I just looked in my phone and I have an overwhelming number of pictures in there, let me see if I can make some sense of them...
Those two make sense, fajitas and margaritas, yes please! That was last Saturday when we had our Mexican fiesta. Those fajitas were so good, I was the sous chef and Nick did all the cooking, thanks Nick! I did all the blending though, mmmmmmmargaritas.
Breakfast
Second Breakfast
I woke up way earlier than Nick the next morning, what's a girl to do? First Breakfast. That cheese is goat gouda from TJ's and whole wheat pita crackers, mucho gusto! Second breakfast was a fried egg on whole wheat toast with a slice of Canadian bacon. Mucho gusto tambien! That might seem like hefty breakfasts but in hindsight it was such a good plan. That Sunday was the day Nick and I spent many many moons (really just many hours but it FELT like many moons) at the VW dealership haggling over a car, an awesome car. Nick went into it saying he wasn't very good at buying cars, and he was RIGHT. What he's good at is beating the car salesmen down to his asking price for 6 hours until they eventually sucumb to his will and grovel at his feet and beg him to buy the car for the love of all the babies in the world! Then he's good at walking away from it all and we drive home still without any AC...Oh well, at least we found out that he is an awesome negotiator with awesome credit. Also during our six hour haggling marathon we left to have some lunch:
Arnold Palmer (classic) and the fanciest PB&J I've ever had. We went to a fancy pants sandwhich shop, I don't know if you can see from the receipt but they call themselves "Urbane Cafe", I hate that name, its trying very hard. Anyway, Urbane's prices were insane so I ordered off the kids menu to avoid paying $10 for a sandwhich (that's just urbane). Can you imagine feeding that PB&J to a child? Its on foccaccia! I thoroughly enjoyed it but I'm not a child. I guess with a kid you would order the chips instead of a salad but I had to order salad...I WISH I was a kid! For dinner that night we had left over fajita stuff with salad and grapes for dessert.
Nick cooked again! I'm not sure why the burrito is so far offcenter on the plate but it didn't stay there long anyway. We used left over chicken from the night before and Nick cooked up a sausage and chopped that up to put in there too. I wouldn't recommend the sausage, it made the whole thing kind of greasy and fatty. The salad and grapes did a nice job of combating that. We also had a bottle of wine, haggling is thirsty work.
On Monday I got up early and cooked breakfast so we could start the week right. Literally one bite in I had to run and spit it out. My mouth wanted nothing to do with that breakfast. That means I didn't start the week right, I started the week by wasting a bunch of time and food, observe:
I went with shredded oats and milk when I got to work, which is really my go-to when my stomach is feeling weird. For lunch that day I went with chicken gumbo, baked lays, and an arnold palmer (classic). It was great and my mouth was all about it. Ditto my stomach.
After work my day really took off. Gibbs had to go to the vet (the excitement really never ends around here) so I didn't go to Sophie's. He had a little hot spot on his leg and apparently hot spots spread because a dog will worry over it and lick it until it is a huge soar. So we went out on Sunday and bought a bandage for him. He is the most relaxed patient ever! You might say he is patient.
After we were done wrapping his leg I thought he was going to bolt right out of there but actually he just hung out with his boyfriend until Nick eventually got up. Shameless.
Amazingly for the first time ever the vet only took 1 hour! 1 hour and lots of dollars but I'll focus on the positive. Afterwards I went back to Nick's and had the best afternoon snack that summer time has to offer, a smoothie:
I first made this smoothie when I was on the detox for the flat belly diet. Its a horrendous four day detox that makes you eat crazy things like a PINT of cherry tomatoes in one sitting. Also you never think you are that dependent on caffiene until someone stops you from ingesting any. That is a four day headache that just doesn't go away. Go to sleep with a headache, wake up with a headache, drive to work with a headache, yell at innocent children with a headache, jump off the roof with a headache, wake up in hospital with a headache, etc. The best part of that detox is drinking the delicious smoothie with a headache though. You blend ice, lactaid free milk, pineapple, and flax seed oil, then you enjoy. That's a great snack.
