Baby shower sweets and a visit to my favorite Taiwanese restaurant in this week's food diary!
{Monday}
12pm: A super bowl yogurt with frozen berries, sliced banana, hemp seed, flaxseed, coconut flakes, and granola.
6pm: I make myself a salami, goat cheese, cucumber, and tomato sandwich with the leftover French bread from yesterday.
8pm: A handful of Whole Foods cheese curls that taste like wet socks and half of a banana. Listen learned. If I'm going to splurge on junk food, go for the gold like Cheetos Cheese Puffs.
{Tuesday}
1pm: Same super bowl as yesterday.
7pm: Homemade mapo tofu and sauteed kale with onions and mushrooms with a side of rice.
10pm: A slice of banana bread and some grapes.
{Wednesday}
12pm: Another yogurt super bowl.
7pm: Fish tacos with a side of cheese fries from Island's in Sherman Oaks. In high school, I used to get their cheese fries all the time as the fries are crispy and the cheese so stringy. But a whole plate of cheese fries seems so wrong now that I don't have my teenage metabolism. The fish tacos are actually really good and I can't wait to come back and get this combo again.
9pm: Grapes.
{Thursday}
11am: I've been craving porridge so I make a batch in my slow cooker. It has mung beans, black rice, and steel cut oats with just a little bit of sugar. I add some goji berries and eat it with Chinese pickles and a salty duck egg. This is a typical Shanghainese breakfast and reminds me of my childhood.
3pm: Coffee at Carrera Cafe, a new Instagram friendly coffee shop on Melrose with a strong Americano.
7pm: I make oyakadon, a chicken and egg Japanese rice bowl staple that literally translates into "the whole family." The easy recipe from AllRecipes turns out great and I can't wait to make it again soon. I have it with a side of cabbage salad and some suja drinking vinegar.
{Friday}
12pm: Porridge with Chinese pickles and hard boiled eggs.
4pm: Persimmon with a few pieces of Manchego cheese.
10pm: A late dinner at Hoy Ka after checking out our favorite improv team at UCB. I get a small spareribs noodle soup and share the BBQ pork with rice and papaya salad. By bedtime, I'm still feeling stuffed and make a mental note to not eat so late anymore.
{Saturday}
10am: A bottle of Suja drinking vinegar in strawberry balsamic. It's not as good as kombucha but I do like the mild strawberry flavor.
12pm: A bowl of sticky rice and mung bean porridge and two hard boiled eggs.
5pm: We have an early dinner at Sinbala in Arcadia, my favorite Taiwanese restaurant. I get the fried chicken leg rice plate with a side of oyster omelette and red bean slushie.
{Sunday}
12pm: It's our baby shower! Playing hostess to fifty of our friends and family inevitably means forgetting to eat so M comes over to remind me from time to time. I have a few bites of our delicious Crateful catering, a mini Sprinkles cupcake, and two 'lette macarons.
7pm: Famished and exhausted, I veg out at Souplantation and eat way more than I should. But it's just salad, right?
10pm: M and I share a bag of kettle corn and I can barely keep my eyes open while watching Westworld.
10pm: A slice of banana bread and some grapes.
{Wednesday}
12pm: Another yogurt super bowl.
7pm: Fish tacos with a side of cheese fries from Island's in Sherman Oaks. In high school, I used to get their cheese fries all the time as the fries are crispy and the cheese so stringy. But a whole plate of cheese fries seems so wrong now that I don't have my teenage metabolism. The fish tacos are actually really good and I can't wait to come back and get this combo again.
9pm: Grapes.
{Thursday}
11am: I've been craving porridge so I make a batch in my slow cooker. It has mung beans, black rice, and steel cut oats with just a little bit of sugar. I add some goji berries and eat it with Chinese pickles and a salty duck egg. This is a typical Shanghainese breakfast and reminds me of my childhood.
3pm: Coffee at Carrera Cafe, a new Instagram friendly coffee shop on Melrose with a strong Americano.
7pm: I make oyakadon, a chicken and egg Japanese rice bowl staple that literally translates into "the whole family." The easy recipe from AllRecipes turns out great and I can't wait to make it again soon. I have it with a side of cabbage salad and some suja drinking vinegar.
{Friday}
12pm: Porridge with Chinese pickles and hard boiled eggs.
4pm: Persimmon with a few pieces of Manchego cheese.
10pm: A late dinner at Hoy Ka after checking out our favorite improv team at UCB. I get a small spareribs noodle soup and share the BBQ pork with rice and papaya salad. By bedtime, I'm still feeling stuffed and make a mental note to not eat so late anymore.
{Saturday}
10am: A bottle of Suja drinking vinegar in strawberry balsamic. It's not as good as kombucha but I do like the mild strawberry flavor.
5pm: We have an early dinner at Sinbala in Arcadia, my favorite Taiwanese restaurant. I get the fried chicken leg rice plate with a side of oyster omelette and red bean slushie.
{Sunday}
12pm: It's our baby shower! Playing hostess to fifty of our friends and family inevitably means forgetting to eat so M comes over to remind me from time to time. I have a few bites of our delicious Crateful catering, a mini Sprinkles cupcake, and two 'lette macarons.
7pm: Famished and exhausted, I veg out at Souplantation and eat way more than I should. But it's just salad, right?
10pm: M and I share a bag of kettle corn and I can barely keep my eyes open while watching Westworld.
