Day 320 is a ham

Ham, wax beans and potatoes for dinner! Might look kinda gross (I was apprehensive at first), but tastes great.

Day 289 = roomie day!

Even though we live together, I hardly ever get to see my roomie. We decided that Sundays are roomie dinner (if not all day) days. Today was an all day roomie day. Wake up time? Noon. Breakfast? A feast prepared just for me! A bit of napping and video game playing during the middle of the day, and then dinner. FYI kids - I'm quite the chef. I tried a new chicken parm recipe tonight, and it knocked their socks off (we had guests at our roomie dinner!). Just like my chili - lives were changed. Homemade sauce, pan fried chicken, sautéed zucchini. BAM. I'm literally waiting for the Food Network to call me up and offer me my own show. Should be any second now.... waiting.... waiting.... I'll let you know when it happens.

Day 279 was in great company!

I was treated to a simply incredible dinner tonight, courtesy of my Uncle Greg who happened to be in Chicago this weekend on business. Somehow I knocked it out of the park with restaurant choice. Everything was perfect, including the funny little coincidence of my Uncle having grown up in the same small Italian town where the Chef was from. This translated into food showing up at our table "gift from the chef!". Sweet jesus, I didn't realize that happened in real life! Our final treats were these two desserts. One of them was a deconstructed carrot cake that certainly made a carrot cake lover out of me. The second was some kind of apple fritter/bacon/ice cream situation. Oh yeah, I said bacon. Going forward I'm going to require all my desserts to have bacon. Cause why not?

Day 247 recovers

Remember that party I mentioned in Day 246? Well I was still recovering a day later. I'm talking lots of sleeping, ibuprofen, and no food. I struggled through toast early in the day and finally in the evening I wanted a normal meal. I've been going through a greek yogurt phase lately. While this isn't your typical hangover food, it worked for me!

Day 189 is back in time

Tonight I went to Nifty Fifty's for dinner. It's exactly what you're picturing - milkshakes, 50s music, greasy food. I suppose it felt authentic. Our waitress' nose ring, however, didn't.

Day 161 & J

I have not prepared a meal for myself since Tuesday. Gross. Wednesday and Thursday I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner with my co-workers at our seminar. This morning I wanted every extra minute of sleep I could get, so I had a (disgusting) muffin at the office. Also, I ran out of time to make lunch before I left so I devoured a salad for lunch. If you are still reading, I guess you find my daily eating habits more interesting than I do. For my late night dinner I'm making myself a PB & J. I'm a strawberry jam kind of girl. Did you know that about me? Now you do. And I'm kind of obsessed with this "natural" peanut butter. I'm a little wary of foods with too many ingredients on the label. Plus, it's made with honey! How can you go wrong?

Day 140 packed a lunch

Obviously a big concern of mine at the new job is food. Sometimes I bring a lunch but we end up going out, so my sad sandwich sits all alone in the fridge. Such was the case today. I was starving by 11am and knew my PB&J wouldn't cut it. Some nachos and a delicious salad later, I was full. But I felt kinda bad for my old standby lunch, which I left by the wayside. So tonight I had a dinner fit for a first grader! And it was delicious.

Day 108 is why you're fat

My friend and I stopped by a pizza place for dinner tonight. Julio's is famous for their "steak in a pouch." I ordered the roast beef in a pouch with cheese. I'm fully aware that this is more likely to wind up on This Is Why You're Fat than a health food blog. Unfortunately (or fortunately) we were both disappointed by our dinner choices. As wasteful as it sounds, most ended up in the garbage. If I'm going to eat something bad for me it's going to delicious, dammit!

Day 89 can cook!

I really enjoy cooking, but I'm not crazy about following recipes. If there is a type of food I want to try, I look for a simple recipe that I can mostly follow while changing it a bit to make it my own. What can I say, I've always been a color outside the lines kind of girl. Tonight for dinner I made tuna steak - so easy! It's seasoned with cayenne pepper and cooked in olive oil and butter. It packs a lot of flavor! I'm getting hungry again just looking at this!

fortune favors Day 39

Heck yes fortune cookies! Tonight I had a gym + pho date with my fave KC. We sweat some, we walked some, we ate, we conquered. And along the way we got some sage advice from some delicious post-dinner cookies. Advice general enough to apply to every and any aspect in your life, but isn't that what makes these so perfect. I can't wait till I'm approached with a proposition! It's gonna happen soon, cause my fortune cookie said so... duh.

Day 21 looks good enough to eat!

The temperature is somewhere in the twenties. It's windy and there's snow on the ground. In other words it's the perfect night for homemade soup! My mom found a recipe for this amazing vegetable soup. We changed up the ingredients a bit and it was so delicious. The perfect dinner on a cold winter night!