What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: A cookie, just to be sure that they were suitable for a lemonade stand
Lunch: Leftover Zacchary’s pizza
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chip cookies and lemonade. Also loose chocolate chips and Coke Zero
Dinner: Leftover pork pie and cucumbers
Dessert: A last bit of cookie
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: Pancakes (Tessa made them)
Lunch: Roast beef, blue cheese, lettuce, and hummus on a pita
Dinner: Deep dish Mediterranean chicken pizza from Little Star. Their pizza is good, but still not as good as Zacchary’s. While others rave about the cornmeal crust, I think it is too crumbly
Dessert: Leftover cherry pie with ice cream. It was definitely better after a day for the flavors to mellow
Breakfast: Hot tea, french toast
Morning Snack: Iced tea
Lunch: Ham and hummus pita wrap with carrots and cucumber
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chips, coke zero
Dinner: Perhaps my best iteration yet of the blue cheese stuffed burgers. We used a different type of blue cheese, from Trader Joe’s, rather than from Costco, which have different melting strategies. But the best part was cooking them sous vide. This really works a treat for stuffed burgers. The patties are so thin, that on the grill, they distort the shape a lot and often leak cheese. In the sous vide at 136F, they were perfectly cooked. Add in a brioche bun from TJ’s, some corn on the cob, and oven baked potatoes and they were amazing.
Dessert: An experimental cherry pie. It was OK, but too much booze (kirsch) gave it a weird sour flavor.
This marks quite a milestone in Dish Digest… today wraps up the first year of this project. It started out as a simple way to remember where we found a particular recipe, but it’s become a great way to think about what I eat, where I’ve been, and just how often “chocolate” appears in my tag cloud.
Lunch: Chicken and cucumber on pita with hummus
Afternoon snack: chocolate chips
Dinner: Timpano. This was a freakin’ amazing meal that our friends have been making regularly for 15 years. I think they got the idea from watching this move, Big Night. Essentially, it’s a baked ziti in a pie crust, and it was amazing. Also a green salad.
Dinner #2: Timpano. Apparently, seconds were required.
Dessert: Chocolate and raspberry gelato.
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover Zacchary’s pizza. While I ate crab last night, Suzanne got a pizza
Afternoon snack: Coke zero
Dinner: Leftover turkey pot pie. Green salad.
Dessert: Leftover angel food cake with chocolate ice cream and strawberries. Life is good.
Breakfast: Chocolate chocolate-chip pancake
Lunch: Leftover chicken pot pie
Afternoon snack: Lemonade, coke zero
Dinner: Cracked crab, green salad
Dessert: Angel food cake with homemade chocolate ice cream (because of all the egg yolks from the cake)
Morning Snack: Bagel with cream cheese & iced tea
Lunch: Leftover pasta with sesame and chicken
Afternoon snack: Coke zero, chips and salsa and guacamole
Dinner: Chicken pot pie, green salad, some yummy mushroom pie
Dessert: Apple pie and a blueberry mango pie with ice cream
Plus, the kids wrote 1,000 digits of Pi in chalk all along the block
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice
Lunch: Turkey sandwich with jalapeno cranberry jam
Afternoon snack: Vanilla cake for someone’s birthday… pretty amazing that she baked it for her own birthday and all of us to enjoy. Plus a Coke zero.
Dinner: Spinach and mushroom pizza from Zacchary’s
Dessert: Well, let’s see… there was some leftover peanut butter tart. And there was some of this leftover angel food cake. Oh, and that piece of blackberry pie is just going to go to waste…
so that makes, um, one, two, three desserts. Plus the cake at lunch. Holy crap.
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