Extra Mooooshy Potatoes with Laughing Cow

Eight days past surgery and I'm already feeling nagging food cravings.

It isn't really one kind of food I crave, but rather FOOD in general. Three weeks of liquids (dear heaven, how did I manage it?) and I want to eat like a human being again. Humans aren't meant to live only on hyped-up protein powder shakes with unpronounceable additive names. Protein shakes are not only really gross, but entirely fake and unorganic. Sure, we banders need the protein, but does it need to come in the form of over-sweet faux chocolate gritty-bits in water? NAST-YYY.

Also: Do you really think that by calling it a "shake" we will think it's a treat of some sort? Bitch, PLEASE. If this is a treat, somebody punish me. Hard.

I can eat mushy/full-liquid foods now, which quenches at least some of the food trolls that noisily live under my brain-bridge. I've had cottage cheese and mashed potatoes - separately, of course - with success. They are heavenly little foods after the grit and gross.

I'm particularly fond of the mashed potatoes, which is a favorite comfort food. I bought a carton of prefab Country Crock mashed spuds and have been parsing it out to myself in 4-tablespoon increments. I added a little 1% milk and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray to punch it up a bit. I even added a sprinkling of non-fat cheddar slices to add flavor and protein. It tastes pretty derned fair, and it seems to go down the gullet with ease. Eeeexcellent.

Well, tonight, I decided to get a little fun-kay with the potatoes. (That sounds dirty. Grand.) I was reaching for the usual non-fat cheddar when I ran across a round of Laughing Cow Light Garlic & Herb Cheese. Hey, these are tasty lil' wedgies of cheese product, lemme tell ya. The garlic flavor is good, it's low in fat and calories, and it has 2.5 grams of protein per little wedge.

So I says to self - mm, self? - let's moosh up one of these wedges in the taters. Crazy! Well, it worked. The garlic-y flavor added to the mooshy potatoes nicely. The cheese melted well and didn't turn all weird and rubbery. I'm not sure the happy cows of Laughing Cow meant their cheese to be used in this fashion, but it worked. It tasted like a real treat. It's a good dinner to have while I'm waiting on the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica to begin.

What do potatoes with "La Vache Qui Rit" have to do with Galactica? Nothing at all. It's my blog, back it down, sister.

So, try Laughing Cow Light Garlic & Herb cheese wedges. You can find 'em at the grocery store. Your mooshed taters will thank you. And the Laughing Cow people will thank you, too.

And knowing is half the battle.