My jaw is still messed up, so I wanted something that required little to no chewing.
My plan was a simple lentil and rice porridge with some veg of some sort - the lentil are soaked, and hence should melt away after some boiling.
Well, between being an hour late due to traffic and pants this morning, and the need to get more toilet paper (not optional!) after work, I got home at 6:30, and need to leave to dance class by 7:45 at the absolute latest.
So, I put the lentils and rice with water, salt, "curry powder", 4 garlic cloves and about half as much chopped ginger in a pot and set it to boil. I then grabbed a wodge of frozen spinach bricks from the freezer and microwaved 'em. When thawed, the spinach went into the pot too.
Unfortunately, by 7:20, it was all still far too un-porridgey. So I panicked and put it in our blender on purée.
Now I had steaming hot dark green paste of roughly peanut buttery consistency. It tasted lovely, and was easy to eat, but looks... frightening. I have a container of it in the freezer now for emergencies that require green protein paste.
Recipe two: post dance drink.
1 part agave syrup
2 parts lime juice
4 parts tequila
fill glass with soda water
Sweet and mellow - unsurprisingly, tequila and agave syrup merge together on the pallet.
In other news dance class was good, though
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After that I think I even had an incident where it went out but then back in again in fairly rapid succession.
Suffice it to say, I did not enjoy it. I plan on speaking to my dentist about it when I see him next week (regular 6 month checkup). I would definitely recommend seeing your dentist sooner rather than later... apparently it can be cause by many different things, including clenching your jaw/grinding your teeth (which is my leading theory for what caused mine -- I suspect I was doing that throughout January due to work stress), but some of them are kind of serious, so better safe than sorry?