Day 125 - You Are What You Eat

My daughter had a friend over and they were playing Resident Evil. Amid the screams and general mayhem it became apparent that the combatants in the game did not have a well balanced diet; kind of like me (but without the blood and gore)

Breakfast - Spam with 2 eggs
Lunch - tossed salad and yogurt
Dinner - chicken and pasta with brussel sprouts

OK, OK ... I also had 3 doughnuts.

Day 124 - Willie, Willie, Willie

Ben and Jerry has a new flavor, Willie Nelson's Peach Cobbler. The ice cream is slightly evil (I have no power over it's siren call), just like the food at his restaurant, Texas Roadhouse. A perfect evening would be a steak dinner followed by this ice cream. Num...

Breakfast - fried eggs and Spam
Lunch - lasagna
Dinner - chef salad, a dessert which shall remain nameless

Day 123 - Me and My Shadow

I actually have 2 little shadows, the dogs have enjoyed my being home the last weeks.

Breakfast - bacon, cheese, asparagus omelet
Dinner - gyros and french fries

Day 122 - It's Squirrely

I roll sour cream cookies so thin they are translucent. You can't reuse the dough since it becomes tough but the local wildlife is happy to pick up the remainders.

On cookie day the crows start cawing as soon as I open the deck door. I have no idea how they know I'm baking them but when the dough is tossed in the back yard the race is on; crows vs squirrels.

Breakfast - leftover lasagna
Lunch - BLT
Dinner - tuna salad and an orange

Day 121 - Spainish Cherry Hat

Breakfast - steak, eggs, potatoes O'Brien

Lunch - tortilla soup

Dinner - mini pizza

Day 120 - Popovers

I woke up to left over popovers; it's a good day.

I'm such a hero, The rib-eye had bones and I roasted them for the dogs. We need to keep a close eye on Zelda's progress. She may be only 5 pounds but she can chew things up like a giant junk yard dog.

Dinner was leftover baked potato, rib-eye and green beans.

Day 119 - I Don't Like The Brown Ones

My dog Zelda doesn't like the dark brown kibble in her bowl. She spits them out and leaves them everywhere. Fortunately my other dog, Marilyn, prefers the dark brown pieces and cleans up Zelda's trail of rejects.

I made popovers this morning.

Lunch/dinner was prime rib, popovers, green beans, and baked potato. Desert was fudge and Christmas cookies.

Day 118 - Finals Are Over

Life has been a little hectic and I haven't kept up with the blog. I got the flu, then a cold, then working while attending school full time caught up with me. I've spent the last few days watching trashy movies and reading anything not school related.

We'll pretend I hadn't done this art journal entry 4 days ago. The food on 12/13 was quiche, Special K and pasta with veggies. Today I ate turkey dumpling soup, a peanut and butter and banana sandwich on toast, and a grapefruit.

Day 117 - Big Apple Pop Up

Breakfast - rice krispies with banana
Lunch - Chinese buffet
Dinner - apple (it was a good buffet)

Day 116 - Apples and Ants, Lunch To Go

Breakfast - corn flakes with banana
Lunch - turkey gyro wrap
Dinner - lemon chicken and asparagus pasta

Day 115 - Post Thanksgiving

Breakfast - Thanksgiving leftovers
Lunch - rhubarb meringue pie
Dinner - turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and cranberries
Snack - cocoa with whipped cream

Day 114 - Thanksgiving

My daughter drew this hand turkey on the chalk board in my office.

Breakfast - apple walnut pancakes

Dinner - turkey, wild rice dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, orange praline yams, cranberries, pumpkin pie

Edit 113 - Apple Dartboard

Breakfast - peanut butter and banana on toast
Lunch - cheese sandwich and an apple
Dinner- crepes with fruit and lemon custard sauce

Day 112 - It's Raining Apples

Breakfast - pancakes
Lunch - tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich
Dinner - fish sticks, mashed potatoes, peas

Day 111 - Mount Fuji Apple

Breakfast - popovers with apricot jam
Lunch - chef salad
Dinner - pork chops, boiled potatoes, brussel sprouts

Day 110 - A Very Hungry Caterpillar

Breakfast - scrambled eggs and sausage
Lunch - chicken roll up with veggies
Dinner - spaghetti and meatballs, salad

Day 109 - An Apple With A Bite

Breakfast - rice krispies with banana
Lunch - club sandwich
Dinner - pasta with shrimp, asparagus, Parmesan cheese and cream

Day 108 - Apple Quilt

This tiny apple quilt is 2" square with a backwards Bakelite button center.

