What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice
Lunch: Turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce
Afternoon snack:A few little chocolate mints. Coke zero.
Dinner: Chicken biryani. Along with yogurt sauce, homemade naan, and salad
Dessert: An experimental lime curd tart. This turned out to be a whole lot like a lemon meringue pie. I like the lime flavor better, but the meringue was pretty goopy.
Breakfast: Pancakes (Joy of Cooking recipe)
Lunch: Turkey sandwich. Followed by oatmeal skillet cookie in honor of Kevin Weng visit.
Afternoon snack:Diet Coke
Dinner: Ramen with turkey
Dessert: More oatmeal skillet cookie
Lunch: Costco hot dog
Afternoon snack:Cookie dough. We got home from Costco and Eliza announced she wanted to do a baking project. So she went into the kitchen and looked up one of Suzanne’s recipes for a Cookie Dough Tart. She came out to the backyard with a bowl full of cookie dough which occupied our afternoon.
Dinner: Leftover chicken byriani
Dessert: A Sharffen-Berger chocolate bar santa left in my stocking. Good choice, Mr. Claus.
Breakfast: Pineapple (been sitting around for a week and finally got ripe)
Morning Snack: Chocolate-covered jellied raspberry things. Also some chocolate santas. Went to the hardware store looking for cheap christmas lights, but all they had at 75% off was leftover candy.
Lunch: Turkey sandwich
Afternoon snack:Mocha fredo at Peet’s
Dinner: Chicken and beef kabobs at Citra Grill in Walnut Creek. This place is right across from the movie theater and has sort of general middle eastern food. Very tasty kabobs, and cooked just right. The salmon was also delicious. Service was a bit spotty. Tried to be very helpful, but then took 30 minutes for an extra kabob.
Breakfast: Oatmeal, brown sugar, and the last Royal Riviera pear of the season. Say it ain’t so.
Lunch: Split a chicken burrito at Rubio’s
Dinner: Chicken biryani with cilantro yogurt sauce. Plus a salad
Dessert: See’s candy
Breakfast: Oatmeal with brown sugar
Morning Snack: Carrots and celery
Lunch: Christmas lunch. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, rolls, green beans. Then filled up the plate and did it again.
Afternoon snack:Apple pie pumpkin pie. Also a mint-chocolate cupcake with mint frosting that Tessa made because she doesn’t like pie
Dinner: Turkey sandwich with stuffing and cranberries
Dessert: See’s candy
Breakfast: Oatmeal with brown sugar. Non-Royal Riviera pear, which wasn’t worth the effort
Morning Snack:
Lunch: Turkey sandwich with hummus
Dinner: Beef tenderloin with prosciutto
Dessert: Chocolate fondue
Breakfast: Oatmeal with brown sugar
Lunch: Turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce
Afternoon snack:Cocoa, tea & poppy seed cookies
Dinner: Ceasar salad and Petrole sole at Hayes Street Grill before The Nutcracker
Dessert: Hot fudge sundae
Breakfast: Oatmeal with brown sugar
Lunch: Turkey sandwich with cheddar cheese, cranberry jelly, hot pepper jelly, sourdough bread
Afternoon snack:Hot cocoa (the ridiculously rich recipe from Seriously Bittersweet
Dinner: Turkey with sort-of buere blanc sauce. We were out of white wine, so Suzanne used mirin, which gave it a really interesting vinegar taste. Also green beans, rice, and cranberry jelly.
Dessert: Experimental espresso brownies
Breakfast: Royal Riviera pear. I seriously love these Harry & David pears; they are one of my favorite things about the holiday season.
Lunch: Turkey sandwich. Costco has pre-cooked whole turkey breasts, which make for a much better sandwich than deli-sliced meat. On sourdough bread with brie and pepper jelly + cranberry jelly. A little weird, maybe, but I enjoyed it.
Afternoon snack:Some candy snacking while helping with gingerbread fun.
Dinner: Prosciutto chicken with sage.
Dessert: See’s candy and the experimental espresso brownies.