My day started early at 8am. Usually because most functions are at night we don't start cooking till noon. Today was a lunch for the Sertoma Club. Anyway, the day started with green monster again. I actually really like them. It's really refreshing and sweet. Trust me.
Look at those eyes. Scary almost.
Got the proportion down right. This time made one perfect glass. This means, somewhere between 1/2-1 cup of almond milk, a couple small handfuls of spinach and frozen banana until I liked how cold it was.
If you can't tell what under all that allow me...
piece of crustless toast, then meatloaf, mashed potato, mushroom gravy and some oiniony green beans. I helped plating all the food. It was quite an assembly line. I was proudly in charge of green beans.
Let's see, I help make the meatloaf, mashed potato and green beans and I did all the salads. Meatloaf was made Monday. I got my little hands working on 20lb? mixture. It was also first time shaping a meatloaf. Meatloaf are interesting because they's so far from the REAL meat. Just keep reading. The kitchen was smellin' good. I also helped do the dishes since we were a person short. Nothing like a little teamwork. One of the chefs sent a plate of this yumminess home with me. My brother ate all th piece of meatloaf and mashed potato but sadly not the green beans.
Commercial bowl of mashed potato. It's really big.
Packed a small lunch since I was in a hurry this morning. The staff eats whatever is on the menu but I really didn't want to eat all that rich stuff everyday. So cracker, muenster cheese and a ripe vipe tomato. Yes, it was sweet and juicy.
Went grocery shopping again for some ingredients for tomorrow's dinner that I'm making. Mom's birthday is tomorrow. I'm planning mustard and maple syrup salmon, mushroom risotto and roasted broccoli with sea salt. Thanks to eatliverun for this idea. I'm really excited :) Below is some stuff that I really love but didn't buy because I didn't need it. Yes, what an idea. Don't buy anything you don't need. Y'all should relaly try nutella. I've never had nutella on anything other then straight from a spoon.
Went to Trader Joe's. Fragment, I know. What I love about Trader Joe's is that its products are small name brand and really unique, nothing you can find in a commercial supermarket.
Greek yogurt is the fad now and I can see why. It's creamy, rich, really thick, above all 120 calories and 22g of protein. But for those who can't afford to buy fage (the real deal) on a daily basis, Trader Joe's brand is great too.
Some other great yogurt stuff.
Do you remember I got the Blue Diamond brand from Meijer? Well, I remembered a better deal at Trader Joe's, bigger size, with flaxseed (plus plus) and cheaper. I already had a taste and it's FANTASTIC
Light lunch made me snack. banana
Greek yogurt have spoiled me. I cannot stand normal yogurt because I can now taste all the artificial things and chemical to make it sweet when real yogurt is actually quite tangy. I swiped this from Race for the Cure. I wanted to try this but didn't want to buy an entire package of it. It was yucky like I predicted but I still ate it because I was hangry. Gloopy and no real tast because it's not REAL FOOD.
Mom made some steamed buns. I like it. I love how it's really chewy whereas bread is more bready...if you know what I mean. Before the steamer:
After the steamer:
I watched this movie this afternoon trying to recuperate being on me feet. It's so good not that it's exciting but the characters are so well developed and the story line about the real Beethoven is so interesting. Maybe people into classical music like me will enjoy it more.
Mom also made these. I have no idea what they're called in English. But it's a sweet and sticky dough on the outside and inside is a sweet filling and in this case it a five nut filling
After it's cooked in water
I had all of it of course. It was delicious.
I was very hungry as you will see. Ate literally half a kabocha squash. Mom steamed it and it was all mushy. I think I developed my taste during middle school when I had braces because it really really like things that are soft and chewy, nothing hard.
Thanks to iowagirl for this inspiration and like I said on my last post, I never follow recipes. It's way too complicated.
Mom insist we eat as much organic as possible. NOT because we like to buy expensive food but because so much of the foods were are eating today is very far from the real thing. By going organic, you're ensuring (or at least helping to help) that these animals are treated better because the producers are not injecting them with who knows what that make animals esp. chickens buckle under their own weight because they're so big. Sorry, runon. Seeing Food Inc opened my eyes to what I'm feeding myself. Wow is it a lot of corn I'm eating and it's absolutely incredible how much our food has changed. It's really no longer from "farm to table" idea, but a filthy industry of how producers handle our foods. It also talks about how today's society's idea of food has changed in that you can buy $1 burgers that will give you plenty of calories to burn but spend 2$ just buying lettuce or broccoli. I'd say screw up is what it is. SEE THE MOVIE and it will change you life and perception.
Yummy.
After dinner, my mom and I took advantage of the slim rays of sunshine. I'm making oreo cheesecake or I should say they're in the oven as I type. Yah, so I lost count how many oreo I ate before I finally got the tray into the oven. It's so good...hmmm..must be all that high oleic canola oil. I like how Nabisco changed from partially hydrogenated oil to this. It's getting there. Wait till tomorrow for cheesecake pics!
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