Give Me Something Cool!

Eh!

This intense heat we are having is totally zapping the life out of me as well as totally killing my drive to be in the kitchen. I feel drained just from walking in from my car—when I got into my car after work my thermometer read 102 degrees! The other day it was 107! It’s even too hot to be by the pool right now. The only acceptable spot is next to an air conditioning vent in my opinion.

So anyways, when its this hot outside I really don’t want to cook and really really don’t want to eat a hot meal! But, a girl needs to eat and all afternoon at work I tried to think of something I could make that would keep me full for about 3 hours and that was cooling. The result? Tuna salad! I combined one 4 oz can tuna with a couple chopped jalapenos, about 4 chopped carrot sticks, 2 chopped celery sticks and about a tablespoon and a half of nayonaisse. I served it on a toasted Ezekiel english muffin that I spread with about 2 tbsp hummus (whatever was left in the container). I also had a yogurt on the side for more of a cool down! This dinner was excellent. Just what I was hoping for.

The only problem was fitting it into my mouth!!!

And then I hit the dark chocolate for my traditional dessert:

And I’m bringing more oatmeal for later because I have found this to be the BEST snack at night! Seriously, it’s so satisfying and it fills me up and keeps me going for hours.

I’m feeling pretty burned out. I like what I do but I’m ready to be done. What is it? Like 7 more weeks of nighttime classes? I’m dragging my feet to the finish line, that’s for sure!

Edited to add:

Meh. That’s the kind of night this turned out to be! Sorry for the rant but I’m quite blah right now. My heart just wasn’t in it tonight and you can definitely tell when you see my products:

Cheesecake looks great (made it yesterday) and the fruit tart is okay, but the hot icing job on the napoleon? Not so much. It was becoming quite frustrating and I was so tired that I just didn’t attempt to fix it and came home early. One of those moments where you just need a break.
I burned my arm again 🙁

But I did eat this monster fruit bowl with mango, raspberries, kiwi and mandarin oranges. The tuna expanded in my stomach and I wasn’t hungry really at all so I didn’t eat my oatmeal. I ate all the fruit plus some toasted almonds plus a spoonful of vanilla pastry cream.

Time for bed!!