What did you eat today?
Morning Snack: Peanut butter filled pretzels
Lunch: Leftover Mac&Cheese with some veggies on the side
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chip cookie, iced tea
Dinner: Beef chili with rice and cheese
Dessert: Coffee milkshake with ganache. Frankly, the ganache was a little over the top
Breakfast: Waffles with chocolate chips
Morning Snack: string cheese
Lunch: cheeseburger and fruits at Alvarado Brewery in Monterey. Really good burger. Fantastic fries
Afternoon snack: kettle chips with sour cream onion dip
Dinner: chicken with lime marinade, spaghetti with pesto, green beans, garlic bread, salad
Dessert: leftover raspberry chocolate cake
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: leftover Mac& cheese
Afternoon snack: coke zero
Dinner: pork tenderloin with sauteed tomatoes. Green salad
Dessert: experimental raspberry bundt cake
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Chicken and bacon sandwich with cheddar
Dinner: Mac&Cheese with gorgonzola and prosciutto
Dessert: Root beer float with mint chip ice cream
Dessert(2): Ice cream with ganache
Breakfast: Bagel with cream cheese, cranberry juice
Lunch: Carne al pastor burrito
Afternoon snack: Coke zero
Dinner: Helped eat some Costco pizza and BBQ beef sandwich
Dessert: Chocolate bark from Costco
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Chicken and bacon sandwich with hummus
Afternoon snack: Chocolate squares, some M&Ms, Coke Zero
Dinner: Rice and beans with experimental corn pancakes and cilantro lime sour cream
Dessert: Mint chip ice cream with leftover ganache
Breakfast: Homemade bagels with cream cheese. Also had half of one with peanut butter
Morning Snack: Half an apple
Lunch: Leftover noodle cake
Afternoon snack: Some chocolate squares. Coke Zero
Dinner: Thai food from Bua Luang in Albany. Panang beef was especially good. Also a Masman curry
Dessert: Coffee ice cream with some leftover ganache
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Roast beef and gorgonzolla sandwich
Afternoon snack: a few chips of chocolate, Coke Zero
Dinner: Noodle cake with bacon and bruschetta from Trader Joe’s, artichoke, green salad
Dessert: Ice cream with some leftover ganache on top
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: Hot tea, french toast
Morning Snack: Iced tea
Lunch: Ham and hummus pita wrap with carrots and cucumber
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chips, coke zero
Dinner: Perhaps my best iteration yet of the blue cheese stuffed burgers. We used a different type of blue cheese, from Trader Joe’s, rather than from Costco, which have different melting strategies. But the best part was cooking them sous vide. This really works a treat for stuffed burgers. The patties are so thin, that on the grill, they distort the shape a lot and often leak cheese. In the sous vide at 136F, they were perfectly cooked. Add in a brioche bun from TJ’s, some corn on the cob, and oven baked potatoes and they were amazing.
Dessert: An experimental cherry pie. It was OK, but too much booze (kirsch) gave it a weird sour flavor.
