Day 29

We were visiting my mom this weekend so I don't have all her recipes but the dishes were pretty simple.  She made carrot ginger soup by sauteing onion and garlic (maybe?), ginger, salt, pepper, and carrots, simmering in water, and whizzing with the stick blender.  Nice bright innards-warming lunch with some rice cakes.  For dinner we had pan seared ribeye with potatoes and asparagus that had been roasted in olive oil, salt, and pepper.  Note about long drives while on LID: eat as heartily as you can before you set off.  By the time we got home the thought of eating another raw almond was very depressing.

Back home we had the Crispy Lamb with Cumin, Scallions, and Red Chilis from the NY Times.  I misread the recipe and used rice wine vinegar instead of rice wine and I was out of cornstarch so I used potato starch instead.  My guess is the latter substitution was the reason why it didn't come out all that crispy but it was still good.  We ate it with brown rice and string beans that had been blistered in the wok.

Day 4

Breakfast: Oatmeal, jam, apple, peanut butter.

Snack: Black tea, raw almonds, unsalted rice cake.

Lunch: Green curry made by husband from the Pok Pok cookbook with peppers, string beans, Thai eggplant, and chicken minus fish sauce.  Brown jasmine rice.

Dinner: Stuffed eggplant from Martha Stewart Living.  Nixed currants, used pork instead of lamb.  This dish has been a favorite since the glorious day the issue showed up in the mail and the fact that I can still eat it was a much needed morale boost.

Dessert: Toasted marshmallows.