An old friend asked my best friend, “Have you read her blog?” his voice and words were measured…carefully considered, but betrayed an edge of bewilderment, “because it seems to me she’s having a nervous breakdown.” It made me think, “Yeah, WTF is going on?” He sure as hell has a point.
Let me back this up a couple years. I spent the months of July and August 2014 recovering from a bout of viral meningitis. I had mistaken a four month illness as the natural process of getting older. Ultimately, I was never in danger of dying, but I was shocked at my ability to accept a horrible state of living as the new normal. It took several more months to get back to full health. Once I arrived, I focused on taking care of myself, getting enough sleep, making nutritious meals, masturbating, and ultimately trying to find an outlet for my passions.
I thought I was on top of it all until a humid August day in 2014 where I lost my shit listening to a Bob Seger song in the Dick Road Wegmans parking lot. One does not lose one’s mind to “Against the Wind” without making some sort of drastic life changes. It felt like something had to happen. Instead of getting a pixie haircut or having the face of a baby tattooed on my chest, I decided to start The Lunchadora. And it was this week, while looking up mid-life crisis (on a gut-churning hunch), that I realised I am HAVING a mid-life crisis.
So, no. It is not a nervous breakdown. That is absolutely somewhere down the line though.
Cinnamon Crisis Cakes
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 TBS coconut milk
- 3 TBS melted cacao butter or coconut oil
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup coconut flour sifted
- 1.5 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- Preheat the oven to 350F/180C. Arrange some silicone muffin liners in a 12 hole muffin pan.
- Beat wet ingredients in a stand mixer until thoroughly combined and frothy.
- Add dry ingredients and and mix until well combined.
- Fill each muffin cup to 2/3 full. Hurry up, slowpoke, that coconut flout thickens up like post-bong saliva.
- Cook for 18-22 minutes. Allow to cool before eating.
****Since I couldn’t pick just one mid-life crisis song, I chose my three favorites.
The Lunchadora 