Crash and Burn

Crash and Burn indeed. Along with my stressful work adventures last week, my hard drive crashed and burned.

I was blissfully listening to iTunes when suddenly my computer froze up. I wasn't alarmed at first and simple rebooted my MacBook only to find a folder flashing with a question mark.

In my mind I knew it couldn't be good, but with hopeful spirits called my guru brother.

His response, "Oh, that's not good!"

In deed it wasn't. All my music, all my photos, all my files were gone.

Apple replace my hard drive for free which was awesome considering my warranty expired in 2008, however, nothing on my hard drive was salvageable. I had about 90% of my music backed up, but only about 20% of my photos. So much lose.

Back up your files. Do it now I tell you. Seriously. Right now while you are thinking about it.

Food wise you haven't missed much the past 2 weeks. I've been eating this literally just about everyday.

Cottage cheese, tomato and hot sauce, with the option of fresh avocado for some filling, healthy fat. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks. I just can't get enough.

It's even portable for breakfast, lunch and dinners on the go!

Try it! It's light, fresh and delicious.

Found It!

It was plugged in my kitchen right where I left it a month ago. Totally normal place to keep a camera charger, right?! Here's my deliciously filling lunch who should have made a debut earlier.

This bad boy was super quick and easy and extremely filling. First I steamed a bed of spinach and place on the bottom of the bowl. I then added a big scoop of cottage cheese and added 2/3 cup whole wheat pasta on top. For the sauce I heated some roasted eggplant with marinara and added capers and kalmata olives to make a tasty puttanesca sauce. Dumped the sauce over the noodles, added more cheese, mix, and YUM! I actually wasn't even able to finish all the pasta!

Adding lots of veggies to your pasta is a great way to fill up on less carbs. And adding cottage cheese may seem a little odd to some, but cottage cheese is just like ricotta's brother, except lower fat. It actually melts and gets really creamy and delicious in pasta plus adds a big punch of protein. I highly recommend it!