Breakfast - oatmeal with crasins
Lunch - BLT
Dinner - roast chicken salad

Day 107 - Too Many Surprises

Breakfast - pecan pie
Lunch - tuna salad
Dinner - broccoli soup

Oi, what a day! There were a lot of last minute changes to projects.

Day 106 - Bag of Apples

Breakfast - bran cereal
Lunch - tuna salad
Dinner - leftover cheeseburger casserole
Snack - pecan pie

Day 105 - Packed Sardines Dressed For a Party

I was inspired by a recent elevator ride.

Breakfast - sausage biscuit
Lunch - chicken dumpling soup
Dinner - cheeseburger casserole
Snack - orange

Day 104 - Progressive Nomming

The apple drawing shows progressive snacking.

Breakfast - leftover quiche
Lunch - lemon pepper crusted chicken with artichoke hearts
Dinner - pasta with pepperoni and vegetables

Day 103 - Giant Tomato ACEO

Brunch - quiche with broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, sausage and bacon

Dinner - pasta with seafood and vegetables

Day 102 - Tagged

Darn ant graffiti painters, you can't trust them with spray paint.

Breakfast - rice chex in milk
Lunch - 1/2 a bowl of soup
Dinner - cheeseburger
Snack - rice chex covered with chocolate and peanut butter

Day 101 - Up And Away In An Apple Balloon

Breakfast - oatmeal
Lunch - cheese sandwich
Dinner - leftover meatballs and pizza

Day 100 - It's Not Pie - apple fleeing pie

We have a saying when something doesn't smell good, "It's not pie". I'll spare you what was not pie.

Breakfast - quiche
Dinner - steak, salad, mashed potoatoes

Day 99 - Apple Seeds

Breakfast - oatmeal with cranberries
Lunch - ham slices with cream cheese and pickel
Dinner - meatballs with mushroom gravy, potatoes, brocolli

Day 98 - Apple Slices

Breakfast - bran cereal with banana
Lunch - chicken and roasted mixed vegetables
Dinner - soup and crusty bread

Day 97 - I Feel Like A Goldfish

I'm feeling better today but my attention span is roughly equivalent to a goldfish.

Yay lunch!
Is that a cat?
Ooo shiny...
Yay lunch!

Breakfast - quiche
Lunch - tomato soup
Dinner - seafood salad on crackers

Day 96 - Wolfman Cappuccino with A Milk Bone Cookie

Lunch - tomato soup
Dinner - BLT
Snack - orange

Day 95 - Alien With Out of This World Coffee

The little green man's coffee cup is on a repulsar field.

Breakfast - cereal with blueberries
Lunch - tomato soup (I only like canned tomato soup when I'm sick)
Dinner - pancakes (comfort foods are nice)

I'm beginning to slosh from drinking so much. I'm supposed to no longer be contagious when I stop having a fever for 24 hours; I'm still waiting.

Day 94 - Coffee Vampire

I still have the flu. Becoming a vampire has it's plus side right now.

Breakfast - orange
Lunch - tomato soup
Dinner - a chicken leg

Lots and lots of beverages.

Day 93 - Halloween

I feel pretty awful so I didn't do much besides sleep and cough.

Oatmeal and a can of tomato soup

Friday - I took an H1N1 break

Day 92 - Muddy Waters

I know this isn't a drawing but I did sit in the coffee shop for about an hour drawing and designing hand drawn fonts so I guess that is close enough.

The beverage is a malted mocha.

Breakfast - leftover quiche
Lunch - burger and sweet potato fries
Dinner - sweet and sour pork, orange chicken, pork fried rice

Day 91 - Late Night Class

I just finished photoshop class tonight and I'm beat.

Breakfast - quiche
Lunch - apple and a muffin
Dinner - mini pizza

Day 90 - A Frig Full of Food But Nothing To Eat

Don't you hate when you walk to the frig and nothing strikes your fancy?

I did this india ink drawing of a bag of groceries in my journal and colored it in Illustrator.

Breakfast - corn flakes with a banana
Lunch - carrot sticks, go wild
Dinner - soup and wheat crackers
Snack - sweet potato fries and an orange

Day 89 - Canned Mermaids

My daughter and I were eating Deviled Ham on wheat crackers and this started a conversation about tuna. I told her that I refused to eat tuna when I was little since I thought it contained mermaids. It makes sense, corn contains corn, tomato sauce is tomatoes so Little Mermaid tuna...

