?

I usually make burritos with beans/rice, onions, mushrooms, and chicken. They're 7 points the way I make them, which is good for dinner -- but I really like your idea of melting string cheese on top! I might even try it tonight, since I haven't decided what I'm having yet.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Well heaven knows what passes for a quesadilla in a chain restaurant these days. I'm pleased that Mexican food has become more popular, but sometimes it's as far from its origins as the "Oriental Chicken Salads" you get at so many coffee shops.

String cheese is my main cheese source on WW, mostly because of the portion control packaging. Two points, no messing around. I like it better than the Laughing Cow, personally. Cheese has always been my favorite source of dairy, so I eat more string cheese than I would have anticipated. But I really don't sit down and drink a glass of milk unless I'm eating a pastry, and that's pretty much out now. So I either have yogurt at breakfast or fit in a cheese stick somewhere and get the rest in my coffee.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Good God, the typos.

Oh, I adore Laughing Cow. Cheese of all sorts, really (even Laurel's post about the processed-to-death gift basket made me slaver!) -- one of the hardest things about watching what I eat is strictly limiting the cheese intake, but string cheese (I use the light kind, even, which is only a single point) and LC's fat-free variety have been invaluable for helping out on that score. Even if what I really want is a good sharp cheddar.

I eat yogurt or cereal (hot or cold) in the morning, so that takes care of some of the dairy. I'll sometimes drink a small glass of milk with a couple of ginger snaps, which are surprisingly low in points, as a bedtime snack, if I still have a dairy to kill by the end of the day.

I did try the grated string cheese trick last night, a burrito with sausage, onion, plain yogurt, salsa, jalapeno, and cheese. YUMMY. So yummy I might have another tonight.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Glad I could inspire you to a yummy burrito.

I've got a roast chicken leg for lunch today with zucchini and mushrooms. Tonight I'm going to try some curried turkey drumsticks with carrots and leeks.

But yeah, I could just smell those cheesy cheeses in Laurel's post, and feel the wax coating. But I'll stay strong!

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I salute your Sudoku skills! I walked on air for two days after mastering a Sudoku aimed at 4th graders. More advanced ones have ended up crumpled and thrown at the wall. It's no fun being born without math skillz.

Here's hoping you get through end-of-year intact, with or without a chocolate-pineapple-banana bread quesadilla chaser!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Aww, sudoku doesn't really require math skills, though! Just logic ones. You could do the same thing if you replaced the numbers with nine different letters, or animal pictures, or Harry Potter characters.

Ooh, maybe I'll make an HP sudoku board! :D

*goes home to make a chocolate-pineapple-banana bread quesadilla, with lettuce added to make it healthy*

[proteinscollide.livejournal.com]

I am addicted to Sudoku! Whenever I'm bored, or stressed, I go here (http://www.samurai-sudoku.com/), print the hardest one I can find, sit down with a cup of coffee, and vow to not move until one of us is defeated.

[xanthophyllippa.livejournal.com]

Your username is awesome!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

:D:D:D Isn't it? I love it too.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you for the link! I printed one out and started it at lunch. I have the feeling I'm going to be visiting often -- they fill the same role in my life that they do in yours.

How often are you defeated? I admit to wanting to throw a puzzle across the room when I get close to the end and realize I've managed to screw it up thorougly.

[proteinscollide.livejournal.com]

I get the same feeling! Sometimes I get the fiendish one done, and feel really accomplished, but mostly I get completely stuck having solved two or so of the five. =(

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Reading this makes me feel significantly better about my own lousy Sudoku skills. When it goes well, I am very happy, but I am totally unable to debug a bad puzzle and find my mistakes. In a crossword I can see (and hold in my mind) multiple valid possibilities for an answer until I get more information. For Sudoku, it just flies. I wonder if I really would do better with Harry Potter folk in place of numbers.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I can't dubug either, actually; I am incapable of looking at a series of numbers and sussing out where a pattern went wrong. To fix a mistake I've made, I usually have to erase the entire square and start over. Which I have been known to do, to good effect, but man, the work it takes! I wish I were one of those people who had a more intimate relationship with numbers, which fascinate me. But it is not so.

When I make my HP sudoku, you can beta it and tell me if it works better for you!

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

I will await the HP Sudoku breathlessly. I won't say I'll be able to solve it any better, but I really want to try a figurative one. Now the question is which characters to use. One professor and one student from each house, plus Dumbledore? Or something more sinister?

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I think you'd have to stick to the most easily recognizable characters, really, or at least ones with readily identifiable physical characteristics. Otherwise you'd have solvers struggling to keep the characters straight in their heads, as well as the number sequences.
I think it'd just about work to have the one student/one head-of-house plus Dumbledore, though. *thinks about how to characterize Flitwick and Sprout*