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November 21 delivery:

2 heads cabbage
3 kohlrabi with greens
1 stalk brussels sprouts
1 butternut squash
1 kale top

Meals:

Cabbage in cabbage and potato pie, warm and filling
Pumpkin from a previous delivery baked in a packet and served with spicy tomato sauce
The other half of the pumpkin roasted and served with black beans in tacos
Kohlrabi mashed with potatoes in stoemp
Kohlrabi greens sauteed with $1 bag chard
Half of the butternut squash in this GF butternut and apple galette which was better in theory than in execution
Brussels sprouts in this loaded sprouts salad, except that I didn't have enough sprouts and so threw in half a bag of arugula. Will make again.

And for posterity's sake, here's our extended holiday weekend menu:
Meal 1: stoemp, sauteed greens, cranberry sauce (filling from cranberry hand pies), "key lime" pies
Meal 2: butternut and apple galette, green bean casserole, cranberry hand pies (made a half batch of pastry + the whole cranberry recipe)
Meal 3: corn pudding, loaded brussels sprouts salad, roasted potatoes

Nutritional yeast in granola? Not a terrible idea!

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: Pilsen

Because I did laundry directly after work and then waited around for Shane to stop by with some stuff until past the time it was reasonable to start cooking, the following was my dinner:

- 1 handful mixed nuts (marcona almonds, cashews)
- 1 small bowl grape tomatoes, halved, with kosher salt
- 1 small mango
- about half a cup of black bean and corn salsa, scooped out with
- a handful of snow peas
- 5 kalamata olives
- 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds

Yep. The cleanse: doin' it right.

I will also note that last night's dinner (which used a cleanse recipe) was:
- 1 head cauliflower, drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled with paprika, then roasted
- 1 red bell pepper, also roasted
- 10 kalamata olives
followed by:
- 1/2 cup chickpeas, roasted with paprika and cayenne

Tomorrow I should be able to just come home and cook, though, which will be good as these half-assed meals need to stop. On the bright side, I have managed to cook breakfast and dinner the last three days, and breakfast today. Miso soup is my friend.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Pilsen
Current Music: That damned ice cream truck

Things I can no longer eat without suffering the consequences:

Roasted garlic
Broccoli
Linguica (some spicy sausages are OK, but this one isn't working out so well)
Soda
Brown rice (in small amounts it's OK)
Overly spicy things

Things I used to not like/eat that I now like/eat:

Cauliflower
Red meat
Greens (esp. chard)

Things that I just don't like, no matter how much I've tried:

Salmon
Hops
Malted things (malts, malt balls, etc)

Current Mood: uncomfortable
Current Music: Diane Rehm Show

Day 99 - 10/29/07, originally uploaded by brixton.

Last night SB and I went to this little Chinese restaurant in Falls Church for dinner and had probably the best Chinese food of my entire life. Having grown up in the Midwest, this probably isn't a terribly bold statement.

I don't really care, though, as the leftover fish soup with pickled vegetables is worthy of the Tampopo-esque slurps that I'm inflicting on my cubicle neighbors.

We checked out Radio Maria's tapas 'lounge' last night while celebrating our launch of Moodle. The tapas was good - not quite as amazing as the tapas we had in Iowa City, but delicious and relatively affordable. We had the sampler plate, two pieces of tapas each, a dessert, two glasses of champagne (me), and a beer (SB), for $40-something. I love Radio for dinner and brunch, and the tapas lounge was a nice and welcome addition to the downtown area.

For dinner tonight I had a vegetarian paella instant meal thing from Fantastic Foods. It was, well, fantastic, and I'm considering buying their stuff in bulk. I had the Tuscan Mushroom Risotto last week and loved it. I have a hard time with pre-fab meals - most of them just don't fill me up, and then I eat something else, and then I've defeated the purpose of eating something good for me and not going-out spendy. These seem to the be exception to the rule. I have the Ginger Shiitake with Rice Noodles and am looking forward to eating it soon.

My field (library and information science) is rife with made-up terminology to describe areas of research that are essentially mashups of other areas: bibliometrics, folksonomy, etc. I tend to be really annoyed by such things, but I think I've found an exception to this rule: snacksonomy.

To be more precise, the site that provides the exception to the rule: Snacksby. Snacksby lets you tag your own recipes by ingredient - or search by ingredient for recipes containing the four weird things you have left in your fridge.

I tried to do this a couple of months ago using delicious to tag recipes I wanted to try - I have a loooong list of bookmarked recipes - but didn't get enough entries in to make it worthwhile. Now I'm wondering if I can port that information over into Snacksby....

Either way, yum. I'm happy this has come along.

If it's summer, it's guacamole - a recipe I figured out from restaurant eating and just trying things I had lying around the house.

If it's winter, it's spinach dip. Not really my recipe at all - Eva found it in Fine Cooking, and we both fell in love with it - but it's one I can make in my sleep, and it's always delicious.

If it's the holidays, it's my grandma's mashed potatoes. Fattening as hell, but they say "home" and "holidays" to me like nothing else. The potatoes are boiled, then mashed, then baked with all sorts of yummy extras.

This QotD is making me hungry.

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