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(Although I'm sure Toliver meant well.)
Of course I did. Wishing you nothing but the best.
And I think tammylc needs to be tagged to do another foodblog when the cravings hit in a couple months.
That should be interesting!
Thanks Toliver! Your post really didn't bother me, but it did remind me that I should post the disclaimer sooner rather than later.
Surprisingly, I haven't had any food cravings or aversions to speak of. Aside from eating a little more often than before, my habits have mostly remained the same. Spicy food tends to bother my stomach a little more, and it's essential that I eat a nice fibre-heavy cereal for breakfast, but other than that I'm still eating like I always have. Thank goodness - it would have been awful if I'd ended up with viscious morning sickness and unable to eat!
The only thing I've craved so far have been hot fudge sundaes, but I craved those before I got pregnant...
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Thanks for all the dinner suggestions. I ended up going with my original plan and making curried tofu and vegetables. Left work and went to the Produce Station for ingredients. Diced up a pound of extra firm tofu and fried it in canola oil so it got crispy. Meanwhile, I peeled a small butternut squash and cut it into fine dice. When the tofu was mostly done I threw in the squash and cooked that until the squash was mostly done and starting to carmelized. Turned down the heat and added 3 cloves of garlic and some ginger (I love the prepared ginger you buy in a jar - great stuff). Stirred that for a minute, then added a bunch of good quality curry powder (bought in bulk from my local Indian grocery). Toasted the spices for a bit, then poured in a can of organic crushed tomatoes and some water to make it sauce like. Added to that some broccoli florets cut small and some diced green pepper, and put the lid on. I stirred it a couple times to make sure all the broccoli was getting cooked, and added some extra curry powder and cumin to taste. To serve it, I reheated some leftover rice from Chinese food last night by putting it in a glass bowl, adding some water, and microwaving it for a few minutes. Ta-da - dinner!
It was my first time _really_ cooking in the new kitchen. I've made spaghetti, but that was just heating up a jar of prepared sauce and boiling some water. I love my stove, and my beautiful granite countertop, and it was a joy to cook. Especially since when I cook, my husband does the dishes!
Oh, in the spirit of full disclosure - I snacked on some havarti with dill samples while at the produce station, and had half a glass of Squirt before dinner. With dinner I had some milk. Now I'm going to drink some ginger tea.
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Still not particularly hungry, but the book I got at my exam this morning says I'm supposed to have 4 dairy servings a day (I thought it was only 3) so I'm going to squeeze in a yogurt. Yoplait Custard Style Lemon Supreme, to be precise.
Slight change in dinner requirements. Our soon to be housemate is over painting, and I need to include her in dinner plans. Which makes it a wee bit more challenging - now I'm looking for a quick dinner for 3 that's vegetarian and doesn't have mushrooms in it.
Barring any more interesting suggestions, I'll probably do a curried tofu and vegetables in tomato sauce thing, served with rice or couscous.
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fritatta w/ a salad.
Good idea, and works for me, but the husband thinks frittata is weird. I know, I know - what's up with that?
Anybody else got any ideas?
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That reminds me - I'm only 10 weeks pregnant, and I've already received more unsolicited pregnancy advice than I want. So let's try to avoid doing that here, shall we?
You won't get any from me.
My sister recently asked me "What is it about being pregnant that makes everyone assume you're a complete idiot?"
Oh, I can _so_ relate to that one... :-)
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Food from Denny's sticks with you for a long time, so for now I haven't needed to eat anything. I am, however, on my second or third glass of water since arriving in the office.
I'm planning to cook tonight and enjoy my shiny new kitchen. For reasons I'm not going to go into right now, I have a lovely Jenn-Air range, but can't use the oven, only the stove top. I'm looking for suggestions for an easy dinner for two. Assume an ample supply of all the basics, but no fresh produce or meat - I'll be stopping to pick that up after work. It's a new twist on foodblogging - you guys can tell me what to eat!!!
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This will be an interesting blog...let's see if you can outdo NeroW!
