Breakfast, Day 2

Not the best breakfast I ever had, I'm just going to call it gruel. Gruel with apricot sauce. I'm hoping to preserve some eggs for later in the week so leftovers smashed together in a pan makes breakfast.

The chicory coffee is good, as you see in the picture I've already drank most of it. I had a couple pieces of fruit and some dried apricots too.

I have a lot of meal prep to do today so I'm sure I'll get my fill of tasting and sampling.

Day 1 Breakfast

I didn't start the challenge eating until today because I spent the day out of town with friends for a birthday celebration. It would have been funny to bring my own food to Bob Evans and the buffet lunch. So, I'll make up for it by extending my challenge week into next Friday.

No pictures of breakfast today. I ate a nice fruit salad consisting of 6 small apricots, a golden delicious apple, a small sweet plum and a few wonderfully lucious blackberries. It was very filling. After a cup of spearmint tea, I'll be all set until lunch.

Tonight's dinner and snack (day one)

My camera battery was dead at dinner... so no picture of the nice dinner I prepared. I shredded some cabbage and stir fried it with beans, carrots, and walnuts, and had two of the veggie patties Sharon prepared as well.
We went to the park, and when we came home I had apples for a snack. :o)

Dinner is Finally Here - Day 1

Today was very difficult. I was so hungry and close to either getting Starbucks, Panera, Pizza Hut, Burger King or KFC from the turnpike stop during lunch. I consulted with the Demarkcracy and mustered up the additional willpower to make it through the day.

In addition to the lunch I posted previously, I had 2 small apples for snacks. I know that I didn't bring enough food for the day.

When I got home, I had a few slices of cucumber and a couple of cherry tomatoes that I foraged from my sister's garden :)

I then made a salad with greens, more tomatoes, cucumbers, and a few pea pods. I used olive oil (cheat item #1) with garlic and lemon thyme for flavor.

I made soup with some of the broth I made yesterday and added potatoes, zucchini, spinach, parsley and chives.

I also had 1/2 chicken breast (cheater! cheater! - now its out of the way) that I boiled when I got home.

I may have a little sweet treat - a plum or dried apricots when I'm finished with dinner.

Breakfast, Day 2 (Jessica)

Since my wife is going to spend the night at her mom's house, I'm sending breakfast along with her. 2 eggs, 2 potatoes, an apple, some dried apricots, and a few black walnuts.

Dinner, Day 1

I'm taking dinner on the road tonight - Jessica has a family obligation (which will include dinner) and I am meeting the Jacksons for some food fun in the park.

Here is dinner day 1 - squirrel stew, corn cakes, and plums.

Squirrel Stew

Meat from a squirrel (rib section, doesn't include legs)

2 carrots

1 potato

sage leaf

marjoram

1/4 cup meal corn, cooked

1/4 cup soybeans, cooked

1-1/2 pints water

cornflour

Put water in pot, add vegetables and meat on medium heat. Cook until the potatoes are soft; mix cornflour in a small cup of water, turn burner up to high and add cup to pot. stir while heating, allowing the stew to thicken.

I always cheat when I make stew and add cornstarch to thicken it, since the starch is some part of the cornmeal I just added it all.

The soybeans and cooked corn were leftover examples from market day last night, I might as well add them to something.

The corn cakes were made using sage and basil and adding an egg to the recipe this morning - I used a lot less water too.

Rendering Fat

I took the piece of goose fat I had and rendered it down this morning; I simply put it in an egg pan with some water, then set the stove burner on its lowest setting and let magic happen. Nearly the entire hunk of fat was converted into a nice oil.