I like how in practically every post I say how I am going to really get on top of cooking, and then I just don't.
Today was the leftovers of snowday 2008 and I had to get up early to make my way across town. I scurried down to the basement to grab my cross bike and my shoes that were still encrusted in mud from my last race a few weeks ago. I had to dip them in a bowl of warm water to clan them up, and this took the place of eating. I hit the ice laden roads-literally twice when I crashed, my neck, arms adn left hip/buttock region is sore and stiff. yee-haw. Still, it was kind of nice bikeiceskating to work, and having roads mostly devoid of vehicles.
I was actually making good time despite sometimes not even really pedaling, so I stopped in at Kettleman's for an egg/sausage/bagel sandwhich. They have great bagels, but the sandwhich things aren't the best, they look good but the taste doesn't really compare to what you could make at home.
When I arrived at work, on time!, my friend was brewinga french press of coffee up for her hubby and I, she only goes with decaf so that was awfully nice of her.
Later I took the little lass and her dog out for a snow stroll adn we hit up True Brew the one and only coffee shop in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Or at least the main Brookyln strip...I got a slice of banana bread and a cocoa. They were ok, but we really just needed a destination for our walk. Oh, I also got a hardboiled egg which was tough to peel.
When Samantha came home on he rlunch break she offered me some homemade banana bread that had been in the pantry, unbeknownst to me. It was delicious!We had it toasted with butter. Way better than what I had from the coffee shop. This is the second time in the semi recent past that I have ordered bb at a coffee shop only to be presented with homemade and superior bb soon after. the moral of the story? Don't buy banana bread. Unless your friends made it.
They had soem rice/vegetable concoction as well that I had a small bowlful of.
A cup of tea and several glasses of water, followed by crackers and 2 slices of provolone made up my afternoon snack. June had some blueberries, dried mango, sweet potato, and Cheerios. That girl loves Cheerios, its kind of ridiculous.
For dinner Samantha,Tom, June and I hit up the 5th Quadrant cos we were all starving and Samantha was giving em a mercy ride home due to the weather and the long hours we all put in. Tom and Samantha both got Zreubens, and I was tempted but refused t oorder the same thing so I got a portabello mushroom burger. We all had clam chowder as our side. It was good but didn't really tatse liek clam chowder. My "burger" was good but not neccesarily worth $8.5o, turned out dinner was free for me though, so that was nice. Tom and I had the seasonal C beer. C-sasonal? I dunno, it had soem dorky name like that. It was ok. June has some oyster crackers and a taste of a pickle, she seemed to like it and then made a really funny face like "what the hell?". She decided milk was really her best option and settled down long enough to nurse before trying to dance on the table top. Babies at the pub...watch out! We gave our table up to another family and friend with a baby and walked outside to see a man eating in the "heated" patio with his super cute puppy. Thats a good dog owner! I am dogsitting this week so I had to get over to the house to feed the dogs and hang out. The man of the house had made aloaf of rye bread and left it here for me so I had a slice with butter and a Bridgeport IPA. I'll make some rye toast in the morning with some eggs. That oughtta help start the day.