I used India Ink to draw this fish zentangle ATC.

Breakfast - corn flakes with blueberries
Lunch- tortilla soup
Dinner - fried chicken with sweet potato fires
Snack - deviled ham and crackers

Day 88 - Thinking About Dinner

I'm a little stumped about dinner.

Brunch - egg and sausage quesadilla

Dinner - soup

Snack - orange, apple pie a la mode

Day 87 - The Last Of The Tomatoes

I used the last of the garden tomatoes yesterday in soup.

Today I ate soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Day 86 - Soups On

I went a little crazy today making soup. It's cold and overcast so I was inspired.






Brunch - meatballs and corn

Dinner - soup. I made beef vegetable with wild rice, wild rice and chicken, cheese baked potato with bacon, chicken tortilla.

Day 85 - My Husband Didn't Cook

Breakfast - western omelet with sausage, onion, cheese, and green peppers

Lunch - turkey sandwich

Dinner - meatballs and mixed vegetables

Snack - carrot sticks and an orange

Day 84 - It May Be Chicken But It Tastes Like Fish

My husband sweetly decided to make dinner, there were just a few problems. He wanted to make orange chicken with carrots which takes a total of 30 minutes on top of the stove.

1. He baked chicken breasts for 3 1/2 hours
2. He didn't make an orange sauce, he cut up an orange and baked it with the chicken, peel and all.
3. He baked something acidic in a cast iron pot so it took on a metallic taste.
4. He never tasted the dish before serving it.

We gamely sat down to eat but I cracked after a few bites. I started laughing uncontrollably and declared it one of the 10 worst meals ever, even the dogs rejected it.

This was right up there with the radish kabobs he made but didn't beat the rice surprise we had at an acquittance's house.

We were excited to go to this couple's home to try their authentic African cuisine. He made a soup with fish heads and there was a rice dish with an entire fish, including scales, covered with a bed of rice. I was the first served so I go to scoop out some rice and hit a solid object. The spoon included a healthy portion of fish scales, skin and reveled a fish looking up at me.

Breakfast - oatmeal
Lunch - chicken and asparagus
Dinner - ugh....

Day 83 - French Food

Doesn't everyone look at cauliflower and think, beret?

I took photos of both vegetables and various hats; then put them together like paper dolls (the components had to be resized of course).

Breakfast - oatmeal
Lunch - carrots, cheese and an orange
Dinner - meatballs and french fries

Day 82 - Spam, Guilty Pleasure or Hawaiian Treat

Breakfast - eggs and Spam.

Dinner - Mexicali Meat Pie made with hamburger, salsa, corn, cheese and bacon.

Snack - apple, string cheese

Day 81 - Cold Weather Produce

Yes, I know this isn't a drawing but it did take artistic effort so that's good enough for me.

The apple is wearing a beret, the celery has fake fur ear muffs, and the pumpkin is Photoshoped with a Fargo style fake fur ear flap hat.

Brunch - lemon pepper chicken with artichokes and squash plus apple pie.

Dinner - Whopper Jr and small French Fry

Snack - string cheese, apple

Day 80 - Vichyssoise Reconstructed

I know vichyssoise is supposed to be pureed and cold but I make mine hot, chunky and include hot Italian sausage. I think it's now potato leek soup but we still call it Vichyssoise.

Brunch - eggs, sausage and hashbrowns

Lunch - potato soup

Dinner - pork loin and cabbage with apples

Day 79 - Oh Nuts!

Typography has many uses.

Brunch - leftover roast chicken dinner

Dinner - shepard's pie made with cauliflower, cheese, hot Italian sausage, mixed vegetables, mashed potato dollops.

Snack - nuts, bananas

Day 78 - Oranges Rule

Brunch - leftover roast chicken and veggies

Dinner - seafood cocktail, wheat crackers with peanut butter and banana

Snack - popcorn

Day 77 - Some Fry Is Stalking Me

Everywhere I went today someone was eating French Fries. I'm not even that fond of regular fries but twice today on an elevator?

I drew these lurking French Fries with a Pitt Pen.


Breakfast - scrambled eggs and sausage

Lunch - carrot sticks, white cheddar cheese, radishes. Do I know how to party or what?

Dinner - roast chicken with carrots, potatoes and cabbage.

Day 76 - Take Out

Breakfast - raspberry yogurt

Lunch - crab cocktail

Dinner - orange mandarin chicken, Beijing beef, lo mein