July 23-31, 2022 - Bean Burrito, Clams

This week was very stressful so I didn't have much appetite...I had an apple for lunch a couple days, ate some rice cakes...by Wednesday things had slowed down a little. I took pics of the stuff I ate.

Claire's Birthday Cake

Saturday I slept over at Claire's house to do scary movie night and celebrate her bday. Made her this cake. It's funfetti from a box but I made buttercream frosting myself. I think the cake was pretty good but the frosting was too sweet. Oopsie. We also ate mussels and truffle fries!

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Waffle

Janty made this waffle. Delish. Seemed like a very complicated recipe. It called for whipped egg whites.

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Oatmeal

My camera wasn't working this day. Anyway, oatmeal that I smashed an overripe banana into and put some nutella. Pretty good. I think I ate this on Tuesday morning which is when I was still more stressed than hungry so I didn't feel like eating anything but I really didn't want to throw the banana away so this worked. Tasted good and I only served myself a little so I wouldn't have to throw the oatmeal away. Another day for lunch I did leftover oatmeal, added a little dollop of miso, sesame oil, couple handfuls of greens, microwaved, put a fried egg and furikake on top. Took 5 minutes.

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Bean Burrito

I didn't really cook Monday or Tuesday so by Wednesday I was feeling like I wanted to make real dinner and learned that we had a bunch of cans of refried beans in the pantry. So I said, bean burritos! At first my plan was just do beans and cheese but then I thought I would need to eat a whole bunch of those to not feel full, and then I had the brilliant idea to make rice. I used this recipe for the rice: https://lilluna.com/food-tutorial-spanish-rice/ I felt like a little genius because I remembered we didn't have tomato sauce but we have a big stash of tomato paste. So used that, did 1:1 tomato paste, water. Janty ended up picking up pico de gallo on the way home, plus a bunch of other stuff. Pretty good dinner

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Donuts

This was some of the other stuff Janty picked up.

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Fried Rice

I have been making quick little fried rices for breakfast since I had leftover rice. Just heat up the Portugese sausage so the oil is in the pan, then put the rice, let it warm up, crack the egg, scramble scramble, mix. I feel like a genius every time.

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Clams & Crackers

I thought about clams and crackers last week and Janty had never had that so I bought some and have been thinking about them every day but just kept on not eating them. But today was the day! For dinner: clams, saltines, cheese. When we ran out of clams, I ate some tuna that I had open. Tried doing cracker, thin slice of cheese, tuna on top, it was like a little mini tuna melt. Canned clams and saltines is really so good. Excellent Sunday dinner.