#domesticsuccess

Paleo carrot cake cupcake: tick
Low fat quiche: tick

Honestly, my paleo carrot cake cupcake was a dream. Even better once refrigerated and with a layer of cream cheese icing (which probably contains more calories than the cupcake itself). There was not a hint of sugar or flour to be seen (I used almond meal as the flour replacement and pureed dates and honey as the sweetener) AND with a measly 25g of butter between 12 cupcakes, I think this recipe is pretty legit. Perhaps a lighter option in the future would be to serve it with some Greek yoghurt (which I maintain, is honestly the best thing since sliced bread). And it was like eating an actual real cupcake still, without sacrificing any of the taste. Mmm.

And this aforementioned miracle ingredient also went into my quiche - which took an hour to cook, and not the half an hour that my recipe was recommending. Worth the wait, but oh so sad when I saw how quickly it disappeared from my plate. But it was tempered by the fact that my accompanying salad was almost equally as delicious - I tell you, dukkah and Greek yoghurt are a match made in Moroccan heaven. If I had to pick two ingredients that could flow unceasingly from a magic tap and into my kitchen, those would actually be the two ingredients that I would pick. Or smoked salmon. But not nearly as versatile. And I'd be reduced to simply eating smoked salmon instead of doing something interesting.

And now, I am trying to figure out when I can eat everything coughhowtofiteverythingintomycurrentstateofdietcough - I believe try to believe in moderation. As much as I would like to nom everything down that I have made in a matter of days, it probably wouldn't be great for metabolism and the like to have a massive binge fest. I will eat it... it just will take immense levels of self control. And looking at the legs of models or maybe the twigs outside on the trees. I lol.

This weekend has been productive in the kitchen. Not so much with my studies - except for my breakthrough with the brainstem nuclei, which I think I can comfortably fire off. Let's revise for funsies (while my laptop recharges):

General Somatic Motor Efferents
- oculomotor: CNIII
- trochlear: CNIV
- abducens: CNVI
- hypoglossal: CNXII

Branchial Efferents
- trigeminal motor: CNV
- facial: CNVII
- nucleus ambiguus: CNIX, X and cranial root of XI
- spinal accessory: spinal root of CNXI

General Visceral Efferents
- Edinger Westphal: CNIII
- superior salivatory: CNVII
- inferior salivatory: CNIX
- dorsal motor of vagus: CNX

General Visceral Sensory Afferents
- nucleus of tractus solitarius: CN VI, IX, X and cranial root of XI

General Somatic Sensory Afferents
- sensory trigeminal nuclear complex: CNV, VII, IX and X

Special Somatic Afferent
- vestibulocochlear: CNVIII

yeeeeeaaaah boi. Except this took me a good few days before I actually fully understood what I was trying to learn.