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.

Housewife

Did laundry and baking the night before, so all there was to do was to temper some chocolate and dip shortbread, watch a crummy DVD and feed the Edie. Went to a play date in the afternoon with a selection of the mommas, and walked home slowly and joined B for a nice night in. A symmetrical, peaceful, domestic day. I feel like a 1950's housewife, in a good way,

BREAKFAST: 9am, 2 small pizzas, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 11:30am, 2 chocolate dipped short bread cookies, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 2-6pm, slices of sausage, bread and olive oil, 1 glass wine, 2 glass lemon soda, a few bits of vegetable, 2 ginger cookies, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK:7pm, 1 slice streetza, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

L.E.S. S.U.V.

Spent the morning at the restaurant, popped around Brooklyn while Edie slept on me, and did a little grocery shopping and chores in the 'hood (see pic) before retiring in to do laundry, bake shortbread for tomorrow's playdate, and snuggle the wifey.

Edie's input and output was better today. She was a bit resistant to a rice cereal/carrot puree/formula mix in the morning, but dug the new apple/apricot mush this afternoon. And the poops, oy, this ain't that kind of blog or I'd tell you all about 'em!

AM SNACK: 8am, swig of gatorade

BREAKFAST: 9:45am, 3 latkes, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 10:15am, marzipan donut, chocolate donut, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 11am, Manhattan Special, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12:30pm, 2 small slices pizza, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5:30pm, large green salad, a few pickle spears, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 8pm, shrimp saag, pakora, samosa, naan, 1.75 bowl, hunger 4/5

Focus

Yomomma came over and I took off to school for the final class. B & Edie came out and gave the students a thrill (who wouldn't be thrilled by a giggly baby?). Class may or may not start again in late Feb/early March, but until then, I guess I'll focus on home cooking, and Edie cooking. She's still being a bit resistant to solid food.

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12:45pm, 3 latke, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 2:30pm, a handful of chocolate cookies, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:30pm, pork shao mai, a few bits of fried calamari, chicken asparagus risotto, flourless chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream and raspberry sauce, seltzer, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING WATERING: 8:30pm, a quart o' watta

Cupcake Day

Spent a hunk of the day out talking about a food coop with a planner, then to the mother's group. Today was National Cupcake Day, so had one at the coffee shop I was meeting at.

Edie has started getting a little resistant to solid food, and a little backed up as well. I fed her a diluted prune juice solution in the evening, which did the trick, but I'm concerned about her nutrition.

BREAKFAST: 9am, organic chex with organic dead milk, swig of cider, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: noon, cupcake, cup of tea, .25 bowl, hunger 3/5

PM SNACK: 2pm, 2 chocochip cookies, 1 small wrap, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LINNER: 4:30pm, fresh pasta with olive oil, parm, cherry tomatoes, and 3 meatballs,cider, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DUNCH: 8:30pm, large green salad, pickles, sesame crackers, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 10pm, chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Chores

A day of chores. Laundry and feeding Edie all sorts of things out of the fridge -- mushy peas, oatmeal and formula concoction, broccoli and pear puree. We made a 12:30 pediatrician appointment, where Edie got a series of scheduled immunizations and had all her stats taken (she's growing up fabulously, thank you!) then we hit up stores in and around Union Square. We walked back home, stopping by Wholefoods.

By that time, I needed to feed Edie again, and though I intended to make salad and cook dinner, when B came through the door both Edie & I were passed out on the couch in each other's arms. So much for a nice home cooked meal!

BREAKFAST: 10:15am, 3 cold latkes, a pickle spear, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 2pm, tomato moz focaccia, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:45pm, apple cider, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:30pm, pork pad thai, chicken shrimp dumplings, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Ain't No Party Like a Latke Party

Today we had a number of mothers, mostly with their babies, and a smattering of spouses come over for a Hanukkah playdate. B put a lot of effort in getting the house as clean as possible, from dry cleaning the couch covers last week to having our cleaning guy come in the day before. B made little gelt & dreidel baggies, set up the menorah and generally was the kind of host money can't buy. We made cookie and apple sauce yesterday, and an hour before guests arrived I started frying off latkes, which I finished about an hour after they arrived.

Got a lot of compliments on the latkes and adult applesauce, the cookies not so much. But I did put out the choco/peanutbutter/rice crispie things in small squares, on an iced plate with toothpicks and they were a big hit with the mommas.

People rolled in between 1:30 and 2 and the last popped out by 5. We have a restocked wine rack and B feels more plugged in to the neighborhood mommas. If only all holiday things were so pleasant!

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, toasted everything bagel with cream cheese, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

ALL DAY SNACKING: noon-5pm, several latkes, bits of sugar cookies, peanutbutter chocolate crispie bites, 1 cup run punch, 1 cup wine, a bit of apple sauce, a snippet of cheese, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 8pm, curry shrimp with brown rice, wonton soup, 1/4 of a can of pepsi, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Ordered in Chinese not so much for hunger, but the relaxing familiar quantities. It was the food my parents and I enjoyed together to the end, in the comfort of their kitchen.