Fruity Week, Day 2

Edie powered through 2 bottles of breast milk and 3 bottles of formula, a new Edie World's Record for quantity eaten in one day. In a week or two, we're going to start with a little bit of solid food.....

Woke up wiped out. Hung around the house doing laundry and prepping for class tomorrow before going out for lunch and the baby drop in at the community center. Picked up ingredients for a baked ziti, as I needed to use the tomato sauce I made weeks ago or watch it go bad.

EVIL SNACK: 10pm the night before, a few ounces of dark chocolate
Why do I not remember that when I do this, it keeps me up for hours? Didn't get to bed until I watched most of Schindler's List on cable and read a scary story in New York magazine about circumcision....

BREAKFAST: 8:45am, 16 blueberries, 3 blackberries, 3 raspberries, smoothie with those three, frozen cherries, banana, milk, yogurt, flax, vanilla sugar, salt, ice, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
The blueberries were the most familiar. The first taste was surprisingly bitter, but by the second, the sweetness came in and balanced it nicely. Between the two opposite tastes, a distinct flavor came through, nice. I would eat these when these are at the height of their season.

Blackberries were sour with almost no sweetness that I could detect. The little nodules that make up the body of the berry kinda weirded me out, like a face that can't be seen due to the overwhelming dense forest of juicy pimples that are waiting to squirt at you. The consistency wasn't so bad, after one chew the nodules became undifferentiated pulp, no big squirt. However, there is a dry bit of grit that holds the berry together that is a bit unpleasant.

Raspberries are of similar structure, but like blueberries, have nicely competing sweet/sour tones where a particular 'raspberry' flavor calls out in the middle. I think I've only had this flavor in jams -- for some reason I associate it with artificial berry flavor, though this is as real as it gets.

The smoothie is jazzed up with a teaspoon of vanilla sugar, to get over the blackberry bump. However, those damn blackberries lent a slight grit to my otherwise smooth smoothie that was just sucky.

Conclusion of the fruit experiment: blueberries could be a regular snack when in seasons. Raspberries are gonna get bought in the frozen form and added to my smoothie regime. Blackberries, there must be SOMETHING people like about these things -- must try again next summer when they're back in season. Otherwise, not gonna bother.

LUNCH: 12:45pm, fish ball with rice noodle, 2 lotus leaf wraps, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Food from the Chinese cart at the corner of East Broadway and Rutgers. Weird, cheap ethnic food makes our city great. Sat in the park with Edie eating, enjoying the mild weather and the mysterious fish balls.

PM SNACK: 1:45pm, 1 "zebra" cookie
At the baby drop in, the leader brings home baked goods every time. This was a simply merranguy chocolate cookie dusted with confectioners sugar before baking so when all the cracks form, it looks like black lines on the white surface.

DINNER: 6pm, large green salad, homemade baked ziti, small quantity of homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5