Wed, Dec 17

8.29am - popp y seed oatmeal w/ walnuts, at home10.02am - a couple of Kimberly's home baked cookies (peanut butter and chocolate chip), at work

12.20pm - Annie Cheung's microwavable Szechuan noodles (in a biodegradable corn starch tray), at work

12.31pm - fresh pineapple, some of Connie's candied pecans, and an almond cookie, at work

1.26pm - chili lime pistachios, at work

2.46pm - an apple, in the lunch room, at work.

3.27pm - cashew fruit juice and another one of Kimberly's peanut butter cookies, at work

7.25pm - leftover Indian food, at home

7.35pm - and a bit of dessert

Fri, Dec 12

8.32am - fig-ginger oatmeal w/ fresh apples and walnuts, at home 11.30am - Annie Cheung's Kung Pao noodles, at work. That's part of our parking structure in the background, with rows and rows of brand new solar panels on the top level

2pm - salad from Mrs. Winston's, outside work
4.30pm - chocolate-cherry bumble bar, in the lunchroom, at work

4.40pm - an organic fuji, in the lunchroom, watching the sunset over the Pacific, at work

8.15pm - Ritesh made chutney sandwiches AND a lebanese lentil soup for dinner!!

and I started on some Christmas baking...

10.30pm - sampling some of our fresh almond/marzipan cookies (didn't get to the chocolate dipping yet), while watching an Academy Award preview screener of Revolutionary Road

Sun, June 29 - Euro Final

8.43am - oatmeal w/ almond milk and raspberry -flaxseed sauce, walnuts, sesame seeds, at home, with Ritesh11.07am - toasted whole wheat English muffin w/ olive oil and salt. Something to line the stomach as the time of the game drew near. Just found out around this time that Michael Ballack was actually going to play - he'd been out with a calf injury for the last two days.

11.44am - Phinney went all the way to Rockenwagner to buy fresh pretzel bread! And she brought sweet German mustard! And butter and brie! (you're so the best, Phinney!), the minute before the game started, at Juan's, with Stuart and Jess, Scott and Tamara, Greg and Phinney, and Ritesh. Don't ask me why the piccie is sideways all of a sudden - did neither take it nor save it or upload it that way. Hmm...

12.36h - Ritesh went all out and made German-style currywurst, and a whole platter of it! This is the most popular German fast food (along with Turkish doner kebabs which, admittedly, are more photogenic), and it's basically a pork bratwurst with a special fruity curry ketchup, some curry powder, and a curry-tomato sauce - home made in this case by Ritesh, who cooked up three batches of the stuff last night: the first one had a little too much vinegar, the second one was so spicy only he and I could eat it, and the third one was just about perfect. Yet in spite of all this effort, and the fabulous result, the German team just was not to be persuaded to actually play well. The Spanish were running circles around them, literally. And of course Fernando Torres (Liverpool's number 9, as Stuart likes to remind people) had to score. So Spain won. Ah well. Good for them. They deserved it. But as they say - after the game is before the game, and we're just warming up for the World Cup in a couple of years...

14.34h - some marzipan-y German almond horns, after the game

15.01h - and no better time to get some cupcakes! Still helping Phinney in her research... These were from a place on Wilshire and 5th, which I think is called Vanilla - hard to say since there's two cupcake stores on this block and I'm not sure which is which. These are mini-cupcakes btw, mocha, red velvet, and the seasonal berry in front, with a passion-fruit filling. My favorite. However, decidedly NOT dairy free...

18.04h - so dinner had to be healthy - spicy hummus w/ cucumber, tomatoes and some organic whole grain-flaxseed tortilla chips

Sat, June 28

8.50am - oatmeal w/ almond milk, raspberries, walnuts, sesame seeds, at home.13.53h - salt ramen from Satsouka, with Ritesh

14.13h - udon soup w/ kagiage tempura, at Mitsuwa Market, with Ritesh

16.35h - raspberry-flaxseed smoothie, at home, with Ritesh

18.02h - just one bite of Phinney's great mac'n cheese, at home, with Ritesh

20/24h - roasted sweet corn and avocado salad w/ curry dressing, at home

20.43h - Mirabell plums from Nady's garden, some walnuts, at home

21.43h - Awakened Buddha tea (lavender, rosemary , clove) at the Literati Cafe

Wed, May 7, 2008

6.56am - protein bar before the 7am bootcamp, on the beach, with Ritesh. Bootcamp is catching up with us, too exhausted to get up really early this morning. Plus it's been a gloomy, chilly day - that heat wave we had must have moved along to Scotland 8.53am - oat bran w/ soy milk, fresh mango, walnuts and black sesame seeds, fresh OJ squeezed from the succulent oranges from Nadya's garden, at home, with Ritesh

9.08am - boot camp makes you hungry - 2 eggs for Ritesh and yours truly, at home

12.45pm - yesterday's ginger-turmeric soup, Ritesh's turkey avocado sandwich (thanks, love!), at work

3.21pm - an apricot Emmi yogurt w/ raw almonds and dried cranberries, at work

7.56pm - Ritesh's bok choy w/ fried tofu and shitake mushrooms, brown rice, at home

Wed, April 23, 2008

7.48am - watermelon, at home8.28am - oat bran w/ chocolate hemp milk, banana and walnuts, at home

11.15am - and another chocolate-nut-fruit bar, at work

12.27pm - chicken breast, grilled veggies and saffron rice, at the Hollywood Society of Radio and Television Luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, with many, many industry colleagues

12.28pm - a lemon-moussy type of dessert cake, at above named luncheon

7.30pm - and back to a modest dinner at home: mache with turkey bacon, and a grilled pita sandwich w/ mozzarella and bruschetta. Doesn't work so well on the grill, but I'm trying to use up leftovers before Ritesh comes home...

Tues, April 22, 2008

8.11pm - oat bran w/ vanilla almond milk, banana, walnuts and black sesame seeds, at home12.35pm - Es Teler, an Indonesian "drink" (more like a dessert if you ask me) consisting of coconut meat, jackfruit, avocado, shaved ice and sweetened condensed milk, at Simpang Asia, with Nadya

12.35pm - Nadya's tasty Indonesian noodles (Mie Tek Tek), at Simpang Asia

12.35pm - and my not very photogenic but very tasty soup (Mie Duk Duk, I think), at Simpang Asia, with Nadya

8.01pm - fried chicken, rice, asparagus, at Laura's, with Richard, Laura and little Jasper

8.42pm - Laura's great spinach salad with goat cheese and apples, at Richard's and Laura's

8.50pm - and the perennial classic, Trader Joe's French apple tart, at Laura's