Bad Haggis?

This weekend we attended day two of three of New Hampshire's Scottish Highland Games. The day was chilly and rainy, but we had a pretty good time just the same. We heard some good music and bought at cd by a very popular, for the event, group called Albannach. While looking for a CD of their music, we found several CDs by another group that had us curious. The CD covers were quite professional looking, but the name was downright side-splitting: Bad Haggis. The question arose, "Is there such a thing as good haggis?" I have since listened to some samples of their music. Not bad.

We could have eaten actual haggis while at the games. However, given a choice between having some lovely sounding lamb stew or a dish noted for containing various organ meats and oatmeal, well of course the lamb stew won out.

The diet was out the window over the course of the weekend. It was our seventeenth anniversary and we were on a mini-vacation (with teenager 'in tow'). I indulged in my very favorite Scottish food, shortbread! Fat, sugar, white flour. What's not to love, right? So, I'm trying to crawl back on the wagon. It's been a while since I've really lost so much as a pound. I've been gaining and losing the same five pounds for about six weeks now. It's getting very boring. I really would like to ditch another fifteen by the first of the year. *sigh* Goodbye lovely shortbread, hello raw veggies.