Category: Weekend Meals

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5.26.2014 | TI8

MONDAY I ATE:

(Memorial Day)

Breakfast: Grapenuts with cranberry juice

Lunch: Rubio’s. We had a mess in the kitchen already and had to go to the store. Not the best burrito in the world, but fills one up.

Dinner: Pulled pork, sweet potato rolls, coleslaw. Felt like old times. First BBQ of the year in the new backyard.

Dessert: Hand churned buttermilk strawberry ice cream. The recipe was from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. Honestly, I was undewhelmed. The recipe called for a certain amount of berries, but then, it turns out, you weren’t supposed to add them all to the ingredients, they were just there to make the pan full while roasting. I have a lot of different sized pans, so that seemed weird. Soldiering on, I just dumped them all into the ice cream. True, it did harden up a lot, which is probably what she was trying to avoid. It still didn’t have a very intense strawberry flavor. I’d never make a buttermilk ice cream again, either; it does, indeed, give it an interesting flavor. In fact, it tastes a lot like Fro-yo. Which sort of tastes like not-as good as ice cream.

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5.25.2014 | TI8

 SUNDAY I ATE:

Breakfast: Donut (from All Star Donuts). Also a Jamba juice because Tessa had a gift certificate she got from bike-to-school day. In which honor we rode our bikes there.

Lunch: Kinda still feeling the donuts, frankly.

Afternoon snack: A little hummus on bread. Donut still present and accounted for.

Dinner: Chicken ceasar salad from Pyramid brewery. Pretty decent salad. I also had Curve Ball cold conditioned ale, which is a perfect summer beer.

Dessert: Apple pie that Eliza made all by herself.

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5.24.2014 | TI8

 SATURDAY I ATE:

Breakfast: Waffles. Eliza made them.

Lunch: Split a BBQ beef sandwich at Costco

Dinner: We picked up a flank steak at Costco. Sometimes, those tasters clue you in to something good!

Dessert: Chocolate chip cookies. The girls asked at just the right time and we decided to whip up a batch. Followed the King Arthur Flour recipe, which is my new favorite.

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5.17.2014 | TI8

SATURDAY I ATE:

Breakfast: Forgot

Morning snack: Red Cheese.

Lunch: Chipotle

Afternoon snack: Frappuccino. I love these things. I try to eat them only while traveling, but technically, I was an hour from home, so maybe it counts?

Dinner: Open face beef brisket sandwich at Palo Alto Creamery. Plus a chocolate shake. Fantastic on both counts.

Dessert: Dear god, man! I had a Frappuccino and chocolate shake! What do you take me for?

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5.11.2014 | TI8

Breakfast: Donuts. From All Star Donuts in El Cerrito. Of all the donut shops in the area, this one is my favorite. The donuts are pretty good, but the staff is so nice that it just feels good to stop in. Today was Mother’s Day, so what better way to celebrate than by getting the kids out of the house.

Lunch:  Mother’s Day brunch with three  generations of mothers.  Chicken saltimbocca with asparagus and rice.  Plus pavlova for dessert.

Dinner: Zachary’s Pizza. We had Alison, Jason, and Sam over, and it was just too much to make it back from lunch and cook dinner. Besides, Zachary’s is just awesome. Ordered large ones, so there will be leftovers for lunch all week. First dinner with friends at the new picnic table.

Dessert:  Blond brownies.

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5.10.2014 | TI8

SATURDAY I ATE:

Breakfast: Forgot

Mid-morning snack: Birthday cake at another kid’s party. It was pretty good, but three different birthday treats right before lunch did put the whole stomach schedule out of whack!

Lunch:  Leftover pork tenderloin sandwich. With Jarlsberg cheese and a some jalapeno/cilantro hummus. Frankly, three great tastes better kept separate, but I was so damn hungry I thought I was on to something.

Afternoon snack:  Nothing. Well, there was one See’s candy, but that was just a free sample, so it didn’t really count.

Dinner: More leftover roasted maple-glazed pork tenderloin. This time with glazed carrots. We’d thrown out the sauce for the pork, but the glaze from the carrots was so sweet, it worked perfectly. Over rice, which was a bit dry, but would have been perfect with more carrot glaze.

Dessert:  Root beer floats. We didn’t mean to have dessert tonight, but Eliza had a friend over who had never had a root beer float… can you imagine? Then we ran out of vanilla ice cream and all we had was Caramel Peanut-butter-cup swirl. I decided that root beer floats with peanut butter ice cream is about as anti-European as it is possible to get. Frankly, they might have a point on this one. The actual peanut butter and root beer flavor was OK, but the chocolate shell of the peanut butter cup mixed with root beer was just flat-out weird.

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5.4.2014 | TI8

Sunday I Ate:

Breakfast: Shredded Wheat and grapefruit juice

Mid-morning snack:  Red cheese, banana.

Lunch: Bacon cheeseburger and fries at Gott’s Roadside, a great spot to grab lunch in San Francisco’s ferry building before a visit to the Exploratorium.

Afternoon snack:  Birthday cake and ice cream (chocolate cinnamon cake with chocolate ganache frosting).

Dinner:  Beef filet tips, baked potato, and asparagus.

Dessert : Almond cake with fresh berries.

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5.3.2014 | TI8

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)