Can't remember the last time I was full-on sick that wasn't related to my digestive tract. Woke up at 7 with the noises of the ladies, went back to bed and woke at 9 when B had to leave. Stuffy head, groggy, stomach tight, felt warm.
Fortunately, Edie was in a happy and easy going mood, and she hung out in the kitchen watching me and playing with books while I toiled in the kitchen and went down a list of chores B left for me. I took E out for an hour to run around in a playground, and definitely felt the weight of my lack of energy.
Vitamin C pills and a tylenol joined dinner. Even though I spent a good part of the day making burritos, I just felt the need to coddle myself with ordering in. In bed by 8, asleep by 8:30. Pretty much did everything I planned to do today, except go to snickleyoga. Wah!
TODAY'S COOKING
Cake batter ice cream: This will be a component in Edie's birthday sweet, never made it before. I read several contradictory recipes on how to make this, so I went with my gut. I got the cheapest, fakest yellow cake mix possible, and made it to the instructions on the box. I took 2 cups of the batter and through it into hot pre-sieved creme anglais, and hoped for the best. Will review the results tomorrow, when I churn it.
Burritos: Black beans cooked on the stove top all day with some store-bought sofrito, shredded onion, salt and a dash of Tabasco. Guacamole made with avocados, lime juice, cilantro, minced onion, a dash of salt and a dash of olive oil. Brown rice cooked up in canned vegetable stock. Block of mild cheddar shredded. All plopped into whole-wheat tortillas. Wrapped 'em up and froze half.
Salad: Haven't made a proper green salad at home in quite a while.
BREAKFAST: 9am, ice cream sandwich
AM SNACK: 11am, 2 cupcakes
With the left over batter from the ice cream, cooked off half a dozen cupcakes. Very fakey tasting, but extremely tender despite mixing the hell out of it in the kitchen aid. They must use some extra-milled super-low gluten pastry flour in that shiz.
LUNCH: 2pm, hot dog, kraut and cheese perogies, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 4:45pm, half an ice cream sandwich
DINNER: 7pm, shrimp in garlic sauce with black beans and yellow rice, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
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Brown's Rules
In early March '10, I was inspired by an episode of Alton Brown's television show, Good Eats, to attempt to steer my eating habits towards a more nutritionally packed series of foods. Brown breaks it down into four lists:
EVERY DAY: fruits, whole grains, leafy greens, nuts, carrots, green tea
THREE DAYS A WEEK (or more): Oily fish (wild salmon, sardines, etc), yogurt, broccoli, sweet potatoes, avocado
ONCE A WEEK (or less): pasta, one alcoholic drink, red meat, dessert
NEVER: fast food, soda, processed meals, canned soups, "diet" anything (no artificial sweeteners)
Our Need to Feed
Cooking is about processing food and combining, separating, and reducing elements to make something that's more than the sum of its parts. Feeding is cooking plus the additional goals of making honest food that not only sells and and tastes good, but supplies nutrition, health, is environmentally-friendly, and gives something intangible of the cook to the diner.
Having recently graduated from culinary school (see Culinary School Confidential), I now have a set of skills with which to cook -- and am also on the path to feed. And cook better. Maybe work in the food industry. Make my non-cooking wifey happy. Read more. And write about it all here.
Here I also plan to post my daily entries describing what I eat and how it makes me feel. I am currently consulting a holistic nutritionist named Ilsa Jule, who needs this information to help give me feedback. I've been diagnosed with really high blood pressure, and I want to be around a long time, so I can spend time with my future kids.
Having recently graduated from culinary school (see Culinary School Confidential), I now have a set of skills with which to cook -- and am also on the path to feed. And cook better. Maybe work in the food industry. Make my non-cooking wifey happy. Read more. And write about it all here.
Here I also plan to post my daily entries describing what I eat and how it makes me feel. I am currently consulting a holistic nutritionist named Ilsa Jule, who needs this information to help give me feedback. I've been diagnosed with really high blood pressure, and I want to be around a long time, so I can spend time with my future kids.
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