What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Pancakes (Tessa made them)
Lunch: Roast beef, blue cheese, lettuce, and hummus on a pita
Dinner: Deep dish Mediterranean chicken pizza from Little Star. Their pizza is good, but still not as good as Zacchary’s. While others rave about the cornmeal crust, I think it is too crumbly
Dessert: Leftover cherry pie with ice cream. It was definitely better after a day for the flavors to mellow
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: A few small pastries (and a piece of pizza) at bike-to-work-day stations.
Lunch: Turkey cranberry sandwich from Cafe Gabriela in Oakland. It was pretty good, but small. I think the mayo was house-made; really tasty. I would order the sopressata sandwich next time, or the pulled pork. The trouble, though, is that they all are on a baguette, which means biting it will send the filling out the other side.
Afternoon snack: Cupcakes from Cupcake Love in Oakland. Brought in for someone’s birthday. Had little bites of each and all very tasty.
Dinner: Pork tenderloin, the backyard bbq recipe from Sarah Foster. Also some corn pancakes with a lime cilantro sour cream sauce. Amazing.
Dessert: Chocolate chip cookies with some ice cream.
Breakfast: Donuts from Rainbow donuts in Berkeley. This shop was pretty great: they had a good selection of interesting doughnuts… stuff like Oreo, Mint, M&M, alongside the classics. I have to say, though, that their custard filling was a little weak.
Morning Snack: Iced tea
Lunch: Turkey hummus pita wrap
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chip cookies and lemonade from the girls’ roving lemonade stand. There were a ton of garage sales, and they raised $50 to send to victims of the Nepal earthquake
Dinner: 2 cheeseburger meal from McDonald’s, just to bookend a day of healthy living. The girls had never eaten at Micky-D’s, and they read about Happy Meals in a book… mom was sick, it seemed a perfect opportunity. Frankly, they were underwhelmed. Tessa said the chicken nuggets tasted kind of fishy. Eliza said the burgers were better at Barney’s. Both were correct.
Dessert: Another chocolate chip cookie or two
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Flatbread sandwich with leftover sausage, grated carrots and hummus. Definitely not as good as the steak version from yesterday
Afternoon snack: Eliza’s birthday cake. Two layers of chocolate cake with a little bit of chambord in them. In between was a layer of raspberry frosting from the Flourarrangements raspberry cream tart. Eliza decorated it with fondant, and then there was an ice rink made of melted jolly ranchers. Eliza made the igloo out of mini marshmallows and royal icing
Dinner: Split chicken enchilladas and Picante
Dessert: Very full…
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice, 2 strawberries from the garden. Looks like it will be a good crop this year.
Lunch: A piece of leftover pizza and 1/2 a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Afternoon snack: Coke zero
Dinner: Half a western burger at Barney’s
Dessert: Chocolate eclaires in honor of the birthday girl
Breakfast: (Brunch, really). Reuben sandwich at Sam’s Log. Cabin in Albany. Pretty good reuben, though I think my corned beef is better. Iced tea.
Afternoon snack: A little smoked trout with Ritz crackers
Dinner: Pizza from Costco
Dessert: A York peppermint patty
Breakfast: Pancake
Lunch: Bacon cheeseburger and french fries at Lure + Till in Palo Alto. It was a delicious burger, with sharp cheddar and a nice bun. Diet Coke
Afternoon snack: A See’s candy. And a couple of gummy bears
Dinner: Leftover rice and chicken tikka Masala
Dessert: Coffee ice cream with hot fudge
Breakfast: Applesauce
Morning Snack: Applesauce
Lunch: Flatbread witht peanut butter
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chip cookies
Dinner: Crab cakes at Metro in Lafayette
Dessert: Tasted a warm chocolate cake and a butterscotch pot de creme at Metro. The pot de creme was amazing
Breakfast:
pancakes, eggs, bacon. tea
Morning Snack: strawberries and blueberries at the Santa Barbara farmers market
Lunch: split a bacon burger and fries at Pajaro Beach Grill. Diet coke
Afternoon snack: carrots and crackers and hummus and salsa and chips
Dinner: yummy, yummy pizza made in the cob oven. Sausage and sage and goat cheese might have been my favorite
Dessert: s’mores. Also strawberries dipped in marshmallow fluff and roasted
Breakfast: granola aquarium, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: an Apple. ’cause, you know, I’m healthy like that.
Lunch: oh, wait, I lied. Popeye’s fried chicken and biscuits. Kind of needed a shower afterwards, but damn it was good. Diet coke.
Afternoon snack: not really feeling the need.
Dinner: helped the girls eat their pizza and bbq beef brisket sandwich at Costco. Diet coke
Dessert: leftover kahlua chocolate cake. A little crumbly in the car, but still delicious road food.