Well, I certainly won't outdo NeroW in her consumption of vast quantities of alcohol! Impressive, that...
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Thanks for the welcome everyone.
hjshorter - Yes, this is my first baby.
alex - Brilliant idea, but probably better in a year and 7 months . There's someone over on LJ (www.livejournal.com) who's writing a journal from her baby's perspective. It's hysterical.
toliver - Up to 3 servings of caffeine per day is acceptable throughout pregnancy. I have at most one serving a week - my insomnia means that I really shouldn't have caffeine at all, but sometimes I need the pick me up. But my utter lack of a caffeine addiction means that it only takes half a Coke to get my going...
That reminds me - I'm only 10 weeks pregnant, and I've already received more unsolicited pregnancy advice than I want. So let's try to avoid doing that here, shall we? And in my conviction to be moderate in all things, including moderation, I'm being moderate about what I eat during my pregnancy as well. I've never been a huge sushi fan, but if Grant Achatz serves me raw fish when I go to Trio in December, I'm going to eat it. And when I am aware of and comfortable with their provenance, I eat soft unpasteurized cheeses - although I have been avoiding Epoisses and its kin as those have the highest likelihood of listeriosis. Rare steaks? Check (although I'm thinking I should at least switch my duck preference to medium or medium well). And gasp, shudder, call the pregnancy police - I've been known to drink as much as a half a glass of wine with a nice dinner.
Rant mode off, and not directed at you at all toliver - just attempting to preempt any unpleasantness.
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Hi everybody! Schneier has tagged me to be next up for foodblogging. I'm afraid my blog won't be nearly as "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" as his. More like "10 weeks pregnant and surrounded by boxes in our newly purchased house." 10 weeks pregnant being the reason for the "Schocking Amounts of Food" subtitle - I'm eating for two, and have to eat about every 2-3 hours or my tummy gets very unhappy.
Today I had my usual breakfast - frosted mini-wheats with skim milk. Then it was off to my first appointment with the midwife, where I got to hear my baby's heartbeat for the first time. (Insert gushing "awwww" noises here.) There's a baby in my tummy, and it goes "whumpa, whumpa, whumpa." Then they drew a whole bunch of blood from my arm, so clearly it was time to eat something to top it back up.
I was voting for a Chicken Fajita Salad from Red Robin, but Eric (my husband) wanted breakfast, so we ended up at Denny's. Here my blog moves rapidly away from anything you read last week - I don't think Bruce would be caught dead in a Denny's... I had a hamburger with lettuce, tomato and mayonaise, with hash browns instead of french fries. And a Coke. I rarely drink caffeine in any form, but I haven't been sleeping well lately, and needed a boost if I was going to be able to make it into work.
More later...
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I worked for a few months in my teens at Kernels, a chain of flavored popcorn mall stores, mostly found in Canada. We did a lot of savory popcorns. The seasoning should be very fine. In order to stick, the popcorn must be oil popped, not air popped, but it sounds like you're doing that - maybe not quite enough oil? As soon as the popcorn was done, we'd put it in a big plastic bag, add the seasoning, and shake it vigorously. If you forgot it and let the popcorn cool down even a little bit, the seasoning would not stick. So the tricks as I know them are - oil, heat, and shaken, not stirred.
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Hey, I just got a French Laundry reservation for December 4th!
Bruce
I think that trumps my kitchen table at Trio...
I told you you'd find a way for me to end up jealous of you again.
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I leave tomorrow for a few last days at the cabin, and will be curious when I return to see if you have managed to eat any crap or junk (other than airline-provided food).
Don't get your hopes up. I once saw him eat a taco from Taco Bell, but only under duress.
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I always like flying in the morning. The granola bar you get in the morning is _much_ better than the nasty butter flavored pretzels they serve on Northwest the rest of the day.
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It's hard to make a snide comment about stuff from Patrick's French Bakery and Cafe. A SuperAmerica donut, on the other hand, would open you up to all sorts of ridicule from me. They are worse than honey roasted peanuts.
