adventures in the outside world

krystal: day 5

I think I could eat crackers and cheese forever. I haven't gotten tired of anything yet, but I am hungry a lot.
I didn't know that rye crackers don't have wheat in them--always thought they were like whole wheat crackers.
I went to Trader Joe's last night to get more goat cheese--got goat chedder and a three-pack of crotins--plain, garlic & herb, and four peppers.
They didn't have beets though, so will have to get those today to make more borscht.
It was a little dizzying to walk through Trader Joe's--such an array of food!
I think cheeseburgers (Jade's choice), in hindsight, was an excellent choice. This diet would be easy if it weren't for social things--you can have cheeseburgers (or nicoise salad, actually) almost anywhere, but borscht is hard to find.
I would like a nice Bloody Mary this weekend . . .

random thoughts

krystal: days 1 and 2




Finally got the pictures to work . . .
these are day 1, and then dinner day 2.

The one problem with this diet is that it makes me very conscious of food--which make me hungry. Would be much easier if it weren't for that.

So, I finally finished making my borscht at 1 am last night/this morning--just had a taste before going to sleep, but had a big bowl for dinner tonight.
It has: short rib, pork sirloin, beets, onions, carrots, cabbage, parsley, dill, peppercorns, bacon, bay leaves, salt, pepper. and garnished with sour cream. The recipe is insane--you make three separate parts--the meat broth, the beet broth, and the vegetables--then combine them all together. It is yummy though--you can taste the different flavors, rather than them all being one thing. Ha! Hope this is making you guys hungry . . .

Strangely, what I'm craving is more along the lines of junk food--potato chips, cheese puffs, candy bars. And I don't even really like candy bars. (Except for Lion bars--which you can only get in Europe, so I can never have them.) Have also been wanting a Caprese sandwich from Bay Cities--a really good deli in Santa Monica . . . thinking of French bread and mozzarella.

Maybe alcohol will be my strategy. I'll just fill up on beer . . .

The List

Belated--but here it is.

waiting for the borscht

krystal: day one

breakfast: three light rye crackers, boucheron (cheese), a taylor pear.
lunch: two dark rye crackers, garlic and herb chevre.
after work snack: two light rye crackers with butter and honey; one light rye cracker with boucheron.
pre-dinner: pear with sour cream and cocoa powder, beer.

fyi, whole foods at fairfax and third opens at 7am. yes, i went there, at that time, in search of short ribs and pork butt, for my decadent borscht, partly drawn from the recipe for borscht at the (no-longer-there) russian tea room in new york.
and so, they are now simmering away, for four hours--which would make it--oh, about midnight--before i can add the vegetable part and have the first serving of my borscht.
smells good . . .

and oh yes, checking whether pears were in season was definitely worth it--they are delicious now!

krystal: the day before

all i can eat: borscht, wasa crackers, goat's milk cheese, pears.


i haven't eaten yet! this is just a template/example! it's still monday!
that's all. (bring on the the mcdonald's breakfast! the bibimbap! ice cream! the cherries!)

The Rules

The story of (That's) All You Can Eat:
Over a Saturday afternoon brunch (consisting of egg scramble, rosemary potatoes, jicama salad, bacon, sausage, cherries, and bread pudding) we spoke of food and not food.
The lemon juice/cayenne pepper/maple syrup diet was ridiculed. The Atkins diet was scoffed at. The cabbage soup diet was briefly considered then dismissed out of hand. The fruit juice fast was pooh-poohed. The South Beach diet was casually tossed aside.
What, we wondered, about an all-you-can-eat diet?