It’s the first Friday in July, and I managed to entertain and feed guests for the 4th by the pool here at the farm without breaking the Thursday fast. (Believe me, I was tempted.)
The menu was simple, but interesting: Gyros with hummus, tzajiki, cukes, falafil, and feta with a fresh from the garden spinach Greek salad. I seasoned the meat and let it soak up all the flavors of onions, garlic, rosemary, marjoram, tarragon, oregano, and savory for about three hours in the fridge. Then it all went in the food processor until it became a fragrant paste. This I packed onto a skewer like a long tubelike loaf, wrapped in foil, and put in the freezer until grilling time.
Needless to say, after searing over the coals and then cooking through off the coals for an hour and fifteen minutes the gyro meat was to die for, and I had to watch all of them eat it. And I havent’ even tasted it yet, but now that I’ve weighed, I can go get that stuff and make a gyro for breakfast!
I have lost a total of 26 lbs. now. It doesn’t show much yet to others, but I can feel it. By August weigh day, I think it will start to show, and I will have dropped below the century mark on the scale that has made me disgusted with myself for quite some time. Just one more pound lost puts me over that hurdle and that “2” turns to a “1”, territory I can much better live with!
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