Day 3

I am not the most thrilling eater. I ate a hard-boiled egg and peanut butter toast for breakfast every weekday morning for a year and a half. I will pick a lunch and stick to it for a month or two. That being said, here are my breakfast and lunch for today:


You'll notice it's exactly the same as yesterday. Tomorrow is Farmer's Market day, so maybe I'll change things up a little.

Onto today's adventure: Bread! I used honey instead of sugar, adding a pinch baking soda to counteract the acidity that the Internet told me honey has. I left it in a bowl to rise while I went to my tennis lesson. I wish I had pictures to show, but I was in a hurry, running around from one net sport to another. When I returned from my tennis lesson several hours later, my ball of dough had spread out, but not risen. So I stuck it in the oven on warm with a wet paper towel over it for twenty minutes. Not much happened. I don't think I kneaded it enough. But I baked it, and it's tasty. I had just enough time to eat two pieces before going to volleyball. You can tell from the picture below it's pretty dense, but a few seconds in the microwave with some butter on it and it's back to being edible!


I was just happy to have bread. At first I thought all my carbs would come from corn, until I found out about the Utica Foodshed and the local organic flour they provide. Here's how the Foodshed works: I go to their website, I figure out what food I want and put it in the cart, I place my order by midnight on Sunday. It all comes from within approximately 100 miles (the flour's actually from 112 miles away). The next Friday I pick up my food on Genesee Street in Utica. It's like someone got my groceries for me!

You may be reading this from somewhere other than Central New York, but check your local city, I've heard of others that have similar programs. In fact, a friend informed me that Ithaca has the same program, but they deliver the groceries straight to your door! To heck with eating local, I want to spend a month eating whatever shows up at my front door!

On a serious note, I need to eat more vegetables. Have you ever seen an episode of The Simpsons where the whole family sits around the breakfast table shoveling food into their faces? That's what I'm like with salad - there's pieces of lettuce flying everywhere, there's dressing dripping down my chin, it is voracious to say the least. But without the right dressing to pull it all together it's more of a chore than a treat. I either need to keep eating this yogurt dressing until I get used to it, or figure out another recipe that doesn't use oil... or find local oil? Feel free to email me if you have any suitable dressing recipes.