Thursday 4/3 –
7:30 AM, Breakfast at home:
-1 Fuji apple
-Earl Grey tea, black
-1 plain Bagel with peanut butter (peanuts, salt; nuts to that hydrogenated oil business.)
-Water
This is what my breakfast usually looks like.
1:00 PM, Lunch at home:
-4 Clementines
-Black beans & rice with Mrs. Renfro’s extra hot Habanero Mango salsa, cheddar cheese, and Tostitos Hint of Lime tortilla chips
-Coffee, black (Caribou Fair-trade French roast)
-Water
A typical lunch at home. Relatively inexpensive, easy-to-make, and tasty.
8:00 PM, Dinner at Sushi Tango:
-Anago Sashimi (rice, eel)
-Caterpillar Maki (rice, smoked eel, cucumber, avocado, nori)
-California Maki (rice, crab, avocado, cucumber, nori, smelt roe)
-Crunchy Maki (Shrimp tempura, rice, masago, panko, nori, seaweed powder, spicy mayo)
-Water
I don't eat a whole lot of meat, but sushi is a guilty pleasure. Plus, this was business-related: a post contract-signing celebratory/commiserative dinner. I was celebrating because I get to eat AND pay rent for a while, they were lamenting about the numbers on the contract. Sometimes clients with bigger contracts, especially for large built-ins like this one (a solid mahogany wet bar, mahogany mantel piece, and solid cherry radiator grilles throughout their house. This will be some fancy-ass shit!), just need a little damage control to go along with the contract. A little reassurance that this is, in fact, what they want and how much they ought to spend in order to get it.
Friday 4/4-
8:00 AM, Breakfast at home:
-1 banana
-1 plain bagel with peanut butter (see yesterday’s breakfast)
-Coffee, black (Caribou Fair-trade French roast)
-Water
Nearly identical to what I had for breakfast yesterday and what I’ll have tomorrow. What can I say? I’m a creature of habit.
12:00, Lunch at Mesa Pizza:
-1 slice of Guacamole Burrito pizza (black beans, rice, guacamole, cheddar cheese, sour cream)
-Water
Every Friday, I have a standing pizza date with an old friend. I also needed to talk to him about a work trade that I’m doing with him. I’m building him and his wife an as-yet-to-be-determined piece of furniture, and he is helping me learn how to write good AI code for a swarm-robotics idea that I have.
7:00 PM, Dinner at home:
-Butternut squash gnocci with almond pesto ($55/lb for pine nuts!? Aww naw hell naw, $5/lb for almonds.) - both homemade
-Salad (Fresh Express bagged salad, tomatoes, carrots)
-Bread (Rainbow bakery French bread)
-Water
I have a couple of garden beds in my yard, and I grew prolific amounts of basil last year. When I was picking the last of it out of the garden in the fall, my neighbor popped his head over the fence, took a look at the giant pile and quipped, “Dude, your weed is totally bunk. No one’s gonna buy that.” Ha. Anyhow, I ate a ton, gave a second ton away, and pureed the remaining tons with a little olive oil and froze them. Six months later and I’m eating homemade pesto!
10 PM, Snack at home:
-Chocolate Twizzlers
-Homemade Ginger brew.
Making your own soda is surprisingly easy. The bubbles can be a bit trickier, however. This particular bottle was flat. Bummer, but it still tasted good.
Sushi and gnocchi in the same week - two of my all time favorite foods, so I must admit I'm a bit jealous. Your food log seems really diverse, from burrito pizza (Mesa never fails to amaze me with their pizza concoctions) to homemade pesto and soda. I'm a sucker for homemade anything and I'm impressed that you have time to cook like this. I have night classes three times during the week and have decided next year that I'm never doing this again, as I miss cooking (though my roommates think I cook plenty, even though it generally consists of boiling water to cook pasta, and that's it). If anything, this food blog has shown me that I think about food way too much!
ReplyDeleteI completely second Gina's impressed sentiment! I love that you made your own soda- I help my parents make their own wine every year. We tried champagne a few years back- you're right, bubbles can be tricky! Also, drying extra basil is nice to cook with.
ReplyDeleteI too am an avid sushi eater, and have found this website amazing for sushi tips, info and esp. the Buy Sushi Grade Fish tab if you like to make your own.
http://www.sushifaq.com/sushi-health-risks.htm
Do you drink milk? Wasn't mentioned, but you do eat dairy... found an interesting article on milk here-
http://www.waoy.org/22.html
not well cited, but a good idea base. I like your comment about not eating much meat; people always laugh at me when I say I try to decrease my meat intake because it is bad for the planet, as Pollen supports.
Before I started making sawdust, I cooked in restaurants off and on for about 10 years. Some were fancier than others, but if working in a kitchen will teach you anything, it's how to cook FAST. I also am quasi-OCD about planning meals and prepping things ahead of time. It just became a force of habit after a while.
ReplyDeleteShould I post a ginger brew recipe?