Twelve or so of my classmates and professor met at a student's family restaurant out in New Hyde Park. I tore myself away from B and Ediebird because this restaurant happens to be a pizza restaurant, and it was too tempting to pass up a tour of a large pizza operation.
After class, went grocery shopping, got home and cooked perogies for B and a friend of hers who was visiting and helping with Edie. Then I cooked my ass off, made 2 batches of proper mac and cheese, then 3 chocolate caramel tarts based on the Marlow & Sons recipe for E's birthday tomorrow. B's mom came over, so they had plenty of mac to eat as I geared up and got out.
I road over to New Hyde Park in Nassau, it was a good, if trafficky, ride, only 18 miles, but through the dirty car-riddled heart of Queens. Middle Village? Queens Village? Who thought of those clever names? Hollis sure is way the fudge out there.
Guy's shop is huge, practically half a city block, and a kitchen that sprawls over a huge basement. The food was pretty good, honest fare that makes no pretense to be anything other than what it is. A lot of the food (the bread, the moz) are made on premises, which is no small deal. It was fun hanging with the folk, but I avoided the booze and kinda wanted to leave early, and left at the first possible moment, but still didn't get home till 11:30.
I gotta start eating less!
BREAKFAST: 6:30am, granola with organic dead milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
AM SNACK: 11am, brownie, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
On break from school, went over to the Madeliene Patisserie, this brownie was surprisingly horrible. Too much butter and sugar, not enough flour or chocolate, tasted like an overly sweet gritty butter cube with some mild cocoa flavor.
PM SNACK: 1:30pm, 2 spinach perogies, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Picked up some fresh perogies from the market, quickly sauteed half an onion in safflower oil with salt, boiled the perogies for 3 minutes, then pan fried them wih the onions, finished with some dried chives, surprisingly good. Gave 2 of my 4 to B in anticipation of dinner...
BIKE DRINK: 4-6pm, 16 oz of gatorade
DINNER: 7pm, 3 slices of different style pizza, 2 pieces bread, 2 glasses wine, fried calamari, various antipasto, pasta and sauce, veal rolatini, a few snippets of dessert, 1.75 bowl, hunger 4/5
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Brown's Rules
In early March '10, I was inspired by an episode of Alton Brown's television show, Good Eats, to attempt to steer my eating habits towards a more nutritionally packed series of foods. Brown breaks it down into four lists:
EVERY DAY: fruits, whole grains, leafy greens, nuts, carrots, green tea
THREE DAYS A WEEK (or more): Oily fish (wild salmon, sardines, etc), yogurt, broccoli, sweet potatoes, avocado
ONCE A WEEK (or less): pasta, one alcoholic drink, red meat, dessert
NEVER: fast food, soda, processed meals, canned soups, "diet" anything (no artificial sweeteners)
Our Need to Feed
Cooking is about processing food and combining, separating, and reducing elements to make something that's more than the sum of its parts. Feeding is cooking plus the additional goals of making honest food that not only sells and and tastes good, but supplies nutrition, health, is environmentally-friendly, and gives something intangible of the cook to the diner.
Having recently graduated from culinary school (see Culinary School Confidential), I now have a set of skills with which to cook -- and am also on the path to feed. And cook better. Maybe work in the food industry. Make my non-cooking wifey happy. Read more. And write about it all here.
Here I also plan to post my daily entries describing what I eat and how it makes me feel. I am currently consulting a holistic nutritionist named Ilsa Jule, who needs this information to help give me feedback. I've been diagnosed with really high blood pressure, and I want to be around a long time, so I can spend time with my future kids.
Having recently graduated from culinary school (see Culinary School Confidential), I now have a set of skills with which to cook -- and am also on the path to feed. And cook better. Maybe work in the food industry. Make my non-cooking wifey happy. Read more. And write about it all here.
Here I also plan to post my daily entries describing what I eat and how it makes me feel. I am currently consulting a holistic nutritionist named Ilsa Jule, who needs this information to help give me feedback. I've been diagnosed with really high blood pressure, and I want to be around a long time, so I can spend time with my future kids.
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