Midnight Hotdog

Today was a snow day, so plans were cancelled, Edie & I got into our union suits (and B resisted and wore a house dress instead, hrumph), and we read the paper, watched a DVD, put Edie on the carpet and watched her skills at crawling backwards, and I spent some time annotating what I ate as soon as I ate it.

Edie is really taking to solid food mush stuff. Pureed carrots were eagerly gobbled, then a half jar of mushy peas. In the afternoon B tried some pears & raspberries on her, which she screwed up her face at and refused to take.

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, pancakes, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Glorious, fluffy beasts. I made some with bananas and walnuts for B to eat in bed, the rest plain. I happened to have all the ingredients on hand, but a little low on milk, so I replaced 1/3 of the milk with some heavy cream lying around. Wow, it definitely made the the pancakes more toothsome. Made me think about how these are SOOOOO superior to diner pancakes, even superior to someplace like Clinton Street Baking, who are known for their pancakes (their suspected secret: seltzer in the batter). But cost-wise, my pancakes would be very expensive -- heavy cream, organic medium eggs, a real vanilla bean, no oil only butter, etc.

Lying on the couch waiting for the storm to come, lost consciousness from 11-2pm...

PM SNACK: 2pm, 4 pieces chocolate dipped shortbread, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Snowing, feeling fuzzy, Edie and I are wearing matching red union suits. She gets cuter every day somehow. B also napped in the bedroom with Edie, good being part of a team/family.

PM SNACK: 5pm, large green salad with a pickle and black sesame crackers, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Had to eat something after a day of the heaviest carbs possible. The current salad is a mix of red leaf lettuce and iceberg. Iceberg is kinda nutritionally void and has no flavor, but has a distinct texture and crunch that I grew up with. I'll never forget in my mom's last few months, I was cooking for her, and I made a salad with romaine. When she asked why I didn't use iceberg, I gave her a nudgy lecture about it's nutrition and plainness, to which she said half-heartedly, "but I like it." I felt horrible, and she had ice berg after that. I know I shouldn't be eating iceberg, but I'm matching it with stronger greens, and, well, I like it.

DINNER: 7:15pm, cheese ravioli, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Some frozen ravioli in the freezer, made a sauce by reducing some old white wine, adding olive oil and cooking some crushed fresh garlic in it for a minute, added Worcestershire, tossing in the ravioli, then topping with grated parm. Needed something, a missing element, ground pepper? Heavy cream? Mushrooms? Nuts?

MIDNIGHT SNACK: hotdog on wholewheat bun, .75 bowl, hunger 3/5
Not so much hungry as looking for something to eat for entertainment. Edie & B went to sleep hours ago, TV and internet is starting to bore, not feeling focused enough to read anything, not quite tired enough for sleep, a horrible limbo.