Fatherly Day

J came over and I made french toast for everyone. B spent the day with her girlie friends getting pedicures and doing yoga n' stuff, I strapped on and strapped in various spawn of mine and bore the NYC subway system to deep dark Brooklyn for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Put Mil down in the stroller and gave Edie some free-range time, was a good place to run about in relative safety. Saw C perform some butoh, then I rolled 2 sleeping children across Prospect Park while eating from trucks, carts and a farmer's market for lunch. B was out all evening, so I spent the evening chillin' with Edie while Mil pooped out by 6:15. Was a good, fatherly day.

TODAY'S COOKING
Challah French Toast: 2 cups whole milk, 4 eggs, 1oz sugar, pinch of cinnamon, fresh nutmeg and salt. Clarified two sticks of butter. Cut the challah purchased yesterday into 8 thick slices.

AM SNACK` 8:15am, iced green tea


AM SNACK: 8:45am, a few little squares of chocolate


BREAKFAST: 10:30am, challah french toast, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 3pm, small vanilla ice cream cone, mushroom Rosemary focacia, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 4pm, street hot dog, 20oz Gatorade, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 6:30pm, momma style salad, whole grain tortilla chips with school made salsa, 4oz dr. pepper, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 8pm, Stouffers French Bread pizzas, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 10pm, cupcake, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Betsy came home after the kiddles were asleep, brought me cupcake luv!

Ethiopian for the Whole Family

I was hoping to feel better today, but a severe lack of sleep due to being woken several times by Mil, trying to sleep in Edie's bed, and being woken up at some point by Edie slapping my face and shouting "GO AWAY!" didn't make for a good night. The day was spent in a bit of a haze, but I got a round of weight lifting in, got to Wholefoods with Edie to pick up some specialty items (good tea! flax!), hit up a playground and picked up Ethiopian for the family. Fell into a coma around 11pm.

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, homemade granola bar, water, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 11am, sardine & avocado on garlic bagel, momma salad, pickle, brownie, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6pm, vegetarian Ethiopian food, 14 oz of ginger ale, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9pm, school made salsa, whole grain tortilla chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Feeling a little better

Betsy & Edles got out of the house around 8:30, and Mil was laid down with me, where I fed him some bottle and he popped off to sleep relatively easily. I woke up at 10, feeling blurry again, but a little better than the blur I experienced after 12 hours of sleep yesterday. Weird sickness. Not sick-sick, but definitely feel round and bulbous, living in a Trout Mask Replica song or something. Did not lift weights this morning, but if I do it tomorrow, it'll still be around on schedule.

Taught the first class of a new section in the afternoon, food shopped on the way home. Edie & Betsy were asleep in our bedroom, so I fitfully bedded down on Edie's bed with Milli in the crib...

BREAKFAST: 10:15am, organic cheerios with organic dead milk, brownie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1:45pm, breaded shrimp, wholewheat pasta with olive oil, garlic & romano, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


SCHOOL SNACK: 7pm, fruit smoothie, chips & fresh salsa, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 10pm, hotdog, 7oz ginger ale, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

Functional, but thats about it

Slept for about 12 hours, woke up groggy and still feeling off. Made it through the day, teaching a pizza lesson, delivering knishes to the Brooklyn Historical Society and stuck around to shmooze, got home feeling bleah. Got to bed around midnight, felt unrestful.

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


LUNCH: 11:30am, PB&J on whole wheat toast, large green salad, brownie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


SCHOOL DINNER: 5:45pm, various slices of pizza, sprite, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 11pm, pita chips, water, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Off

Felt off when I woke up, thought it was just from too little sleep. After dinner with B's cooperation I put myself in bed and was out by 7pm. In the morning I was hoping to get a bike ride in, but as the afternoon rolled up I realized I probably should just take it easy.

TODAY'S COOKING
Waffles: Last night I as I tried to get to sleep, thinking of what I could have for breakfast. When I realized I hadn't made waffles in a long time, thought it was kinda bleah to go through the trouble of making waffles without being able to serve them to someone. Realized I hadn't hung with B in a while, who also has a bebe the same age as M, texted him late and he and his two kids came over for some waffling. Standard c-school recipe. 8oz flour, 2oz sugar, .5 oz baking powder, 1 tsp salt on the dry, 12oz milk, 4 yolks, 4oz butter on the wet, and folded in 4 whipped egg whites for lift. Got out the old caste iron pan and cooked it up. Came out nice, crisp and tender. Had a couple left over for the freezer.

AM SNACK: 8am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 10:30am, waffle, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1:15pm, falafel in whole wheat, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK 2:45pm, two lotus leaf wraps, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6:15pm, grouper, whole wheat pasta with sauce, brownie, 7oz ginger ale, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Still Rice & Lentils

Mellow day, visiting Brooklyn, cooking up dinner, TV & laundry in the evening.

TODAY'S COOKING
Brown Rice & Lentils: Took a cup of rice mix, which has long grain brown rice, wheat berries and some wild rice, mixed it with half a cup of brown lentils, put it in the rice cooker with water, salt, slivered almonds and some cumin. Betsy went bonkers for it, I guess it was good, but still it was rice & lentils.

AM SNACK: 7:45am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 10:15am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Ran out of acai juice, now using 100% pomegranite juice as the liquid.

LUNCH: 12:15pm, 2 hotdogs, tatertots, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Out at Criffdogs in Williamsburg with TL & her bebe.

DINNER: 5:45pm, broiled grouper, brown rice & lentils, sauteed spinach, brownie, water, 7oz Sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 8pm, chocolate chips & almonds, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Woody Allen Theme

I got to bed at 11 with the intention of getting up at 7 to start knishing, but Milli Mil was up every few hours (and B & Edles were in the other room) so I didn't wake up until late. I took E&E to a birthday party of Edie's classmate, where there was a guy dressed as Woody from Toy Story, a magician with a bunny, and a pinata. (Gotta raise the bar for Edie's party: a giant inflatable knish? A Woody Allen theme?) Spent the afternoon baking off knishes.

TODAY'S COOKING
Knishes: Cooked off 108 full size potato onion knishes for an event at the Brooklyn Historical Society this Wednesday, and with the left over dough and filling, rolled and cut about 90 mini cocktail knishes. These tiny ones will be for give away and the freezer, but I needed to practice the forming, as I have a paid order in early may for cocktail size.

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, brown rice crispies with organic dead milk, 3/4 of a banana, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: noon, a few chicken nuggets, a few mini hotdogs, a little chicken & rice, a spoonful of weird beet salad stuff, a diet coke, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, potato onion knish, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 7:30pm, large green salad, singapore mei fun, shrimp toast, wonton soup, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5