5/7/10 Breakfast, lunch, and later

Um, it's past my bedtime, but I figured I'd better check in in case anyone was worried that I didn't eat today. This morning I made biscuits. Because I haven't gotten milk yet (trying to put off using the $20 gift card as long as possible), I used some buttermilk powder I had in the fridge. I was planning to make a 1/4 recipe of regular biscuits (usually I make drop biscuits), but due to errors and inattentiveness, I ended up making a half recipe of buttermilk drop biscuits. I ate three for breakfast. (480 cal, 27 g fat)

Right before running off to the afternoon sections of the woodturning symposium, I threw together a sandwich. A couple of slices of the absurdly dense rye bread, light mayonnaise, some monterey jack cheese, a little salt and pepper, and some lettuce. It really does make a good combination! (377 cal, 14 g fat)

I put the last three biscuits in a plastic bag and put it in the bag I was carrying with me at the symposium. I snacked on them through the afternoon. I never exactly had dinner, but I had the biscuits and I got a cup of hot chocolate from the free drinks concession at the symposium. And on my way home tonight, I ate some more of my crackers. I really need to make more crackers, but I'm not sure when I'll have time. Speaking of time, it is now time for me to go to bed!

5/1/10 Breakfast and lunch and the first ingredient to run out!

Well, I've done it. Run out of the first of my kitchen staples: black beans. To go with the chicken that's been thawing, I decided to cook up my favorite bean recipe. I'll be cooking some rice, too. But there weren't quite enough beans. I had a bit less than the 1 cup of dry beans the recipe called for. I'm making the recipe the same way as usual, not reducing anything. But even though I've often gone a whole month without cooking black beans, it makes me kind of sad to know this is my last batch for the forseeable future. I have a lot of other kinds of beans in the cupboard--at least 4 varieties, plus split peas--so I guess I could see what it would be like to cook this recipe using a different kind of bean! Not sure about that, though.

Breakfast today was burritos. I used the last two of the tortillas I made earlier in the week, and finished off the can of refried beans I started on Monday, too. I also used some of the beef fajita strips I'd marinated and frozen. I still have several bags of that meat in the freezer! And because I like cheese, of course there was some cheddar on the burritos, too. Oh, and while the meat was defrosting in the microwave, I had a first course of Jello. (594 cal, 22 g fat)

For lunch I decided I'd better make a salad, since I happen to have a head of iceberg lettuce in the fridge. I'm not sure that was the best idea, since I don't have many other vegetables to put in, and no ham, which I would often include in a salad. So it was a little bland. Lettuce, sunflower seeds, cheddar, a hard-boiled egg, and some ranch dressing I made using a recipe from www.cooks.com. I may need to add some more mayonnaise into the dressing; it was really thin. (382 cal, 28 g fat)

Hopefully dinner will turn out better than lunch. Which reminds me, I'd better go tend to the black beans simmering on the stove!