For dinner I made us chicken tenders and mashed potatoes. I had planned on cooking a veggie but I don't have a picture of one so I guess that fell by the wayside at some point. I made my own breadcrumbs for the chicken tenders and they turned out really well. With Rae's help I came up with a blend of dried whole wheat toast, flour, seasoning and walnuts. And when it comes to mash potatoes you really can't go wrong, I like to crack an egg into them while I mash instead of adding loads of butter and cream. Its gooooooooood.
On Tuesday we had the long awaited Reliability Celebrations at work. The cupcakes that I ordered arrived and they were awful. I know its hard but try to imagine a really awful tasting cupcake, they were worse than that. Someone found a rock in one of them. They charged a $50 delivery fee for some girl to throw them in the back of her Camry and arrive an hour and twenty minutes late. 25 of them were smooshed on the way over, surprising given that they were transported so carefully in her backseat. They tasted like they had been baked one or two days before (read: dry) and the frosting was gritty. I put the pig in the picture because he's so cute and I needed something good to counterbalance the lying cupcake (you sir are no #1).
It was really great, and writing it all up at once like this is making me realize that he cooks for me a lot! Thanks Nick :) This is the second night of a week in which I am not having any wine with dinner. It was a loose resolution that I had in mind for a while and on Monday Nick gave me a nudge in that direction so amazingly I kept it going until Friday. If you are waiting for pictures of wine there aren't any coming up.
On Wednesday I had cheese and crackers for breakfast at work. Then somebody brought me a mini muffin.
That's still the goat gouda from a few days ago, still good. I didn't have any lunch on Wednesday for no particular reason. I just had lots of work and didn't get hungry. In the afternoon though I ate some MnM's and someone gave me some popcorn. That was a great afternoon.
The thing about the MnM's is especially dangerous. There is a person in my office who keeps an MnM container full of them, and they are for everyone! He had been on vacation and the MnM jar ran dry so that's why you haven't seen them up to this point, but he came back from vacation and brought MnM's with him.
How can I resist that? But I better start resisting because a handful of MnM's every day is a bad plan, always. But even if I don't include it in the blog, you should probably assume that I am eating MnM's quite frequently. Jealous? After work I ate a tortilla for a snack because I was starving and even though I worked late Nick worked later so I was kicking my heals for a minute before dinner.
I try and cook dinner on Wednesday nights because I don't have to nanny and I tend to get home much earlier than Nick. But this Wednesday Nick cooked again. I was really grateful because for some reason I was completely out of energy (strange given my healthy afternoon of eating.)
Here the week starts to get much spottier.
I know that I drank that coke for breakfast because we were out of coffee and I needed a boost. Did I eat something too? Not sure. Then I got those chips from a meeting that I ordered food for. I ordered 'Chips, Salsa and Guacamole' and they brough potato chips, salsa and guacamole. I guess next time I should be more specific. They were good but it was still an odd choice for the cafeteria to send. The cereal, Multi Grain Squares, I had at Sophie's. Cascadian Farms makes it and its the closest things to Shreddies that I have found in the States. It was a delicious First Dinner. I don't know if I ate Second Dinner or not that night.
On Friday morning I opted for French Toast from the cafeteria. Anyone on CP campus reading this, DO IT! Probably one of the best meals I have eaten there so far, look how yummy:
Although the lady making it was in a pretty bad mood, and then tried to tell me that if I was having it to-go I couldn't have syrup. What a weirdo. Note: I GOT my syrup to go. I don't remember lunch, its possible that I skipped it because of my awesome breakfast, but its also possible that I had cheese and crackers. After work Rae and I went to Trader Joe's and I went on a frozen food spending spree! I also bought some pork to cook for dinner that night, because my WORD I am sick of chicken and don't talk to me about fish. So for dinner I made some frozen asparagus risotto from TJ's, it was really good, and I made the pork with an apple, shallot, butter and white wine sauce. It turned out pretty well and I didn't over cook the pork which I was proud of because the slices were really thin.
