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9.14.2015 | TI8

MONDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Apple
Lunch: Leftover pizza
Afternoon snack: Diet pepsi. Also a random piece of the chocolate cake that was sitting in the student lounge where the soda machine lives
Dinner: Grilled buttermilk chicken, roasted potatoes, green beans, green salad. Brilliant idea today: the buttermilk chicken soaks in a bath of buttermilk, garlic and shallots. Normally, I just chuck this once the chicken is on the grill. Since we were low on garlic to roast with the potatoes, I strained the vegetables out of the marinade, rinsed them, and roasted them for 20 minutes. They were fabulous.
Dessert: Hot cocoa is honor of the first fall-feeling day. With frozen whipped cream blobs Suzanne was experimenting with.

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9.13.2015 | TI8

SUNDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Ritz crackers with hummus
Lunch: Split a pork burrito at Cactus. They really make one of the finest burrito’s in the area. Diet coke
Afternoon snack: Misc candy and a snowcone at the Solano Stroll
Dinner: Pizza from Costco. Green salad

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9.12.2015 | TI8

SATURDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Hot tea
Morning Snack: Crackers with hummus
Lunch: Noodle bowl and a spicy tuna roll at Manpuku in Elmwood. Pretty much exactly as advertised on Yelp… reasonable quality sushi and pretty good prices. Big bowls of noodles. We’ll be back.
Afternoon snack: Coke zero, leftover York peppermint patties from Easter.
Dinner: Burger, roasted potatoes, leftover asparagus. Green salad. I switched it up this time and stuffed the burger with Gruyere cheese and some chopped up salami. It was fabulous with some Grey Poupon.
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Dessert: Leftover cupcakes. Yes, plural. That last one looked so lonely and they were getting stale.

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9.11.2015 | TI8

FRIDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Turkey and caramelized onion panini at Cafe Zeb. Great sandwich.
Afternoon snack: Iced tea
Dinner: Turkey apple sausage, asparagus, pasta with cheese
Dessert: Kahlua cupcake

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9.10.2015 | TI8

THURSDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Fruit salad, scone, orange juice (at a conference)
Lunch: Grilled chicken, rice pilaf, roast vegetables, green salad, diet coke
Afternoon snack: Cookie, mixed nuts, a few bites of an apple tart. Iced tea
Dinner: Roast pork tenderloin with cherries, roast potatoes, broccoli, green salad with garden tomatoes and carrots
Dessert: Leftover kahlua cupcakes

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9.9.2015 | TI8

WEDNESDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover lemon-arugula pasta
Afternoon snack: Diet Pepsi… a little frosting when I got home and found out what had been going on there
Dinner: Leftover Zachary’s pizza
Dessert: Experimental Kahlua cupcakes with Kahlua buttercream frosting

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9.8.2015 | TI8

TUESDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Apple
Lunch: Leftover chicken saltimbocca pizza
Afternoon snack: Coke zero
Dinner: Pasta with arugula and creme fraische, salad with tomatoes from our garden (only one plant produced anything, but they are awesome), artichoke
Dessert: Jello with whipped cream

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9.7.2015 | TI8

MONDAY I ATE

Labor Day
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Small slice of pizza
Lunch: Split a thai chicken crepe and a ceasar salad at the Crepevine. I think this place is OK, but nothing more than that. The flavors are fairly bland, and the service is pretty bad. This is the second time that they’ve forgotten one of the kid’s orders. Iced tea.
Afternoon snack: York peppermint patties. Leftover from Easter.
Dinner: Leftover Zacchary’s pizza
Dessert: Tessa mint chocolate cupcake

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9.62015 | TI8

SUNDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Hummus and bread
Lunch: An Italian club sandwich from A.G. Ferrari in Montclair. It was a really tasty sandwich. Added in some “Voodo” flavored chips, whatever the heck that means, which we also tasty.
Afternoon snack: Iced tea, chocolate chip cookie
Dinner: Zacchary’s stuffed spinach and mushroom pizza, Ceasar salad
Dessert: Tessa’s mint chocolate cupcakes

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9.5.2015 | TI8

SATURDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Doughnuts. Split a custard bomb with Tessa. Orange juice
Lunch: Sandwich of leftover chicken saltimbocca with cheddar cheese
Afternoon snack: Soft serve ice cream dipped in chocolate. Hello, 4th grade, I missed you. At Lake Anza. Shared with Tessa, and a lot of it dripped on my leg.
Dinner: A serious stroke of brilliance, though this experiment still needs some work. Chicken saltimbocca pizza. Caramelized an onion, with white wine and some lemon juice towards the end. Used that as the base of the pizza, then added the last of the leftover chicken, along with some prosciutto. Topped with grueyere cheese and sage. We ate it with a kale salad with a dressing of lemon juice, lemon zest, and olive oil. While we were eating, we decided that the kale salad was just what the pizza needed on top. Might experiment with this, or might add the kale before baking.
Dessert: Tessa and Suzanne made mint chocolate cupcakes with mint frosting. Awesome! I had two.