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Nov 17 Food Diary-- Just like starting over

12/8/2015

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Breakfast: A banana before couples' therapy.  8 am appointments are hard and I really don't have much time to eat first; on the other hand, the last thing I need is to show up hangry.  Then, a bowl of Heritage Os cereal, a boiled egg, and a mandarin orange later in the morning.

Lunch: Slice of white Italian toast with "4-cheese pizza" shredded cheese and sliced pepperoni.  Some cranberry cheddar cheese.  Celery sticks.

Dinner: short-grain white rice, stir-fry of garlic, celery, farm carrots, farm bok choy, farm tatsoi, scallions and cilantro.  Topped with fried eggs.  Deb Perelman's peanut butter cheesecake for dessert.
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PictureNot that beautiful, but still an accomplishment.
I love tatsoi.  I first had it in this Chinese restaurant, as a side dish stirfried with lots of garlic.  I fell in love.  Since then I have only had the opportunity to have it a handful of times, so imagine my delight when I found a big bunch of it in last week's CSA bag! 
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The peanut butter cheesecake was moderately successful-- the crust didn't quite work out right, but it was hardly noticeable in the end-- but the cake is overwhelmingly sweet and very creamy.  I prefer a drier, cheesier cheesecake, whereas this one is all chocolate and peanut butter and sugar, sugar, sugar.  I would halve the sugar and certainly not add any to the crust (there's a half a cup of brown sugar in there along with the crushed chocolate cookies, but why??).  Deb is one of the best bakers I know, and her desserts are usually phenomenal, but this one is too much for me, I think.  She did try to warn me. ("Really, I can’t go any further without warning you that this is the type of cake where even a sliver will feel like a massive portion. ")*
 
Snacks: 4 cups coffee with half and half (2 regular, 2 decaf); many licks of peanut butter cheesecake batter.

I have never been able to master food photography.  Here are some pictures of what my kitchen really looks like when I'm in the middle of baking a cheesecake:
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* But see here for updated opinion!
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