The picked apart ingredients of a Whole Foods fruit parfait. I only like the pastry cream and the fruit. Everything else is discarded.

Palmiers. And a vol-au-vent or two. Now that I have the hang of puff pastry, I'm never using store-bought again. Seriously, if you love pastry, learn how to make this. It isn't hard, and the taste is so much better.

Been messing around with puff and brioche all day. I really need to log off this time-sink web site and clean the kitchen...

Homemade muffeletta: sopressata, mortadella, provolone, Central Market olive relish (thanks Jake!), and semolina bread. The bread's not exactly authentic, but it's a damned tasty sandwich.

Strawberry daifuku: mochi wrapped around adzuki bean paste and a whole strawberry. Yum.

banana-wheat germ muffins fresh from the oven

recipe???

I've been making these since I first saw the recipe. It's hard to believe it's been that many years.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/843

Molli Coolz-I bought them for a valentine party with six 5-6 year old boys tomorrow but I couldn't wait until to try them. They don't have a ton of flavors but the little pieces are serving as a fantastic ice pack for my gums that are sore.

A McIntosh apple and a hunk of P'Tit Basque cheese (the former from Trader Joe's and the latter from Costco). Great combination and an effective mid-afternoon pick-me-up.

Plocky's Gluten-Free Hummus Chips™.

Roasted Red Pepper Flavor; they're kind of yummy!

split pea soup (yellow and green) with fingerling potato slices and bacon

I love split peas and keep forgetting how quickly they cook. It took not a whole lot longer than an hour to make this soup for lunch. Nice comfort food.

We've had bacon for breakfast and lunch. No bacon for dinner .

This year, it must have been the shortest delay between ordering and receiving Girl Scout cookies that I can recall.
They're heeeeeeeeeere.

Yeah, it takes a lot less time to fulfill orders when there are only seven (7) cookies in each box.

Atwater rye, toasted, with Plugra butter and Maldon salt.

Which flavor has only seven cookies? Samoas?

My delivery is on Thursday - my girls sold 1234 boxes! Our troop will earn $740.

Leftover polenta and short ribs from Waitman and Mrs. B.

A couple of slices of cold seafood (canned tuna and I think maybe small chunks of squid) pizza and a C. C. Lemon soda. The pizza's not bad, but I really need to look more carefully before I grab it from the case.

Mashed potatoes w/ smoked gouda
Semi-sweet baking chocolate square

[What can I say? It's the first meal I've had since that blow-out at Bob's.]

Faux pho

Cinnamon espresso chocolate chip brownies.

leftover steak and baked potato...cold from the refrigerator

Sneaking another chocolate biscotti from the batch I made yesterday They are "kitchen sink" biscotti-I used up a couple open bags of semi-sweet chocolate morsels, white chocolate morsels, dried cranberries and dried cherries.

I have already started eating Easter candy (hey, it showed up in the stores a couple of weeks ago!). Jelly beans and mini Robin's Eggs.

Once of these:

Those look amazing! Do you deliver?

Not yet - I threw out my shoulder patting myself on the back.

Portabello Pizza - One large cap smooth side down topped with homemade salsa, freshly grated Parmesan, some olive oil and baked until the cheese was nicely melted.
Great food like this almost makes me want to be a vegetarian...

Leftover steamed pork dumplings from Joe's Noodle House. Dang, are they good!

I don't understand how this can happen!

Unlikely as it seems... After wontons in red sauce, seaweed salad, tofu with shitake mushrooms and cumin beef for just the two of us, something had to give.

Left over coconut cake. Yummmmm.

I just finished some tiger's eye beans from last night--in their pot liquor with a little P'tit Basque cheese melted over the top. Very hearty, filling, and delicious

An outrageously awesome barbeque pulled pork sandwich i made from my leftover smoking session on Saturday. Despite the rain, i was able to smoke two bone in butts for 9 hours. The result - envy from my coworkers after I warmed it up. This is probably one of the best pulled pork butts I've ever made (or had for that matter). I credit a bbq book that I was given for Christmas for finally getting this right.

Roast beef on onion/cheese roll with mayo and horseradish cheese
Packet of Lay's potato chips
Ruby Red grapefruit juice

Name of bbq book, please...?

