WEDNESDAY I ATE:
Breakfast: Chocolate croissant from Bittersweet
Lunch: Turkey sandwich
Afternoon snack: Peanut butter M&M’s with regualar M&M’s as a mixer
Dinner: Homemade Pizza
5.19.2014 | TI8
MONDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: Roast turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce from the Fat Cat Cafe. Awesome find! It reminds me of this lunch counter called Karlen’s Deli that used to be in the liquor store near my lab. Fresh roast turkey, soft roll, nice proprietor. I’ll be back.
Dinner: Ramen soup
Dessert: Ice cream.
5.18.2014 | TI8
SUNDAY I ATE:
Breakfast: Shredded Wheat and grapefruit juice.
Lunch: Sandwich
Afternoon snack: Appetizers at neighbor’s birthday party
Dinner: Leftover pasta
5.17.2014 | TI8
SATURDAY I ATE:
Breakfast: Forgot
Morning snack: Red Cheese.
Lunch: Chipotle
Afternoon snack: Frappuccino. I love these things. I try to eat them only while traveling, but technically, I was an hour from home, so maybe it counts?
Dinner: Open face beef brisket sandwich at Palo Alto Creamery. Plus a chocolate shake. Fantastic on both counts.
Dessert: Dear god, man! I had a Frappuccino and chocolate shake! What do you take me for?
5.16.2014 | TI8
FRIDAY I ATE:
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: Don’t recall, actually
Dinner: Ate at Elevation 66, a nearby brewpub. The food here is really good. We shared the flatiron steak and a salad. Also tried the burger and the Mac & Cheese. The Mac, was good, although the noodles were a little overcooked. The beer was tasty, too. Only downside is that this place can be really noisy.
Dessert: Apple pie. Eliza announced she wanted to make one this morning.
5.15.2014 | TI8
Breakfast (I): Grapenuts with cranberry juice.
Breakfast (II): A cold doughnut from Doughnut Dolly. I don’t really know how this happened, I just walked into work and said “Here” and handed me a soft little white bag. Normally, of course, leftover doughnuts are just lame, but Doughnut Dolly are such great pastries that they don’t turn into a rigid mess after a day.
Lunch: Turkey sandwich.
Afternoon snack: Just a couple of Hershy’s kisses. And maybe a York or two. Coke Zero.
Dinner: A delicious spaghetti bolognaise that Suzanne invented. Really sweet with lots of carrots along with the beef and sausage.
Dessert: Leftover homemade vanilla ice cream. With some hot fudge. Um… after the kids went to bed because there really wasn’t enough for more than two servings. I feel slightly guilty about this.
5.12.2014 | TI8
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover Zachary’s Pizza. I seriously can’t decide whether it is better warm or cold. What do you think?
Dinner: Southwestern steak tacos with chopped charred summer vegetables. This was out of Sarah Foster’s Casual Cooking. The steak was supposed to be grilled, but it seems that the BBQ was out of gas… you know how it goes. Pan fried steak makes a good taco, too. The spicy Cilantro-lime sour cream (recipe in Casual Cooking) was awesome.
Dessert: Blond brownies.
5.11.2014 | TI8
Breakfast: Donuts. From All Star Donuts in El Cerrito. Of all the donut shops in the area, this one is my favorite. The donuts are pretty good, but the staff is so nice that it just feels good to stop in. Today was Mother’s Day, so what better way to celebrate than by getting the kids out of the house.
Lunch: Mother’s Day brunch with three generations of mothers. Chicken saltimbocca with asparagus and rice. Plus pavlova for dessert.
Dinner: Zachary’s Pizza. We had Alison, Jason, and Sam over, and it was just too much to make it back from lunch and cook dinner. Besides, Zachary’s is just awesome. Ordered large ones, so there will be leftovers for lunch all week. First dinner with friends at the new picnic table.
Dessert: Blond brownies.
5.10.2014 | TI8
SATURDAY I ATE:
Breakfast: Forgot
Mid-morning snack: Birthday cake at another kid’s party. It was pretty good, but three different birthday treats right before lunch did put the whole stomach schedule out of whack!
Lunch: Leftover pork tenderloin sandwich. With Jarlsberg cheese and a some jalapeno/cilantro hummus. Frankly, three great tastes better kept separate, but I was so damn hungry I thought I was on to something.
Afternoon snack: Nothing. Well, there was one See’s candy, but that was just a free sample, so it didn’t really count.
Dinner: More leftover roasted maple-glazed pork tenderloin. This time with glazed carrots. We’d thrown out the sauce for the pork, but the glaze from the carrots was so sweet, it worked perfectly. Over rice, which was a bit dry, but would have been perfect with more carrot glaze.
Dessert: Root beer floats. We didn’t mean to have dessert tonight, but Eliza had a friend over who had never had a root beer float… can you imagine? Then we ran out of vanilla ice cream and all we had was Caramel Peanut-butter-cup swirl. I decided that root beer floats with peanut butter ice cream is about as anti-European as it is possible to get. Frankly, they might have a point on this one. The actual peanut butter and root beer flavor was OK, but the chocolate shell of the peanut butter cup mixed with root beer was just flat-out weird.
5.6.2014 | TI8
TUESDAY I ATE:
Breakfast: Forgot. Damn, that’s why I’m so hungry.
Lunch: Fried chicken sandwich from Bittersweet Cafe. I’ve been eyeing this sandwich for weeks, but always forget about it when I’m hungry. It was good, but I’m not sure I’ll go back. The lemon-mayo was good, but it suffers from a problem that bugs me about lots of sandwich rolls — too much crust. Not that I object to crust (isn’t that where all the nutrients are?), but if it’s hard, then when you bite it, out squishes the fried chicken. So I’ll stick to Bittersweet for the world’s best hot chocolate.
Afternoon snack: Chocolate-chip cookie from Bittersweet.
Dinner: Leftover chicken, pasta with pesto, zucchini moons with gorgonzola.
Dessert : Leftover birthday cake.