well howdy welcome back! I have been extremely busy recently as the series of tasks that I perform and am in turn paid for moved up a level in intensity to the 12-15 hour a day range and what meals I have had have been catered or restaurant-made. They have been pretty good quality meals, but I have either been just sitting around doing work or frantically running from building to building in a state of panic that rendered me nearly blind and always exhausted, so I didn't really get to enjoy them the way I would have liked. also i have gotten little to no exercise aside from the short anxiety-filled run/walks between work buildings.
Some of the things I have eaten over the past week and a half:
-english muffins w/ melted peanut butter (no oatmeal!)
-lots of salmon
-a veggie burrito
-steak flank w/ potatos
-italian chicken salad with green beans
-some kind of other italian chicken thing with mushrooms
I also went to a bunch of restaurants because work paid for it and I had no time to cook:
-tuna steak w/ green beans and asparagus. not terrible, although sweet jesus they put an insane amount of pepper on the tuna steak. i mean, why? tuna steak is pretty tasty on its own. it really doesn't need to be so coated in pepper rub that the top of the fish i completely black and all you can taste is pepper. why do people who supposedly like preparing food do this? it's like hey why don't we just take this beautiful new york sirloin and put ketchup all over it so that all you can taste is a sweet vinegary tomato flavor. come on. despite the best efforts of the kitchen, the food was actually pretty good. the vegetables were cooked with real butter, which was a delicious surprise. i hadn't tasted real butter in so long that i actually had to think about what i was tasting. tavern in the square. kind of a corporo-trendy atmosphere with lots of big screen tv's in case you hadn't looked at a screen for a few moments.
-chicken in like an onion sauce with garlic naan. fantastic. some of the best indian food i've ever had, to be honest. had a fascinating cocktail with lychee (kind of like a fleshy egg that tastes citrusy) while my girlfriend's cocktail had tamarind and was oddly spicy and sweet. the naan wasn't amazing, but it's naan so eh. tamarind bay. atmosphere was fancy. lots of well-dressed, good-looking people.
-grilled swordfish with melted mozzarella, zuccini, mint, and garlicy mashed potatos. pretty awesome. i don't remember much except that this was really really good. my girlfriend got flattened lemon chicken with za'atar and Turkish cheese pancake. hers was pretty good too, although the pancake tasted like it was goat cheesey and i am not the world's biggest fan of goat cheese. she likes it, however, so we were both very happy. oleana. atmosphere is fancy but warm. lots of people who wear clothing that looks like it could be considered artisanal "textile art" or who wear expensive-looking glasses.
Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries
-coffee
Lunch:
-chicken fajita wrap w/ chicken, onion, salsa, cabbage(?), red pepper. kind of an unexpected lunch purchased at kind of a high end lunch place in an office building that was not where i work. pretty good but wet so that while eating it with one hand like a burrito and peeling back the foil to expose its gifts of chicken and onion, the lunch product after a time dribbled a thin chicken/salsa liquid onto my shoes. i need to get new shoes but i don't like being pressured by my fajita to do so.
Some of the things I have eaten over the past week and a half:
-english muffins w/ melted peanut butter (no oatmeal!)
-lots of salmon
-a veggie burrito
-steak flank w/ potatos
-italian chicken salad with green beans
-some kind of other italian chicken thing with mushrooms
I also went to a bunch of restaurants because work paid for it and I had no time to cook:
-tuna steak w/ green beans and asparagus. not terrible, although sweet jesus they put an insane amount of pepper on the tuna steak. i mean, why? tuna steak is pretty tasty on its own. it really doesn't need to be so coated in pepper rub that the top of the fish i completely black and all you can taste is pepper. why do people who supposedly like preparing food do this? it's like hey why don't we just take this beautiful new york sirloin and put ketchup all over it so that all you can taste is a sweet vinegary tomato flavor. come on. despite the best efforts of the kitchen, the food was actually pretty good. the vegetables were cooked with real butter, which was a delicious surprise. i hadn't tasted real butter in so long that i actually had to think about what i was tasting. tavern in the square. kind of a corporo-trendy atmosphere with lots of big screen tv's in case you hadn't looked at a screen for a few moments.
-chicken in like an onion sauce with garlic naan. fantastic. some of the best indian food i've ever had, to be honest. had a fascinating cocktail with lychee (kind of like a fleshy egg that tastes citrusy) while my girlfriend's cocktail had tamarind and was oddly spicy and sweet. the naan wasn't amazing, but it's naan so eh. tamarind bay. atmosphere was fancy. lots of well-dressed, good-looking people.
-grilled swordfish with melted mozzarella, zuccini, mint, and garlicy mashed potatos. pretty awesome. i don't remember much except that this was really really good. my girlfriend got flattened lemon chicken with za'atar and Turkish cheese pancake. hers was pretty good too, although the pancake tasted like it was goat cheesey and i am not the world's biggest fan of goat cheese. she likes it, however, so we were both very happy. oleana. atmosphere is fancy but warm. lots of people who wear clothing that looks like it could be considered artisanal "textile art" or who wear expensive-looking glasses.
Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries
-coffee
Lunch:
-chicken fajita wrap w/ chicken, onion, salsa, cabbage(?), red pepper. kind of an unexpected lunch purchased at kind of a high end lunch place in an office building that was not where i work. pretty good but wet so that while eating it with one hand like a burrito and peeling back the foil to expose its gifts of chicken and onion, the lunch product after a time dribbled a thin chicken/salsa liquid onto my shoes. i need to get new shoes but i don't like being pressured by my fajita to do so.
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