Today I Ate... [100120]

Today is a land practice day. I decided last week that I would allow myself a bit of carbs throughout the day in order to carbload and not feel like crap during practice. What I had for breakfast has been a favorite of mine for as long as I can remember: oatmeal. I haven't tasted this deliciously creamy and ordinarily underrated and overlooked porridge in so long because I've been trying to eat primal. It was difficult, come on, I used to live off this stuff, at least a bowl a day throughout sophomore year, and I never once got sick of it. Since I'm only allowing myself to have it on certain occasions, I had to make this particular occasion special. I made this with about a cup and a half of 2% milk, slowly simmering and reducing it down, rolled oats, steel-cut oats, and a handful of dried cranberries.


Superb.

Then for lunch, I decided to make my own BBQ sauce and dry roast the remainder of the short ribs I had left in the fridge. The BBQ sauce is loosely based on this recipe. I tweaked it by adding dried serrano peppers and lots more black pepper than the recipe called for. It came out... too tomatoey, but I'll adjust the next time around. Also roasted some fresh brussel sprouts and a beautifully-colored orange bell pepper from the local farmer's market alongside the ribs.


The ribs weren't fall-off-the-bone tender, granted they were short ribs, but they satisfied my bbq craving plenty fine.

For dinner, I had a huge wad of snow pea shoots or 豆苗 , some 芥兰, and a hunk of 牛展 sliced up. Funny thing, I was really curious as to what 牛展 translated to in English, and apparently it's cow shin. The SHIN of the cow! I didn't even know 牛展 was from the leg, always thought it was near the loin... Explains the chewy, gelatinous texture I guess.


A very productive food day, but very unproductive day for academics.

Eh, "all good in the hood," as W would say.

Eating good is living good, you can quote me on that one, haha