A good day, despite lack of sleep

Woke up late, as another night of sleepless children kept the household in chaos. We did manage to get out of the house by noon, training it up to midtown for  a nice walk through Central Park and a visit to the zoo. We got home by 4ish, and B left around 6:30 for a wedding party of a close friend while I stayed behind with the hottentots. Fortunately, my friend MAP very generously came over to babysquat, watch Sesame St and generally be cool while I kept a lid on the situation.

Lunch comprise of some horrible foods, but tried to make up for it with an easy, but nutritionally valid dinner.

TODAY'S COOKING:
Oatmeal: I had Betsy make the oatmeal while I held the baby, which made me make up measurements for the recipe: 1.5 cups water, .5 steel cut oats, 2 tbsp brown sugar, 1 tbsp butter, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Micro on high 8 minutes, stirring half way through. Surprisingly salty, should cut it back to 1/4 teaspoon.

AM SNACK: 9:30am, iced green tea


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

LUNCH pt 1: 12:30pm, street dirty water dog, waffle with chocolate, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
In Central Park, pre-zoo. The dirty water dog was somehow exactly as I remember them and worse. Skinless hotdogs are kinda disgusting, compared to natural-casing dogs which have more snap, juice and flavor.


LUNCH pt 2: 2:45pm, small slice of pizza, french fries & ketchup, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
At the cafe at the Central Park Zoo. I never ate french fries with pizza until Edie decided french fries are a major food group, and Betsy decided pizza is good no matter where the source. Hrumph.

PM SNORT: 6pm, glass of hard cider

DINNER: 9:30pm, large green salad, 2 spinach knishes, 1 kasha knish, health salad, pickle, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10:30am, peanuts & chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Crepier

A rough night of sleeplessness, crying babies, unhappy toddlers, frazzled wives and a lucky unaware cat. Betsy took Mil to a regular doc appt while I wheeled out Edie around the neighborhood with a friend, who is looking at spaces to open a food retail business. Edie popped off to sleep pretty much immediately, and when I got home at 1, got to work on some experimental pancakes.

Took the duo out to the local playground in the afternoon -- it's chilly, but not unplayable like it will be in the winter and got lazy and ordered in Chinese for dinner, but not before making a big green salad to get some balance in there.

TODAY'S COOKING:
Pancakes: Swung by Essex St Market this morning, got the good buttermilk from Saxelby. When my dad made pancakes, they were always from a mix, and they were always thin and a bit rubbery....I miss that. So I took my standard c-school pancake recipe (24 oz AP Flour, 3 oz sugar, 1 tsp baking powder, 2 tsp salt / 24 oz whole milk, 3 egg, 2 oz butter) and kinda winged it (24 oz AP flour, 3 oz vanilla sugar, 1 tsp baking powder, 2 tsp salt, 1 tsp cinnamon, scrapings of 4 vanilla beans / 24 oz buttermilk, 12 oz whole milk, 4 eggs, 3 oz butter) using the same method.

The pancakes definitely came out flatter/denser/moister/mushier/crepier. The liquid really prevented strong gluten formation. Tasted good, but some weird spot between a pancake and a French crepe.


BREAKFAST: 9:30am, organic cornflakes & milk, iced green tea, banana, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 1:30pm, pancakes, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 5:15pm, large green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Made salad today to balance the big dinner I knew coming.


DINNER: 6pm, chicken w/broccoli, pork fried rice, egg roll, grape soda, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 7pm, peanut butter cups, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
A gift of affection from wifey. Hrumph.

Failed Rice

After sleeping from around noon to 8:30 this morning, my body and head felt like little scrubbing bubbles had entered my system and just flushed all the junk away without and discomfort or upset. I wish the same could be said for B, who was a bit frazzled from going up against the two headed beast known as our kids "sleeping".

