Springing

A beautiful day out. After Mil's 4 month check up, brought him out to Roosevelt Island, where he rolled over by himself for the first time on the grass on the north end of the Island. Picked up Edie, spent an hour in the local park with lots of other friends and families. Spring is on the edge of, umm, springing!

BREAKFAST: 8:45am, homemade pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese, iced green tea, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 11:45am, homemade granola bar, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 2:30pm, shrimp fried rice, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
At a hole in the wall dumpling place in Chinatown, $5 got a big tray of fried rice, maybe 2 lbs worth. I used to really like the large amount for few $, but now it seemed clownishly large. So I ate half, but ate all the shrimp in it. I noticed two things as the cook made the dish in the open kitchen -- he took a bunch of raw shrimp and cooked it in boiled water before adding to the stir fry, and he added a white powder to the cooking. The shrimp is always wonderfully tender and freshly cooked here, and the rice is yummy because that white powder is what I know to be MSG. Not too much like a Dorito, but enough to make the food memorablely different than the typical Chinese take out that trumpets proudly, "NO MSG".

DINNER: 6:15pm, grilled cheese on whole wheat, baby spinach with slivered almonds and carrots dressing, a fistful of Purim cake and chocolate, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Had a variety of cheeses left over from a school tasting. Put Ementaller and Gruyere on mine, with a shmear of caramelized onion, buttered the bread. Fried in grill pan, with a heavy copper pot pressing it. Oh my, I understand why these can be addicting -- crunchy, oozy, salty, fatty. I stopped at one, thank goodness. I could definitely make myself sick on these. The whole wheat bread is definitely on  a fig leaf on it's unhealthiness, though it did give a nice nutty note.

Several packages of sweet stuff showed up on our door from the religious neighbors, so rather than wait and get hungry for another sammich, I slammed some coffee cake and some milk chocolate down and I was right as rain. Threw out the balance of the sweets, didn't feel bad about it, either.