What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Nibby pancakes. We are all about the nibs around here these days.
http://flourarrangements.org/2014/09/nibby-cinnamon-waffles/
Lunch: Leftover mac & cheese
Afternoon snack: Leftover s’mores tart. Coke zero
Dinner: Tomato bread salad.
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 3 or 4 strawberries… lots of them these days!
Lunch: Pork burrito from Rubio’s
Dinner: The ham & cheese stuffed chicken… along with tomato bread salad that was amazing with fresh tomatoes and fresh bread
Dessert: More nibby shortbread.
Breakfast: Eliza’s great nibby waffles
Lunch: Sandwiches (with leftover chicken)
Afternoon snack: Chocolate bark from Costco
Dinner: Pork tenderloin (the Backyard BBQ recipe from Sarah Foster)
Dessert: More of the nibby shortbread… this time dipped in ganache
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 2 strawberries
Lunch: Turkey sandwich… while tree climbing!
Afternoon snack: Chocolate bark. Worked up an appetite climbing trees
Dinner: Stuffed pork chops. Also Yuki’s applesauce that we’ve been hoarding in the freezer, and some experimental corn cakes
Dessert: The photo version of the grape tart.
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 2 strawberries
Lunch: Pork tacos from the cafe at The Exploratorium. They are quite good… not spicy, by any means, so could be better, but I was quite happy to eat them.
Afternoon snack: Ice cream. From the place at Ghiradelli Square. This was a nice streetcar ride from The Exploratorium, but then a bit farther a walk than I remembered. I actually love weaving through crowds on Fisherman’s Wharf, but it’s a bit trying with little ones who alternate between wanting to buy everything at every tourist shop, and wanting to just be there already. The ice cream is from Dreyers, which I would call great, but not special. Trying to get into the soda fountain I remember as a kid would have required a 45 minute wait, so we opted to hit the to-go spot… they have all the same stuff in plastic cups and it only took a minute.
Dinner: Ceasar salad and Pyramid burger from Pyramid Alehouse. This is a great burger with bacon, bbq sauce, and onion rings. Thank god we split it.
Breakfast: Homemade granola, cranberry juice, 3 strawberries. A couple of warm days and we’re getting quite a few.
Morning Snack: Red cheese
Lunch: Leftover pizza
Afternoon snack: Dutch chocolate chip ice cream from Fenton’s
Dinner: Filet tips, green beens, potatoes, salad.
Dessert: Dense chocolate cake with ganache.
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: 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.