Last Night I had the Strangest Dream

This one was really weird. In my dream I'm in the parking lot of a shopping mall, and all of a sudden, water is everywhere. I look over to my right and I see this wall of water, like a tidal wave, about 7 or 8 feet high, coming towards me. Now, I cannot swim, so I start looking for something that will put me as high up as I can get. I look around and notice a huge, black hummer or pick-up truck nearby, and I climb up on top of it, just as the wall of water reaches my location.

Inside the vehicle is it's owner, Thom Bierdz II, a Facebook friend of mine, who invites me to sit inside the vehicle with him and his partner. I wonder out loud what could have happened to cause this phenomenon and Thom tells me that something crashed into a nearby lake. I speculate that it was a meteorite or something, but he tells me it was an airplane.

Anyway, the water starts rising some more, so Thom, his partner, and I start driving out o the parking lot towards higher ground which we can see nearby. I'm worried that the water will sweep us all away, but they both assure me that we're safe in their Hummer or whatever it is (seriously, in the dream it was like this HUGE monster truck), which apparently has a watertight engine compartment, because it didn't get flooded and we all made it to safety.

Please believe me, that as much as I would like to meet Thom in person (he played one of my grandmother's favorite characters on her favorite daytime drama), this is one dream I definitely hope DOESN'T come true.

Friendly Brownies

I have been away from my Tao for a long time, but I'm back, and hope you like this new recipe. I thought about posting it for some time now, and it's for all my friends who are Type I or Type II diabetics. I cannot claim credit for creating it of course, but I did do the research all by myself and found it, and shouldn't that count for something? :)

 

 

NO-GUILT BROWNIES

 

 

• 3 egg whites
• 3/4 cup 1% cottage cheese
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate melted and cooled
• 2 teaspoons confectioners' sugar

1. Place the egg whites, cottage cheese and vanilla in a blender, cover and process until smooth.
2. Combine the sugar, flour, baking powder and salt; add to cottage cheese mixture. Cover and process for 30 seconds.
3. Add the chocolate; cover and process just until blended (about 15 seconds).
4. Spread into an 8" square baking pan coated with cooking spray.
5. Bake at 350*F for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. (Do not over bake)
6. Cool on a wire rack.
7. Dust with confectiners' sugar.
8. Cut into bars.

And as always, eat and enjoy.

 



 

Tea Party Cowards

First, let me just say how sorry I am for not posting more frequently. I guess that since I started with Facebook, my blog just fell by the wayside, but I'm hoping to change all that. I was just thinking, after reading a Facebook post by my friend Michael Tattersall, and a comment from one Luis H, that the so called republican 'Tea Party' are basically celebrating men who were not so much heroes as cowards. Now, before some start getting all hater on me, please hear me out.

While the Boston Tea Party was an act of resistance and defiance against the Tea Act of 1773, I see it as somewhat of a cowardly act for the men who dumped all that tea into Boston harbor donning costumes and wearing make-up to look like Mohawk Indians. True, they were committing an illegal act and they didn't want they or their families to be arrested and/or executed for the crime, but why not just wear masks? Why try to offer up a scapegoat in the Native Americans.

Some will say that it was a symbolic choice and showed the participants rejecting traditional European symbolism, but I see it as something more sinister. I see it as a way for them to kill two birds with one stone; 'We get to defy the British, and the British will punish the Indians'.