pesto experiments

Foodings for 10/11/10 include....

breakfast as lunch! I woke up with a craving for Cherrios. All breakfast foods are accompanied by orange juice!

Then... dinner time! I was so surprised I wasn't hungry the six hours from lunch til dinner. Mom was late at work again, so I got the go ahead to actually cook. I made my dad hash (ground beef and potato pieces), but I can't stand the stuff, so after digging around in the cabinets I found a packet of pesto sauce mix! So off I went to making it.

It came out pretty good! I undercooked the noodles slightly, but other than that it was fine. I steamed some frozen broccoli and tossed it in with a little parmesian cheese and topped the whole thing off with some feta and a tiny bit of mozzarella (like, 10 little of those shreds worth. Nowhere near a handful.) The best part was the pesto was less than 15 calories! I believe it was Knorr brand. Experimental cooking = success.

Afterwards I splurged and ate a Ghiardelli milk chocolate + caramel square. Love this stuff.

My mom always has a bowl of candy around the house, and since it's fall we're stocked up on candy corn. it's next to impossible to not take a few pieces from it.. so this is about what I had late last night. 6 or 7 about.

can I cook yet?

Day three and I'm still here.

I was contemplating what to have with lunch and was sorely tempted by the leftover Chinese in our fridge... but I wanted to at least try to be a little healthy. I decided to make an egg sandwich, so I know I succeeded at least in the sodium department.

I have mentioned before I have very little cooking ability. I am working on it! But the scene below illustrates this nicely. I have to toast the english muffin, scramble an egg, and cut a piece of roast beef all at once?? I was legit slightly intimidated. I mean, those eggs cook fast. Also, somehow one half of the english muffin got wedged under the wire bread normally sits on, so it was nice and stuck.

But it all worked out in the end, and I was left with a tasty roast beef+egg+cheddar sandwich! And Simply Orange orange juice, because I can't have eggs without orange juice. I'm not sure what the roast beef was leftover from (I didn't know it was roast beef until my dad said so... I have much to learn.), but it was pretty good.

Of course, then the brownie. This is like, half a brownie. They're almost gone.

Later for dinner, I went to my brother's house. For starters there was iceberg lettuce, chopped carrots, a little cheddar cheese, and just a drizzle of light Italian dressing. Just enough to kind of make everything a little moist. Sorry about the poor quality of the next photos, I left my camera at home and only had my phone.

My sister-in-law made chicken alfredo! She makes a really great marinade for chicken, which my brother grills outside. No, it is not warm outside, but he will do it anyway. That's how he rolls.

Two pieces of grilled chicken, mostacholi noodles, alfredo sauce, and a piece of garlic bread. I only eat the insides of garlic bread. Not a fan of crispy things.

My sister-in-law always makes dessert for us. Today was triple chunk chocolate chip cookies. Ooooh my gosh. Halfway through my cookie she made an ice cream sandwich out of hers with vanilla bean ice cream, so I split another cookie with my mom just so I could make a mini sandwich with two quarter pieces. Sooo good.

Evening snack. Serving size of Cheez-it crackers are 27 crackers for a 150 calorie serving. I have 7. Go ahead and count 'em. I also had another half brownie... sigh. I love chocolate, what can I say.