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7.29.2015 | TI8

WEDDAY I ATE

Location: Tracy Arm, Alaska
Breakfast:  hot tea, oatmeal, biscuits and gravy, bacon, sausage, watermelon, orange juice
Lunch: brie and bacon panini, ham and red onion sandwich.
Green salad. Also black first pudding, chocolate tart, chocolate chip cookies, and coke zero
Afternoon snack: hot cocoa to recover from chill of standing in rain watching glacier
Dinner: tuna and avocado thing that was nasty so I ignored it, tomato soup that was very good, Jamaican chicken with sweet potatoes
Dessert:  Mickey mouse bar

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7.26.2015 | TI8

SUNDAY I ATE

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

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7.4.2015 | TI8

SATURDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Hot tea
Lunch: Pita with roast beef and hummus
Dinner: Stuffed burgers, sous vide with grilled onions. Invented the stuffed half burger to fit the buns better.
Dessert: Chocolate brownies that Eliza made, plus hot cocoa to keep us warm while we waited for the fireworks

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6.10.2015 | TI8

WEDNESDAY I ATE

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

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2.27.2015 | TI8

FRIDDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Apple
Lunch: Falafel sandwich at Liba Falafel in Oakland. This place was amazing, though quite pricey. The falafel is good, but the best part is the condiment bar. The one challenge is getting enough of the good stuff into the pita. The owner recommended smashing the falafel, then opening it up to squeeze more in. Others just get the salad so you can dump stuff on top. Either way, it’s tasty.
Afternoon snack: Trader Joe’s peanut butter cups. Coke Zero.
Dinner: Barney’s burger. Split a Western bacon burger and fries
Dessert: Hot cocoa because of the cold walk home.

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2.16.2015 | TI8

MONDAY I ATE

Lunch: Leftover pork with rice and broccoli
Afternoon snack: Coke zero. Chocolate buttercream frosting from the cake I was working on
Dinner: Turkey pot pie and green salad. Celebrating Dad’s birthday
Dessert: Angel food cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.
Frosting recipe from: http://savorysweetlife.com/2011/04/chocolate-buttercream-frosting/. It was good as written, but I found it improved with an extra couple of tablespoons of Special Dark cocoa

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1.16.2015 | TI8

FRIDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover black bean soup
Afternoon snack: Hot cocoa from Bittersweet. Also Coke zero
Dinner: Pasta with sundried tomato pesto
Dessert: Some weird lemon tea cookies Suzanne was experimenting with. The cookies were OK, but the lemon slices made them soggy and slimy in the middle. And the lemon slices were a bit sour for my taste.

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1.11.2015 | TI8

SUNDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Pancakes with syrup and applesauce
Morning Snack: Pancake sandwiches with penuche frosting and chocolate chips. This was a spur-of-the-moment decision as there were some leftover pancakes just sitting there at the same time Suzanne decided that a batch of frosting wasn’t properly spreadable and decided to make another. These were fantastic.
pancake frosting sandwich
Lunch: Leftover pizza rolls
Afternoon snack: Hot cocoa. Coke zero.
Dinner: Burger stuffed with gorgonzolla, topped with saute’d onions and in a bun made from the pizza roll recipe. I tried something I’ve wanted to do for a while: cook the stuffed burgers sous vide. It was a successful experiment, but I should have charred them more at the end.
I also added some mozarella to try to bind the blue cheese, and that was wholly successful.
stuffed burger sous vide
Dessert: The photo version of the banana blondies with penuche frosting for Flourarrangements