Food, being diabetic and first thoughts about this new chapter of my life

Because I love to cook and eat good food, I decided that I couldn't let this become a depressing life sentence. I have to live with it forever, so I am in the middle of trying to come to terms with how I will eat and enjoy my food. In the next few weeks I am going to post about how I am dealing, as a newly-diagnosed Type B, with my blood sugar levels and cheating the sugar and carb demon. I'll be trying to stabilize my sugar and eat low glycemic load carbohydrates and maximize the quality of the proteins and the veggies I eat. It's all new to me, so I'll be the first to admit I'll be making mistakes and you'll know all about it.

I belong to a CSA, and on the whole I have been happy with what I get for my bi-weekly share. However, a Farmers' Market has just opened in the atrium of our office building, mostly organic, loads of fresh greens and beautiful tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and other things like honey and home made fresh pasta. Now I have the quandary of wondering whether I should stay with the CSA and keep getting creative with the fresh, organic, and some local, vegetables that come to me, or should I resign and pick and choose what looks good to me from the farmers' market? I have a few weeks to think about it because I ordered a free-range, organic turkey for Thanksgiving which will be available for pick up on November 24th and I have to stay in the CSA through then. I am not sure which is the better of the options, make the CSA produce work for me, or choose what I would like. I think the latter is the lazier path. But the former takes a lot of work and sometimes it's hard to keep the veggies fresh for as long as I'd like. But what a problem to have! A few months ago I was bemoaning the fact that I had no really good source for fresh organic produce except a trip in the lunch hour in a rush to Wholefoods. Now I have awesome choices!

Tonight for dinner I bought a piece of filet mignon, lean Hereford, which was on sale for $15.99 a pound at my local Fresh Market, it was quite thick, almost 3", and weighed 3/4 of a pound, so I sliced it crosswise in two and froze one half. The other half I sliced again into three pieces and sauteed it in a VERY small amount of Kerrygold Irish butter which you can get by the stick at your local supermarket, it's in a stick, gold wrapper, and says "with garlic and herbs" and it can make a meal into a special meal, it's brilliant. I melted that on my ridged "grillpan" until it was really hot, brown and spitting, and dropped the slices of meat (the whole thing was about 5oz.) into the pan and seared them for about 30 seconds max on each side and that was it. Served it with roasted veggies. That was two hours ago and my blood sugar was 141 just now, which is, I read, OK.

As for the veggies, it was just red, yellow and green peppers, onions, portobello mushrooms and a couple of yellow and green summer squash which I sliced or chopped into 1" pieces. Throw in about 20 cloves of garlic, pour a good slug of really good olive oil on it and toss with your hands, because nothing does the job like your own hands, and pop into a 400 degree oven for fifteen minutes, take em out and toss em so they are cooking evenly and give em another fifteen minutes and they're ready. Then cook your meat. A meal that is great by any standard. Carbs of your choice.

I'm going to do spaghetti squash tomorrow for dinner with chez Pim's 15-minute fresh tomato sauce, which is the best of all possible fresh sauces. http://www.chezpim.com/blogs/2008/09/fifteen-minutes.html
You can't beat her sauce. I swear by it, everyone loves it and it's so simple, just sprinkle some fresh parmesan - if you think it needs it - or other Italian hard cheese on it and it's magic. I don't even put the vinegar in that she does, but that's because I like to taste those tomatoes to their fullest.