What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover noodle cake
Afternoon snack: A brownie from the cafe in my new building. Pretty tasty, though the ganache was a bit waxy. Also: Coke zero
Dinner: Pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes, green salad
Dessert: Pavlova and leftover apple pie
Breakfast: Flatbread with peanut butter and honey
Lunch: Carnitas burrito from Gordo
Afternoon snack: Coke Zero
Dinner: Noodle cake and asparagus
Dessert: Apple pie with ice cream. Thanks, Eliza!
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Coffee snacks for my first day working at UC Berkeley… Bagels with cream cheese, plus coffee cake
Lunch: Had a turkey and avocado sandwich from The Stuffed Inn in Berkeley. Sadly, there is something structurally wrong with this sandwich on a French roll… I can’t figure out how to bite it without all the stuffing just squirting out the side
Afternoon snack: Coke Zero
Dinner: Chicken with yogurt mint sauce and homemade flatbread.
Dessert: A little thin mint ice cream
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: A cookie, just to be sure that they were suitable for a lemonade stand
Lunch: Leftover Zacchary’s pizza
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chip cookies and lemonade. Also loose chocolate chips and Coke Zero
Dinner: Leftover pork pie and cucumbers
Dessert: A last bit of cookie
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Salted peanuts and a few pieces of cheese
Lunch: Ham sandwich with avocado
Afternoon snack: Gelato from Zia’s in El Dorado Hills. I had a Blackberry Lemonade / Dark chocolate-cherry. A really fabulous combination. Also, iced tea.
Dinner: Family style Chinese food at Great Wall in Lafayette. OK, but definitely uninspired… could use a lot more spice and even flavor.
Dessert: See’s Candy
Breakfast: Pancakes, bacon. The pancakes were some experimental lemon ones… very delicious, but maple syrup was all wrong
Lunch: Leftover Zachary’s pizza
Afternoon snack: Split a mocha thing from Peet’s with Tessa, which meant that I had to get decaf. Still, pretty good idea, since I didn’t need it all
Dinner: Experimental pork and apple pie. Really delicious, though it needed an extra flavor… maybe wine? or sage? Suzanne was going to look at the stuffed pork chops recipe and see what flavors those include
Dessert: Leftover chocolate cherry cake
Morning Snack: Flatbread with hummus
Lunch: Flatbread wrap with pre-cooked steak from TJ’s, gorgonzola, hummus. Leftover cupcakes from the 5th grade graduation yesterday. Not that we have 5th grader, but somehow we got roped into helping with 5th grade graduation and got a stack of cupcakes in exchange
Afternoon snack: Cupcake. These things are really gross, with bright blue frosting, but we have lots
Dinner: Zacchary’s pizza, green salad
Dessert: Experimental chocolate cherry cake
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning snack: Sweet potato roll with honey
Lunch: Leftover taco stuff
Afternoon snack: Chips and cupcakes at last day of school party. Coke zero
Dinner: Barney’s. Split a western burger, green salad, and curly fries. Also split a milkshake. Even split, it was a lot of food
Dessert: I’ll call the milkshake from dinner my dessert
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Went to Bissap Baobab in Oakland for my farewell lunch… had a mafe chicken wrap. Very tasty
Afternoon snack: Cookies from Aroma. Coke zero
Dinner: Adele sausage, roasted sweet potatoes, green salad
Dessert: Leftover birthday cake
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice. Also, 1 slice of bacon that we made for Eliza’s class party
Morning Snack: Hot tea
Lunch: Leftover chicken byriani with experimental flatbread
Afternoon snack: Hot cocoa from Bittersweet. Last chance while working in downtown Oakland
Dinner: Leftover chicken byriani with experimental flatbread
Dessert: Frozen custard from Lexie’s food truck