FRIDAY I ATE
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
5.20.2015 | TI8
WEDNESDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Chicken and bacon sandwich with hummus
Afternoon snack: Chocolate squares, some M&Ms, Coke Zero
Dinner: Rice and beans with experimental corn pancakes and cilantro lime sour cream
Dessert: Mint chip ice cream with leftover ganache
5.9.2015 | TI8
SATURDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Donuts from Rainbow donuts in Berkeley. This shop was pretty great: they had a good selection of interesting doughnuts… stuff like Oreo, Mint, M&M, alongside the classics. I have to say, though, that their custard filling was a little weak.
Morning Snack: Iced tea
Lunch: Turkey hummus pita wrap
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chip cookies and lemonade from the girls’ roving lemonade stand. There were a ton of garage sales, and they raised $50 to send to victims of the Nepal earthquake
Dinner: 2 cheeseburger meal from McDonald’s, just to bookend a day of healthy living. The girls had never eaten at Micky-D’s, and they read about Happy Meals in a book… mom was sick, it seemed a perfect opportunity. Frankly, they were underwhelmed. Tessa said the chicken nuggets tasted kind of fishy. Eliza said the burgers were better at Barney’s. Both were correct.
Dessert: Another chocolate chip cookie or two
3.18.2015 | TI8
WEDNESDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Corned beef sandwich with swiss cheese and cabbage. Grilled on the panini machine. Oh man.
Afternoon snack: Mint M&M’s, half a chocolate-chip cookie, coke zero.
Dinner: Leftover corned beef with roasted vegetables
Dessert: S’mores cupcake from the food trucks. Also the last piece of angel food cake, because it just wasn’t going to be good tomorrow.
3.19.2015 | TI8
THURSDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Turkey sandwich
Afternoon snack: Mint M&M’s, Coke zero
Dinner: Rice and beans with red peppers, carrots, cheese, and salsa
Dessert: Chocolate chip cookies that Eliza made… they were so good that I had to have a small glass of milk, which I normally never drink.
3.17.2015 | TI8
TUESDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftove Zacchary’s stuffed spinach and mushroom pizza
Afternoon snack: Mint M&M’s, Coke zero
Dinner: Corned beef with cabbage. First time making my own corned beef, following the recipe on Serious Eats. I’d tried several times, but always waited until too late before I started looking for pink salt to cure it with. So last year, on March 18, I went and ordered a pound, then added it to my calendar for early March.
The meat was beautifully cooked (I went the sous vide route), though perhaps a bit salty. Tony recommended that I cure it an extra day or two in advance, and then soak it in fresh water to draw some of the salty flavor back out.
The veggies we went with roasting in the oven, which is really the only way I like to eat cabbage.
Dessert: Angel food cake with chocolate frosting and strawberries.
3.7.2015 | TI8
SATURDAY I ATE
Morning Snack: Chocolate pancake
Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwich with avocado
Afternoon snack: Beer. It was such a beautiful afternoon, you’d never guess it was still the middle of winter
Dinner: Caper chicken pasta at friends’ house. Must make this… pan fry strips of chicken. saute garlic and green onion in butter, add cream and creme fraische and simmer for a bit. Add capers (or sun dried tomatoes, or whatever) along with parmasean. Add back chicken and boiled pene.
Dessert: Eliza’s mint brownies
2.17.2015 | TI8
TUESDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover turkey pot pie
Afternoon snack: Mint M&Ms, Coke zero
Dinner: Chicken tikka masala and a goat dish at Ajanta Distinctive Indian Cuisine on Solano
Dessert: Flourarrangements peanut butter tart