December 29, 2008
Breakfast: English muffin with marmelade, red tempest chai (rooibos based) with hemp milk, banana
Lunch: leftover chicken, bok choy vegetables, roasted vegetables and saffron rice
Dinner: Fruit salad (pineapple, pomegranate, pear, papaya, orange), Bob's birthday sandwich (hard-boiled egg, anchovies, tomato, cream cheese on a toasted English muffin.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Snow turns to rain, and breakfast is baked apples with prunes, raisins and maple syrup. I'm off dairy, so I use a bit of soy creamer. Not too bad. I'm supposed to be off soy, too, but this is just a tad.
I find rice milk more palatable than almond milk, but not very satisfying, probably because it is so low in protein. Hemp milk has more protein, tastes a bit grassy but is really good in herbal chai.
Lunch: Leftover short ribs.
Afternoon: Cappuccino, cheating on the dairy a bit, and I'm supposed to be off coffee, too. I find I don't miss it. Caps used to be super-special to me, but I'm not missing them, either. A couple of orange-cornmeal cookies. Butter, thankfully, is OK.
Dinner: The chicken breasts I bought three days ago went bad, so we fall back on omelets. Mine with ham and cheese, Bob's with just cheese. Cheating again on the dairy. Soup of leftovers--garlic mashed potatoes, tomatoes, rich chicken broth, roasted red peppers, the last of the brown rice.
I find rice milk more palatable than almond milk, but not very satisfying, probably because it is so low in protein. Hemp milk has more protein, tastes a bit grassy but is really good in herbal chai.
Lunch: Leftover short ribs.
Afternoon: Cappuccino, cheating on the dairy a bit, and I'm supposed to be off coffee, too. I find I don't miss it. Caps used to be super-special to me, but I'm not missing them, either. A couple of orange-cornmeal cookies. Butter, thankfully, is OK.
Dinner: The chicken breasts I bought three days ago went bad, so we fall back on omelets. Mine with ham and cheese, Bob's with just cheese. Cheating again on the dairy. Soup of leftovers--garlic mashed potatoes, tomatoes, rich chicken broth, roasted red peppers, the last of the brown rice.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Christmas Day
Mostly ate at Lyza's, where the theme was ironic retro '50s. Ham with pineapple rings, green bean casserole, yams with marshmallows, Jell-o with whipped cream inside. But also orzo salad, pumpkin pie, really nice wine, cookies, fruitcake, deviled eggs, Cambozola cheese. And David had bought some absinthe, which he kindly shared.
Mostly ate at Lyza's, where the theme was ironic retro '50s. Ham with pineapple rings, green bean casserole, yams with marshmallows, Jell-o with whipped cream inside. But also orzo salad, pumpkin pie, really nice wine, cookies, fruitcake, deviled eggs, Cambozola cheese. And David had bought some absinthe, which he kindly shared.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
December 24, 2008
Breakfast: piece of the light dried fruit and nut fruitcake.
Lunch: Vegetables! Mashed potatoes topped with braised brussels sprouts, half a stuffed green pepper, chard with raisins and bacon.
Snack (Bob, Lyza, David, Maggie): Wasa, flax, saltine crackers; garlic toasts; blueberry muffins; sour cream herring; It's Alive! sauerkraut; stuffed grape leaves; cheddar and gruyere cheese; cornichons; peperoncini; cookies; candied peel.
Dinner: Nice pressure cooker stew of short ribs, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, parsnips, parsley with red wine and tomatoes. Salad with romaine, escarole, scallions, clementines, raisins and walnuts dressed with dijon vinaigrette. Ice cream for Bob. He remembers the short ribs from his youth, but they were never part of his bachelor repertoire.
Breakfast: piece of the light dried fruit and nut fruitcake.
Lunch: Vegetables! Mashed potatoes topped with braised brussels sprouts, half a stuffed green pepper, chard with raisins and bacon.
Snack (Bob, Lyza, David, Maggie): Wasa, flax, saltine crackers; garlic toasts; blueberry muffins; sour cream herring; It's Alive! sauerkraut; stuffed grape leaves; cheddar and gruyere cheese; cornichons; peperoncini; cookies; candied peel.
Dinner: Nice pressure cooker stew of short ribs, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, parsnips, parsley with red wine and tomatoes. Salad with romaine, escarole, scallions, clementines, raisins and walnuts dressed with dijon vinaigrette. Ice cream for Bob. He remembers the short ribs from his youth, but they were never part of his bachelor repertoire.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
December 23, 2008
Breakfast: watm tapioca pudding, sliced bananas, blueberry muffin, chaz chai (black)
Lunch: leftover garlic mashed potatoes with a little gruyere and cheddar, stuffed green pepper (see Dec. 22), corn. Here's why I prefer steaming to microwave heating,
Dinner: two-egg omelet (shoulda been three) with onions, green pepper, mushrooms, cheddar. Clementines.
