Road the bike to Seaside Heights today, about 85 miles total. Tried to avoid having meals, but have a lot of snacks -- it worked. I wasn't hungry or thirsty the whole day, and when I got home I threw down 2 slices that were lying around, but felt pretty in control after that -- a little watermelon easily finished me. Able to cook some sweet stuff and almost none went down my throat -- if I was in calorie deficit, that bowl of watermelon would have been a bowl of ice cream.
TODAY'S COOKING
Vanilla Ice Cream & Strawberry Compote: The host whose party we're going to tomorrow asked for "strawberry vanilla" ice cream, a combo I do not like, so I made the strawberry element as a topping rather than as a mix-in. Took 2/3 pf a pint of a strawberries and mashed and cooked them with some sugar and rum. Once juiced well-released, made smooth in a food processor and added in the other 1/3, finely sliced. Vanilla ice cream came out well.
AM SNACK: 6:45am, iced green tea
AM SNACK: 7:30am, watermelon, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
BIKE SNACK: 8:15am, 2 donuts, churro, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
BIKE SNACK: 11:45am, 32 oz gatorade
BIKE SNACK 1pm, pizza slice, diet coke, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
BIKE SNACK: 2:30pm, bag of munchos, slurpie, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
BIKE SNACK: 4:45pm, suspiciously bad burger, fries, ice cream cone, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 7:30pm, 2 slices pizza, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 9pm, watermelon, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Saturday, May 26
Friday, May 25
Cooking, Waterin' & Ballet
Woke up with a cough, but feeling a little better, cough not as coughy as the last few days. Got my regularly scheduled weights in before T and her bebe came over. We baked cookies for her people, and we also made pasta from scratch, before heading out with bebes for bebestuff.
Picked up Edie after school and went to our coop's big playground, where the water feature was on for the first time this season. After five minutes of Edie pleading with her eyes to allow her to get wet, I got her down to her diaper and she was running, running, running for a solid hour in and out of the spray.
Met up with MAP in the evening for some ballet at the Met. MAP is great n' all, but I look forward to going to the Met with my wifey sooner than later....
TODAY'S COOKING
Vanilla Ice Cream Custard: Before T showed up, I quickly whipped off a batch of triple vanilla bean custard to make ice cream tomorrow, because Sunday we are going to a start-of-summer party in the 'hood.
Spinach Pasta: Experimental -- why not make whole wheat pasta instead of buying it? 3.5 cups whole wheat flour, 6 eggs, 1/2 cup spinach. Cooked and chilled spinach, blended it with eggs to smooth. Made dough, rested for an hour. Rolled out in machine. Dough was a little weak on the gluten side, broke when got really long. Too moist too, had to hang each noodle on a pasta rack to keep from sticking. In the end, tasted good, slightly gritty, but not as bad as I thought it would be.
AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 9am, brown rice crispies & organic dead milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Measured out a 30 gram "single serving" of cereal, way too little, so poured 60 and it looked reasonable. A single serving of milk was 1 cup, which was too much. Hmmmm.
LUNCH 1: noon, spinach pasta with shrimp and homemade sauce, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH 2: 2:30pm, 6" veggie burger sandwich, sunchips, diet coke, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
From the materials provided, I estimate this meal at 600 calories, relatively low for fastfood. Hmmm
EVENING SNORT: 6:30pm, glass of proseccco
DINNER: 8:45pm, 2 slices of pizza, sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Picked up Edie after school and went to our coop's big playground, where the water feature was on for the first time this season. After five minutes of Edie pleading with her eyes to allow her to get wet, I got her down to her diaper and she was running, running, running for a solid hour in and out of the spray.
Met up with MAP in the evening for some ballet at the Met. MAP is great n' all, but I look forward to going to the Met with my wifey sooner than later....
TODAY'S COOKING
Vanilla Ice Cream Custard: Before T showed up, I quickly whipped off a batch of triple vanilla bean custard to make ice cream tomorrow, because Sunday we are going to a start-of-summer party in the 'hood.
