Thursday, March 5, 2009

Meal 1: crackers and cheese, coffee

Meal 2: honeydew

Meal 3: cheese raviolis with a pesto-y/fresh tomato sauce. Pear.

Meal 4: Frutigrans, coffee...

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 w/ Tercera Docena

 Meal 1: ww bread w/ hummus, coffee

Meal 2: yogurt, honeydew

Meal 3: vegetable soup with bread and tomato salad, half peach

Meal 4: cafe con leche, 2 medialunas

Meal 5: grilled cheese, Patagonia beer—the grilled cheese was lacking, maybe some mustard or something next time would help? Pesto? And sadly, the beer, which was double the price of Quilmes was not up to the task of providing a beer with double the gusto.

Meal 6: 4 empanadas from La Tercera Docena—a total accident, as I didn't realize until after I'd paid for four that they must have doubled me up on something. I got two cheese and corn, which definitely weren't needed. They were good, but combined with the humita and chard and cheese, it was way too rich. Next time, 2 empanadas (humita and acelga) and a healthy side of veggies would be a more satisfying order. I checked on the souffle empanadas, and they are cooked in beef fat, as Martín indicated. =(

Update: I gave the pizza a try.  It was good.  The mozzarella is a deal, at 12 pesos for a large, however, the one I chose was pricier (still a good deal), but all their pizzas only come in large, and I just don't have the self-control to handle that!  Vizio's is still my top choice.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Meal 1: ww bread w/ hummus, coffee

Meal 2: yogurt, honeydew

Meal 3: tomato salad, hb egg, bread

Meal 4: hummus w/ ww bread, pastries

Meal 5: Vizio's pizza, wine

Monday, March 2, 2009

Meal 1: coffee, crackers and peanut butter

Meal 2: yogurt, honeydew

Meal 3: zapallito revuelto, tomato salad, bread

Meal 4: crackers with hummus (tahini-less hummus)

Meal 5: boiled veggies with peanut sauce. The sauce had too much soy sauce, but was otherwise good. While it didn't taste good on its own, it was great over the veggies. Bon thing for dessert.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Meal 1: plum, cracker

Meal 2: Leftover pizza

Meal 3: Carrot salad, green beans, vegetable soup (made from caldo and cut veggies with a squirt of Sriracha).

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Meal 1: peach

Meal 2: Gustito helado—bananita dolca, dulce de leche brownie, and strawberry. Very creamy, more like US ice cream than Argentine. Beer.

Meal 3: Carrot salad and green beans, WW pasta with tomato, garlic and parmesan cheese.

Meal 4: Maru's homemade pizzas, wine (lots of wine)—fabulous! A taste of ice cream from La Sorbetiere. Good, although the flavors weren't my favorite. A dulce de leche granitizado with chips of chocolate cereal? supposed rum flavoring, which was undetectable, and a few sorbets that didn't stay with my memory after all the wine. Needs a do-over.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Meal 1: coffee, cheesy polenta

Meal 2: yogurt (Activa, 68 cal), 1 ½ plums (the other half was gross)

Meal 3: Large green salad, bread, orange

Meal 4: 2 choc chip cookies

Meal 5: Green beans

Meal 6: Zapallito revuelto, choc chip cookie, wine

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Meal 1: Green tea (out of coffee!), cheesy polenta

Meal 2: yogurt, peach

Meal 3: more ravioli with chard and salsa blanca—yum! Salad, orange.

Meal 4: choc chip cookies, finished the Irish Cream

Meal 5: Carrot salad, WW spaghetti w/ EVOO and cheese, Lemon-Mustard Green Beans--made with a white onion, seemed like a big hassle to do the onion, although the dressing was good, and would work with many cooked veggies. Wine

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Meal 1: Crackers and peanut butter, coffee

Meal 2: peach

Meal 3: Ravioli with chard and salsa blanca

Meal 4: choc chip cookie, mate

Meal 5: yogurt, 2 plums, potato chips

Meal 6: fried rice, corn on the cob, carrot salad, wine, choc chip cookie

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Meal 1: coffee, 2 chocolate chip cookies

Meal 2: yogurt

Meal 3: “pizza” with no cheese, but topped with swiss chard and bechamel, delicious, salad, bites of honeydew and watermelon

Meal 4: Cookie, irish cream liqueur

Meal 5: Cheesy polenta, corn on the cob, carrot salad (dressing with EVOO, lemon juice, mustard, garlic, S&P), wine, cookie

Monday, February 23, 2009

Meal 1: chamomile tea, coffee, Cheesy Polenta. Chocolate chip cookie (I just had to see how they held up overnight!)

Meal 2: cheese ravioli with tomato sauce, bread, watermelon.

Meal 3: chocolate chip cookies...3? and mate, with Martín.

Meal 4: More fried rice, I'm addicted! Another cookie, some homemade bailey's, wine...it's been a long Monday!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Meal 1: coffee, Cheesy Polenta (I added the cheese after, so I can use the rest of the polenta for other dishes), small apple with peanut butter.

Meal 2: Rice with eggplant

Meal 3: Alton Brown's The Chewy chocolate chip cookies, fried rice, wine. Stuffed!

