Hungry Tracy: Food log summary 23 January 2007 12:55 pm
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One Week’s Food in December
I tried to sort everything recorded in my daily food logs into the categories defined in Hungry Planet but didn’t use exact measurements. Numbers in parentheses behind an item indicate the number of times said item was eaten, or a rough guess of how many portions of that item were eaten (note how I’m not even trying to count servings, just to give myself a little extra wiggle room for the amounts I didn’t measure even a little). As in the book, brand names are in italics; I think many of the items marked with a brand name could probably be considered prepared foods, as could noodles and even frozen peas. You’ll see plenty of notes in my “data” (boy is that ever a loosely-defined term here) about these and other ambiguities. Just about all the fresh vegetables are from our CSA farm, Groundwork Organics. (We got the flyer for their 2007 summer CSA just a few days ago, and it is like a beautiful ray of hope for these dark, cold times of forgetting to eat our vegetables because they’re not overflowing our fridge and our garden.)
Grains & Other Starchy Foods
Homemade no-knead whole wheat bread (24), russet potatoes (3, in home fries and gratin), Yukon Gold potatoes (6: in home fries, red lentil soup, garlic mashed potatoes, and latkes) brown rice (2), basmati rice (3), udon noodles, homemade buckwheat crèpes.
Dairy
Kerrygold Blarney Castle cheese (2), butter (3, in/on homefries and oatmeal scones and collard greens), Manchego (aged sheep’s milk cheese from Spain), half and half (5, in coffee and gratin), yogurt (2, garnish on lentil soup), raw milk farmstead cheese from my grandparents’ neighbors’ family farm in the Netherlands (3), milk (2, in Earl Grey Blue and English Toffee tea), fontina cheese (2, in gratin), Pecorino Romano cheese (on salad), Henri Willig Polder Gold aged goat’s milk Gouda (on crèpes), sour cream.
Meat, Fish & Eggs
Free range “happy chicken” eggs (4, and maybe 3 egg whites leftover from adventure baking, in stirfries and latkes), chunk light tuna in water (1 can)
Fruits, Vegetables & Nuts
Mandarin oranges (3), onion (4, in home fries and lentil soup), fresh parsley (in homefries) one delicious Asian pear, hazelnuts (2), red lentils (3, in curry/soup), garlic (5, in lentil soup, stir-fried leftover rice, and collard greens), ginger (3, in lentil soup), red cabbage (2), apples (4, stewed in red cabbage, raw, and in homemade applesauce), one leaf lettuce (I was putting away the week’s CSA box and could not resist), green cabbage (in leftover brown rice stirfry), mixed greens (2), carrots (4; whole and in salad), celery (2), shallots (4, in vinaigrette and gratin and latkes), raisins (3, in basmati rice), parsnips (2, in gratin), spinach (in stir-fried leftover basmati rice), frozen peas, collard greens
Condiments
Skippy Super Chunk peanut butter (6), sugar (9, in tea and coffee), olive oil (7), dried herbs, curry spices (4, in lentil soup and leftover basmati rice stirfry), a little mirin (3, sweet rice wine for cooking in stirfries and with noodles), shoyu/soy sauce (3), Sriracha hot sauce (2), cider vinegar (2, in stewed red cabbage), cinnamon and cloves (2, in red cabbage), balsamic vinegar (2), dijon mustard, coconut milk (3, in rice), cinnamon stick, turmeric, fresh ground black pepper, kosher salt (all over the place), fresh rosemary and thyme (2, in gratin; for some reason I think fresh parsley is a vegetable but these two, fresh or dried, are always herbs), lime juice, Best Foods mayonnaise, dried dill, Claussen kosher dill sandwich slices (2), wasabi, honey, lemon juice
Snacks & Desserts
Marzipan treats (2), kruidnoten (5, little bitty spice cookies), Homemade oatmeal scones (2), homemade vanilla ice cream (milk, cream, sugar, vanilla), dark chocolate (2), a little pastry cream (while working on Boston cream pie), Marie biscuits (6), delicious homemade Boston cream pie (4)
Prepared Food
Kettle salt & pepper potato chips, San-J instant miso soup (just add hot water! great emergency food!), Big Train spiced chai
Beverages
Earl Grey tea (8), Darjeeling tea (4), coffee (7), Mango Ceylon tea (4), Earl Grey Blue tea (5), Yorkshire Gold tea (17), jasmine tea (10), nighty-night chamomile and other herb tea, orange juice (3, frozen from concentrate, extra pulp; this could’ve counted as fruit maybe?), Celestial Seasonings English Toffee herbal tea, eggnog (maybe this is a dairy or a dessert?).
Miscellaneous
A glass of Bailey’s, on the rocks.
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