Too Much Cheese Cake

Took Edie to the doc in the morning, has a bug but her fever broke. Spent the early afternoon wandering home in the rain, nap in the afternoon, ate a too-large piece of cheese cake, cooked a little in the eve.

TODAY'S COOKING
Pirogi dough  two fillings: Knocked out a quadruple batch of pirogi dough to chill overnight, and a batch of farmer-cheese filling and a batch of mushroom-kraut filling. I have a bunch of good dried mushrooms (thanks tay-tay!) and got some good fresh ones from the farmer's market, rehydrated the dry in kraut juice, then chopped up all the shrooms in a food processor. Sauteed in a little olive oil, added some grated onion, sauteed for 15 minutes until it stopped steaming, deglazed with a little sherry, then added the pressed kraut and sauteed until it was dry. Tasted very like what I was hoping!


BREAKFAST: 9am, good yogurt with cashews, honey and vanilla, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: noon, chicken burrito, chips, salsa, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 6pm, large piece of cheese cake, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 9:15pm, small green salad, scallion pancake, shrimp dumplings, cold sesame noodles, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Yogic Fail

Woke up feeling good but blown out. Spent the day with Edie, first a bike-run to Wholefoods and then in the kitchen. Edie wasn't feeling too great, so pretty much every moment was taken and because I was nibbling here and there to taste stuff as it went to cook, I never ate properly.

So when I showed up for the HVS's class at 6:45, I was running at 25% which would have been enough to muddle through a basics class, but this was a quick-paced open class, and soon found myself sweating, nose running, head cloudy coming to a grinding halt. So I removed myself and sat in the studio's cafe and had a salad, felt much better. Snickling continued after T got out and we saw a movie from THE best seats in the house, due to my good line & time management skills, thankyouverymuch.

TODAY'S COOKING
Peanutbutter Oatmeal Bars: I used this recipe, and stuck to it precisely, but when I tried to depan it when the glass pan was cool enough, it crumbled into an overly sweet, lumpy chocolatey granola-ish mess. Bleah. But B seems to still like it.

Cheesecakes: Going to an Easter thing at E's house, didn't know what to make. Goyim like cheesecake, right? Cheesecake and whiskey?


Granola: My go-to recipe. Just 'cause.

BRUNCH: noon, health salad, brown rice california roll, inari, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 5pm, 4 salted caramels,  a little loose oatmeal bar, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER PT 1: 7:30pm, vegan cesar salad, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


SNICKLEDINNER: 8:45pm, samosa, chickpeas, lentils, rice, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9:45pm, popcorn, diet coke, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Muskles, geh-geh-geh!

Woke up properly this morning, as Edie slept through the night. I decided to go a little harder on the weights -- my tone has definitely improved, when I push my blubber, the muscles underneath feel firmer, harder. But I don't feel like my strength has particularly increased (and certainly not my muscle-to-fat ratio), so I bumped up each exercise by 1 increment, between 5 and 10 lbs, and I increased the number of push ups and sit ups. I definitely felt the difference, and suspect I'll be a little sore tomorrow, just like I was when I started this new regimen a few months ago.

Restaurant went bezerk due to good weather and holidays, but no servers showed up so it was just me and a busser covering the floor for the first two hours, full house with a line for the 2nd hour. I enjoyed it, but if I had to perform at that level for 10 hours, phew.... I think I would snap after about 4 to 5 hours of that kind of intensity. Great fun, but definitely not my destiny.


BREAKFAST: 9am, the good yogurt with honey, vanilla & peanuts, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

RESTAURANT DAZE: 12am - 11pm, 2 slices of pizza, half a green salad, 8oz sprite, 1 beer, .5 bowl, hunger ?/5

EVENING SNACK: midnight, donuts, burgers, tatertots, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
No comment.

Hootin', Hollerin'

Edie was up in the middle of the night hootin' & hollerin', I laid with her for a bit but she only wanted momma. I had set my alarm for 7 to give me some time for weights, but when my alarm got off, the only weights I could lift were the feather-light ones in my dreams. I sure hope Edie is sleeping through the night again before we have another bebe.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea

LUNCH: noon, 4 slices super thin pizza, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5 

PM SNACK: 4:15pm, green salad, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5 


PM SNACK: 5pm, 2 sicilian slices, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 10:30pm, lomein, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Swapping gasoline for calories.

