Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

6 SLICES OF TURKEY
1 GRANNY SMITH APPLE
COFFEE

NOT NEARLY ENOUGH!!

xp It was from Morrie's!

I think maybe 15% of my posts on the Chicago thread amount to mmmm pastrami

er, Morry's

hahahaha but it's so worthy!

I'm going to go get some more food.

KENAN EAT SOME FOOD

well, this stuff I'm on is a big ol' appetite killer, so my goal is not to fill my stomach but to maintain nutrients and blood sugar (something I didn't always bother to do even before). I don't mind it at all... usually by this point in the day I've already either considered or followed through with eating a big greasy sandwich and a bag of potato chips. I'll find the middle ground eventually.

Me too! me too!
I eat alot...

BREKKIES:
Granola cereal w/ milk
Daily multivitamin & GABA vitamin (no relation to Ramones, sadly)
Water (Lots)
Coffee (one cup)

SNACKS:
Some cinnamon graham crackers
Some saltines

LUNCH:
Mache blend with chopped nectarine and balsamic
Pretzel nugs
Brownie

I want to eat, but I am super fucking busy (taking a quick mental health break to post here!) and I want to get back into the conference room and make sense of this huge file that has been giving me heartburn. Plus I have to leave early to get to the restaurant, so I am already cutting out 1 hour of work, so I dont' want to take the time to go eat.

I guess I'll eat bread at the restaurant....

I ate SO many warm buttered rolls when I worked at a steakhouse. It was a social activity among the waitstaff.

sexinthekitchen.jpeg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/52420316_ba797acd8f.jpg?v=0

awww BACK IN THE DAY

lol r.kelsey

jesse, how often are you still working at the restaurant?

I just ate my first tuna-salad sandwich in probably 10 years. It came with a little bag of baby carrots (this was from Cosi). Before that, I had Trader Joe's-brand raisin-bran clusters with soy milk, a few gulps of orange juice, and a multi-vitamin for breakfast, and a mug of Roastaroma tea at work. Some water, too.

also, how often are you "working at the restaurant"?

(i don't know what that means)

is the tuna sitting alright, jaymc?

10 years is a long time to go without tuna salad. :)

Tuna grosses me out.

I am going to try to make ratatouille tonight, and Nick is scared.

I have never had ratatouille that looks like that. Not that that means anything.

OK so far, Kenan. I'll keep you posted. I've had enough fish in the past 15 months that I'm not too worried. (It did seem like a lot, though! Big ol' scoops of it.)

yeah, tuna is cheap, and americans like the big portions, so most sandwich places I've been to tend to HEAP the tuna on. I would never make a sandwich that big for myself.

all you do is make me hungry, Chicago

The ratatouille that my dad used to make used those same basic ingredients, but it was all covered in marinara sauce.

Well, this one has a tomato paste under the veggies... Maybe I should make extra sauce to throw on top.

Is there eggplant?

Yes indeedly doodly.

I never eat eggplant, and I've definitely never cooked with it. I got a mini size.

xxpost nevermind, just look at the picture, kenan

:)

Properly cooked eggplant is heavenly. Undercooked eggplant is an atrocity. Julia and I had eggplant parm from Rosebud this weekend, and it was grebt.

Two keys to cooking eggplant:

1. Slice it thinly, since it will cook faster that way.
2. Before cooking, salt the slices and cover them with paper towels for a half hour or so.

OMG I just ate 1/4 of a Bosnian pita (cheese) that I got at Devon Market and WHOA was it good. It had everything I wanted at that very minute: grease, cheese, pastry. I ate it in the car like a true glutton.
http://www.bosnia.org.uk/outofbosnia/images/jpgs/pita.jpg

Before that I had eaten:
cereal
coffee
fruit bar thingie

I want to eat the whole thing, but it will make my tum hurt from grease/cheese so I am going to have some cantaloupe instead.

The end

Inside that thing? CHEESE.

Aw, I didn't actually go get food when I said I would, because I wasn't hungry, and now I am and the cafeteria is closed. :(

That looks delicious.

all you do is make me hungry, Chicago

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Okay, I found a bag of microwave popcorn, thus breaking my 3.5 year streak of never eating the office popcorn.

I like that we get to take turns making each other hungry.

Just don't get popcorn lung.

Isn't the deal with that like that you would have to eat a pound a day for 20 years or some such?

or work in the factory, obv.

Damn, that pita looks fine.

Well, the dude who was diagnosed a couple of weeks ago had also made a habit of regularly inhaling the fake-butter fumes.

and ate like 3 bags a day??

I gotta tell you: it was great. And there's more left for later! It was warm when I bought it.

I think Devon Market is a field trip-worthy place -- they have crazy liquors from all over the world, like Macedonian brandy and all kinds of stuff. Plus the Bosnian bakery.

Devon Market + Devon Ave + Romanian Kosher sausage store = full day of northside culinary funzone.

Romanian sausage co. mmmmmmggmggrrrrggm

Is that the same area with all the Indian restaurants?

Yes, Mr. Que.

I've only been to Devon Market once. For some reason, I thought you were talking about Patel Bros. at first.

xp to Sarah - Yup.

i don't think you have to salt eggplants anymore, since that was to draw out the bitterness, and they've bred it out of most you can buy in the last 10 years or something.

hmm, that ratatouille looks good, and just like it did in the movie. i wonder if you could use butternut squash instead of yellow squash. if so, we'd have basically all the ingredients in anyway.