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Day 1061: Marionberry Yogurt

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I didn’t feel my sunshine best today after my migraine. I did get Amazon to say I didn’t have to send back the game they randomly mistakenly sent me so that’s a win.

For lunch I had (canned) minestrone soup. Matt had soup too since he doesn’t feel great.

For dinner I had leftover mochiko chicken and cabbage over fresh rice and Matt had leftover tenders over rice.

Then we tried the Ellenos yogurt I got at Whole Foods. I had heard it was good and it was and I liked that it came in marionberry, a fruit we don’t have in the Mid-Atlantic. However, it appears that marionberries are very seedy and although it isn’t whole fruit in the yogurt but fruit goo, they left all of the seeds in. It made it rather unpleasant to eat. If you aren’t going to include whole berries (valid!) then take that extra step and sieve out the dozens of seeds. For over $3 for less than 6 oz it doesn’t seem like too much of an ask. They add nothing but bitterness and annoyance.

I think I like marionberries though! Maybe one day I will get to try a fresh one, I feel like I’ve had them in ice cream before but never fresh.

We tried watching the GBBO spin off with professionals on Netflix and it was pretty boring. Weird because GBBO is entertaining and the Great British Menu was fun and that was professionals. It’s very dry.

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Day 1060: Yogurt of Nothingness

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I had a grilled cheese for lunch on the olive Whole Foods bread to use it up and some popcorn and the La Fermière yogurt as a snack and Matt was right, it was smooth, creamy, and mellow but tasteless. It was supposed to be pressed lemon but I would have no idea if it wasn’t on the label. The jar is super cute but I was hoping for more from the actual yogurt. There is subtle and there is bland. This was bland.

Matt went into work today and while I normally sleep in, our new dog Dottie and Mitzi decided to cry when he left so I got up at like 7 am. Why?? I put them outside and then they came back in and napped for 2 hrs. Why couldn’t they have done that instead of crying? Matt had already fed them and let them out before he left.

I warped up my new loom while I watched Vengeance. I think it would have been better with someone other than B.J. Novak in the lead. He and John Mayer talking about dating in the opening was funny because it was John Mayer but it made Novak’s character look sad and pathetic because he has to be in his mid-40s and looks older. I don’t think we were supposed to think he was a loser, I think we were supposed to think he could actually attract and date young women.

I was going to weave but I realized I really needed to fix my heddles first so I fixed one row of heddles in my floor loom. That’s so tedious; there are dozens of nearly identical metal heddles you need to thread on two open-ended bars individually facing the same direction. Somehow the doorbell rang, the dogs went nuts twice and my dad called just as I was working on that so that turned into an ordeal that dragged on forever.

Matt got take out for lunch (Peruvian chicken). He used to pack lunch in the before times but that doesn’t work well now. He had an internal interview today for the job the colleague who gave us Dottie retired from so we will see how that goes!

I got a migraine at 4 pm which was unpleasant but Excedrin migraine helped.

It’s $13 spaghetti and meatball night at the local pizza place so we had that. You also get salad and garlic bread and we normally have enough spaghetti leftover for lunch so it’s a good deal.

Watched Devil and Sullivan’s Travels. Oddly kind of liked Devil better, it had a more consistent tone.

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Day 2 Recap: Pierogi and Tuna Melts (3/14/20)

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I had two hard-boiled eggs I made earlier in the week for breakfast. Matt made himself a scrambled egg.

We made pierogi using this recipe for the dough and the potato-cabbage-corned beef mixture I made last night with leftovers from dinner as the filling. I’m planning to post the full recipe on Coconut & Lime next year as part of my corned beef and cabbage leftovers series I’ve been doing around St Patrick’s Day since 2008. It’s a little too close to St Patrick’s Day to post this year and I’ve already posted knishes and cottage pie. It made 32 pierogi so we parboiled and froze about half for a future meal.

Since we made a more elaborate lunch, we had tuna melts made with one can albacore tuna, lemon pepper, mayo, dill relish, celery, red onion with cheddar cheese on rye swirl bread leftover from our cloak and daggers last night for dinner. Normally we don’t eat so many sandwiches but I want to use the bread up before it gets stale. I had cucumber spears and celery sticks with dill pickle hummus to make it more of a meal and to help use up the cucumbers I bought last week before they go bad.

Non-food related activities:

We watched Harry and Tonto (we still get Netflix DVDs) which neither of us had seen before and was very cute. Matt cleaned the bathroom. We took a nap after the pierogi making. I read some of The Tenant by Katrine Engberg.