In the afternoon, we looked after our neighbor's two kids (of similar ages to E&E), and for the most part went smoothly. I looked after 3 for the first two hours, then B come over with Mil and she looked after the two babies while I took the toddlers to a playroom. It went pretty smoothly for me until the families with 8 kids started rolling in making the room feel like the inside of a jet engine. B seemed a little frazzled by the crying in stereo, but did great considering the night she had before. Next week, our friends will cover our childcare needs while we go out and do something date-ish.

TODAY'S COOKING
Failed Rice:  When I have a yen for rice, I bust out the rice cooker and throw in whatever is on hand that might be good, though sometimes it comes out quite nasty. This was one of those times. Started with long grain brown rice and water. Added salt, butter, minced dried morrels. Should of stopped there. Added a few glugs of red wine, some cayenne, a dash of machta (green tea powder), ground black pepper and onion powder. Came out weirdly earthy/spicy without too much heat. Not very tasty. I think I tried to do two different flavor combinations at once, and they fought each other.

BREAKFAST: 8:45am, iced green tea, good oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


BRUNCH: 11:45am, pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese, 1.5 donuts, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 5pm, ice cream, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 7:30pm, chili shrimp, failed rice, health salad, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Raw shrimp marinated in olive oil, chili powder and a little salt, sauteed hot and quick.

EVENING SNACK: 9:30pm, wholewheat ritz crackers and nutella, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Shorted out

The list of food that I ate this day is not incomplete -- I did not eat anything after lunch until I woke up the next day at 8:30am. Around 12:30, my battery just....died. Betsy was out with Edie, and I was home with Mil, trying to get myself together to go out at 1pm to go teach. I couldn't get the fuzzies out of my head, and my limbs felt like rubber. I called school to tell them I wasn't coming in, put myself to bed when my mother-in-law showed up around 1, and....with a few interruptions, pretty much slept through until 8:30 the next day. It was more than a little rough on B taking care of two kids over night, but my brain literally shorted-out. Oy. One part exhaustion, one part bug, nothings ever shut me down like that before, and I don't think I've ever slept for so many hours in one shot before.


BREAKFAST: 7:45am, iced green tea, good yogurt with honey, vanilla and almonds, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 11:30am, 2 slices of frozen pizza, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Trip to the Museum

The day was centered around taking the two tots up to the Museum of Natural History with our friends, who also have 2 tots of similar age. Lunch was had in the museum's cafe out of convenience, then a nice walk across the park ended in a detour to see the tree in Rock Center.

BREAKFAST: 7:45am, iced green tea, smoothie, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


AM SNACK: 9:30am, potato samosa, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 12 noon, small plate of sushi, chicken fingers, diet coke, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 5:15pm, potato chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6pm, breaded tilapia, 2 small spinach knishes, health salad, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

The lid on my head

Took the mini-mes to a playdate in the 'hood in the morning, then put Edie on a bike and rode around downtown with B and his son for a few hours in the afternoon, before bringing Edie to a regular check up at the doc. Ordered in Indian food in the early evening.

Not making any progress on the knish front, due to being busy with the kids, and looking that Edie does not have school these two weeks, have realized I can not do special order holiday knishes without really putting a lot of stress on my family. Bummer, but I'm glad I have a great family, so it's not that big a trade-off.

AM SNACK: 9:30am, iced green tea, a couple of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies


BREAKFAST: 11am, PB&J on wholewheat, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1:45pm, health salad, potato chips, pickle, a little mint ice cream, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 4pm, whole wheat focaccia, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6:30pm, shrimp korma & rice, roti, samosa, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
One of the first times ordering in didn't seem unnecessary or lazy or indulgent, but very necessary to keep the lid on my head from boiling over.

Sunday Thinkin'

Took Edie out in the morning, with the specter of no school for her for the next two weeks hanging over my head. B had some good friends over in the early afternoon, brought some wonderful homemade pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with them. Off to a friend's kid's birthday in the early evening, feeling zoned out and tired (and a rum & cider drink probably didn't help, but did make me think about making a rum/apple flavored ice cream.)

BREAKFAST: 8:15 am, iced green tea, oatmeal, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Oatmeal sat out over night, didn't taste quite right, too salty with a tang. Gonna toss it, redo it later.

