What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: Tuna sandwich on fresh-baked seed buns
Afternoon snack: Cookies purchased from Eliza and Amelia’s roadside cookie stand
Dinner: Gorgonzola-stuffed burgers on caraway-seed bun. Alongside roasted potatoes.
Breakfast: Chocolate-Chocolate Chip pancakes from The Joy of Cooking. Except that I only added the egg yolks because I mis-read the recipe and had already thrown out the whites. Frankly, this whole separating eggs for breakfast food is bullshit. Seriously. Maybe it makes whatever you’re make a bit fluffier. Maybe it gets you props around America’s Test Kitchen. But for the rest of us, it gets an extra bowl or two dirty, it takes time, and it really doesn’t change the outcome much. I not only didn’t separate them, I threw the whites away, and the pancakes were pretty good.
Lunch: Turkey sandwich with salami and guacamole
Afternoon snack: More of that experimental doughnut thing
Dinner: Leftover pasta
Dessert: More of that experimental doughnut thing
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover pulled pork
Afternoon snack: The usual. Some candy and a Coke Zero.
Dinner: Pasta with lemon and artichoke hearts from “I wish I Could Eat Pasta Every Night”
Dessert: Experimental custard filled donut cake. The Bismarck. Color me Happy.
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover pulled pork.
Afternoon snack: A chocolate chip cookie from Modern. With a Coke Zero.
Dinner: Adele’s chicken apple sausage and rice.
Dessert: Strawberries
Breakfast: Forgot
Lunch: Molcajete (1734 Webster st. Oakland, CA). Great Mexican food. Much more than a quick burrito, this was quite impressively flavorful. That sort of deep flavor where several chews into a bit you realize there is the hint of another spice you didn’t notice earlier. The burrito was small, but incredible. I was a bit surprised how full I got, actually…
Afternoon snack: Dulce de Leche cake, thanks to Eve. This was one of those delectable bombs that, combined with a burrito, made me mighty sleepy.
Dinner: Very small spinach salad. See above.
Dessert: Salted caramel cupcake from the Virginia Bakery. Leftover from the last girl scout meeting.
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover pulled pork
Afternoon snack: A few minty M&M’s. Coke Zero
Dinner: Leftover pulled pork.
Dessert: Leftover apple pie and strawberry ice cream
(Memorial Day)
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: Rubio’s. We had a mess in the kitchen already and had to go to the store. Not the best burrito in the world, but fills one up.
Dinner: Pulled pork, sweet potato rolls, coleslaw. Felt like old times. First BBQ of the year in the new backyard.
Dessert: Hand churned buttermilk strawberry ice cream. The recipe was from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. Honestly, I was undewhelmed. The recipe called for a certain amount of berries, but then, it turns out, you weren’t supposed to add them all to the ingredients, they were just there to make the pan full while roasting. I have a lot of different sized pans, so that seemed weird. Soldiering on, I just dumped them all into the ice cream. True, it did harden up a lot, which is probably what she was trying to avoid. It still didn’t have a very intense strawberry flavor. I’d never make a buttermilk ice cream again, either; it does, indeed, give it an interesting flavor. In fact, it tastes a lot like Fro-yo. Which sort of tastes like not-as good as ice cream.
Breakfast: Donut (from All Star Donuts). Also a Jamba juice because Tessa had a gift certificate she got from bike-to-school day. In which honor we rode our bikes there.
Lunch: Kinda still feeling the donuts, frankly.
Afternoon snack: A little hummus on bread. Donut still present and accounted for.
Dinner: Chicken ceasar salad from Pyramid brewery. Pretty decent salad. I also had Curve Ball cold conditioned ale, which is a perfect summer beer.
Dessert: Apple pie that Eliza made all by herself.
Breakfast: Waffles. Eliza made them.
Lunch: Split a BBQ beef sandwich at Costco
Dinner: We picked up a flank steak at Costco. Sometimes, those tasters clue you in to something good!
Dessert: Chocolate chip cookies. The girls asked at just the right time and we decided to whip up a batch. Followed the King Arthur Flour recipe, which is my new favorite.
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: Turkey sandwich
Afternoon snack: Some mint M&M’s and those little Dove squares. Coke Zero
Dinner: Pho from some place in Berkeley that our friends brought to the park.
Dessert: Apricot pie. Long story. Some friend of Suzanne’s mom cans pie filling every year. It was pretty amazing.