The cookies were beautiful, I used all-purpose flour instead of bread flour, since that's what I had and unfortunately had to replace all the brown sugar with white. The flavor lacked depth, although I suspect this was the problem. Next time I'll try Toll House, or something simpler and see if it works any better.

Saturday, February 21, 2009 (Pizzeria Bacci)

Meal 1: Pizza from Casa Bacci, Diag. 74 e/ 4 y5

Casa Bacci aims for a thick crust pizza, but their masa is a bit more like an unsweetened cake. Really, it's bread topped with a very light layer of sauce and lots of cheese. Very good, a large cost us $20 (pesos), and was more than Martín and I could finish together. (Typically a large is perfect for the two of us.)

Update: 5/4/09

Tuesday night we went to the original Bacci’s for pizza.  As a large group, we ordered 5 pizzas, with humita, espinaca, and muzarella being the vegetarian options.   Once again, espinaca was my favorite—muzarella just reminds me too much of cheese bread, as they use very little sauce.  The humita had a cream sauce mixed in with the corn, on top of the cheese which was just too rich and lacking a distinctive flavor.  However, the pizza was identical to that served at the Bacci on 74 (which we then had on Saturday night). =P

Meal 2: Pasta with roasted bellpepper, eggplant, and zapallito sauce, shredded cheese. Bailey's.

Meal 3: Giant peach.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Meal 1: Spaghetti with oil and parmesan cheese

Meal 2: peach

Meal 3: Brown Rice Lentil Salad

Meal 4: Brown Rice Lentil Salad

Meal 5: Eggplant over Rice (pilaf)--whipped up by roasting eggplant with leftover Brown Rice Lentil Salad dressing, cooked white rice with garlic and tomato (meant to add parsley, but it was wilted), served eggplant over rice. Good, but nothing to write home about. Inspired by this recipe.

Meal 6: Drinks! 2 Fernet and Cokes, Rum and Coke

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Meal 1: frutigrans, coffee, crackers and peanut butter

Meal 2: yogurt

Meal 3: Zapallito revuelta con huevos, carrots, bread, watermelon

Meal 4: peach

Meal 5: Cerveza and pizza at Juaquinto's. The pizza came with spinach, arugula, tomatoes, and maybe a couple other things—fabulous combination on a good, standard Argentine crust.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Meal 1: slice of cheese, fruitigrans (Martín spent the night, day got off to a jumping start=.

Meal 2: coffee, 2 empanadas, coke zero

Meal 3: veggie mix, ww bread

Meal 4: yogurt, plum

Meal 5: Rice and Lentil salad, choc chip cookies (from the supermercado chino, vegetarian and yummy! (and therefore, dangerous), wine

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Meal 1: coffee, crackers and cheese

Meal 2: yogurt

Meal 3: salad, bread, potatoes, cake, coffee

Meal 4: chocolate, chocolate chip cookies

Meal 5: plum, apple with peanut butter

Meal 6: raviolli with oil and cheese, wine

Monday, February 16, 2009

Meal 1: Crackers with cheese and garbanzo spread, coffee.

Meal 2: apple

Meal 3: Salad, potatoes, bread, watermelon

Meal 4: cookies, plum

Meal 5: roasted eggplant, bell pepper, zapallitos, onion and garlic, with tomato, over WW spaghetti with cheese, wine.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Meal 1: crackers with garbanzo spread.

Meal 2: pizza and beer with Jose and Bettina. Random Recoleta place, good pizza, but nothing to rave about.

Meal 3: I had a healthy salad planned, but my roommates were hogging the kitchen making empanadas. And I wanted empanadas too! So, it was time to check out La Tercera Docena, the empanada chain around the corner. I'd heard they weren't good, but after my disappointing experience at Solo Empanadas, I had to see for myself.

For comparison purposes, I tried to order the same combination, but tercera docena doesn't have a typical variety. The only one I could repeat was cebolla con queso. In comparison, the masa was much better--light and flakey, probably containing a lot more fat, but very tasty. The onion filling was neither goopy nor lacking sweetness, I'd have to complain of the opposite. It was a bit too cheesey (if there is such a thing), and the onions were TOO sweet.

I also tried a humita, since this is a common offering, and one I'm familiar with. It was very rich, filled with a white cream sauce, however very tasty. While I'd definitely repeat it, one was enough.

The third empanada, acelga con queso followed the trend. It was very cheesey, but yummy. Repeatable, though probably not too many times. Martin believes all fried empanadas are fried in beef fat, and therefore not vegetarian. If this is the case, La Tercera Docena's veggie options are somewhat limited. Since I usually eat 3 for a meal, I'd have to repeat an acelga or humita. (The only other option was corn with cheese, which I'm guessing wouldn't impress me, given the others.)

However, a salad would be a good accompaniement to two empanadas, and make the decision a bit easier. =P

Wine accompanied the meal, soley due to the richness of the food. ;-)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Meal 1: Crackers and PB, coffee

Meal 2: pan relleno, plum

Meal 3: raviolli with oil, garlic, and cheese