Taking a thinking holiday

So, while posting about complicated topics has done it's intended task of keeping me occupied and distracted, I find myself all out of braininess for replying to the remaining comments, what all the interesting and curly questions you guys have been asking. So rather than giving increasingly incoherent and ill-considered replies, I shall take a break from answering my email and get back to you anon (probably in a few days)

Hmm. You know the problem with using up my mental energy to stop me fidgeting around and using up my (very scarse) physical energy is that now I have nothing to do. Maybe I'll level up in FFXII...

Inside out pasta pie and other health foods

On Saturday night I couldn't decide what to cook with the ingredients I had to hand, so looked them up in google, but I forgot to add "spinach" so just had "Beef mince recipe", and what with the internet being largely american, and american cuisine being, uh, intensely idtastic(*) I came across some very not-diet-friendly dishes, one of which was so bizarre I had to try it (modified to my tummy's requirements)

I give you: Adriana's Pasta Pie, a mix of pasta, sauce, and cheese, covered in cheese, in a crust made of cheese..and meat.

Of course, I made it without the cheese, which kind of defeats the purpose, but it was still quite satisfyingly meaty(**). You might be able to make a vegetarian version with chickpea patty mix I guess?

The other promising recipe (to my tastes) was Southwestern Baked Spaghetti (which might not suffer so much from a de-cheesing). Also, googling "meat crust" got me Low Carb Meat Crust Pizza, which gets my vote for most undiety diet food ever, I guess at least they tell you to drain the grease...

EDIT: Via lauredhel, the wonderful trashy_eats. Mm. Tasty.

(*)I'm trying to use less ablist language, or the term I would have used there is INSANE
(**) If you're curious, the changes I made were to replace the sauce with bottled sauce (1.5 hours to make pasta sauce?) plus garlic, basil, spinach and tomato paste and half an egg (to make up for the flavour and goopiness of cheese respectively), and I added some smoked garlic and tomato paste to the meat to make it tastier. Oh, and I only made two servings so cooked it for less time. It made a nice lunch today, too.