Off to LA

Woke up a bit blown-out from yesterday's unexpected harried day and my highly-caloric wind-down, but Edie was in a fantastic mood, running riot around the house and being generally a beautiful pain-in-da-butt.

Me & the fam are going to L.A. tomorrow and I'll be away until Monday eve, so this blog will go dark until Tuesday. My friend M will be showing me around a bit, full expect to eat some good Mexican cart food and eat out of restaurants who are shaped like the food they serve.

TODAY'S COOKING:
Tomato Sauce: Cooked it with extra onion, a bit of sherry, a few drops of balsamic, and simmered a Parmesan rind in it.

AM SNACK: 9am, iced green tea

LUNCH: 1:15pm, homemade angelhair pasta with sauce, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 8pm, shrimp saag with basmanti rice, garlic naan, samosa, water, chocolate chips and cashews, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Eurotrash SOBs

Things seem to be on the cusp of turning around at the restaurant, may have to actually have an additional staff member to do the floor in the next week or two so I can focus on more managerial stuff.






Got a good run-around today, felt good to just be moving without any big pauses. Wiped me out, though, makes me long for good 9 hour bike rides that will be part of my life soon!

AM SNACK: 9am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST:10am, the good oatmeal, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: noon, 4 slices Sicilian, 8 oz Sprite, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 4:30pm, vegetarian meatballs is sweet chili sauce over red wholegrain rice, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Tired of the resto food, cheap-ass Eurotrash customers who don't tip getting on my nerves, so treated myself to delivery from another resto in the hood.


EVENING SNACK: 11pm, Jamaican beef patties, onion rings, chocolate cake, water, 1.75 bowl, hunger 4/5
No comment.

Superthin appreciation

Set my alarm for 7 so I could get some work done and lift weights before taking off to work, as I would have lifted yesterday if not for the working holiday.

TODAY'S COOKING:
Oatmeal: Cooked up a batch of steelcut oats by soaking them overnight in a solution of salt, brown sugar and cinnamon, reheated to thick this morning. A little too much salt. I should of made measurements, so I can get it down to a science.

AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea, chocolate covered coffee beans
BREAKFAST: 10:15am, the good oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 1pm, 5 superthin slices with onion, mushroom, garlic, 8oz sprite
PM SNACK: 5:45pm, green salad, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 7pm, 2 slices pizza, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
The cook made a pizza, in the restaurant's style. Too thick, too heavily cheesed, too greasy, made me appreciate the healthy crispiness and balance of my superthin. 



EVENING SNACK: 10pm, hot dog, cashews & chocolate chip, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Nuts Get Me By

Restaurant open for President's Day, mildly busy. Forgot to make the oatmeal, ate through some nuts to get me by.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 10:30am, pistachios, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 1:15am, 4 slices superthin pizza, small glass of apple juice, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 5:15pm, green salad, small amount of chocolate babka, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5



EVENING SNACK: 10pm, Singapore chow mai fun, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Pleasant NYC Sunday

Chill day. Spent the morning with Edie, and after she went down, spent the afternoon with my friend K, then road around for awhile then popped over to Brooklyn for dinner with the owner of the resto.

AM SNACK: 10:30am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 12:30pm, organic wholegrain cheerios with organic dead milk, a banana, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:15pm, a few snippets of homemade cinnamon babka


PM SNACK: 4pm, 1 slice Artichoke pizza, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Walking by under the high line, no line, so I tried a slice of Artichoke Basile's signature slice.  Basically, take a horrible "mac n' cheese" slice from a dirty kebab-and-pizza slice joint, take away the pasta, add a few leaves off a marinated artichoke bulb, and there you go. Basically a big wet pad of beschemel sauce on some generic crust, with not enough artichoke to give a particular flavor. Very heavy, very greasy, very filling, not very satisfying. The Emperor has no clothes.


DINNER: 6:15pm, matzoh ball soup, a pickle, half a smoked meat sandwich, half a portion of kasha varnishkes, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Went to Mile End with my boss, ate around the menu. Their kasha is interesting, with chicken gizzards and a little bit too much schmaltz. Still unimpressed with their meat.