Party like it's 2003

Experimented with the pancakes this morning. Recipe calls for 24oz milk, I did 32 oz buttermilk and 8oz milk, and I probably could of done 8 more oz of milk. So tender and moist! I added 1 tbsp cinnamon and 1 tbsp dutch cocoa, too milk, should of done 3 each.

I assembled another batch of burritos, assembled decadent chocolate-chocolate-chip cookies and all-around didn't eat well today, but was happy to be a little sore from the weight lifting yesterday.


AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, handful of chocolate-cinnamon-banana buttermilk pancakes, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1pm, Stouffer's French Bread pizzas, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 4:15pm, pint of apple cider
There are 4 or 5 different orchards offering cider in the farmer's market, and over the last couple of years tried most of them, but one new one I tried last week made my head explode, it's so good -- it's nice and cloudy, sweet balanced with tart, an almost savory mouthfeel, and is just like drinking a whole apple without edits. I picked up a gallon today.

DINNER: 8pm, Chinese brick, chocolate ice cream cookie, 2 bowl, hunger 4/5
Edie was asleep, Betsy was out with friends, and I was partying like it was 2003. TV blaring, lazing on the couch, no one to tell me to cut it out, a brick of comfort food that I shouldn't be eating, but ate anyway. Yep, this is a crazy Saturday night for me.

CCCC

Spent the morning with Edles either at my feet or in her high chair while I baked chocolate chocolate chip cookies, churned chocolate ice cream, roasted garlic and set black beans for a full day's simmer for tomorrow's burritos.

I didn't use a recipe, just winged the cookies. Standard cc cookie recipe, lowered the flour to accommodate the cocoa powder. Took 1/8 the chips, melted them and mixed it with the wet part of the batter. Came out delicious and very flat, like I wanted them for ice cream sandwiches, BUT the reduced flour and over-all lowering of the gluten content made for a very delicate, gooey cookie that were hard to handle, and a good deal fell apart in the process from pan, to cooling rack, to freezer. Not to worry, I boxed the shards and I think Betsy will find good use for them.

Went out with an old friend to MOMA to see the kitchen design exhibit. I arrived a little early and found myself starving, so I had a street lamb-pita, with a "white" sauce that is usually yogurt based but this one tasted mayo-based. $4, didn't look big, but it was a calories bomb. By the time we sat down to fancy dinner, I had no appetite and eating half my food made me feel almost too full to ride my bike home...but I did.

AM SNACK: 8:45am, iced green tea


AM SNACKING: 10:30-11:30am, a few chocolate chocolate chip cookies, a few spoonfuls of chocolate ice cream, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM WATERING: 1pm, a quart


LUNCH: 2:15pm, sardines on whole wheat, water, 1 cccc (chocolate chocolate chip cookie), 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER 1: 5:45pm, lamb on pita, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER 2: 7:30pm, onion soup, mussels in pastis sauce, fries, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5 

Cookin for my people

A good day making healthy muffins for the fam in the morning, cooking with the students in the afternoon. Were building up to dinner for friends and family on Monday, about 50 people then off until late February.

BREAKFAST: 9:15am, small amount of steel cut oatmeal, iced green tea
My god, the oatmeal is such a fantastic thing when heated with a little milk and sugar.

AM SNACK: 11am, a few whole wheat zucchini muffins
Made these out of a baby cook book on Betsy's command. Eh. Needs more butter, replace whole wheat flour with whole wheat pastry flour, more vanilla, less nutmeg, less sugar and one half light brown.

PM SNACK: 1:30pm, multigrain tortilla chips with salsa, water, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

SCHOOL SNACK: 3:30-5:30pm, snippets of chocolate sauce, cheeses, 2 juice boxes

SCHOOL DINNER: 6:45pm, 1 square of sausage lasagna, sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 10pm, cheesy poofs, pigs in blankets, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5 

An Edie to Warm My Heart

Another cold day, not as brutal, though. Woke up with Edie hysterical, but a slightly frazzled B tamed the beast with a bottle of milk and soon enough Edles was lolling around our bed, greeting me with “ha pa pa!” and generally being the most amazing baby ever. Not to mention that all she wanted for breakfast was the white pizza I brought home last night. An Edie to warm my heart!

I’m still surprisingly sore from my minor weightlifting on Monday, but I guess that’s always how it is in the beginning.

BREAKFAST: 8am, small amount of steel cut oatmeal, iced green tea
B was all up in arms about the amount of milk we had left for Edie before I could shop tonight (we had enough), so I skipped adding a bit of milk to my oatmeal before zapping it. It’s good to experiment with common foods like this, makes you realize why you do what you do. The oatmeal was near inedible with out the loosening power of the hot milk. Lesson learned.

