SATURDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 2 strawberries
Lunch: Leftover pizza
Afternoon snack: Some Halloween candy
Dinner: Chinese chicken salad at California Pizza Kitchen
Dessert: Popcorn and Junior Mints at movies
10.31.2014 | TI8
FRIDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 2 strawberries
Lunch: ham and cheddar sandwich
Afternoon snack: just a ludicrous amount of ice cream, some homemade, some from a crazy-good ice cream place, with hot fudge and caramel sauce. Office party awesomeness
Dinner: pizza with cherries, garlic, and gorgonzola
Dessert: too much Halloween candy. But serving 150 trick or treaters works up an appetite
10.30.2014 | TI8
THURSDAY I ATE
Morning Snack: orange juice and a banana
Lunch: Turkey and bacon sandwich. Also an apple
Afternoon snack: Mocha Freedo at Peete’s
Dinner: Ramen
Dessert: Ice cream… only because I had to test out the hot fudge I made for tomorrow’s party
10.29.2014 | TI8
WEDNESDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, and 3 strawberries. Definitely rotting as fast as they ripen now, so need to pick them a bit green.
Lunch: Ham sandwich with hummus and cheddar cheese. Also some kettle chips
Afternoon snack: Coke zero, some M&Ms, also a salted apple cider caramel that someone brought in… apparently it’s a Smitten Kitchen recipe
Dinner: Noodle cake (noodles, Parmesan, bacon, mozzarella… would be way, way better with gorgonzolla), Ceasar salad.
Dessert: See’s candy
10.28.2014 | TI8
TUESDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 3 strawberries
Morning Snack: Bittersweet hot cocoa from Bittersweet
Lunch: Ham sandwich with swiss
Afternoon snack: Coke zero, Reese’s peanut butter cups
Dinner: Leftover stuffed pork chops
Dessert: Brownies
10.27.2014 | TI8
MONDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 2 strawberries
Lunch: Leftover chili and rice
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chip cookie from Bittersweet. This was an especially good batch
Dinner: Leftover stuffed pork, plus experimental Ceasar salad
Dessert: Experimental cardamom sweet potato pie with lime whipped cream
10.26.2014 | TI8
SUNDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Waffles, thanks Eliza and Tarn.
Morning Snack: Red cheese.
Lunch: Pork chile verde burrito at Picante
Dinner: Ceasar salad. Dad’s old recipe. Must write this down, probably on mankitchen.
Dessert: Some brownies that someone brought over.
10.25.2014 | TI8
SATURDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Pancakes. Thanks, Eliza (but clean up the kitchen next time, ‘K?)
Morning Snack: Chocolate chip cookie… you know, just so I had an excuse to sit in a coffee house and work.
Lunch: Hot dog at Costco
Dinner: Stuffed pork chops. Kato-Reillys and Patrick visiting. Sadly, I once again overcooked them. These are one of my favorite recipes, but the thin meat on each side of the stuffing is really hard to cook just right. Next time, I’ll try sous vide.
Dessert: experimental sweet potato pie with homemade marshmallows… still needs some flavor tweaking
10.24.2014 | TI8
FRIDADAY I ATE
Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, potato chips
Afternoon snack: Experimental chocolate chip cookie dough tart
Dinner: Pulled pork sandwich and fries from WhipOut food truck at the Oakland Museum
Dessert: Chocolate cream puff from Puff Truck at the Oakland Museum. Very tasty, but I think the vanilla cream one looked better
10.23.2014 | TI8
THURSDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, strawberries.
Lunch: Leftover rice and chili
Afternoon snack: A few wee candies
Dinner: Raviolis from Genova
Dessert: Experimenal chocolate chip cookie dough tart