On Saturday morning I made an amazing breakfast. I guess I got the french toast bug on Friday because I wanted some MO. So I made us scrambled eggs, french toast, and sausages. No pictures because I was too busy enjoying. I think that for lunch I had salsa chips. Nick made pasta with sausage but I didn't really like it so chips seemed like a good alternative. Rae and I decided to go and do a DVR marathon at my apartment that night. Remember that "Chinese Water Beetle" that I found under my couch a while back? Well, we definitely found three more dead ones there on Saturday night. Although my neighbor told me they aren't beetles at all but ROACHES! Ahhhhh! I'm very squeamish about bugs but really, roaches brings it to another level. That's just disgusting. Rae is not squeamish at all, in fact one of the reasons we were at my house was to re-install me for the coming week and she was going to do a sweep for bugs and convince me that I was being silly. Even Rae was rattled by the giant cockroaches though. The unflappable Rae and the very flappable Anneka ran squealing all the way back to her apartment and there I shall stay. I am moving OUT! Before finding the bugs though I had candy salad for dinner while we watched some Real Housewives and Fashion Police.
On Sunday Nick and I went out to brunch with some of his friends. We went to Proper Pub, right next to Petco Park. It was not good. They had french toast on the menu but when I ordered it (yes, I was ordering french toast again, what of it?) they said its not actually on the menu on game days. French toast and baseball have never seemed incompatible to me before but, apparently I've been wrong. So I had to order the only sort of breakfast food on the brunch menu which was a dutch apple pancake served with two bangers. Not much irritates me more than gastropubs in the first place. Why are you messing with pub food? Why are you trying to make it fancy? Most of all, why are you charging me so much to eat it? This "pancake" was over $10 and was just awful. They served it like some kind of bastard yorkshire pudding fajita, in a sizzling hot skillet. The pancake batter was baked over what they called 'caramelized apples' but tasted more like organic glutten free apple puree for babies. On the side was a ramekin full of cream cheese frosting which I resorted to using to try and give the dish some flavor but to no avail. The bangers served along side were actually really good and luckily I shared them with Nick because his food never came. An hour after he ordered he asked again where his fritatta was and they said that his ticket was 7-8 tickets back and it would probably be another hour. Really? Two hours to make a fritatta? They said that the kitchen got slammed and they weren't expecting it. Really? You weren't expecting to have a busy brunch? On a Sunday? On gameday? When your restaurant literally overlooks Petco Park? Really? Anyway, I went to ask for our check because at that point I knew I had to get Nick out of there and feed him STAT before he started eating his shoes. While I was trying to get their attention I overheard them frantically talking about how they lost the check for Nick's food and how could that happen and what should they do??? LIARS! So I paid for my food and we left. I told Nick as we were walking out about the lying servers and he turned around and asked to talk to the manager who gave me back my $20, my hero :) When we got home I cooked him more sausages and french toast and he wrote an angry Yelp review. For dinner on Sunday I cooked some frozen chicken tacos from Trader Joes. They were great.
So far today I have eaten a bowl of Coco Krispies for breakfast, Panda Express Panda Bowl with half chow mein, half fried rice, and beef and broccoli for lunch, a fortune cookie (I will have a very comfortable old age, thanks Panda Fortune) and a handful of MnM's.
Also an Arnold Palmer, coffee and now some water. I don't, as a rule, include water in this blog. In case you are concerned that I'm about to die from never drinking any don't worry. I drink it, I just don't mention it.
In re-reading this I'm noticing that although I said I wouldn't blog about my dark food behavior I went ahead and did it anyway. That's a bit like how my diets go.
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