BREAKFAST 2: 10:15am, vegetarian sandwich, pint of water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Almondine’s sandwich came on a delicious crusty baguette, very impressive. Nice balance of veg to goat cheese to bread. Satisfying.

LUNCH: 1pm, 4 slices of Sicilian with mushroom & onion, pint of water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 2:30pm, a few pork and chive dumplings
Our Chinese delivery person made a few from scratch, actually not very good due to lack of salt, egg and ginger, but what kind of round eyed devil am I to correct her!

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, chocolate ice cream, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Waitress’s last day, I got everyone ice cream. Got chocolate because I plan to whip some up this weekend.

PM SNACK: 5pm, bit of baked salmon
Experiments from my kitchen crew. Overcooked.

PM SNACK: 8pm, beef in mojo de oja
A taste of my crew's wife's cooking. Damn good

DINNER: 10pm, burgers and fries, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
No Comment.

Unreasonably Cold

Holy crap, it was unreasonably cold today. I road my bike to work in the morning, long johns, double layer gloves, balaclava under hat, thick cashmere under flight jacket, scarf, thick socks and STILL my toes got nippy and my exposed face just hurt.

For the first time ever, there was not a single customer all day – we had some delivery, but daaaamn. It took a little discipline from just spending the day stuffing my face.

AM SNACK: 8:45am, iced green tea
 
LUNCH: 1:15pm, 4 superthin slices, 8oz sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:45pm, a few bites of cucumber, carrot, red onion & olives, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5pm, green salad, 8oz coke, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 7:30pm, meatballs in sauce with bread, pint of water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 11pm, a little good peanutbutter with nuttella,  

Sneak Attack Chocolate

I was supposed to take Edles to a dad's playdate at the local community center, but felt too fneh to motivate. Spent the morning setting up the bread machine for a "country white bread" (which was a lot like yesterday's plain white bread, but added a small amount of oat flour, replaced AP flour with bread flour, added a couple of teaspoons of sugar, and I set the machine to dark crust instead of medium), cleaning up the kitchen and watching Edie just be an incredibly happy 18 month old.

T was threatening a 10 minute yoga session in my home right before snickledinner, which motivated me to lift some weights before getting Edles down for her nap. Last time I lifted weights regularly was April-June, right before the resto started sucking up all my energy. With little biking and yoga being put on hold until T is back from Israel, this feels right. Especially with how bleah I felt this morning.

Some mischievous chocolate appeared in the mail, but a nice healthy dinner was whipped up for T, who is going away until the new year.

AM SNACK: 8:45am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 10am, steel cut oat meal, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Reheated out of the big batch I soaked overnight a few days ago. Just added a splash of milk and a teaspoon of sugar and zapped it in the the micro. Pretty damn delicious.

LUNCH: 12:15pm, homemade mac n' cheese, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 2:30pm, Cadbury dairy milk chocolates, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

SNICKLEDINNER: 7pm, Hummus & fresh white bread, 2 burritos with salsa, chopped vegetable salad, cider, water, 2 vegan cupcakes, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
The bread came out a little too pale, but as T said, it made a good hearty white sandwich bread.

Pale Loaf

A mellow Sunday. Started off the day right with a fruit-filled smoothie, then me n' the gals went to a baby birthday party in the hood which met me with half a bagel. My plans for the afternoon visiting a museum with a friend was cancelled due to poor weather, so I struck out on my own and ate Wholefoods sushi in a movie theater, at a movie which made me fall asleep. Yep, falling asleep at the movies on a rainy Sunday afternoon, I am officially old.

On the slow walk home, had a falafel at my favorite falafel place on St. Marks, the same one I've been eating at since high school. Picked up donuts for everyone on the way home.

Dinner was eaten out of the bread machine. I have not used the thing since before I even met Betsy, not to mention culinary school. It quite a powerful machine, though limited by it's uni-tasker status and ability to only make one shape of loaf from beginning to end. I did a very plain white bread as a dry-run, and it came out good, but very pale. It was the kind of bread that's good when it's still hot and steaming right out of the oven, but once it cools it's just fneh. Some serious loaf experimentation is in my future.

BREAKFAST: 9am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


AM SNACK: 11:30am, half a pumpernickel bagel with hummus, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1pm, shrimp avocado sushi, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH 2: 3pm, falafel sandwich with babaganoush, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 4pm, chocolate donut, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6:30pm, 2 slices of freshly baked white bread with homemade hummus, 2 homemade ice cream sandwiches, half a donut, quart of water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5