What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Eclair shell with cream cheese and jam. New and different and awesome!
Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwich. Buffalo Bleu chips.
Afternoon snack: TJ’s peppermints. Iced tea
Dinner: Experimental ham pot pie. Woah! Good!
Dessert: Some peppermints and Easter candy
Breakfast: skipped
Lunch: Ham sandwich
Afternoon snack: Frapuccino + Iced tea + TJ’s peppermints
Dinner: Ham, scalloped potatoes, green beans, applesauce
Dessert:
Breakfast: Tessa made hash browns
Lunch: Ham&Cheese eclairs. We had spare eclair shells and this HoneyBaked ham. Cheddar cheese. Some honey mustard. Arugula. Chopped the meat and cheese, then baked in oven for 5 minutes
Afternoon snack: Chocolate cookies. Iced tea. Some of those little peppermints from TJ’s
Dinner: Honeybaked ham! With scalloped potatoes and green beans. An O’Donnell favorite that Grandpa John decided to send to everyone. What’s funny is that I always liked Honeybaked, but kind of thought that spiral sliced hams were all pretty good. Had one at Easter from Whole Foods and it was delicious. But then I started eating this one and realized that Honeybaked is really in a class by itself. For one thing, they are truly sliced to the bone, so you get to enjoy all the meat. Plus, the honey glaze is amazing, and this one seemed cooked to a more tender consistency. Awesome!
Dessert: Vanilla cream pie.
Breakfast: half a bagel. Our favorite doughnut shop (All Star Donuts in El Cerrito Plaza re-opened and we went to show our support)
Lunch: Steak sandwich with leftover tri-tip. Gruyere cheese, horseradish.
Afternoon snack: Eliza’s chocolate cookies. Iced tea
Dinner: Tri-tip burritos with rice and beans
Dessert: Eclairs!
Breakfast: Lemon scone
Lunch: Carnitas burrito… fried up some leftover pulled pork. Amazing.
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chips. Iced tea
Dinner: Spaghetti carbonara with fresh pasta
Dessert: Eliza made some chocolate cookies
Breakfast: Scone
Lunch: Tri tip sandwich with blue cheese, arugula, and horseradish. Amazing. Wish I’d had a ciabatta roll, but some Buffalo Bleu chips were good.
Afternoon snack: Scraps from the Swiss Roll cake for Eliza’s birthday. The buttercream was so good, and even better with ganache. Iced tea.
Dinner: Dumplings! Eliza’s favorite dinner
Dessert: More of that amazing Swiss Roll cake
Breakfast: Scone
Lunch: Carnitas tacos. Took some of the pulled pork and fried it up. Added onions, cabbage, cheese, and pepper sauce. Amazing.
Afternoon snack: Ghirardelli chocolate squares. Iced tea.
Dinner: Tri Tip sous vide. Followed the APL recipe for seasoning, then cooked for 3 hours at 135F. Added honey glaze and put it on the hot grill, then used torch to caramelize the glaze. Totally awesome. Had with Rosemary sweet potatoes and asparagus.
Dessert: Midnight snack of Eliza’s mini birthday cake
Breakfast: Granola and yogurt
Lunch: Leftover pulled pork sandwich
Afternoon snack: Ghirardelli chocolate squares. Iced tea
Dinner: Chicken Saltimbocca
Dessert: Honey candy Eliza made. Also strawberries with some leftover hot fudge
Breakfast: Lemon scone and the last of the H&D pears
Lunch: Oooh… went out for a burrito from Casa Latina. I’ve been craving a burrito for a while now. Split a chicken chili verde and it was soooo good.
Afternoon snack: Chocolate-peppermint milkshake from Palo Alto Cremery. Drove down to Palo Alto to pick up some toilet paper from Grandpa John (he gets to shop at Costco during senior hours)
Dinner: Leftover pulled pork sandwiches
Dessert: A Micky Bar. For some crazy reason, they were selling them at Berkeley Bowl last week. Supposedly a limited edition from Nestle. Not exactly as good as the real thing in the park, but pretty awesome.
All told, an amazing day of dishing.
Breakfast: made a fresh back of lemon scones
Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Buffalo Bleu chips
Afternoon snack: chocolate chip shortbread cookies. I’ve yes
Dinner: pulled pork. Made a new batch with sous vide followed by smoke. It worked much better.. I put the smoke packet below the grate and got much more smoke flavor
Dessert: chocolate chip shortbread cookies