Whatever the Occasion

Via DesignTaxi, I saw a smart ad campaign providing it's always time for a McFlurry (as if we needed to be reminded). A timely version could have been "Argentina Wins. {McFlurry} Spain Wins. {McFlurry}"

With a middle-aged mindfulness towards calories, I was reflecting on how comfort food is also celebratory food. If your aunt dies, people are showing up with banana bread, baked ziti, and cake. If you win the lottery, you're not eating the opposite of that. Like, when your numbers hit that's not the day you're eating a salad.

A Hedge of Watermelon

Watermelon farmer player it safe, warned me that my seedless watermelon might be seeded. I'm happy to report it delivered on seedlessness as promised (and deliciousness!!)...

Seedless Watermelon: It may contain seeds

What I'm eating these days

Although I try to eat a varied diet, two out of three meals every weekday are fairly fixed.  Breakfast and lunch have a largely fixed format, with the sole variety introduced through the rotation of side fruits.  When I really stop to think about it, variety is in my diet almost exclusively comes in through the dinners I eat each night.  Even then, dinners are predominantly selected from a short list of go-to weeknight meals (pasta, meat w/potatoes, or beans and rice, and tacos).

These days for breakfast,

• Yogurt, preferably Chobani's passion fruit flavor, if the grocery had them stocked that w
• A buttered bagel, usually from Bruegger's (local) or even better one of a frozen stockpile brought home from Stew Leonard's
• Oatmeal, usually Market Basket's generic raisin and spice
• Fruit, usually grapes, grapefuit, or papaya.  This morning I had blackberries and a prickly pear.
• Although it's getting a bit too warm for it, a winter staple is definitely a cup of Ghiardelli's Double Chocolate Hot Chocolate, topped off with whipped cream and dusted with Penzy's pumpkin pie spice

These days for lunch,

• A sandwich, typically cheese (Swiss or Muenster, 1-2 slices) and meat (ham or chicken, sometimes Trader Joe's pastrami, 4-6 slices)
• 2-3 pieces of fruit (oranges, in winter, apples of figs in fall, peaches or watermelon in summer, today an orange and a pear)
• These days, dessert has been two Quaker's Chocolate Crunch Rice Cakes

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Unappealing Ice Cream Flavors Created on Iron Chef America

• Trout
• Scallop
• Purple Peruvian Potato
• Veal Sorbet
• Bacon
• Turkey Sorbet
• Asparagus
• Sugared Salmon with Beet Sorbet
• Lentil
• Olive Oil
• Vanilla Ice Cream - with Lobster Sauce
• Skirt Steak
• Prosciutto
• Tomato Sorbet
• Balsamic Sorbet
• Bacon
• Coleslaw

Source: My traumatized memory and GSNN.