BREAKFAST 2: 10:15am, pancakes, bacon, home fries, diet coke, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 12:45am, handful of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 2:45pm, large green salad, potato chips, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5:30pm, slice of streetza, chocolate cake, rum & cider drink, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5 

DINNER: 8:30pm, health salad, pototo chips, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

Oatmeal Reverie

Last night was rough: an email came in late from Edie's school that due to a bed bug situation, the school will be shut down for two weeks...ugh, parent problems. MAP & D came over with gifts from abroad and helped entertain Edie while B & Mil slept. I was supposed to go to a party with the ice cream cake, but me and Mil stayed behind and tried to sleep. TV in the evening, sleep around 11.

TODAY'S COOKING:
Steel cut oatmeal: For expediency, I cooked it up in the microwave, with a dash of salt, butter and brown sugar. Wow, I forgot what a perfect food that oatmeal can be, especially when it's seasoned and flavored correctly -- it tastes healthy, in a way that makes you want to be healthy every day of the week. Though salt, butter and brown sugar is considered "sinful", the oaty flavor is so complimentary to them with only a slight nudge. Why the packets of flavored oatmeal over salt, over sweeten and add creepy shiz to approximate what I just did in the microwave bowl astounds me -- I know why they do it (hello, capitalism!) but it's still amazing people eat it and think, "this is oatmeal."

I put on 4 cups of steel cut with 12 cups of boiling water, table spoon of salt, 1 oz of brown sugar and 1/4 cup of butter, turned off the heat and going to let it sit overnight. Tomorrow, with a minute reheat in the zapper (vs. the 8 minutes it took this morning), I'm gonna have perfect oatmeal on tap for the next few weeks.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea, chocolate covered espresso beans


BREAKFAST: 9:30am, steel cut oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 12:30pm, snippet of knish, a few whole wheat crackers


LUNCH: 3:15pm, large green salad, large chocolate coin, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6pm, orechiette pasta with spinach, shrimp and asiago cheese, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 7:30pm, mint ice cream, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Despite Chaos, still produced a nice cake.

Due to a bed bug scare at Edie's school, class was cancelled with little notice. B went off to get her hair did, I strapped on the Mil and strapped Edie in to a stroller, and went to another parent's house for a playdate (good thing I had fresh knishes on hand to be sociable with!) Afterwards, the three of us did some light food shopping and strolled to a neighborhood friend of the Knishery to deliver some complimentary knishes in exchange for a sample of their family's favorite "mince" (cut up dried fruit reconstituted with juice and booze). In ER Park, Edie refused to sleep, but was able to take off her jacket, shoes, socks, clawed her way out of the straps and went for the cutest barefoot run along the river -- I had to chase after her and reshod her, while a sleeping baby was strapped to my chest. It was both annoying, fun, exciting, tiring and silly. Despite me being officially scolding, I could not be more proud of the happiness, energy, excitement and joy that my daughter exudes.

Picked up some slices on the way home, and after eating, whipped up a fancy dessert for a friend's kid's birthday party tomorrow. B came home, and we got on with it.


TODAY'S COOKING:
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake: A friend gave us a cheesecake in a collared pan last week, and we're going to their house tomorrow for their 3 yr old's party, so I thought it would be nice to return the pan, with something in it. Baked a simple chocolate flourless cake and froze it. Made a batch of mint ice cream, steeped 2 bunches of mint for an hour before cookingin the eggs. Added a few drops of green food coloring simply because this is a kid's party and, well, mint ice cream should be weirdly green at a kid's party. Did that in the early afternoon. In the evening churned the ice cream, added some chocolate chips and poured over the cake in the pan to set in the freezer over night.


AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea

AM SNACK: 10:30-11:30am, handful of cookies

LUNCH: 2:30pm, 2 slices streetza, large green salad, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6:30pm, spinach knish, fried potato knish, health salad, pickles, 3 chicken nuggets, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 7:30pm, mint chocolate chip ice cream, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Dough Boy, I am, I am.

