Gallstone Recipes (Volume 1)

I have gallstones and have for several years now. I fully intend to create an entry comprised of my findings in different foods; what I can and can't have. But until I can find the time to sit down and write that out, here is a recipe for an AMAZING dinner that my mother came up with. I would estimate the entire meal contains somewhere between 5-7 grams of fat.

Chicken Fiesta (feeds 2)

Ingredients:
4 Chicken Thighs or 2 Chicken Breasts
1 pack McCormick Enchilada Seasoning
80z can of tomato paste (with equal part water)
Tortillas
White rice
1 can of Frito Lay Jalapeno Cheese Dip

Preheat oven to 350. Remove the skin from chicken and set aside. In a baking dish, add the McCormick seasoning, the can of tomato paste and the water and blend. Place your chicken meaty side down into the mixture. Cover the top of your baking dish with foil and place in the oven for about an hour.

Allow chicken to cool in the sauce after removing it from the oven. When the chicken cools, remove the meat from the bone and shred the chicken. Place it in a large, microwave safe bowl. Spoon the sauce on top of the chicken. Add 2 table spoons of Frito Lay Jalapeno Cheese dip to the chicken. Allow the chicken and sauce to sit for fifteen to twenty minutes, so the flavor can set in.

Add white rice according to the mixture to the amount of sauce that you have. Microwave on high for 15-20 minutes, until rice is tender and mixture is absorbed. Heat your tortillas in the microwave and serve.

So what is the point?

Note: I am not writing this for a pat on the back or anything like that...it's just the way I'm feeling at the moment.

I am a writer with no real ambition. Contrary to the popular belief that we're all on a quest to be published novelists, I am not. I publish everything I write on a website. I don't charge anybody anything, I don't submit things to be published - I am happy with my meager means. Many would believe this hardly makes me a writer at all, because I am nobody if I am not published or paid for it, but I rather like what I have going.

But recently, more than one person has kind of thrown the "being published makes you someone" thing back at me. I'm not certain that one person meant it the way it necessarily came out - I doubt he'd be that much of an ass - but the other one said it as some kind of a jab. That person, btw, is a complete douchebag and he's quite lucky I'm a lady or I'd go straight to his house and key his car or something.

But you know...I'm a suggestive soul. You tell me something enough and I start to believe it. I start to say, "you know what? What is the damn point here?" I write because I like to write. I write because I love these damn characters and I love this story. I write because...well, that about sums it up. Am I nothing? Am I untalented? Am I a joke because I am not a published author? Maybe I am.

This post has little point except to say that I'm really down on myself right now & I'm really pissed at people. I'm a writer and I happen to be a good one (better than many others I've seen, for sure)...but being that I'm not getting paid for it and have no publishing credits to my name, I am basically useless.

Nice, huh?

An introduction of sorts...

I'm Rebecca. I go by Bex. Maybe Bexeth. Even Bexxies if I like ya. But never Becky. I beg of you.

I'm inching ever closer to 30. I work at a hotel. I largely detest my job. I live in Texas. I am a music freak. I do not watch television...except for Family Guy. I have a very short attention span when it comes to reading, but I am an avid writer. I write fiction and songs, and I have a website devoted to my novel, which one might find here.

I wear a lot of makeup, but I have perfected my technique and only take ten minutes on it per day. I wish I lived in the 1960s. I'm obsessed with Sharon Tate and I wish I looked just like her. I have everything you could possibly imagine that has Winnie the Pooh on it, including a tattoo. I dig the color purple (the movie and the actual color). I am a huge fan of Vanilla Coke. I smoke cigarettes, but I don't drink for health reasons.

I have gallstones, but no insurance to take care of them, so I stick to a 10 gram of fat per day diet. I don't eat beef or pork; only chicken and fish. I have a growing appreciation for Tootsie Rolls.

I met someone in the past month that I am completely taken with. He is wonderful and he allows me to be me. I'm not one for counting my chickens before they hatch, but I think this is a relationship that could work out.

I like to think I'm witty. I can be snarky. I can also be very reclusive. I will probably only write in this thing once every six months, but you can be certain that when I do, it will be worth the whole five seconds it takes to read it.

I quote song lyrics like people quote Star Wars. I love coffee. I am a complete camera whore.

I am out of things to say.