Weekend Report (My Low Appetite is Rufus' Gain)

A very very chill weekend. After Friday's sociable pizza blow our, B and I spent the day in Connecticut with some of her elderly relatives, eating elderly food, as it was too hot to leave the house to eat. Sunday found me in a weird mood, not depressed, not particularly tired, but totally lacking in the will to move from the couch -- just turned off my brain and stayed as still as possible.

SATURDAY: BREAKFAST #1: 8am, a few spoonfuls of vanilla ice cream
Made it with 3x the amount of vanilla extract by accident. The alcohol prevented the ice cream from setting, giving it a very soft texture but prevented it from taking on much air, giving it a thick and leaden feel.

BREAKFAST #2: 10am, spicy seafood calzone, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Made with leftovers late last night, or it would of been tossed. The dough ended up rising a second time, and the end result was amazingly airy. Calls for some experimentation.

LUNCH: 12:30pm, tomato chunks with olive oil and basil, small amount of cold cheese tortellini, brownie with vanilla ice cream, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Up in Westport with B's family. Too hot too go out to eat, so lunch was home -- amazingly yummy farmer's market tomatoes. They had two kinds of vanilla ice cream, one a normal industrial bucket, the other a no-sugar artificially sweetened kind with about 50 ingredients. The normal kind still had about 10 more ingredients than the vanilla ice cream I make. Taste-wise, it tasted a bit....thicker and runnier all at once.

DINNER: 6pm, 3 slices of pizza, water, excellent coffee cake, 1.5 bowls, hunger 4/5
Pizza ordered in. The cake was from a farmer's market, and was amazingly yummy - I counted 5 ingredients, though I detected cinnamon in the crumb, which was not listed. Hrumph!

SUNDAY
BRUNCH: Noon, 3 pancakes, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Woke up, too hot, too lazy to get up and eat any sooner until hunger got me into the kitchen. Out of whole milk, used B's skim milk. Added some good yogurt to the mix, which gave the pancakes a nice heft while still being puffy.

PM SNACKS: 1:30-3pm, mint chip ice cream, 1 pretzel, half a dark chocolate bar, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Slovenly on the couch.

DINNER: 7pm, shumai, salad with carrot dressing, sushi, vegetable nori rolls, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Ordered in Japanese with the B. Not as hungry as I thought, so Rufus (de Cat) got some good treats.