228.2--->231.0

No surprise on the weight gain -- since the baby came on the 10th, I have not ridden a bike (other than for transportation), have not lifted any weights (other than an 8 lb baby and a 30 lb toddler on occasion) and have been eating quite poorly, in large quantities. But the I suspect the tide is turning.

Two things exciting on the knish front today: one, this was published, and two, I made a round of experimental deep-fried knishes that were much better right off the bat than I expected them to be. More importantly, I made filling for, and cooked off, about 72 knishes while dealing with an infant who needed constant feeding, burping, touching and the occasional put-down for sleep, and it went ok, except for maybe a Baby Bjorn that ended up covered in flour.

TODAY'S COOKING
Spinach Knishes & NY Style Knishes: I had left over dough to use up from the Thanksgiving knishes, so made nice batch of spinach/potato filling -- if I'm going to eat knishes AND be healthy, a knish with more than 1/3 very nutrition-dense greenery seems smarter than, say, a chicken skin knish. But looking ahead to the future, took a crack at the square 'Gabila' style fried knish, the kind that used to be sold at all hot dog carts (and you can still find them on occasion.) I used the same dough, the same plain potato filling, just wrapped it totally and in a square. Used hot oil - 450, because it didn't need to cook through, just needed to crisp the dough -- hotter and shorter fry means less oil is absorbed. On the first bite I knew that this was special. Hmmmm. How American of me.

AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea

LUNCH: 1pm, 2 spinach knishes, large green salad, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


AFTERNOON SNACK: 4:30pm, 3/4 NY style knish, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 7:30pm, sushi, shumai, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
After cooking all day, needed to order in. Few things more fun than having your 2.5 year old daughter sample sushi and shumai for the first time. Fortunately, I was paying attention when she was about to put the little green ball of wasabi in her mouth, and prevented a night's worth of misery on every one's part.

Feeling Lardy

Food shopping after Edie delivered to school. Taught pizza at school in the afternoon. Feeling lardy, took a solid step back to healthier eating today. Now have to magically find the time and energy to start lifting weights again.


TODAY'S COOKING
Health Salad: Got to get some healthier eating back on line, craving vegetables. Made the big green salad, also made a big bowl of cabbage slaw, haven't done this in too long -- and now it's season appropriate!

AM SNACK: 8am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 10am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1pm, breaded tilapia fillet, health salad, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

SCHOOL FOOD: 3-7pm, various bits of pizza, lemon aide, a few oreos, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10pm, graham crackers, pretzels,.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

More juggling

Had a rough night with GI tract issues, fortunately B took care of things in the morning and I was able to sleep until 11:15am -- with out which I would have probably been groggy, sick and achy. Spent the early afternoon looking after Mil and watching TV while B got her sleep in, then picked up Edie with Mil and took them to a playroom while it rained out. It was a bit of a juggling act, and only was able to keep it contained for about 30 minutes before we had to head home.


BREAKFAST: 11:30am, iced green tea, chocolate covered espresso beans, toasted bagel & cream cheese, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

LINNER: 4:30pm, meat tortellini with a little sauce & grated cheese, cheesecake, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DNACK: 9pm, 2 slices of frozen pizza, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Good intentions turn to cheese cake

Ate extremely poorly today, due to the chaos of figuring out the 2-kid thing, running out of salad and fresh veg at home, the building lack of exercise and lack of sleep. I originally intended to go out biking today due to good weather but just felt to run down and fuzzy after dropping Edie at school. Didn't eat much, but when the 4 of us were out on the town, had a meal of greasy pizza with a fig leaf of salad on it. Intended to have a good dinner, but between a lack of fresh produce and a cheesecake from a friend showing up, that was derailed. I was up late with stomach issues....

Soon, I must get back on the weight lifting thing, and fill the fridge with some fruit and veg...

AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea, small handful of chocolate covered espresso beans

PM SNACK: 2pm, potato chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 3:30pm, 2 slices of pizza, green salad, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 7pm, cheesecake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Juggling

Woke up groggy, got Edie out in the morning, went to the local diner, then took off to DUMBO on bike to hang out with K for a couple of hours. Edie fell asleep on the ride over and had an early nap, and on the way home picked up a lunch at my favorite cheapy dumpling house in Chinatown. The afternoon saw a low key family outing to the local park, and the evening saw a lot of juggling getting various little ones fed and to sleep. Not tiresome, but tired.

AM SNACK: 9:30am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 10:45am, corn muffin, bacon, diet coke, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 2pm, shrimp fried rice, pork dumplings, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 9pm, french fries, pickle, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

A long, intense, good, life-loving day.

A busy but good day. The morning and early afternoon was taken with food shopping and laundry while juggling Edie, Mil and a very tired B, immediately followed by taking Edie out on the bike to ER park: not to ride, but to lull her into an afternoon nap. Once she konks out, I stop, remove her helmet and make her comfy (in a sleeping bag that attaches to the seat, hood up, bike on stand tilted back a little) and read until she wakes in 45 to an hour - a little pool of quiet much appreciated.

This is the second day I tried this format -- Edie has been resisting naps outside of school -- and it works like a charm, the LES equivalent of a parent jumping in a car with their toddler to get 'em to sleep. I only hope when she's older she'll get excited about going out for a ride and not just associate it with falling asleep, he he.

In the afternoon, D came over, visiting from the other coast, and after playing with the kids and wife, we went out to meet E, then walked across Central Park to Telepan, a good restaurant of a chef who I saw lecture while in c-school. The room was beautiful, very NYC 2011, nice to be able to sit for 2.5 hours with good friends and talk -- something you can't do at a crowded joint where they need to flip your table ASAP. Most of the food was on point, but a pasta middle course was surprisingly unspecial -- and at this level, everything is expected to be a minimum of special. But regardless, a great night out, makes me want to cook good food for my family.

AM SNACK: 9am, iced green tea

LUNCH: 11am, green salad, potato chips, breaded shrimp, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 4pm, potato chips, chorizo, grenadine soda, handful of chocolate covered espresso beans, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
D brought an amazing chorizo as a gift, what an incredibly tasty snack. I may have to find some of this in NYC to have on hand .



DINNER: 6:30pm, smoked trout on a blini, spaghetti bolognese with a little lobster, pork with kraut & potato, variety of desserts, bread, 1 beer, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

A Bad Knish

Walked over to Wholefoods with Baby Mil to pick up some ingredients -- who the hell buys a Xmas tree the day after Thanksgiving? Won't it be dead in a month's time? B's fam came over in the afternoon, and I made them the BEST grilled cheese sandwiches in the world, and made a sheet cake (specifically requested) for B's mom's birthday.

TODAY'S COOKING
Vanilla sheet cake w/buttercream icing: Used this recipe, but in a 9 x13 glass pan, and upped the vanilla substantially. Teaspoon of quadruple strength extract, scrapings of 3 beans AND 2 cups of vanilla sugar. Made it for B's momma, whose birthday was recently

Grilled Cheese: B's family was over, and I'm just tired of ALWAYS ordering in when they're here. Grill pan and press, nice 7 grain bread, raclette and sharp cheddar, maple bacon, freshly sliced tomato, some caramelized onion from my stash, lubricated with brown butter. Real grilled cheese, not for the faint of heart.

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, iced green tea, onion bagel with cream cheese, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 11am, potato knish, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
This is the first time I've eaten a Yonah Shimmel knish since starting to cook and sell my own. Can't really write about this on my business blog, or I'd sound like a snivelling lil' bitch. The good: It's impressively large for $3.50. A nice hint of black pepper. And, ummm, thats about it. The bad: Underseasoned, practically no onion flavor, a limp and unsubstantial crust overwhelmed by the filling, a big mouthful of uninspired mashed potatoes. Fneh.