Breakfast: watm tapioca pudding, sliced bananas, blueberry muffin, chaz chai (black)
Lunch: leftover garlic mashed potatoes with a little gruyere and cheddar, stuffed green pepper (see Dec. 22), corn. Here's why I prefer steaming to microwave heating,
Dinner: two-egg omelet (shoulda been three) with onions, green pepper, mushrooms, cheddar. Clementines.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Breakfast -- smoothie of banana, orange juice, frozen raspberries and brown rice By the time I had blended the dickens out of it, you couldn't distinguish the rice from the raspberry seeds. It was intense.
A bit later, some sour cream herring (Vita this time, see Kettelman's below) on Wasa bread. Leftover carrot-orange juice. Then I made some lemon-blueberry muffins. Those for lunch, with clementines and some radishes, and later some TJ pate on Wasa. I buy a slab of pate once in a while and freeze it in little chunks. It doesn't take much for one snack.
Oh, and some Concord grape juice from the freezer. Heavy on the tartaric acid because I used the Champion juicer, which ground in some of the seeds.
Tried stuffing green peppers for the first time ever. Leftover brown rice, mushrooms, onions, raisins, pine nuts. Uh-oh, out of tomato sauce. Try El Pato enchilada sauce from the back of the cupboard. Too spicy! Cut the heat with some regular canned tomatoes.
Bob doctors legume soup he's made from one of those plastic sleeves that has layers of different dried beans and peas. They remind him of his childhood. He adds garbanzo beans, thyme and pieces of leftover cube steak. Orange juice is good accompaniment
A bit later, some sour cream herring (Vita this time, see Kettelman's below) on Wasa bread. Leftover carrot-orange juice. Then I made some lemon-blueberry muffins. Those for lunch, with clementines and some radishes, and later some TJ pate on Wasa. I buy a slab of pate once in a while and freeze it in little chunks. It doesn't take much for one snack.
Oh, and some Concord grape juice from the freezer. Heavy on the tartaric acid because I used the Champion juicer, which ground in some of the seeds.
Tried stuffing green peppers for the first time ever. Leftover brown rice, mushrooms, onions, raisins, pine nuts. Uh-oh, out of tomato sauce. Try El Pato enchilada sauce from the back of the cupboard. Too spicy! Cut the heat with some regular canned tomatoes.
Bob doctors legume soup he's made from one of those plastic sleeves that has layers of different dried beans and peas. They remind him of his childhood. He adds garbanzo beans, thyme and pieces of leftover cube steak. Orange juice is good accompaniment
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Gorgeous breakfast of leftovers. Put the brown rice in a bowl and top with chard sauteed with raisins and bacon, brown rice, and a cabbage dish from The Quick After Work Vegetarian Cookbook. Green and red cabbage with onion, orange, raisins, black mustard seeds. A nice complement to the chard. Put the bowl in the steamer, and in 10 minutes or so it's toasty warm.
Lunch: Leftover seafood pasta from The Italian Joint. Still pretty good.
Snack: Mexican orange-cornmeal cookies. Have yet to dip them in chocolate. Fine just plain. I make a light fruitcake of nuts, dates, apricots and golden raisins. It's late, but it will be able to sit for a couple of days. Plans are to make toffee and another cookie, perhaps pecan meringues, as well.
Dinner: I've never made cube steaks, but that's what Bob bought. Garlic mashed potatoes and brussels sprouts that Bob pan-seared then braised with pine nuts. We are working our way through a box of See's chocolates, so thoughtfully sent by my brother Michael and his wife, Debbie. Thanks, folks!
Lunch: Leftover seafood pasta from The Italian Joint. Still pretty good.
Snack: Mexican orange-cornmeal cookies. Have yet to dip them in chocolate. Fine just plain. I make a light fruitcake of nuts, dates, apricots and golden raisins. It's late, but it will be able to sit for a couple of days. Plans are to make toffee and another cookie, perhaps pecan meringues, as well.
Dinner: I've never made cube steaks, but that's what Bob bought. Garlic mashed potatoes and brussels sprouts that Bob pan-seared then braised with pine nuts. We are working our way through a box of See's chocolates, so thoughtfully sent by my brother Michael and his wife, Debbie. Thanks, folks!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Now I'm free
Took the buyout. I'm "retired." Funny, I still don't have time to post. But I'll keep trying. Still eating various meals of crazy ingredients.
breakfast
Pickled herring from Kettleman's bagels. Their own recipe. Silky but a bit spicy.
Homemade sourdough garlic toast with the rest of the Kettleman's lox schmear from a few days ago.
Rice milk
Chaz chi with a bit of red clover
Fruit leather, mixed flavors
Clementines
Homemade sourdough garlic toast with the rest of the Kettleman's lox schmear from a few days ago.
Rice milk
Chaz chi with a bit of red clover
Fruit leather, mixed flavors
Clementines
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