AutoBundt

The battery on the scale died, will weigh in when I fix it later in the week, as it takes these annoying tiny round watch batteries.

Woke up late, spontaneously took another crack at the apple honey cake, took Edie on the bike over the Ferry to SI for an old friend's 4yr old's bday party (only in SI would they server pizza and scungilli at a kid's party), home by 6, then out again for an adult's bday. I was surprisingly tired, but made it through.


TODAY'S COOKING:
Apple Honey Cake: Was underwhelmed earlier in the week by this recipe when I halved the sweeteners. So I remade it, kept closer to the original recipe, replaced allspice with cardamom, and topped it was a crumb topping (stick of butter, half cup of flour, half cup of brown sugar, some salt and cinnamon, beaten in stand mixer until crumbly)

I used 2 small collared pans, and baked at 325 for 45 minutes. It looked good, golden on top so I took them out and put them on the window sill to cool. Come back 30 minutes later....and the middles had completely cratered -- not cooked long enough. I refrigerated one, and cut open the other, scooping out the liquidy middle. In the end, it looked kinda like...a bundt! A recipe this moist, it needed the increased surface area to cook through. And me adding all the fat in the crumb topping to this very moist cake did not help at all. Still, what I did salvage was about.... 10x more delicious than the first round, so I'm tempted to go again in a bundt....

AM SNACK: 9am, iced green tea


BRUNCH: 11am, pancakes, sausage, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 12:30, apple honey cake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5 

LUNCH: 4pm, pizza, scungilli, half a beer, a few potato chips, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5 

EVENING SNORT: 7:30pm, 1 beer
Out at a bar in Brooklyn for a good friend's bday. 

DINNER: 10:15pm, bbq duck, lamb shoulder, corriander bacon, eggplant dip, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Late night dinner at Fatty Cue with friends -- we ordered 2 entrees and 2 apps to share with the 4 of us, was enough food for a small but very fatty, filling meal.

Uneventful

Uneventful day of taking Edie out to parks, bike riding, etc. Went out with old friend K in the evening, checked out the protests down on Wall Street then went to Park Slope for Korean food.


BREAKFAST: 7:30am, iced green tea, homemade granola with organic dead milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 12:15pm, 2 hot dogs, mushroom rice, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5pm, 1 slice streetza, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 8:30pm, kalbi, kimchi pancake, kimchi dumpling, a little salad, a little chocolate thing, sake, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 11pm, peanuts & chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Low key day, B had off for the New Year. I fell asleep in the afternoon and she & Edie went uptown to visit family, never quite got my groove back after that.

AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, smoothie, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Would have been a full bowl, but Edie insisted on eating a lot of my "noisy ice cream". Milk, yogurt, banana, grapes, cherries, mango, blueberries, flax, short pinch of salt. Out of vanilla extract, but got a container of spent beans in 180 proof vodka that should be ripe for processing soon.

LUNCH: noon, fried shrimp, mushroom rice, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
As an experiment, deep fried the breaded shrimp in peanut oil instead of baking. Yep, tasted good. Surprise!

PM SNACK: 4pm, chocolate chips & peanuts, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 7:30pm, green salad, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5 

DINNER: 10pm, ramen noodles, 1/2 a beer, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5 

Done

Good day, got a lot done.


TODAY'S COOKING
Pancakes: Had some left over buttermilk, wanted to use it up before it went bad. Made double sized pancakes to make the cooking a little quicker.


Mushroom Rice: Used up Taytay's fab French porcinis in this texmati brown rice dish, gotta give her a holler.


Apple Honey Cake: Used an eh recipe, halved the sugar, came out weirdly savory. He he he.

AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced gree tea


BREAKFAST: 9:45am, pancakes, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 3pm, 1 slice streetza, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:30pm, breaded tilapia, mushroom rice, large green salad, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 7:30pm, peanuts & chocolate chips, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 8:15pm, apple honey cake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5 

EVENING SNACK: 10:30pm, potato chips, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5 

Bleah

Woke up and kind of just collapsed into myself. B took E to school and I spent the day on the couch and in bed, taking a long nap in the afternoon. Hopefully I'll be back to myself tomorrow.

AM SNACK: 7:45am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 10:30am, bagel, cream cheese, a little homemade sausage, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, peanuts & chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 4:30pm, leftover pasta in red sauce, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5 

DINNER: 8:30pm, chicken curry & white rice, wonton soup, shrimp toast, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5 

Thinking about sweet

Weight lifting and knish-paperwork in the morning, chores and food shopping in the afternoon, a visit from the HVS in the evening.

TODAY'S COOKING
Granola: The HVS only wanted salad, so I didn't want to make a big feast she may or may not have been in the mood for, but I knew granola would hit the spot for take-away, and B & E nibble on it with yogurt. Cut the sweetener from 1 1/4 cups of brown sugar and maple syrup to just 1/2 cup of maple syrup, still definitely sweet enough. Amazing how commercial granola is essentially candy. Next batch may try just 1/2 cup of brown sugar, or 1/4 only of one or the other. Sweetener as flavorant (all the brown things) rather than just sweetener  (refined flavorless white stuff) is an interesting concept.


AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 9:30am, brown rice crispies with organic dead milk, 1 cupcake, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12:45pm, green salad, pasta with homemade sauce, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5 

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, chocolate chips & peanuts, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5 

SNICKLE SNACK: 6pm, falafel, green salad, a little hummus, half a vegan cupcake, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 9pm, breaded shrimp, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5 

Short but sweet ride

Tried to wake up early, but fortunately B got me up around 8:30. Got our of the house around 10 and rode about 25 miles through Brooklyn, a nice but short jaunt. Spent the afternoon doing some chores with the family, dinner with the inlaws in the eve.

AM SNACK: 9am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9:45am, banana, wholegrain cheerios with organic dead milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

BIKE SNACK: 12:30pm, 20 oz gatorade, 7/8 oz corn chips, 1 3/4 oz chocolate cookies, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:15pm, slice of streetza, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:45pm, large pretzel, ginger ale, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 5:45pm, some Ethiopian food, .5 bowl, hunger 3/5