Round’s Daily Digest

B : coffee w cream, and a few tastes of the carmelized apples & cream cheese filling I made for a snack for my stepson & some painters we have working today at the house.  I was inventing a recipe so I really had to try things to see if they were ok — I kept the tastes to a minimum but there was definitely more sugar consumed than usual for a week…

Green tea of the day : Mariage Frères thé vert Marco Polo

L : leftover mushroom soup, slice of quiche

Snack : cauliflower w dip, roasted nuts (see below)

D : Beef bourgignon, mâche salad, roasted brussel sprouts

Dessert : orange cream ice cream — not so good, I think I messed up while making the custard by letting the cream/egg mix boil… It’s edible but kind of gritty.

Cooking :

Carmelized apple & cream cheese dessert pizza (for the workers & my stepson, not for me)

Low carb ice cream, orange custard flavor — another experiment…

Roasted spiced nuts (first time I did this - yummy!).  Roasted green beans, & roasted brussel sprouts.

B : none.  I know, this needs to stop.

L : piece of quiche, immediately out of the oven.  Celery & dip

Green tea of the day : Red Blossom jasmine

D : PLANNED : leftover beef bourgignon, salad, artichoke, mushroom soup

D : ACTUAL : we went out to Montparnasse 25 because it’s going to close in a few months & we were out running errands. So even though it was an easy dinner to throw together we decided to eat out (and my DH wanted to do something nice for me).  I was pretty good.  Glass & a half of champagne, immediately refused the bread (and when you do that they take away your bread plate, so you can’t change your mind).  Had a lobster ravioli starter but didn’t eat most of the ravioli pasta part, lamb for main course (there were bread crumbs on the top, I ate them) and had cheese instead of dessert.  I could not, however, resist the petit fours tray and had 1 1/2 tuiles.  Why?  Because they were in front of me, and I usually eat them when I go to this restaurant, I have no other excuse…

B : tea w milk

L : out at an Indian restaurant w my DH.  Sheesh kabob starter (shrimp, lamb, chicken), butter chichen, lamb tikka masala & spinach w cheese.  No rice or naan, of course!

D : small bowl of mushroom soup.  Salad (made w pears & pumpkin seeds), raquelette cheese (maybe 8 slices?), 1 pc ham, several slices of a dried beef salami, 2 carrot sticks.  Dessert : 8 raspberries mashed with mascarpone

B : Tea w cream

L : cream of 3 mushrooms soup (homemade from scratch), 2 bowls.  Cedrat pith for snack.

Green tea of the day : Mariage Frères thé vert Opéra

Herbal tea : Orange Cinnamon Roobios

D : leftover spinach, celery w dip, slice of quiche

B : tea w cream

L : at Liza’s, a really cool contemporary Lebanese place.  Had a salad of artichokes & peas (didn’t eat the peas) and grilled chicken w that creamy garlic sauce.  My mom’s food was better…  It’s hard to have good Lebanese food without carbs.

Snack : sunflower seeds, celery w dip

Green tea of the day : none. Was out too long in the day & then didn’t want to risk not sleeping….

Dinner : Beef bourgignon, painstakingly made over 3 days (Sunday : prepped onions & mushrooms, Monday : cooked onions, mushrooms & the beef bourgignon, Tuesday : reheated the beef part then added the onions/mushrooms for last hour of cooking).  One tablespoon mascarpone cheese w 6 raspberries.

B : Tea w cream, small Starbucks cappuccino

L : 3 leftover scallops, leftover roasted cauliflower, radishes w dip, sunflower seeds

Green tea of the day : Mariage Frères Thé vert Sahara

D : Out to dinner at Peyrassol, the truffle place.  Had truffle toast for starter (at my husband’s insistence) ate half the peice of bread.  It’s true it was delicious.  Main dish was eggs scrambled with truffles with shaved truffles over the top.  Very very good.  Not as good as the same dish at l’Ourcine, but very very good.  Truffles are amazing.

B : English Breakfast tea w cream

L : 1/2 tomato with goat cheese, 1/4 deviled egg, 6 scallops in butter sauce, spinach with butter, 1/4 orange, 2 tablespoons mascarpone cream with cinnamon, 10 raspberries

Herbal tea : Celestial Seasonings Cinnamon Apple

D : radishes with blue cheese dip, joues de raies (fish) starter, steak w shallot sauce, sautéed mushrooms

I made a chocolate-pear tart for dessert (for my mom) but didn’t eat it

B : tea with cream

L : the end of the chicken taco stuff (no tortilla), 6 disks of 99% chocolate, 2 tablespoons mascarpone cheese with vanilla

Green tea of the day : Mariage Frères Marco Polo Green Tea

Exercise : 40 min walking + 20 min shopping

S : sunflower seeds, Beaufort cheese, herbal tea (a horrible mix called “Palais Royal”)

D : out with my mom to L’Ourcine - starter : sautéed mushrooms, main : scallops with endive & butter, dessert : sheep’s milk cheese

Another 15 minutes of walking

Herbal tea : Doux Rêves

Breakfast : quiche

Lunch : leftover roasted cauliflower, leftover noodle-less phô soup, sugarless/unsweetened ice cream, 3 disks of 99% chocolate

Exercise : 50 minutes walking (yes, I overdid it again)

Green tea : Mariage Frères Green Tea Opéra

Dinner : leftover chicken burritos (chicken taco salad for me)

Breakfast : quiche

Lunch : out with my mom to an Asian restaurant, where I had a Thai coconut lime soup followed by green curry chicken (no rice).  Decent, but I’d not go out of my way to go back.

Exercise : walked back from lunch, about 30 minutes

Green Tea : leftover Jasmine from yesterday

Dinner : Homemade chicken burritos (for my stepson & husband) : I had mine as a big salad - lettuce, avocado, chicken, homemade salsa, sour cream, cheddar - yum!

Dessert : 1 mangosteen (too yummy to resist) and 3 disks of 99% cacao chocolate