Yeah OK, so I got a little lazy. The past 2 days, not much cooking in the house, and a lot more eating out. Not the best option, but still just as tasty. Wednesday entailed an evening out with the ladies, and I won a free drink from the bartender - a virgin version of their Melon Mojito. It really wasn't all that tasty, since they usually have wine with the soda water and the watermelon, and minus the wine, well, there isn't that much flavor to soda water even with the watermelon. We then segued to another restaurant, for munchies, and I had myself a Peking duck egg roll. That was it, nothing else for dinner - though I did have some good snacks throughout the day, enough for sustainance. Daytime eats entailed my yogurt and donut peach breakfast, followed by a lychee in midmorning, then a lunch out with one of our product reps, of a roast beef sandwich with some delicious fries, a wonton soup present from one of my colleagues on his way back from a meeting (we used to work at the same firm in the burbs, and now, every time either of us has a meeting out that way, we bring each other the soup back as a treat), and another donut peach in the afternoon. Not a bad lineup if you ask me!
Yesterday, breakfast was 2 bowls of cereal, with a donut peach for a mid-morning snack, and I just couldn't fight off those oatmeal cookies staring at me - I had one, and it was so good. All this before lunch! I spent part of the morning running EMT for a colleague who wasn't feeling up to par, and then met up with a friend for lunch downtown. Lunch, oh lunch - it was so good, a wonderful basic vegetable soup with cabbage, followed by pork scallopini with a mushroom sauce, and dessert was a lemon sorbetto. So good! The evening, I just felt like pizza, and luckily, Hubby conceded - so we had good ole pizza, and I had myself some buffalo wings to boot. Two days of eating out, and I think my body has salted itself quite aplenty.
Today being the day leading into the weekend, I tried to get myself back on track. Breakfast was cereal with a donut peach, with a midmorning snack of a lychee. Lunch, I got some baked ziti, though outside of just the ziti this dish bore no resemblence to baked ziti. For $9 - you'd expect at least some mix of ricotta in there, but no, just ziti, tomato sauce, and mozzarella. I venture to say, I will most likely try making some baked ziti this weekend, WITH some ricotta, since my ziti experience today was such a blah. After lunch, I had to down some 4 glasses of water, and hold it - any of you preggies out there will know, this is preparation for a sonogram. We had our first - and it was quite exciting! Heartbeat, visuals, and all - the little bugger is growing. About just 2 and a half centimeters so far, but it's there! It even kicked its legs a little, like riding a bike - we definitely have ourselves a cyclist. Both Hubby and I were very excited, and upon returning to the office, I just couldn't hold it in anymore - I broke the news to everyone. No doubt, excitement, some "I knew it!"'s, and more comments that no longer will I be able to savor my beloved stinky cheeses. Oh cheeses - how I miss you so!
So dinner is cooking right now, and with the oncoming weekend, time is growing a bit for me, more than it does during the week. I made a Japanese dish, oden - bonito flakes, boiled in water for about half an hour, to extract its flavor; addition of some soy sauce for added flavor; and an assortment of additional ingredients for substance. In my oden, I have carrots, Chinese radish, and a red potato, waxy enough to pick up flavor without falling apart in this soup dish. Right before I turn off the heat this evening, I'll add some fish dumplings as well. Light enough and hands-free enough for the summer; filling enough for dinner. A variation I've made in the past was to boil up some soba noodles, to add upon serving. The soup mixture should boil at a minimum of 3 hours in the purist fashion, so that the flavors may meld; however, I have gotten away with boiling everything for about an hour and a half, usually enough time, when I bike, for me to get everything into the pot, get it cooking, and go pop in the shower and clean off.
So that's the food twist for today. I'm intent on trying to make good of my resolution last week - if there is anything I'm craving or wanting to eat, I will at least try to make it myself first before just going out and buying it. I may push that tomorrow morning, with some oatmeal cookies!
(of course, I'm trying not to think about how easy it is to make chocolate cake...)
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