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Friday Fun Thread for March 28, 2025

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What's cookin' this weekend, The Motte?

Ever since I restarted intermittent fasting, my passion for creating and eating exotic foods has increased quite dramatically, since I'm thinking about food nearly constantly in the latter half of the workday. It is probably for the same reason that I am torn about what I should be doing: creating new exotic foods with ingredients from the Asian grocery store? Eating old food that I don't even know exists yet? Or maybe I should be going cheap and cooking up old beans in the cabinet or roasting/boiling some chicken leg quarters?

Yesterday I went with a compromise option, maki sushi with slightly old frozen fish that had been taking up space for a while, along with some taberu rayu (Japanese spicy chili oil) I had never been brave enough to actually use. It was great. Now there seem to be plans for going to a new wings place tomorrow, which really throws a wrench in the rest of the dinner plans, if you ask me, but I also have been craving wings recently, too, so not the worst thing in the world.

I'm dying to cook up a batch of shortbread cookies this weekend. Or maybe cheddar and chive scones.

It's funny you say that about intermittent fasting. How are you managing it? I try to restrict all my eating to an 8 hour window or less each day, but I see other people skip entire days. I try to give myself a cheat day a week, and that goes OK I guess. I donno. Starting to think I should drop it down to every other week. Whatever changes in body composition I was seeing seemed to have dropped off, though my energy levels are more consistent throughout the day which is nice.

I manage it by not eating during the workday or anything for breakfast at all. I look forward to the black coffee I have after noon. I also take a nap at lunchtime.

My real weakness is the weekends. The association of home = food time is very strong for me. Not eating at all at work is comparatively extremely easy, especially since my boss stopped ordering full pizzas for lunch and letting me have the leftovers multiple times per week.

Related: for some reason, when I am by myself, I am never motivated to go get fast food or takeout or eat anywhere except home.

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