What did you eat today?
Breakfast: toast with peanut butter
Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Afternoon snack: frappuccino thing from The Bean. Really good and chocolatey
Dinner: a garbanzo bean and tomato dish Petra made. The girls loved it
Dessert: mocha ice cream bar
Location: Friday Harbor
Breakfast: Toast with peanut butter
Morning Snack:
Lunch: Split a burrito from Tia’s Tacos
Afternoon snack: Some chocolate chips, Coke Zero
Dinner: Burger stuffed with bleu cheese, plus some of those Kettle Chips in Buffalo Bleu flavor which they’ve stopped selling in California. Also watermellon
Dessert: Ice cream
Location: Friday Harbor
Breakfast: Toast with peanut butter
Lunch: An amazing Panang pork curry dished up by Alan’s backdoor lunch spot. So nice to be back at FHL where friends share.
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chips, Coke Zero
Dinner: BBQ chicken, quinoa, green salad, some cucumber thing
Dessert: A s’mores ice cream cake from Hayley’s
Breakfast: Granola with mango and blueberries. Hot tea
Lunch: Roast beef and rocket! The original, at market chef. So very happy. They also had the Buffalo Bleu kettle chips that they have speed selling in California. Diet coke
Afternoon snack: chocolate chip cookie from Market Chef. Coke zero
Dinner: potluck. There was crab, there was pulled pork, choeps and guacamole and potato salad, and other stuff, too. Coke zero
Dessert: Abel’s birthday cake, homemade ice cream, a ton of chocolate chip cookie dough.
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: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover pizza. My girls like cheese and olives, no sauce. It is not better cold.
Afternoon snack: A piece of sweet potato pie that my work colleagues saved for me. With ice cream. These people are awesome! Also, Coke Zero
Dinner: Chicken with spiced yogurt marinade (only made with buttermilk which was not as good). Yogurt sauce with mint topping. Green salad
Dessert: Black forest cake in honor of Ginny’s birthday
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover pizza
Afternoon snack: Chocolate, Coke Zero
Dinner: Adele’s sausage, roasted potatoes, asparagus
Dessert: Experimental peanut butter skillet cookie with ice cream
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Pork chili verde burrito from Cancun in Berkeley. This was serious burrito, and the salsa bar might be the best I’ve ever experienced. Offset, though, by the $11 price tag. Cheap eats it ain’t.
Afternoon snack: Chocolate. Coke Zero
Dinner: Pizza at a friend’s house
Dessert: Skillet cookie with ice cream.
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: A beef and potato pie from Peasant Pies. Also a green salad. Honestly, I really wanted to like this place, but I left disappointed. The pie was too small, so I had to get the salad, but the salad cost so much, I should have gotten another pie. But that would have been more than I wanted to eat. Add to that, the pie was really dry, and hard to eat served in a wicker basket. But still, the place is right near work, and I want to like it so much that I’ll go back. Also, I should have gotten the soup instead of the salad, but it was a hot day. Then someone sat down next to me eating it and it smelled really good.
Afternoon snack: A peanut butter cookie. Also a Peet’s mocha shake drink
Dinner: Apricot and arugula and siraccha pizza
Dessert: The last of the experimental baked alaska with chocolate ice cream. Surprisingly good after a couple of weeks in the freezer.
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Flatbread sandwich with hummus and pre-cooked steak from TJ’s, plus gorgonzolla
Afternoon snack: Coke Zero and some chocolate
Dinner: Buttermilk chicken, roasted potatoes, broccoli
Dessert: A leftover salted caramel cupcake with some vanilla ice cream and hot fudge. You know, belt and suspenders