Pizzality

Breakfats

After class, made my way into Brooklyn for lunch with a friend. After, I popped by Jaques Torres in DUMBO to pick up some sweet valentine treats for B, and swung by a new upscale pizza place to drop off an application. As it turns out, the owner was in and got to sit for an informal interview. We hit it off and I'm going back next week for a try out. Who knows what pizza adventures lay ahead?

Spent the evening making 2 cauldrons of high quality chicken stock -- a week of chicken soup really appeals right now. My appetite never quite returned after eating 2/3 of a way-too-large sundae.

BREAKFATS (typo but I'm keepin' it): 7am, BLT on a bagel with half an order of homefries, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
At my diner around the corner from my house. Just hungry and nothing in the house. I used to be a bit of a regular here, and they remembered me -- after I ordered, the man asked, "Diet coke?" Oy. This was the only breakfast from this place I could stomach now -- their pancakes are gummy chemical messes. The 'side' of homefries just looked monstrous to me, and was easy to eat only half.

LUNCH: 2:30pm, mulligatawny soup, shrimp curry with rice and roti, water, brownie sundae, 2 bowl, hunger 4/5
Lunch in Brooklyn with a friend I don't get to see nearly enough. With Y, we ALWAYS over eat. She just loves the act of eating, and when we get together we just create a self-reinforcing whirlwind of gluttony. After some decent Indian, we went to a patisserie for ice cream sundaes on one of the bitter coldest days of the year. Because that's how we roll.

PM WATERING: 7pm, quart

MMMmmm fishballs!

Feeling better, almost back to 100%. Had to manage the floor refinishing project a bit after class, but got away for lunch. Went to a random restaurant on the edge of Chinatown, a dumpling house in a tiny storefront where noone spoke English and I got a monstrous amount of food for $7. I love NY. The big bowl of fishball soup was kinda gross - little balls of gefilte fish with a dark-colored fish paste in the middle. Fish balls, indeed. Very weak flavor.

Nothing in the house for breakfast, so instead of getting a crappy cart pastry, stopped by my local donut shop for some world class delights. Need to do some temp shopping for groceries.

AM WATERING: 6:30am, quart of water

BREAKFAST: 7:30am, 2 donuts, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 1:30pm, 15 pork dumplings, couple of fishballs, 1.25 bowl

PM SNACK: 2:30pm, creme brulee donut, quart of water, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:15pm, bread, lentil soup, string beans, a little gnocchi, chocolate tart, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
A lighter dinner with B at a local eatery. Won't be able to do this too spontaneously once Noah/Noahetta Jr. is on the scene.

Back At It

Feeling better, but not 100%. Having a friend refinish floors in the home, so me and B and a whole lotta stuff are living in the living room and the pantry is pretty bare, and will probably remain so till next week. Need vegetables.

Spent most of the day at the restaurant, lots of fun with the peeps. My appetite still hasn't returned yet, and was relieved when it was really slow and sent home early.

Had the house-made tiramisu for the first time, which I've made more times than I count. I'm not a coffee drinker, and the espresso in the recipe turned me off. However, upon eating, found it very mild and a delicious counter to the thick cream. Hrumph.

BREAKFAST: 9am, quart of water, street cart pound cake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 1:15pm, slice of resto pizza with mushrooms, root beer, tiramisu, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 2-8pm, 2 sodas, nibbles off the pizza topping station, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING WATERING: 10pm, quart

House Work

I resisted taking any meds last night, as I know I'm closer to the end of this episode and gotta get my sleep back in order. So I finally dozed at 6am, only to wake to B's alarm at 7. The next step in the nursery, floor scraping, is happening tomorrow so I spent the day finishing the painting and moving all the furniture out of the bedrooms into the living room. It was a bit of an exertion, which felt good, but when I went outside for the first time since Thursday to the diner around the corner, felt a bit weak and woozy.

Hopefully, tomorrow I'll be back at 100%.

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, banana, water, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 12:30pm, grape soda, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 1:30pm, BLT on rye, onion rings, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM WATERING: 3-7pm, 3 quarts

DINNER: 7pm, vegetarian udon with satay, crispy seitan, veg wonton soup, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Ordered in from a vegan restaurant I haven't eaten from in a while. Pleasantly surprised by the reasonably moderate serving sizes.

Lil' Less Illin'

Felt crappy but better, enjoyed staying and helping B do the laundry, read a little, watch a lot of bad TV. Postponed some housework for a day later, so I can spend the day painting and prepping tomorrow. Watched the superbowl ads -- the 2 Subway ads aimed at being diet-conscious and dirt cheap, a good place to be in this economy, I suppose.

BRUNCH: 1pm, tofu pad thai, green salad with peanut sauce, shrimp wrapped in wonton, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5pm, 2 dietetic ice cream sandwiches, ramekin of homemade vanilla ice cream, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
B did some food shopping without me, and ended up getting some stink bomb for the bathroom. Even more offensive than turning our john into a French whorehouse, she bought a pack of 6 'Skinny Cow' low-fat vanilla ice cream sandwiches on chocolate biscuits. These reminded me of the Carvel flying saucers my parents indulged us with a few times growing up, straight from the parlor, not a supermarket. These were similar, but ridiculously flavorless, with a chemically thin feel in the mouth, and the cookie part was crumbly and chewy at the same time.

BUT the marketing and the name is to chicks, to make women feel better about indulging. And indulge B did, eating 4 of the damn things. I have no problem with B eating a whole lot of ice cream, but it should be REAL ice cream, with full fat, full flavor, no fillers and no chemicals. And the FACT is that for all the fat but half the calories, B would have been much more satiated.

I had to cleanse my palate with some of my homemade vanilla in the freezer, and let's just say, the two tasted like two different food groups all together.

DINNER: 8pm, 5 carrots, water, .25 bowl, hunger 3/5