Spinach Pasta: Experimental -- why not make whole wheat pasta instead of buying it? 3.5 cups whole wheat flour, 6 eggs, 1/2 cup spinach. Cooked and chilled spinach, blended it with eggs to smooth. Made dough, rested for an hour. Rolled out in machine. Dough was a little weak on the gluten side, broke when got really long. Too moist too, had to hang each noodle on a pasta rack to keep from sticking. In the end, tasted good, slightly gritty, but not as bad as I thought it would be.
AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 9am, brown rice crispies & organic dead milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Measured out a 30 gram "single serving" of cereal, way too little, so poured 60 and it looked reasonable. A single serving of milk was 1 cup, which was too much. Hmmmm.
LUNCH 1: noon, spinach pasta with shrimp and homemade sauce, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH 2: 2:30pm, 6" veggie burger sandwich, sunchips, diet coke, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
From the materials provided, I estimate this meal at 600 calories, relatively low for fastfood. Hmmm
EVENING SNORT: 6:30pm, glass of proseccco
DINNER: 8:45pm, 2 slices of pizza, sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Thursday, May 24
Hungry Man
Chilled with Mil in the morning, got laundry done, taught in the afternoon, food shopped in the evening, fed my childhood nostalgia in the evening.
AM SNACK: 8:15am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 9:15am, hardcore oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: noon, 2 hot dogs with mustard & caramelized onion, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
SCHOOL SNACK: 3:30pm, 3oz of various snack chips, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Tiny one ounce packs of chips have 110 calories -- wow.
SCHOOL SNACK: 6pm, farro & sausage, 10oz coca cola, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 9:30pm, Hungry Man Salisbury Steak Frozen Dinner, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Picked up something different at the super market, something comforting from my childhood. Definitely not as good as I remember. Potatoes were clearly reconstituted from dry, the microwave-baked brownie was oddly cake-like. I never ate the string beans as a kid, but I ate them now, and they were over-cooked and oddly sweet. Why are they in so much liquid? The Salisbury steaks were kinda rubbery and overly sweet too, but they had this really appealing grilled flavor I distinctly remember from childhood. The Salisbury steaks I made for a dinner party a few months ago were ridiculously superior.
B b'd and moaned at me this morning after finding the container in the trash. I had to explain to her that a) it was fun and mindful, not a chore or mindless, b) it was 1/3 the calories of a box of donuts that give me the same comfort and c) just because your not pregnant doesn't mean you shouldn't be barefoot and quiet! (that's husband jokes for ya)
AM SNACK: 8:15am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 9:15am, hardcore oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: noon, 2 hot dogs with mustard & caramelized onion, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
SCHOOL SNACK: 3:30pm, 3oz of various snack chips, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Tiny one ounce packs of chips have 110 calories -- wow.
SCHOOL SNACK: 6pm, farro & sausage, 10oz coca cola, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 9:30pm, Hungry Man Salisbury Steak Frozen Dinner, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Picked up something different at the super market, something comforting from my childhood. Definitely not as good as I remember. Potatoes were clearly reconstituted from dry, the microwave-baked brownie was oddly cake-like. I never ate the string beans as a kid, but I ate them now, and they were over-cooked and oddly sweet. Why are they in so much liquid? The Salisbury steaks were kinda rubbery and overly sweet too, but they had this really appealing grilled flavor I distinctly remember from childhood. The Salisbury steaks I made for a dinner party a few months ago were ridiculously superior.
B b'd and moaned at me this morning after finding the container in the trash. I had to explain to her that a) it was fun and mindful, not a chore or mindless, b) it was 1/3 the calories of a box of donuts that give me the same comfort and c) just because your not pregnant doesn't mean you shouldn't be barefoot and quiet! (that's husband jokes for ya)
Wednesday, May 23
Rice Rice Baby
Rough night, I'm still coughing a lot and the other three aren't sleeping that great, either. Taught culinary this afternoon, made pastry -- donuts and cookies and cheesecakes, oh my! Out of fresh veg at home, still wangled an ok dinner.
AM SNACK: 7:45am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 9am, BLT on white toast, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Out to breakfast with B.