Backyard BBQ: The Art of Smokology, Richard Peake. This book is more a reference than a cookbook with recipes. There is a fairly good section in the back on rubs, marinades, and sauces, but it has a fair amount of tips and techniquest (e.g., bring the temp of the meat up slowly if you want a lot of smoke penetration/flavor before the protein sets, wrap the meat after it has achieved smoke flavor/coloring/bark to ensure tenderness and to lock in juices).

Great reference and a very easy read.

Raspberry honey on saltines

Homemade tapioca pudding, with the big fish eye tapioca pearls, just like mom used to make.

Lasagna with Chard, Ricotta and Walnuts from Deborah Madison's Local Flavors

Enchiladas with spinach, mushrooms, corn, pumpkin seeds, and smoked jack.

McVitie's Salt and Chocolate Digestive Biscuits. I think these are a close second to the Caramel and Cocoa ones.

Salt and chocolate!!! I never saw those in England.... ETA: just visited the Japanese McVities site... scary. http://www.meiji.co.jp/sweets/biscuit/mcvities/

Just nibbling on some random bits of oatmeal stout brownie with Guinness caramel.

Oatmeal stout brownie with guiness caramel? Do tell!! (I'm trying to stop eating home-made candied pecans and cashews--dang these things are addictive)

They may be new; I'd never seen them before. They were on an endcap with Vanilla Cream, Honey & Lemon, and Milk Chocolate digestives. I always want to see what's in their complete J-product line, but you're right: their website is too damn scary to research. Make the music stop!

Your brownies sound awesome too. I miss brownies.

I cheated a little and substituted reduced oatmeal stout for the water in a brownie mix (it's a lot easier than buying and storing all the separate ingredients in my apartment). Then I had some leftover Guinness caramel from the last time I made it - reduced Guinness, sugar, butter and salt boiled together. It had been sitting in the fridge so long it formed huge sugar crystals, so I recooked it and let it cool and poured it on top of the uncooked batter. I def. need to work on thickening it up so it doesn't sink to the bottom every time or maybe pull the brownies out halfway and put it on top.

Xochitl: I'll trade you brownies for chocolate and salt Digestives...

Corn tortilla sandwich (a quesadilla, I guess, except I ate it like a sandwich instead of cutting it into wedges). Filled with chipotle black beans, cheddar cheese, and served with sour cream. Hit the spot perfectly.

I enjoyed two cups of Hunt's sugar free pudding (vanilla and chocolate respectively) and a percocet. Thanks wisdom tooth removal!

I just finished a couple of slices of mushroom and pepperoni pizza I brought back from Pennsylvania.

I forgot how much good pizza is to be had in the area in and around Philadelphia. Not the very best pizza you could ever eat--and not artisan gourmet pizza--but walking into a pizza shop off the street and walking out with a tasty pie kind of pizza. Capitol Hill just does not have that. When I first got the pizza yesterday afternoon, it was a little too soggy but quite satisfying. After a night in the fridge, it made perfect cold pizza for breakfast, lunch, and now dinner. One pie: $15 and change=4 meals. Not a bad deal. I have to say, I think I actually prefer leftover cold pizza to pizza to steaming hot.

I just walked into this place [Gaetano's, 210 S. Springfield Rd., Clifton Heights] because I was nearby and hungry, but it turns out it gets some pretty rave reviews, at least here and here and on Chowhound.

From my research, I learned that I should ask for my pizza a little well done (that probably would have helped with the slight sogginess) and that having the cheese under the sauce (where I was at first having trouble determining if there was cheese on it) is their trademark. A nice touch when I picked up the pie was that the woman behind the counter lifted the lid on the box so I could see that it was what I had ordered.

Curried chicken salad with raisins and marcona almonds, leftover from yesterday's lunch

Berger cookies. Now that I've worked through a few, let me provide a slightly different description..."frosting" isn't really the right term for the chocolatey layer. Imagine, if you will, a merely medium-sized cookie, fused to a slightly larger blob of vending-machine brownie. The irregular brownie half, like some kind of pastry macrophage, is barely trying to envelop the well-ordered cookie half.

Actually, the whole thing works because the brownie portion isn't too cloyingly sweet. But really, there isn't that much in common with a black-and-white.

Shamefully, I'm eating a handful of those TownHouse Flipsides crackers. This is what happens when you watch too much TV over the weekend and then see them on an endcap in the grocery store.

They're so bad.... and so good..... and I just decided that they might be excellent dunked in Nutella.

I have a problem.