What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: A bite of salad and then a cup of tomato soup at Cafe 24
Afternoon snack: Heavy, heavy ap’s at Mission Rock Resort. There was cheese, and guacamole, and sliders, and some other stuff. Diet Coke
Dinner: Chocolate chip cookies
Dessert: Leftover Black Forest Cake
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover tomato soup and half a ham & cheese sandwich
Afternoon snack: Ants on a log (i.e., peanut butter on celery with raisins)
Dinner: Tacos
Dessert: Honey blueberry tart
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
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Apple
Lunch: Leftover pasta with sundried tomato pesto. Not sure how long it’s been in the fridge, but I guess I could go back on this blog.
Afternoon snack: Lemon bars, also Coke Zero
Dinner: Leftover tacos. Still awesome the second time around.
Dessert: More Lemon bars. This time with more rosemary and pinenuts.
Lunch: Leftover turkey pot pie
Afternoon snack: Leftover peppermint brownies eaten out at the end of the Bay Bridge. Tessa’s first time doing that ride all by herself.
Dinner: Tacos. We were in the checkout line when we realized we forgot the taco seasoning. So we turned to that classic tome of Mexican cuisine: The Joy of Cooking. The taco recipe includes a can of tomato sauce, which seemed weird. At the end of the day, with the addition of a little extra chili powder, they were fantastic.
Dessert: Flourarrangements lemon bars. The photo edition.
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.
Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice
Lunch: Leftover black bean soup
Afternoon snack: A few milky way darks, Coke zero.
Dinner: Another iteration of the pizza rolls. Tomato sauce and prosciutto. These were slightly smaller than before. Two of them was almost dinner. Had a salad to put it over the top.
Originally found this recipe in The Joy of Cooking and it quickly became a favorite. But then, what with one thing and another, it dropped out of the rotation. The ingredients here are pretty similar, but over time I’ve changed the order of operations and really sped things up.
One of my favorite risotto tips I got from my brother. He currently tests missiles or something else he can’t talk about, but once upon a time, he was a line cook in one of those really fancy restaurants at a resort with a celebrity chef’s name on the door. One day, cooking there, he was gently massaging the stock into the risotto 1/2 cup at a time the way everyone says you’re supposed to do, when a more experienced chef walked by. That guy laughed at him and said “watch this” then dumped all the stock in gave it a stir and told him to walk away. Sure enough, 15 or 20 minutes later, it tasted just the same. A bunch of stirring at the end gets the starch mixed in, but meanwhile, you’re free to prep the later ingredients instead of stuck at the stove. The one thing to watch out for is to make sure it doesn’t run out of liquid before it’s tender… the rice will burn and stick to the pan, and that’s no fun.