LUNCH: noon, PB&J on whole wheat, water .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
SCHOOL SNACK: 5:30pm, 2 fried donuts, 2 chocolate chip cookies, cup of milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 9pm, broiled sole, curry brown rice, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Fried the brown rice in butter, tossed in a tablespoon of curry powder, dash of salt, a fistful of caramelized onion and a few bay leaves. Cooked up nice simmering for about 30 minutes. Missing a certain something, not sure what.
AM SNACK: 7:45am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 9am, BLT on white toast, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Out to breakfast with B.
LUNCH: noon, PB&J on whole wheat, water .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
SCHOOL SNACK: 5:30pm, 2 fried donuts, 2 chocolate chip cookies, cup of milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 9pm, broiled sole, curry brown rice, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Fried the brown rice in butter, tossed in a tablespoon of curry powder, dash of salt, a fistful of caramelized onion and a few bay leaves. Cooked up nice simmering for about 30 minutes. Missing a certain something, not sure what.
Tuesday, May 22
Hong Kong not for me
Still feeling sick, stuffy nose, sore throat, head achey, but better. Lifted weights in the morning.
AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 10:15am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 12:30pm, rice noodles & fishball, Hong Kong lotus leaf wrap, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Got lunch at the Chinese cart at the corner of Canal & Essex. She was out of the usual small lotus leaf wraps I get, which have a small amount of minced, soy-heavy pork in the middle of the sticky rice, so I got some other wrap she had. This one was larger and held together with string. Same sticky rice, but it quickly got different as I ate through it. Rice changed in texture and turned yellow. The middle was a sloid piece of pork with a healthy piece of fat attached to it. I realized there was an egg in there that was steamed to cook into the rice and....I didn't like it. I did eat about half of it, but was just too eggy for my taste.
DINNER: 6:30pm, whole wheat pasta with spinach, shrimp and homemade sauce, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 10pm, chocolate chips & almonds, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 10:15am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 12:30pm, rice noodles & fishball, Hong Kong lotus leaf wrap, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Got lunch at the Chinese cart at the corner of Canal & Essex. She was out of the usual small lotus leaf wraps I get, which have a small amount of minced, soy-heavy pork in the middle of the sticky rice, so I got some other wrap she had. This one was larger and held together with string. Same sticky rice, but it quickly got different as I ate through it. Rice changed in texture and turned yellow. The middle was a sloid piece of pork with a healthy piece of fat attached to it. I realized there was an egg in there that was steamed to cook into the rice and....I didn't like it. I did eat about half of it, but was just too eggy for my taste.
DINNER: 6:30pm, whole wheat pasta with spinach, shrimp and homemade sauce, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 10pm, chocolate chips & almonds, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Monday, May 21
Knishin'
B woke up early and took Mil to an appointment, while I got up around 7:15, showered, made Edie's lunch, woke her up and fed her breakfast, got dressed, got Edie dressed, collected our stuff and got Edie on the big bike and got her to school on time in the rain. Got home and just went to work. Momma-in-law and B came back with the baby and spent some time, which was very helpful in letting me focus, and when they split, knishes were in the oven and I was already winding down in anticipation of picking up Edles.
Still feel ill -- headache, stuffy nose, sore throat -- but pushing it out of my head and focusing on getting the project done somehow made my whole being feel better. Rallying for a palpable goal which has a very real result -- a whole mess o' knishes.
TODAY'S COOKING
Knishes: Boiled potatoes, mixed potato onion and spinach roasted garlic fillings. Cooked up a huge pot of kasha onion filling. Before leaving to pick up Edie, cooked off 36 potato and 36 spinach, got the kitchen in sane order. After we got home out of the rain, cooked off 36 kasha knishes and a couple dozen sweet knishes.
Got a gallon each of each potato-based filling and two large runs of dough in the mini-freezer, so hopefully when i need to make another 100 pieces, they'll defrost well and there will be little drama and wasted time in pumping that out. (Kasha filling in quantity only takes 20 minutes in two stove-top pans, not a big ordeal of peeling and boiled and milling potatoes.)
AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 9am, banana, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Just breathed in the banana without even a thought.
