Year 4, Day 75: Trip to NY (Tired of that headline, yet?)

Today I worked from home in advance of going to NY.  I got to the gym, and I did 3.5 miles in 33 minutes, probably 500 calories.   Ate the usual breakfast and got by on the train with only a few snacks, but then I blew it at dinner. Sigh.

Breakfast

Kashi Go Lean 

Heritage Flakes

Banana

Strawberries

Blueberries

Soy Milk

Coffee

Lunch: 

Tuna Salad

Lettuce & Cabbage

Balsamic Vinegar

After workout snack

1 Slice Multi-grain brad

super chunky peanut butter

50% Jalapeno Cheddar cheese

Dinner: Turkish Kitchen

Artichoke

Liver

Eggplant

Mediterannean Sole with Romaine Salad

Almond Pudding

Year 3, Day 195: Back from New York x2 Out of 3

Except for the rather cruel cutoff time (8:30AM), the hotel breakfast is really swell. It would be nice if they would change the menu occasionally, but I guess they are in business to serve the business traveler, not to tickle the culinary funny bones of the occasional family traveler. Ruby likes the waffles but it would be nice if they could turn out a tasty muffin instead of serving the heat-n-serve type.

Breakfast
Everything Omelet
Honeydew
Bacon
Coffee, too much

On the road/pre-snack
Tamari Almonds (luckily Ruby found love with Tamari almonds and took them away from me)
Dried fruit

Lunch/Shady Glen
Cheeseburger with Mustard
Garden Salad
2 Onion Rings, 2 French Fries

Bag-popped popcorn

Dinner
Salad/Tuna/Feta/Balsamci
2 tablespoons peanut butter

My brother had told me about this place called "Shady Glen" that he'd heard about on the phantom gourmet. Their claim to fame was that they serve 4-slice cheeseburgers that have been cooked into a triangular cheese tent. We pulled over to go there and the line was long and we were all hungry and cranky and Ruby and I got into a fight because she wouldn't behave and I told her we couldn't go and she should get back in the car. Then the line disappeared and Emily was stuck in the car with both kids crying and couldn't get out. I didn't have a coat on and it was the type of place where I knew if I got up my seat would be gone in a Connecticut second. I called her on the cell phone and hoped for the best. Though nobody ordered a cheeseburger (except for me) we determined that it was a charming place but a bit too far from the highway (15 minutes) to be worth a regular trip. And really, the food was like bowling alley food but you had to wait longer and there was no bowling. When we got home, exhausted, we ate what was in the house, which is of course, was made of nuts.

Still, it was good to be home.

Year 3, Day 104: Off to NY

In a big change up for my office, I head down to NY to discuss. I have gone to New York countless times for work in the past few years, but this is the first time I got that old 'buzzy' and 'zingy' feeling. We remain cautiously optimistic.

Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee

Lunch
Salad, Tuna, Feta, Balsamic, Red Peppers

Snack
Almonds

Train Snack
1 Fuji Apple
.5 Boston Lite Popcorn

Dinner
Sushi Yasuda

I managed to eat as lightly as possible in preparation for eating at Sushi Yasuda. There really are no words. My coworker asked what to order. I said, "you just go with the flow, the chefs tell you what is good." I could tell he was not happy with that answer- he is a guy who likes to be in control of everything, especially his dinner. Yet when he got there he could tell that I was right- the chefs took us on a trip down the sushi river and it was fantastic. The fish is better than you get anywhere else. The texture and flavor of the tuna- the common sushi- was like nothing I've ever had before. The rice itself was moist and velvety-but still stuck together as sushi rice. I don't know why their sushi is unlike all other sushi I've ever had, but I know that it is. You should go try it. Now.