(((gentle hugs))) and praying for a less barfy pregnancy.

I'm getting ready to make dinner based partially on your soup down there with bok choy and noodles and even your peanut-y sauce. Off to go start cookin'!

Huggggs!

i've been craving steak. but i don't like vegetables even when i'm not pregnant.

Ohhh! The Star Trek memories!! "Brain, brain. What is brain?!"

Don't feel too bad. You are pregnant and you have earned the right to have aversions to food! I am not pregnant and I have a hard time deciding what to cook. So, what's my excuse? I am always afraid to admit that I don't really enjoy cooking because we are all supposed to be domestic goddesses and excel at everything, right? But here is my confession. I don't really like cooking. I do it. Many folks say I do it well. But I don't really enjoy the doing it. I cook because I must cook. Sometimes I think it is just my sinful nature rearing its ugly head. You know, the I-don't-want-to-do-it-because-I-have-to syndrome. Maybe if I did not HAVE to cook everyday, I would want to cook! Maybe if 8 other folks were not always asking the "What's for dinner?" question I would not feel so resentful about having to be responsible for cooking. And maybe if I could just cook what I want to eat, I would like it better. But my family is more the meat-and-potatoes type, or the anything that has carbs (noodles, rice, potatoes) meat, and cheese type. (((sigh))) So I cook, but I don't really get very excited or inspired by it. I always feel like I am in a rut of making the same things over and over. I guess, it ain't their fault, just me and my selfishness.

Sheesh! Why am I dumping all this on you? I guess confession is good for the soul!

thanks for your sweet comment, kim! :)

i can't remember having too much trouble with throwing up during pregnancy, even with my twins. my MIL however used to throw up every day. she would literally excuse herself from the table, go and throw up, and come back and finish eating. O_O she was just used to it and it didn't phase her. being pregnant is an amazing experience, isn't it? i'm so happy for you!

haha, "did i tell you i started knitting a sock?" :P i hope it's a pair of socks...

Kim, I'd love if you came and cooked at my house. Everything you cook looks good. I liked the look of that green soup. The oogies, those are not too good though. I know about the oogies. I didn't get morning sick once the first time, second time I got the oogies. And you're starting a sock!? I just ripped out my scarf yesterday. It stretched so I needed to shorten it. Then I decided I didn't like it anyway (I don't like the pockets). Anyway, it's in the other room, in a bag, all take apart except for ten inches or so. It a giant pile of kinked up yarn now. Maybe I will make it into one one those little purses.

BusyHSmom! Hi! I too, think the worst question in the world is when at 11:00am someone says, "What's for dinner tonight?" (And I don't even cook much. How bad is that. And only one kid. You and Kim and Christina are going to put me in a collective choke hold!) One day in about 16 years you're going to look around and you'll be cooking for two instead of a small army. I think big families are so neat. My old ex-best friend was one of four kids and I like it at her house.

I was sick as a dog during every pregnancy I lost. The pregnancies that ended happily I was without oogies or chucks at all. Except one - the one where my gallbladder went bad. It was like all day morning sickness for a year - nine months of the pregnancy then three months until it went bad and REQUIRED surgery RIGHT NOW.

You might need more than a loose categorical plan for the next few weeks just to avoid the thinking-about-it issue.

RYC on the bread: I have made whole grain breads mostly in the past, but my 5-quart KA doesn't do so well with that much in it. So, I purchased some organic all purpose flour. That loaf had one half orgaic whole wheat flour and one half organic all purpose unbleached flour. I used a molasses/honey mix for the sweetner. So, basically flours, yeast, gluten, water, salt, molasses/honey, butter (or Earth Balance). I added Italian seasoning and sea salt and freshly ground pepper to it, as well. Sometimes we add organic thick cut oats. Yummmmmmm.

Praying that you are feeling well today! ((gentle hugs))

More bok choy tonight for dinner! Yummmm...

Oh, loaf size. lol I used 8 cups total of flour and approximately half went into that pan. With the other half I made long french rolly-looking loaves on a cookie sheet.

So glad that each of your pregnancies are less barfy. Is there a nice way to say that?? Each of mine were worse. :( I hope all goes well and you enjoy this time!