Saturday, February 28, 2009

Compassion for chocolate chip cookies

Friday night D was already fixing dinner when I got home. It was a simple meal because we'd spent a while eating bread (Acme Bread's Whole Wheat Walnut) and some delicious cheeses from Say Cheese (my favorite cheese place because all the employees look like ex-sailors-- beefy, tattooed, grizzled.)

Part of being a yogi is showing compassion-- to other things, people, animals, and most importantly to yourself. So I have to show compassion to myself for eating part of a chocolate chip cookie at work yesterday as well as all the cheese and bread for dinner. Most macros I know (and even the cookbook authors I read) have all said that giving up cheese was the hardest thing for them. (That and sugar.) It seems to be the last thing to go. I don't mind eating it now and then because I know how it will make me feel and how to deal with that later. (Miso soup)


Tonight we are headed to Manzanita, a local macrobiotic restaurant in the East Bay. We had soup (kabocha squash, quinoa, yam, and miso), steamed kale with a parsley sauce, brown rice, the most amazing beans (garbanzos with onions but somehow flavored in the most delicious way), roasted veggies (carrots, cauliflower, broccoli with fresh herbs like dill), and a salad. Plus I got a cookie.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Welcome back dinner

I have been wanting lately to keep a food log of what I eat. I'm having a hard time avoiding all the sugary treats at work so at least I could keep this log as a way of reminding myself of how I will feel if I eat the pure sugary goodness.

So new and improved food log starting this week.

This is Tuesday's dinner. Pretty simple but turned out quite well. Broccoli and carrots.


This is the other half of Tuesday's dinner. Beans and rice. The rice was made a few days ago and the beans were from a can. Canned beans are ok if you need the time, but look for ones that are cooked without salt. (There's one brand, Eden I think, that uses kombu instead.)


This is Wednesday's dinner. Or actually prep for Wednesday's dinner. I forgot to take an actual picture of it. Marinated tofu with soba noodles.


And with king trumpet mushrooms. I eventually added kale and broccoli to this as well. (It needed some green.) The trumpet mushrooms were amazing though. Got them from the farmer's market and they tasted like fennel. Even smelled like it. I've had trumpet mushrooms before and never thought that. These were obviously unique. It made the dish delicious.

And tonight (Thursday) is takeout. Siam Lotus at least has brown rice so I can put up with salty and sugary goodness. Golden veggie curry (squash, potatoes, green beans, tofu, and carrots in a curried coconut milk).