AM SNACK: 11:30am, chocolate cupcake, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Despite knowing I was going home to make cake, the journey to Wholefoods with Milli Mil strapped to me deserved a stop at Sunshine bakery. I got an all-chocolate one, which is substantially different than the all vanilla cake I was making later!

LUNCH: 3pm, grilled cheese with bacon & tomato, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 7pm, pasta a la Noah, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Boiled up some rotini, the last 3 minutes threw in some diced raw shrimp to give everything a shrimpy flavor. Once drained, sauteed fresh garlic, chopped tomato, oregano and a dash of cayenne. Mixed together, topped with a large grating of parm.

Thankseating

Betsy woke me up luxuriously late. By 11 me n' Edie were on the big bike to Central Park. By the time we got there, Edie was comfortably napping so we sat in the Poet's Walk while watching the tourists, reminiscing about my dad and I sitting there, and making phone calls. Edie ate her lunch while sitting on my lap in a playground  across from Mt. Sinai, then we went to B's Aunt S on the UES for Thanksgiving lunch -- lunch instead of dinner, due to all the senior citizens and babies involved. Most of the food was ordered in, but someone brought some glorious mashed potatoes, and I brought some pumpkin knishes and some local pickles.

It was a nice affair, but I look forward someday to hosting a family thanksgiving in my own home, just like my parents did and gave me such wonderful, warm feelings of family. That I really hope to be able to pass along to my children.

E & I left around 4:30 by bike to catch the last of the sun, and we went down Central Park and Broadway to Times Square -- the first time Edie really saw Times Square in full throttle. It was pretty groovy.

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, fruit smoothie, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 2:30pm, turkey &gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, string beans, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 5:30pm, graham crackers & nutella, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 8:30pm, frozen pizza, large green salad, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Chinese memories

Woke at 5am, got to school by bike by 7. From 7 to 1pm, cooking, reheating, prepping, preparing with a handful of students. We actually got all the food on the tables by 12:45, and while they ate I plated about 100 slices of cheesecake. Some food was more popular than other, but over all the feedback was positive.

Got home by 3, took Edie out to a playroom and picked up Chinese food on the way home. I remember coming to this joint many times with my father -- my parents did not believe in wasting money on "free" delivery because the place was only a 5 minute walk away. My mom would call in the order, my dad and I would walk down and pick up, and when we arrived back my mom would have already set the table.  Waiting there with Edie, it made me remember what it was like to be there with my dad. It was nice.


AM SNACK: 5:30am, iced green tea


AM SNACK: 8am, brownies, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


SCHOOL SNACKING, 11am-2pm, little bites of turkey, cheese cake, stuffing, mac n' cheese, string beans, salad, lemon aide, fruit punch, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 5:45pm, beef lomein, shrimp toast, wonton soup, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Cooking for 200

Rush to get chores done in the morning, afternoon and evening teaching, with a lot of food made for the Thanksgiving lunch we're serving to 200 the next day.

AM SNACK: 8am, iced green tea


LUNCH: 11:15am, hot dog with onions, handful of pumpernickel pretzels, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SCHOOL SNACK: 6pm, scoop of mac n' cheese, small slice of cheese cake, lemon aide, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 9pm, large green salad, baked french fries, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Adventures with Mil

The day hinged around taking Mil to the doc for a 1 week check up. B slept, and I strapped him on in a Baby Bjorn, and we took the bus to the Union Square Farmer's Market & Holiday thing. We walked, he slept, I hugged, it was nice. He's put on a good amount of weight, a pound. Edie is getting harder and harder to pick up, solidly built, getting taller, but Mil is light as a feather for now. Got home by bus, but took a nice walk-about down Grand Street. Picked up Edie, got the food shopping done. Cooked up 15 lbs of onions for future knishing, just to have it on hand.

AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 9am, toasted everything bagel with cream cheese, grenadine soda, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 2pm, Stouffers french bread pizzas, slice of mousse cake, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 7pm, chicken nuggets & kasha varnishkes, large green salad, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

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