Sam of Becks and Posh has issued a challenge: document everything you eat between November 20th and 26th. Being a word-centric person, I completely forgot that this challenge involved photographing everything I eat (duh!). So I’m afraid today’s entry is missing a breakfast photo, and, er, the lunch photo is a little unusual. But all of this week’s breakfast photos should be much the same as today’s, so worry not.
Wait a minute, I hear you say. What’s this all about anyway?
Sam thought it might be fun to see what food blogger’s actually eat on a daily basis, as opposed to the usual foie gras with calvados reduction served on a bed of dry-farmed heritage xanga. (What’s xanga, you say? It’s such a rare heritage plant that nobody’s ever heard of it. Pronounced ZANE-gah.)
Here’s all I could eat, day 1.
breakfast
My usual almond milk smoothie with fresh strawberries, half a banana, coconut butter, cinnamon, and ground flax seeds. It’s a very portable breakfast, which you can drink in the car or on the train. It’s usually quite tasty, depending on the combination of berries I use and the sweetness of the berries. Sometimes I throw in some raw chocolate nibs for zip and zing.
lunch
Due to last night’s laziness, I relied on the cafes at work for sustenance. Not the best idea. I had teriyaki chicken breast with cilantro rice and tempura butternut squash. The chicken was alright, only a little dry, and the teriyaki sauce wasn’t too sweet. The cilantro rice was a bit mushy, but it had a nice cilantro flavor (I ate it despite myself, just for the cilantro). The tempura squash was neither tempura, nor squash (discuss). The tempura coating was soggy with oil (ugh!) and the vegetables weren’t squash at all, but rather somewhat flavorless string beans. To their credit, the flavor of the string beans was probably overpowered by the tempura coating. I bought some greens at another cafe, to make sure I had enough veggies. These were a perfectly reasonable steamed baby bok choy, broccoli, and seaweed. I nibbled at them and then rushed off to a meeting.
It’s a good thing I scroll through foodblogs while eating my lunch, otherwise I would have completely forgotten to snap any photos. Think of the first photo as the absence of teriyaki chicken and cilantro mushy rice with soggy tempura green beans. It’s better that way.
snacks
My mid-morning and afternoon snacks consisted of a slice of buttered challah which I prepared this morning with French fleur de sel butter. Oh how I love that butter.
I also ate one bite of some cake I found in the break room. I decided it wasn’t nearly worth the calories and promptly disposed of my slice.
dinner
I arrived home from work at around 7:30, and threw together the following:
- Baby spinach salad with winesap apples, peppercress, and hazelnuts sprinkled with olive oil and pomegranate molasses
- An Afghan crepe filled with mildly spicy spinach, bought from the Afghan food stand at the Temescal farmers market on Sunday
- A spoonful of hummus bought from the same stand (great hummus!)
- A couple spoonfuls of tofu cilantro salad from Hodo Soy Beanery, also purchased at the Temescal farmers market. I love their tofu, and this was quite a good salad.
