May 16-May 20, 2022 - Red Cabbage

Last week was kale, this week we're working on eating a head of red cabbage. It's going ok. Still have about half of it, but I think we can do it. I'm saying "we" but tbh it is mostly me eating the red cabbage because I eat it during lunch and then don't want it for dinner. But maybe I'll make us a huge red cabbage-based salad for both me and Janty this weekend and that will help make a big dent.

Variety Plate

Red cabbage, kabocha, tsukemono, shredded chicken. I don't remember if I did anything to the cabbage this day. The kabocha I made over the weekend: cooked it first in a little olive oil, then added shoyu, tsuyu, sake, let it sit for a long time to get soft. Was trying to do what I watched Grandma do but idk if I did all the right ingredients. Kind of salty. I think I put too much shoyu. Tsukemono I followed this recipe: https://happyhappynester.com/pickle-recipe-sweet-pickled-daikon-takuan/. I don't know if you really need as much sugar as it calls for...for me, the sugar kind of sank to the bottom and I left a lot of it out when I transferred to the mason jar. Tastes good. I ate this same combo again for lunch on Tuesday at the office.

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BBQ Chicken Sandwich

Shredded chicken, BBQ sauce, red cabbage.

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Cookies

Used this recipe, added oatmeal. https://www.blessthismessplease.com/best-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe-ever/

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Sausage Bowl

I had a leftover egg white from making the cookies so I made this brunch bowl. It's rice at the bottom, Portugese sausage, broccolini, egg white.

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Cabbage, Chicken, Oatmeal

This time, I sauteed the cabbage with some ginger paste, garlic powder, and umami seasoning (I think? something like that). Ate with leftover BBQ chicken and oatmeal.

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Radishes

I saw an insta reel about eating radishes with nice butter and salt and I was curious. I didn't have any nice butter and didn't really feel in the mood, but I did have some mozzarella balls that I needed to finish so I cut up the radishes and mozzarella balls and used some Hawaiian salt from Uncle Gregg (the plain kind not the seasoned kind). Pretty good, and made me more open to the butter idea. The mozzarella wasn't really doing much, but I think that was also partially because it wasn't very fresh.

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Ekiben

We went to Fadensonnen and got ekiben foodtruck. I got tofu brah like I always do. Drink is sussudio. I also got a gin and raspberry, which had cardamom and something else good. Good midweek treat.

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Salmon Dinner

I loosely used this recipe: https://cafedelites.com/sheet-pan-garlic-butter-baked-salmon/

We really needed to use our asparagus because it was starting to get mushy at the tops. I didn't have parsley so the salmon part is just garlic and Hawaiian salt (the seasoned one for this, though). The potatoes have rosemary and olive oil and salt.

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Chicken, Rice, Kabocha

We ran out of milk but I forgot and made really strong tea and it made me feel nauseous so I had to eat lunch early. Had rice, chicken, kabocha, nori on the rice. It's the liquid kind. I think maybe I was supposed to give it to Claire but that didn't occur to me until I already opened it. Claire, I can bring you on Saturday.