Mellow Saturday

Woke up around 5 and could not get back to sleep, achy back. I need to do more physical things. Watched TV to wake up, got the laundry in, made waffles and fed Edles while I folded laundry. Productive.

B slept in late-ish, and by 10:30 or so I fell asleep in Edie's room and was aroused hours later when it was time for Edie to take her nap. Took a ride around downtown to pick up various bits, and ordered in Ethiopian with the Ol' Lady in the evening.

In the morning while juggling laundry and Edie, I simply took my waffle recipe and swapped out milk for buttermilk, and they turned out much more tender and rich, though there was not a lot of crispness. Gonna go 50/50 next time and see what happens.

BREAKFAST: 8am, several buttermilk waffles, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


AM SNACK: 11:30am, iced green tea

LUNCH: 1pm, 6" soy burger sub, chips, Dr. Pepper, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
On a bike jaunt around downtown to  do a lil' shopping (yuck), stopped by a Subway for lunch. Weird how it's a corporate chain that gives a relatively healthy meal, but the soda tasted oddly medicinal. Makes sense, as there is a "dr." in it's name.

DINNER: 5:15pm, vegetarian Ethiopian platter, water, ice cream sandwich, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

I Am Burrito Boy

Started the day off with some good eating, then went off the rails pretty quick as I made a bunch of super-flat chocolate chip cookies to make ice cream sandwiches -- the vanilla ice cream needed to be used up!

Took a nice walk in the afternoon with the gals, stopped by the wonderful pretzel shop on Ave B which held me until dinner. I started simmering blacks beans in the morning, and added cilantro cooking base, roasted garlic and caramelized onion & red pepper to it. I set some brown basmanti up in the rice cooker, and when I got home, assembled mini burritos in whole wheat tortillas and through in a bit of cheddar. The beans came out pretty nicely, and the final product turned out even better (and cheaper) than the frozen Amy's brand. Dinner consisted of a plate of left over fillings...

BREAKFAST: 8:15am, steelcut Irish oatmeal with a little milk, sugar and salt, pint of iced green tea, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


AM SNACK: 11am, 2 chocolate chip cookies


PM SNACK: 3pm, 2 pretzels, ginger ale, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 4:30pm, ice cream, 1 cookie, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER pt1: 5pm, 1 burrito, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER pt 2: 9pm, extra burrito fillings with multigrain tortilla chips & salsa, ice cream sandwich, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Constant Motion

A nice day -- spent the morning with the Edes, did some chores in the 'hood, oddly ended with E not napping, just hanging out in her crib for a few hours cooing. Taught pizza to my students, fun but the end results were crappier than the last 2 times I taught this lesson. Swung by Wholefoods on the way home and had a nice evening vegging in front of the TV.

From waking to taking a shower when I got home, I was pretty much in constant motion. It was good.

AM SNACK: 9am, iced green tea

BRUNCH: 11:45am, 8 freshly fried latkes, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Had a little left over mix from Sunday, fried them off before they had a chance to go bad.

SCHOOL SNACKING: 5-7pm, lots of differently prepared, mostly poorly made slices of pizza, a handful of juice drinks .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 11pm, cheesy poofs, nuttela & peanut butter, quart of water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

Snicklepizza!

Got home tired last night, but took a few hours to unwind with some bad TV. Got a full 8 hours sleep, but only got to see B & the Edles briefly.

BREAKFAST: 9:15am, ice cream sandwich
I gave one to Carla, but with the last one in reach, snarfed it down and now they’re gone. Still have ice cream left, which means I may have to make another batch of cookies, an experimental batch that will be even better in the formation of chipwiches….eeeevil!

LUNCH:12:45pm, 3 slices Sicilian with veg, a sprite, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

SNICKLEPIZZA: 2pm, 1 slice superthin vegan pizza, pint of water, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
T came over to the shop with a very animated friend and I hooked them up with some vegan fare. I missed last week’s yoga and missing this week’s due to scheduling, so it was good to get a snickle in.

DINNER: 4:30pm, beef in broth with rice and noodles, curry sauce with baguette, white rice with shrimp and ham with refried beans, diet coke, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
The Asian delivery driver came in with a bunch of yummy food to share, and the Mexican cooks freestyled a staff meal at the same time, it was pretty multiculti in the best sense of the word.

EVENING SNACK: 11pm, burgers & fries, crumb buns, 1.75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Don't ask.

Criminally Delicious

Got in around 3am after spending the evening in the shop with James Franco & Michael Shannon (and a crew of about 30 studenty types.) Even though it was a night in the shop, it was a total different thing, as I was the only employee and we weren’t serving food. I remember when I lived with Danny downtown and we hosted a student film, same kind of energy. I’m glad I never got into the movie business.

The mock-chipwiches I made are criminally delicious. Will give the rest away ASAP.


AM SNACK: 9am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, ice cream sandwich

LUNCH: 12:30pm, 3 slices of Sicilian with mushroom and onion, 2 superthin slices with artichoke and olive, pint of water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5pm, large green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6pm, breaded fried shrimp, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
One of the Mexican fellows in the kitchen made a few of these, and I commanded him to make a buttload more. He took out frozen shrimp, butterflied them, made a simple mix of fine bread crumbs, parm and salt, dipped in flour, then water, then pressed into the mix. Fried in olive oil in caste iron in the pizza oven, for a hot minute. Perfection. Gotta try his style at home.

EVENING SNACK: 11pm, ice cream sandwich, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

A theme, detected

Woke up at 5 and couldn’t get back to sleep. Edles didn’t rise and greet the world until 7:30 (with a huge smile and a bounce in her stance, no less), so got some good snuggle time in with the missus. Spent the morning at the dad’s drop in play group at the local community center, a run to the supermarket, then back for nap time. I fell asleep in front of the TV and got a 2 hour snooze before Edie’s maw demanded food.

B came home early so I could make it to the shop – we were closed, but I was there to babysit a film shoot until the early morning. James Franco is directing and starring in some film with Michael Shannon, and I got to eat dinner with 'em

Funny, I sat in restaurant writing about what I ate, then a list of ingredients to buy for my pizza class on Thursday, then the minutes for the LES Food Coop meeting from Sunday, then memories of food for a writing project. I detect a theme…

AM SNACK: 5:30am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, bad chocolate ruggela, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12:30pm, Stouffers French Bread Pizza, ice cream sandwich, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5:30pm, Manhattan Special, .25 bowl, hunger 3/5

DINNER: 7:30pm, eggy wraps, a croissant, a few tortilla chips, water, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5 


DINNER 2: 10:30pm,  bit of pasta, chicken, beef, rice, eggplant, diet coke, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

Ediefying

Spent the morning making dough for jelly donuts I'm going to fry tomorrow, 20 lbs of mix for latkes, laundry and Edie-fying. Went to a 2 yr old's party in the afternoon, took it easy in the eve.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea

AM SNACK: 11pm, small ice cream sandwich, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
In memory of the horrible ice cream sandwiches I'd get at work when I worked at MTV, in the freezer case and tasting like chemicals. I made them as a back up for tomorrow's Hanukkah party, just in case the jelly donuts don't work out, I can bust these out with minimal fuss.

LUNCH pt 1: 2pm, 2 slices whole wheat bread with hummus, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH pt 2: 4pm, a few slices of bad pizza, half a cupcake, a half cup of soda, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 7:30pm, mac n cheese, a bit of ice cream & cookie, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5