MONDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover pizza
Afternoon snack: York peppermint, coke zero
Dinner: Leftover chicken tikka masala with rice
Dessert: Flourarrangements rapberry cream tart
4.26.2015 | TI8
SUNDAY I ATE
Breakfast: (Brunch, really). Reuben sandwich at Sam’s Log. Cabin in Albany. Pretty good reuben, though I think my corned beef is better. Iced tea.
Afternoon snack: A little smoked trout with Ritz crackers
Dinner: Pizza from Costco
Dessert: A York peppermint patty
4.11.2015 | TI8
SATURDAY I ATE
Breakfast:
pancakes, eggs, bacon. tea
Morning Snack: strawberries and blueberries at the Santa Barbara farmers market
Lunch: split a bacon burger and fries at Pajaro Beach Grill. Diet coke
Afternoon snack: carrots and crackers and hummus and salsa and chips
Dinner: yummy, yummy pizza made in the cob oven. Sausage and sage and goat cheese might have been my favorite
Dessert: s’mores. Also strawberries dipped in marshmallow fluff and roasted
4.10.2015 | TI8
FRIDDAY I ATE
Breakfast: granola aquarium, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: an Apple. ’cause, you know, I’m healthy like that.
Lunch: oh, wait, I lied. Popeye’s fried chicken and biscuits. Kind of needed a shower afterwards, but damn it was good. Diet coke.
Afternoon snack: not really feeling the need.
Dinner: helped the girls eat their pizza and bbq beef brisket sandwich at Costco. Diet coke
Dessert: leftover kahlua chocolate cake. A little crumbly in the car, but still delicious road food.
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.
3.16.2015 | TI8
MONDAY I ATE
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.
2.19.2015 | TI8
THURSDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Oatmeal with brown sugar
Lunch: Leftover Zacchary’s pizza
Afternoon snack: Leftover peanut butter tart. Coke zero
Dinner: Spaghetti with zucchini and Parmesan cheese
Dessert: A See’s candy sample
2.18.2015 | TI8
WEDNESDAY I ATE
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.
1.27.2015 | TI8
TUESDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover pizza rolls
Afternoon snack: Chocolate chip cookie, coke zero. Went to Specialty’s who now ask almost $3 for a cookie. Quality is definitely down.
Dinner: Leftover turkey pot pie
1.26.2015 | TI8
MONDAY I ATE
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover taco filling with rice
Afternoon snack: Large mocha fredo from Peet’s. I had a lot of writing to do, and it just seemed the thing.
Dinner: Experimental pizza rolls with tomato paste, prosciutto and mozarella
Dessert: Leftover lemon bars