Diamonds and Estrogen

Crying Week should officially be drawing to a close any minute now.  Aaaaaaaany minute.  I’m sure I’ve impressed you all with my emotional resilience.

I’ve taken it easy this week, as you will notice, relying on takeout pizza (craft) for three meals out of the week and soup I had in the freezer for another.  And also by not blogging as much because I don’t feel like it.  This breather should enable me to finish up strong and in a more dignified manner in the next and final week.  Or not.  We’ll see.  (The suspense is killing me.)

Anyway, I had a few girlfriends over for wine and some of the aforementioned pizza delivery when Husband arrived home from his evening classes.  After asking us if we had fun talking about our feelings and other girlish topics, naturally his next question was whether there was any pizza left and what kind. 

Diamond, said one friend. 

Estrogen, said another. 

Mmmmm, everyone's favorite pizza toppings!  I think someone needs to lay off the Estrogen Pizza for a little while, though.

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Eat Local Challenge Recap: 10/18 – 10/23

Saturday, October 18
Breakfast: Yogurt, toast with jam, cranberry juice

Lunch: Hard-boiled eggs, apples, cheese, bread

Dinner: Pita pizzas, green salad with radishes

Sunday, October 19
Breakfast: Same as Saturday

Lunch: Exempt for 3YO’s birthday party (pizza and cake)

Dinner: Fried eggs over sautéed broccoli rabe and beet greens, hot buttered carrots with chives, apples

Monday, October 20
Breakfast: Yogurt, toast with jam, apple cider

Lunch: Potato, leek, and cheddar soup with radish sandwiches

Snack: Homemade applesauce

Dinner: Flounder simmered in tomato sauce, buttered green beans, roasted potatoes and sweet dumpling squash

Tuesday, October 21
Breakfast: Yogurt, scrambled eggs, cranberry juice

Lunch: Leftover sautéed greens, potato leek soup, and homemade focaccia

Dinner: Pizza delivery and wine.  Kids had same as Monday.

Wednesday, October 22
Breakfast: Yogurt, toast with jam, cranberry juice

Lunch: Potato leek soup, focaccia, leftover squash sprinkled with goat cheese.  Can’t remember what the kids had.  Something boring, no doubt.

Dinner: Leftover pizza, radishes, and apples.

Thursday, October 23
Breakfast: Yogurt, toast with jam, cranberry juice

Lunch: Kids had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, carrot sticks, apples, and cheese.  I just ate a whole bunch of random leftovers in the fridge, frowning.

Snack: Pita chips

Dinner: Minestrone soup, baguette, apples

Sources:
Drumlin Farm CSA, Lincoln, MA: tomatoes, lettuce, radishes, garlic, broccoli rabe, beet greens, carrots, chives, thyme, rosemary, potatoes, leeks, green beans, squash

Milk: High Lawn Farm, Lee, MA (Russo’s)
Butter: Cabot, Cabot, VT
Eggs: Chip-In Farm, Bedford, MA (Russo’s)
Yogurt: Stonyfield Farm, Londonderry, NH
Cheese: Cabot, Cabot, VT; Vermont Butter & Cheese, Websterville, VT
Flour: Wood Prairie Farm, Bridgewater, ME (mail order)
Bread: Nashoba Brook Bakery, West Concord, MA (Russo's)
Pita bread: Bay State Bakery, Worcester, MA (Russo’s)
Honey: Golden Meadow, Reseska Apiaries, Holliston, MA (Russo's)
Jam: Trappist, Saint Joseph’s Abbey, Spencer, MA
Apples: Autumn Hills Orchard, Groton, MA
Apple cider: Lanni Orchards, Lunenburg, MA
Cranberry juice: Ocean Spray, Lakeville-Middleboro, MA
Apple cider vinegar: Carlson Orchards, Harvard, MA (Russo's)
Mustard: Raye’s, Eastport, ME (mail order)
Beans: Baer’s Best, Moraine Farm, Beverly, MA (Russo’s)
Flounder from local fishermen: Steamers, Newton, MA
Peanut butter: Teddie, Everett, MA
Wine: Cock of the Walk, Sakonnet Vineyards, Little Compton, RI
Pizza delivery: The Upper Crust, Waltham, MA; Pini’s Pizzeria, Waltham, MA

Comments

[Heather]

Do you start to feel like an anorexic listing everything you ate? I mean that except instead of listing the calorie count for each item, you list the source. Can you hardly wait to stop the insanity?

[Tammy]

Heather: That's an understatement. I'm so far away from anorexia on the food spectrum, though, that I didn't even know itemization was part of the process.

[michelle @ TNS]

i can barely keep up with my CSA, let along track down everything else locally, and this in a city with really good greenmarkets. i think you deserve a week of estrogen pizza.

[Tim]

Hey Tammy ~
Long time no talkie. How's tricks? Or should I say Treks... (hehe. getit?) I don't really have any comments that relate to this entry, but thought you might want to check this site out.

http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Cookin_with_Coolio/Cookin_with_Coolio/2ForkSteakHeavenlyGhettalianGarlicBread_551.aspx

I laughed. I cried. I wish I had ghetto kool.

[cookiecrumb]

Should I come over and smack your husband?
I bet he likes Guns and Trucks Pizza.

[What A Card]

Hang in there. I'd write more, but now I need some Diamond and Estrogen pizza.

[Sally]

Thank God for friends - girl and otherwise. They make life so much more bearable. (...did I spell that right?)

[Sally]

I just went over and checked out Cookin' With Coolio - TFF!!! I have watched Bitchin' Kitchen on that site before but never knew about Coolio. Thanks Tim!

[Tammy]

Sally: The spelling and the sentiment are perfect!

What a Card: I've never really been much for diamonds, but, apparently, I make up for it in estrogen.

CC: No, he's more of a Baseball and World of Warcraft Pizza kind of guy.

Tim: Thanks, I needed that!

Michelle @ TNS: I hope you don't mind that I took you up on your offer.