What's On Your Monday Menu, RNYers?
QOTD: we went to our county fair all the time when I was a kid in Ohio. I liked the rides, of course. I'd never do the rides now. I've lived in Wisconsin most of my adult life, and I've been to our county fair exactly twice, because they usually manage to schedule it on the hottest, most humid week of the summer. Ugh. Now I like the animal barns - esp the sheep and goats. The animal barns is pretty much all I do.
15 months since surgery
B: Greek yogurt with extra protein, fresh raspberries
S: protein shake, yogurt
L: 1 C leftover fajita (meat & veggies only - 2 oz pork, zucchini, tomatoes, mushrooms, bell pepper)
D: we're meeting friends at an Indian restaurant. I always get a meat & veggie curry, eat about a cup of it, and punt the rice
RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)
HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163
Hi everyone!
I think it is awesome you are going to the state fair. I loved loved loved the county fair growing up. I lived in a rural farming valley community, with a sizeable state university in the center of the valley. So the county fair was a real mix of farming and homegrown-ness, plus the culture/artsy stuff from the university. That place had such a wonderful sense of community. When I was in high school, I taught 4H cooking classes, and I had my little students display their snickerdoodles for judging in the 4H tents. I also really loved the "city displays." These were these giant slanted boards--like, you walked into a building, on a concrete path through the middle, and it was like a small stadium on both sides of you, and the stadium areas were sectioned off, with a section for each town in the valley. And each town did an artful (!!!) display of produce-based art, like potatoes and pumpkins and seeds and dried beans and wheat and flowers and all kinds of natural stuff in a display that would spell out the name of the town and maybe have a scene in the middle. Like, "Providence" written out in onions, with a bean-based image of a barn on pastoral farmland, all surrounded by produce-art squares or swirls or such, with swaths of wheat and flowers around the edges. I LOVED that! Then, of course, you might wander into the buidling where the university extension agents were demonstrating the most recent artifical insemination techniques. HAHAHA! I wandered into that as an impressionable teen. If I still lived there, I would go to the county fair for sure, every year.
Our state fair is kind of on and off--some years they don't have it. I have liked going with my kids when they had school field trips in elementary school. I really like seeing all the animals and the displays of people's canning, giant vegetables, and sewing. But I have not been for several years.
My menu for today:
Lots of Crio Bru.
B: Egg with 3T bacon pieces and 1/3 oz cheddar
L: Leftover salmon, about 5 oz, with fresh garden tomatoes
D: Shrimp with ****tail sauce, garden green beans, plus probably about 3T of what I am making for the family: baked pasta with smoked gouda cheese sauce. I like gouda cheese as a snack, and I recently bought another brand on sale. It was too strong for my snacking tastes, and now I need to use it up! It should be good on pasta. (Editing to add: I should have said "It will be GOUD-A on pasta." yuk yuk yuk.)
S: Greek yogurt with coconut and chia seeds
Treat: I know I am going to eat this so I should be honest: about 1/2 oz bittersweet chocolate.
Happy Monday everyone! Like AV, I love this group.
