Apple Tuna Sandwich

No picture of this one but you'll have to take my word that it was really pretty. I've just started flipping through the Epicure A Healthier You kit and I've really wanted to try some of the recipes out of the cookbook included. This makes 4 sandwiches, I took two to Meag, I had one and there's enough for another sandwich in the fridge.

2 x 120g cans of tuna
1 apple, cored and diced
1/3 c low-fat plain yoghurt
1 Tbsp VE Guacamole Dip Mix
8 slices of whole-grain bread (I used rye)
lettuce

Fluff tuna with a fork in a medium mixing bowl. Add the apple, yoghurt and Guacamole Mix and stir it together. Divide it among the bread, add some lettuce and you're done.

I thought it could have used a little more yoghurt but the flavour was really good.

2 am Tomatoes

You know, some people like it at night. I mean, they like being up really late at night. I can see the appeal really, it's quieter, the phone's not ringing, the heat usually lets up a bit at night. That's not me though. When I was a kid, sure, it was always fun staying up till the wee hours of the morning, it was sneaky and usually it was with friends. Fun. Nowadays I lay in my (usually uncomfortably hot) bed staring at the ceiling (or the clock, or the window, or the fireplace, whatever) and I run through all of the mistakes that I think I've made throughout the day (week, month, life, whatever). I make sure to think about all of my worst fears and I mentally watch myself fail in plans that haven't even occurred to me to yet. Grim. This late night wheel-spinning happens more than I'd care to admit and probably more than you'd care to know.

Over the years, I've figured out a few things that hold it all at bay (sometimes). I leave a small light on because then I have something to look at. I usually keep the television going really softly in the background so that I can hear human voices (the trick is to keep the volume just loud enough to hear that they're talking but not quite loud enough to hear exactly what they're saying). I'll try talking to someone until I'm tired enough to drop off (and, as Joe can attest, sometimes past dropping off). Some nights the stars are not in alignment though and I run the gauntlet until I either crash from exhaustion or I hear the buses start going by, call it morning and start worrying about how I'm going to make it through the day without ripping someone's head off because I'm so bloody tired (Joe can also attest that I'm not always successful at that either).

The stars were not in alignment tonight so I tried something different. After two or three hours of self-reflection (doesn't it sound so positive that way), I got up and made BLTs (Meag was still up so I made one for her too). Don't know if eating bacon with mayo is a good idea at 2 in the morning but it was either that or cake and that's just not happening.

2 slices of stupid-giant-sized-rye-bread-that-has-to-be-toasted-one-half-at-a-time-because-it's-so-freaking-big-that-it-won't-fit-in-my-toaster
couple of slices of tomato
couple of pieces of cooked bacon
couple of leaves of romaine that have the spine removed (sounds so grisly)
mayo
s&p

Toast it. Stack it. Eat it.

I don't know if this will help me sleep but at least I'm not hungry anymore.

VE odds and ends

No 'recipe' this time out - just a few things I have used my epicure spices in and worked!

egg salad - lousianna hot and spicy dip with 3 onion dip mix - tasty!

roasted chicken - butter mixed with Tyee fish rub and tapinade spices about 3 to 1 tyee to tapinade. rub the mixture over the chicken and throw some inside the cavity too. Way good!!

Potato wedges done in the oven with - the Tyee rub - also very good
another time I used tziki sauce dip mix with the 3 onion - rockin!