LUNCH: 11:45am, Stouffer's French bread pizzas, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 5pm, a few spoonfuls of sweet knish filling
DINNER: 6:30pm, 2 slices of streetza, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 7:30pm, 1 cheese knish, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 11pm, almonds & chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Still feel ill -- headache, stuffy nose, sore throat -- but pushing it out of my head and focusing on getting the project done somehow made my whole being feel better. Rallying for a palpable goal which has a very real result -- a whole mess o' knishes.
TODAY'S COOKING
Knishes: Boiled potatoes, mixed potato onion and spinach roasted garlic fillings. Cooked up a huge pot of kasha onion filling. Before leaving to pick up Edie, cooked off 36 potato and 36 spinach, got the kitchen in sane order. After we got home out of the rain, cooked off 36 kasha knishes and a couple dozen sweet knishes.
Got a gallon each of each potato-based filling and two large runs of dough in the mini-freezer, so hopefully when i need to make another 100 pieces, they'll defrost well and there will be little drama and wasted time in pumping that out. (Kasha filling in quantity only takes 20 minutes in two stove-top pans, not a big ordeal of peeling and boiled and milling potatoes.)
AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 9am, banana, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Just breathed in the banana without even a thought.
LUNCH: 11:45am, Stouffer's French bread pizzas, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 5pm, a few spoonfuls of sweet knish filling
DINNER: 6:30pm, 2 slices of streetza, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 7:30pm, 1 cheese knish, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 11pm, almonds & chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Sunday, May 20
Too sick to ride, too healthy not to knish
Got to bed around 8pm, set the alarm for 3:30am. Got up around 3 to use the bathroom, had a thumping headache, stuffy nose, sore-r throat and aches all over. So I turned off the alarm and slept in until 9:30. Woke up to perfect weather, wish it was raining, but I'm signed up for another Montauk Century in June, so hopefully things will work in my favor then. Annoyingly, about an hour after waking, felt a lot better, undoubtedly because of the 13 1/2 hours of sleep.
Wish I was riding, but glad to be able to get a leg up up on the knishing day tomorrow. Momma-in-Law came over and the Wreckin' Crew went out to visit events in the neighborhood while I hunkered down and did mise for my day of knishing tomorrow.
TODAY'S COOKING
Knish prep: About as much as you can do with out making actual knishes. Made four double batches of dough, two to be frozen to be used weeks down the line (hopefully the quality will be good, TBD). Diced and caramelized 30 lbs of onions, down into 10 lbs. Made dough & filling for cheese knishes, but got tired in the evening and B was busy cleaning up, so didn't cook any off.
AM DRUGGING: 9:30am, 2 ibuprofin, 1 Vitamin C tablet
AM SNACK: 9:45am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 10:30am. pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
AM SNACK: 11:45am, groom cookie, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
We had bride & groom butter cookies for take-away at the bridal shower yesterday, never got around to eating one. Surprisingly edible!
LUNCH: 3pm, momma salad, multigrain tortilla chips, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 7:45pm, Singapore rice noodles, roti canai, slice of rejected chocolate hazelnut cheese knish, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Wish I was riding, but glad to be able to get a leg up up on the knishing day tomorrow. Momma-in-Law came over and the Wreckin' Crew went out to visit events in the neighborhood while I hunkered down and did mise for my day of knishing tomorrow.
TODAY'S COOKING
Knish prep: About as much as you can do with out making actual knishes. Made four double batches of dough, two to be frozen to be used weeks down the line (hopefully the quality will be good, TBD). Diced and caramelized 30 lbs of onions, down into 10 lbs. Made dough & filling for cheese knishes, but got tired in the evening and B was busy cleaning up, so didn't cook any off.
AM DRUGGING: 9:30am, 2 ibuprofin, 1 Vitamin C tablet
AM SNACK: 9:45am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 10:30am. pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
AM SNACK: 11:45am, groom cookie, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
We had bride & groom butter cookies for take-away at the bridal shower yesterday, never got around to eating one. Surprisingly edible!
LUNCH: 3pm, momma salad, multigrain tortilla chips, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 7:45pm, Singapore rice noodles, roti canai, slice of rejected chocolate hazelnut cheese knish, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
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