What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 1 strawberry. Getting thin out in the berry patch
Lunch: Leftover risotto
Afternoon snack: Some candy. Coke zero.
Dinner: Ramen with some garden veggies.
Dessert: More of the peppermint patty tart. Life is good.
Breakfast: Custard filled chocolate doughnut from All Star Donuts
Morning Snack: A rib from T-rex BBQ in Berkleley. I happened to walk into a landscape supply store at just the right time.
Lunch: Hot dog from Costco
Afternoon snack: – safe to say, at this point in the day, I didn’t really need one
Dinner: Corn-tomato-basil risotto. This is one of my favorite dishes of all time, and when the tomatoes are fresh and homegrown, it’s hard to pass up. The original recipe is from Joy of Cooking, but I’ve changed it over the years.
Dessert: Experimental Peppermint Patty Tart. Plus some York Peppermint Patties and Junior Mints while shooting photos.
Breakfast: Eliza invented chocolate nib waffles. Let the world pause to write this day down in the annuls, ’cause they were damn good.
Lunch: Taco bar at friend’s wedding reception
Afternoon snack: Cake, brownies, and cookies at same
Dinner: Ahi, along with salad, avocado, egg, beans, bread.
Dessert: Princess cake.
Breakfast: Grapenuts, Cranberry juice, fresh strawberries
Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Afternoon snack: Ho ho ho! I brought in the experimental peppermint patty tart. Through a heroic effort, I kept secret until 1:30. And there was much rejoicing. There was also a bunch of dark chocolate that other people had busted out to make up for their disappointment.
Dinner: Pasta with fresh tomatoes and basil
Dessert: None. Can you believe that shit?
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, fresh strawberries. Bumper crop this morning
Lunch: Turkey cranberry sandwich from Fat Cat Cafe
Afternoon snack: Coke zero
Dinner: RiceAndBeansAndZucchiniAndCheeseAndFreshTomatoesFromTheGarden. All run together like that. Yummy. I mean, way, way better than it looks. Homegrown tomatoes cover a multitude of sins. Hell, if I called it “risotto” it’d look fancy.
Dessert: Dear, sweet, god this will be the day, forever known as “The Day The York Tart Was Invented.” This started from a conversation at work. We wanted Junior Mints. Someone suggested I get my wife to make a Junior Mint cake. Twitter hilarity ensued. Tonight, she did it. Next week, she’ll write about it. For the moment, we have cake.
Breakfast: Granola with cranberry juice and fresh strawberry. Only one ripe one today
Lunch: Leftover lemon arugula pasta
Afternoon snack: Cookies leftover from someone else’s workshop. Plus some candy. And a Coke Zero
Dinner: Omelet with cheddar, prosciutto, leeks, and fresh tomato
Dessert: Chocolate soda with mint chip ice cream
Breakfast: Granola and cranberry juice. Only one strawberry ripe on the vine today
Lunch: Roast beef sandwich with hummus on Flourarrangements.org bread
Afternoon snack: Candy. And a Coke Zero. I swear, I had nothing to do with bringing it into work
Dinner: Lemon arugula pasta
Dessert: Experimental grape tart with marscarpone whipped cream
Location: Salem, OR
Breakfast: Cliff bar (found in my computer bag)
Morning Snack: Fruit at the meeting
Lunch: Ham and brie sandwich from Wild Pear Catering in Salem, OR. This was a great sandwich. The ham was just salty enough and very flavorful. The focaccia was just soft enough to bite without ruining the sandwich.
Afternoon snack: Frappucino
Dinner: Root beer float
Breakfast: Still feeling the cheeseburger, actually.
Morning Snack: Hummus
Lunch: Picnic sandwich at Kordness Park. Street slide awesomeness.
Afternoon snack: Gelato from Lush. First time going here, and it was pretty amazing. The flavors were interesting and the gelato was intensely creamy, with no iciness at all. The mint stracciatella was a little earthy (from real mint instead of extract) but some love it that way. The chocolate was amazing.
Dinner: Rice and beans
Breakfast: Pancakes. Eliza was at a sleepover, so Tessa got to chose.
Lunch: Pork chile verde burrito from Cactus
Dinner: Quite possibly the best burger I’ve ever had in my life. I have no idea what made this particular burger so good… I didn’t even have a hand in making it. I suspect, though, that it was just a confluence of good things. First of all, I think Ginny just buys really good meat from a real butcher. Lee Iacocca wrote in his biography about trying to get the secret to the world’s best burger out of Henry Ford’s personal chef. Eventually the guy showed him: he started by grinding up a USDA prime New York steak. I don’t think this was that good, but nice meat helps. Then there was the tomato. And boy howdy, but was it a tomato. Homegrown, ripe, juicy, 1/2 an inch thick and as big as the burger. Come to think of it, the meat may have been superfluous in this meal. Anyway, it was a damn good cheeseburger.
Dessert: Chocolate whiskey cake. The final version for flourarrangements.