A nice day. Off for the holiday, Edie had coverage so I took my new cargo bike and pedalled over to Ikea. Edles needs a new crib and kitchen chair, as the current ones are worn out from Edie-shaking and are starting to come apart. I usually hate going to Ikea, but going by myself on a rainy weekday made the store pretty empty, and no one dragging me to bits I had no interest in. B gave me a list, and I got everything on the list. Most fun of all, I managed to load all the pieces on to my bike, with the help of free twine in the loading area. The bike felt very strange, very light in the front. It took 45 minutes to ride there, and only an hour to get back.

In the afternoon, I went uptown to the UES to have a Seder with B & her family. It was very nice, warm, casual, familial. I contributed farfel and a flourless chocolate cake, and the majority of the food was ordered in from the Carnegie Deli. Brisket and turkey was ordered for 12 people, but that's assuming a Carnegie Deli-sized serving portion of about 2 lbs. I think I ate maybe two ounces of turkey and two ounces of brisket. Crazy.

Edie is definitely having early onset terrible-twos, she's starting to have tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants. I guess parenting has to get harder before it gets easier?

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, toasted garlic bagel with cream cheese, iced green tea, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 2:45pm, onion rings, mini hash browns, health salad, 2 pickles, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PASSOVER DINNER: 6:30pm, matzoh & haroset, gefilte fish, matzoh ball soup, turkey, brisket, matzoh farfel, gravy, 1 glass wine, 2 coconut macaroons, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

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

Passed over dinner

We rented a car and went deep into the dark heart of New Jersey. As is our tradition, we gave ourselves extra time in case of traffic, and got there 30 minutes early, so we went to the local suburban pizzeria and had a slice, then next door to the suburban dollar store.

Socializing, Edie running around, we didn't sit until close to 7, and we didn't actually get to the main course before Edie got too cranky and we had to split. This is fine, because at my cousin's Seder, there are so many required appetizing dishes that you're usually full by the time the main meal comes, he he. It sucks we had to leave early, but it's the best possible reason to leave early, y'know?

The ride back was silent, peaceful and fast. The ladies both fell asleep in the back seat. Memories of this trip with my parents and my dad, with me in the back seat, kept good company.




AM SNACK: 9am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 10:30am, organic chex with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1pm, 2 fish sticks, health salad, 2 pickles, 2 mini ice cream cones, quart of water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, 1.5 slices streetza

PASSOVER DINNER: 7-8pm, matzoh, haroset, gefilte fish, matzoh ball soup, meatballs with matzoh muffin, potato kugel, salad, grape juice, 1 glass wine, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 11pm, cheese doodles, cashews & chocolate chips, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Just like my mom never made.

After waking up at 6 from an 11 hour snooze, got out on the bike and did 60 miles before technical difficulties derailed me in deep dark Staten Island. I lucked out, as it was only 20 minutes to walk to the rail road, and the train came the same minute I got on the platform. I hadn't been on that railroad since I was a child, and my mom was taking me and my brother to Tottenville for a day trip. It was like I remembered it -- NYC subway cars, but the seats are the wrong color, and all the many, many stops are above ground. And you only pay at the ferry, there are no turnstiles or staff at the different stations.

Got home mid afternoon, took Edie out and did chores, cooked up food in the eve, got to bed after some solid TV watching.

TODAY'S COOKING:
Pancakes: Betsy announced she wanted pancakes for dinner, so when I took Edie out, I swung by the market on Essex to pick up the slammin' buttermilk. Unfortunately, I left my kitchen scale at school so had to eye ball the dry ingredients, still came out ok.

Matzoh Farfel: For the two seders I'm attending tomorrow and Tuesday. Basically matzoh stuffing. Fried onion and celery in vegetable lard, made a wondeful mushroom duxelle with a variety of dried mushrooms friends have given me (reconstituted in chicken stock), added the duxelle and fried that too, then added the crumbled matzoh, mushroom-infused stock and a few beaten eggs, mixed it, salt & peppered it, baked it covered for 20 minutes, and viola! Just like my mom never made!

AM SNACK: 7am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 7:15am, smoothie, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


BIKE SNACK: 8am, toasted sesame donut, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


BIKE SNACK: 11am, 32 oz Gatorade


BIKE LUNCH: 12:30, veggie burger 6" sub, Cheetos, coke, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


LINNER: 3:30pm, sweet & sour shrimp with pork fried rice, egg roll, quart of water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACKING: 5-8pm, a pancake, a mini ice cream cone, a pint of iced tea, quart of water