What did you eat today?
location: Friday Harbor to Vancouver
Breakfast: toast with peanut butter
Morning Snack: hot cocoa at the Bean.
Lunch: split green salad and bacon burger at Rockfish grill in Anacortes. Pretty good burger, really. The girls liked the kids burgers as well.
Afternoon snack: Coke zero
Dinner: Split a ceasar salad and a Guinness steak and mushroom crock at Wolf & Hound. Great combination of flavors
Dessert: Split a chocolate lava cake and vanilla ice cream at Wolf & Hound
Location: Kelso, WA -> Friday Harbor
Breakfast: A bacon and egg croissant from Starbucks. Astonishingly good, considering I don’t like that sort of thing. Orange juice
Lunch: Garlic chicken and rice from Thai Gusto in Everett. Happened to remember this place as we were driving in to town. Tessa claims to love Thai food, but by “Thai food” she means sticky rice. Not so much with the protein.
Afternoon snack: Java chip Frappuccino
Dinner: Hamburger and chicken and green salad and watermellon / blueberry salad with Justin and Rita. The hamburger was something called “Hamburger Bacon” which is ground beef cured like bacon added to normal ground beef. It makes quite a burger.
Dessert: Peanut butter M&M brownies and Mint chip brownies
Location Albany to Ashland, OR
Breakfast: Raisin bran, cranberry juice
Lunch: Hot dog from Costco… start of our trip to WA
Afternoon snack: Buster bar! For some reason, I’ve been thinking about these for a while. Growing up, my elementary school had minimum days from time to time, and the only fast food within walking distance was Dairy Queen… so basically 100 kids would descend on the place. I don’t remember when we were allowed to walk there on our own and just get picked up in the back parking lot. I always had a Buster Bar, though I was probably the only one who liked them. For the uninitiated, I can describe them better by how it seems like they are made. Imagine a small paper cup, dump in some roasted, salted peanuts, mix in some hot fudge. Let it chill, then fill the cup about 2/3 of the way with vanilla ice cream (well, ice milk). Add another layer of fudge and peanuts, shove in a popsicle stick, chill, remove the paper cup and dip in a chocolate shell.
I haven’t had one in a long time, but every now and then in college I might stop at a Dairy Queen and pick one up. I was explaining them to the girls, and then around 3:00 today, decided Redding had to have a Dairy Queen. They’ve renamed it DQ, and they don’t have Buster Bars on the menu, but they have them if you ask.
Dinner: Went to Standing Stone Brewery in Ashland, OR. Had a great bacon bleu cheese burger. Fries were mediocre (steak style, which leaves a mushy center). Beer was good. Ceasar salad was good. Split both with Suzanne.
Breakfast: Doughnuts from Mira Vista in Richmond. I had high hopes… the place was nice, it was next to Home Depot, the people were friendly. But the donuts sucked. Overcooked, barely any custard, chocolate frosting doesn’t deserve the name.
Morning Snack: Some crackers and hummus
Lunch: Experimental apricot & sirracha pizza
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chip cookies, Coke Zero
Dinner: Split a Western Bacon Burger at Barney’s
Dessert: Some leftover experimental baked Alaska
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Cheeseburger at the Berkeley Freehouse. Really good, with some sort of bacon marmalade. Iced tea
Afternoon snack: Coke zero, and a few squares of chocolate
Dinner: Pizza with onions, apricots, prosciutto, parsley, and siraccha
Dessert: Experimental black forest cake
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Chicken club sandwich at Cafe 24, which is in my new building. I have to re-read the menu, but it came out as a chicken salad sandwich with bacon… not bad, but not what I was expecting
Afternoon snack: Chocolate cookie and iced tea from Starbucks
Dinner: Pizza with arugula, sirracha, onions and apricots. From Jupiter in Berkeley
Dessert: See’s candy
Breakfast: Pancakes, bacon. The pancakes were some experimental lemon ones… very delicious, but maple syrup was all wrong
Lunch: Leftover Zachary’s pizza
Afternoon snack: Split a mocha thing from Peet’s with Tessa, which meant that I had to get decaf. Still, pretty good idea, since I didn’t need it all
Dinner: Experimental pork and apple pie. Really delicious, though it needed an extra flavor… maybe wine? or sage? Suzanne was going to look at the stuffed pork chops recipe and see what flavors those include
Dessert: Leftover chocolate cherry cake
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice. Also, 1 slice of bacon that we made for Eliza’s class party
Morning Snack: Hot tea
Lunch: Leftover chicken byriani with experimental flatbread
Afternoon snack: Hot cocoa from Bittersweet. Last chance while working in downtown Oakland
Dinner: Leftover chicken byriani with experimental flatbread
Dessert: Frozen custard from Lexie’s food truck
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Donut holes. Aren’t pro hardware stores great?!
Lunch: A great selection of food at a 7 year old birthday party. There were some little meat pies with some Brazillian name, skewers of meat, fabulous guacamole. I should hang out in the park more often.
Afternoon snack: brownies.
Dinner: Went to The Cooperage in Lafayette. Split a brussels sprout and bacon salad (there was a poached egg involved, but not in my half of the split). Then, because they brought the kids margaritas instead of lemonade (without booze, but makes a funnier story to ignore that detail), they brought out a plate of their skillet Mac&Cheese. Seriously, I might head over there just to eat this dish on a cold night; it was in the running for the best Mac&Cheese ever. For our entre, we split the prime rib.
Dessert: We had a selection, including an individual s’mores skillet, a selection of doughnuts, and selection of ice cream sandwiches. The best was probably the chocolate cookie-coffee ice cream sandwich, though the s’mores skillet was fabulous as well.
All in all, a great meal. Last time I ate there, I had the burger, which was fine, but didn’t really differentiate the food. This meal was pretty impressive.
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