Yep. Bruce will be difficult to make snide remarks about - he eats all this healthy stuff. Fruit, vegetables, no fast food or drunken benders or binges on cookies and junk food. What fun is that?
Have something nasty at the airport tomorrow, okay? Just to make us all feel better?
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Insert snide comment here.
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Do people still eat cereal and milk for breakfast?
Every day. Usually Frosted Mini Wheats and skim milk, sometimes Multi-Grain Chex.
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Red Hawk on State: their food is pretty creative and always good. In the $10 lunch range, dinner a bit more.
Do you have experience with Big World Bakery, tammylc? I've only been there a handful of times, but have friends that swear by it.
And Sam Iam - I agree that Blue Nile is an excellent splurge! I don't drink beer, but their spice tea is really yummy (and can be bought in dried form to make at home for about $6, last I recall).
I second the suggestion of Red Hawk. I had their "French Countryside Sub" (or something close to that name) recently which was great - herbed goat cheese, roasted red peppers, tomatoes, red onions, lettuce, balsalmic vinagrette. We don't get there often enough (partly because it tends to be really busy when the students are around).
I have not been to Big World Bakery.
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Ah - I am re-reading the opening post in this thread and noting the budget consideration. While Ann Arbor is a great town for eating, it is not a great town for eating cheaply.
I respectfully disagree. I actually think the cheap places in Ann Arbor are among its best. You'll noticed that none of the usual suspects on Main St makes my list - they're adequate restaurants, but not especially interesting and the QPR (quality: price ratio) isn't great.
Summarizing my favorite cheap eats from the list above: Earthen Jar, Jeruselum Garden, Le Dog, Sabor Latino, Bev's Carribean Kitchen, Kosmo Deli, Blimpy Burger. You can easily eat for under $10/person at any of those, often less.
Jefferson Market is maybe at touch more expensive than $10/person but the QPR is through the roof!
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I ran this idea by Matthew and he liked it:
What do you think about making the party a kind of Eric Ripert "Return to Cooking" group project. We could all go to the Farmer's Market, pick out the best ingredients, and then come up with a collaborative menu? Maybe everyone could bring a favorite cookbook for ideas? After the menu is planned some people could go to Russos and do wine pairings.
This sounds like great fun. We do something similar around here - everyone brings whatever random ingredients they happen to have on hand, and we turn it into dinner. We've come up with some suprisingly awesome meals that way! We call it "Playing Random Ingredients."
Your proposal sounds similar, but more structured. I like it.
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Count me in for Saturday but not Friday. I can really only do one night, and it seems like Saturday will give me the chance to meet the most people.
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Thanks.
With this and that and the other thing, there's only time for Point Loma Seafoods on this trip.
Bruce
Yum. I remember the squid very fondly.
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Tammy, should I also know that? (I forget these things.)
Bruce
Nope - different part of the same trip. You have already eaten at Roppongi though, so you should definitely go some place else this time around (not that Roppongi wasn't good, because it was, but variety is the spice of life...)
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I'm going to be in San Diego on Friday, and I'm looking for high-end suggestions.
To repeat, Cafe Pacifica, Old Town San Diego.
I went to Cafe Pacifica last December. Looking back on my notes, I thought the food was good - I had seared tuna with ginger butter that was perfect - cool in the middle and melt-in-your-mouth tender. The service was only so-so, and they brought us the wrong bottle of wine (which didn't get noticed until after we drank it). My main complaint with the restaurant was that the tables were far too close together - you could tell it was located in a touristy region and they were really packing em in. Crowded and noisy.
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Both peanut butter and jelly and peanut butter and banana sandwiches sound utterly bizarre to me (although to be fair, I've never tried either, but the just sound so unappetizing!).
As a child, I used to dip my peanut butter sandwiches in my Lipton's instant chicken noodle soup and have fond memories of the combination, although not fond enough to attempt to recreate...
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Frosted mini-wheats and skim milk for breakfast. Mornings are pretty dull around here.