Marsala

Weird eating day. Got to school early to help get a leg up on cooking a rather large meal for about 40 heads, which had to have apps out at 5:30 and entrees out at 6. Funny, after a lot of thought and anxiety on my part, the logistics went great. I spent a couple of hours getting four huge pound cakes in the over and pounded out 50+ chicken breasts, and was able to drive the 6 students at a moderate pace to get everything out on time.

Despite being such a standard fare, I've never had Chicken Marsala before -- I've had chicken in creamy wine sauce with veg, but not in this specific style. Breast dredged in flour-salt-oregano, browned in butter, mushrooms sauteed in same butter, all places in a baking dish with marsala wine, poached for 20 minutes, chicken removed, heavy cream added, sauce reduced, seasoned, topped on the chicken and mushrooms. The marsala was a bit too sweet, but it was some cheap-ass bottom shelf stuff. This dish over mushroom risotto would be filling, but rocking.


AM SNACK: 7:45am, iced green tea


AM SNACK: 10:30am, handful of chocolate covered espresso beans

SCHOOL NIBBLES: 2-7pm, tastes of broccoli, potatoes, chicken marsala, pound cake, mik shake, a few shrimp scampi, salsa & chips, a few swigs of soda, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 8:15pm, chicken marsala, mashed potatoes, pound cake, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Tired again, surprisingly

Not enough sleep again. Spent an hour at Edie's school for a sweet Hanukkah party. Woke up after a nap and grabbed some left over Chinese intended for Edie, but the tiredness required something quick and easy. Didn't eat enough dinner, ended up repeat-snacking until getting to bed around 10:30pm.

BREAKFAST: 7am, iced green tea, steel cut oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


AM SNACK: 8:45am, a couple of latkes, a couple of chocolate cookies, ,.25 bowl,  hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1:15pm, vegetable lomein, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6pm, hotdog, large green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 8pm, peanutbutter on wholewheat toast, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9pm, chocolate chips & cornflakes, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10pm, vegeburger on wholewheat bun, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Good Monday

Almost a whole night's sleep allowed me to go to Brooklyn to visit C and her 2 year old daughter Autumn in the morning after dropping Edie off. Took a nice long walk to Trader Joe's after, then home. Spent a nice hour with both kids after school in the park.

AM SNACK: 6:45am, iced green tea


AM SNACK: 8:15am, banana

BREAKFAST: 10am, hot tea, a mini bagel & butter, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 12:30pm, supermarket sushi, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Swung by Trader Joes on the way home, the sushi there was very cheap. I picked up a largish platter for $6, and sat on the street and tried to eat it, but....you get what you pay for. The main feature of this kind of stuff is not the fish, but the rice, and here the rice was kinda overcooked and mushy, not that delicate balance of sticky and individual at once. Ate about 1/2 of it, so in reality it was the same price as better stuff, just crappier.

PM SNACK: 1:15pm, 2 chocolate ice cream mochi, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3pm, beef empanada, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Walking with E&E after picking up Edie from school, stopped by a local tiny empanada shop - quite interesting, as it's similar to what I envision a modern knish shop to be, only the wrong ethnicity. Not a huge beef fan, but a beef empanada is kinda like the potato knish or the cheese slice, y'know? Nice flavor, cumin, wine, softened raisins. Yeast dough, baked. Reheated on a griddle with a cover. Hmmmm.

DINNER: 7:45pm, large green salad, shrimp toast, wonton soup, vegetable lomeain, 8oz ginger ale, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Zoned-out

Strangely enough, sleep went well last night, I slept midnight to 8:30 with minimal interruptions, and others in the house seemed to be similarly peaceful. B&Edie went out in the morning, and in the early evening we all went to a neighborhood Hannukah party. All in all, a zoned-out Sunday.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 9:45am, good yogurt with honey, vanilla and peanuts, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12:30pm, Stouffer's French bread pizzas, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6pm, a few latkes, a few pieces of donut, diet coke, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10pm, tortellini in sauce, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5