What did you eat today?
SATURDAY I ATE:
Breakfast: Waffles, Eliza’s specialty.
Lunch: Chicken sandwich. In a hurry.
Afternoon snack: So much chocolate ganache from the birthday cake we’re eating tomorrow. I mean, seriously, have you ever thought about how much chocolate you can stick in your mouth just licking your fingers clean?
Dinner: Yummy Indian stew at friends’ house.
Dessert: Cinnamon chocolate cake with salted caramel frosting (combination of a Flour Arrangements experiment and proven winner)
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice and strawberries
Mid-morning snack: Apple
Lunch: Roast beef sandwich
Afternoon snack: Hummus from the Hummus Guy (awesome) and the world’s crappiest cookie (not awesome. Thanks to Ryan for both)
Dinner: Spaghetti carbonara from Ruth Reichl. Quick. Easy. Proven winner. Kinda needs a salad with it.
Dessert : experimental lemon shortbread cookies
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: ham sandwich
Afternoon snack: none
Dinner: spaghetti with zucchini and basil (from Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone)
Dessert : experimental lemon shortbread cookies
So much food while traveling to Disneyland.
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: leftover pizza
Mid-afternoon snack: Easter candy
Dinner: rice, beans, and cheese, chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel frosting
Breakfast: pancakes (The Joy of Cooking)
Lunch: ham, scalloped potatoes (Cooks Illustrated recipe), chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel frosting
Mid-afternoon snack: Easter candy and chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel frosting
Dinner: pasta and salad and watermelon (at friends’ house)
Breakfast: custard filled chocolate donut. (All Star Donuts)
Lunch: turkey sandwich with hummus.
Mid-afternoon snack: experimental salted caramel chocolate cupcake (look for them on Flour Arrangements)
Dinner: Ordered pizza from Albany Pizza Company (the chicken was really good).
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: leftover pizza
Mid-afternoon snack: M&M’s, chocolate Easter eggs, Coke Zero
Dinner: pork tenderloin with rice and artichokes (yeah, spring!), spinach salad
Dessert: strawberries with ice cream
Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice
Lunch: tacos from Cosecha in Oakland
Mid-afternoon snack: M&M’s, chocolate Easter eggs, Coke Zero
Dinner: homemade pizza with sun-dried tomato sauce
Dessert: experimental cupcakes… chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel frosting
This is one of our favorite recipes. It’s super easy if you whip up the marinade in the morning and then just leave it in the fridge all day. Then it just takes a few minutes on the BBQ. This was inspired by Sarah Foster’s Casual Cooking, a truly great cookbook. Her version, though, uses orange zest and juice. It turns out, I don’t like orange as a flavor. But since the recipe was nearly perfect in every other respect, we switched to lime which gave it an amazing, almost Jamaican jerk flavor. We often double the sauce to have extra. When tenderloins come in a pack of 2, freeze one in the marinade, and it’s ready to go as soon as it thaws.