Outpost 505

I’ll be honest with you: it is difficult to remain disciplined in your healthy eating when you encounter something like this:

That’s a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, made for us by my boss, and served with chocolate and also vanilla ice cream at a small party in our honor.  I tried to be virtuous.  I [...]

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Shane’s favorite grapes, which I included in our wedding vows because it was important to me to remember. Golden beets from our garden and the market plus a couple of huge sweet garlic cloves, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic, then wrapped in tinfoil and roasted at 375 for about an hour. Green [...]

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Breakfast: sausages, an asiago bagel sliced into four pieces of toast, fried eggs for Shane and slices of tomato for me.  Weekend Edition Sunday and the puzzle.  Coffee.  A late morning attempt at geocaching turned into half an hour of wandering in the woods.  Who knew that we could wander in the woods without leaving [...]

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While we usually save leftovers for weekday lunches, the Tupperware and take-out boxes were piling up in the fridge, so instead of making new meals, we opted for side dishes or snacks to go along with reused meals.  Breakfast was leftover Dimo’s french toast for Shane and yogurt with tart cherries for me.  For lunch [...]

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I don’t know what was happening with our meals today.  I really don’t.  We were both starving after work, and I had good intentions of running after SELMA prep, so Shane ate the last of the stir fry, and I made up a couple of tacos.  By the time dinner rolled around at SELMA, Shane [...]

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This week has really made it clear to me how much we rely on meal planning to get real food on the table.  We had dinner plans Monday night, and last night we scraped together leftovers.  Tonight, lacking both leftovers and dinner plans, we had snacks:

Beets from the farmers’ market, roasted in a tin foil [...]

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Shane left for DC tonight, so I’ll be dining solo for a few days.  This will mean one of two things: I will either go out for meals by myself, taking my book as company, or I’ll eat incredibly weird things at home.
I like to think the latter tendency is a brown-eyed trait – my [...]

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The universe wanted us to eat cheese tonight.  We had other dinner plans, but when a cheese board and a set of cheese knives arrived in the mail from Kristen and Lyle, I thought, hmm, maybe we should use these with the City Goat we picked up at the Creamery!
…and then there was a knock [...]

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Snacks for dinner tonight – a wheel of Sharon Hollow, some excellent Gouda, homemade crackers and homemade hummus.  Shane’s coworkers took us out for happy hour tonight, and when we got home, the chicken I’d intended to cook was still frozen.  So, back into the freezer it went, and we snacked instead.  It’s just one [...]

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So instead of making dinner tonight, we did this:

Shane got a pair of tickets to the Pistons – Cavs game for $25, so after work, we hopped in Richard Simmons, grabbed some ice cream, and headed to Detroit.  It was hard to tell which team had more fans in the house – the dudes behind [...]

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