For all of you that tried to click through on the book link to see what it was all about, I fixed the link. Here it is: Good Calories, Bad Calories
(For those of you that didn't read the previous post and have no idea what I'm talking about: Frank and I are eating less carbs for health reasons thanks to this book, Good Calories, Bad Calories
I had a salad for lunch. I would dare to bet that none of you have ever seen me eat a salad at a restaurant ... because this is the first time I think I've ever ordered a salad at a restaurant. It wasn't too bad ... especially with the Red Ale to go with it!
This is a direct result of Frank and I deciding to eat less carbs ... all because of Good Calories, Bad Calories
Ever wondered how much caffeine was in your Starbucks coffee? Between 6 and 20 mg/oz depending on what type. Here's the chart with all the info. Diet Coke (my drink) has 3.75 mg/oz and Mountain Dew has 4.5 mg/oz. So coffee is worse than Mountain Dew!
Maybe some of you remember the Tortilla de Patatas that I made - my first ever. It's now part of the Tortilla de patatas group on Flickr!
We had our annual crayfish party! Frank blogged about it over at Life of a Hunter, An evening with friends and crawdads! We had a great time and really enjoyed visiting with everyone.
Here are some pictures and here are some more. (I'd put a Flickr badge here but Flickr won't let me specify someone else's set. I can display them by tag or one of my set but not someone else's set.)
Photo by Bill.
I had yummy spinach crepes at Cafe Mason in San Francisco yesterday. They came with an awesome fruit salad that included everything from blackberries and strawberries to melon and bananas.
Just be sure you leave any crying babies at home as they are sure to let everyone know that "Crying babies are not welcome here for other customer's precious peaceful dining moments." The waitress tried to take my menu away before I had a good picture and I said "Wait! I'm going to blog about that." 
"You and everyone else." Maybe that's why I got such unfriendly service. Not bad, just not friendly.
This husband and wife team is trying to eat off $10 for two weeks. They each have their own $10 and their own stash of food.
It's interesting because Frank and I were just talking about this on the way to work yesterday. What would you eat or buy if you had limited funds but access to a kitchen? Here are some of the things that would be on my list:
Doesn't Continental know you aren't supposed to microwave frozen pizza? (This was Jacob's favorite meal though. I should have given him my pizza as well.)
We're chartering a sailboat from the Moorings for seven days and we had to
order all of groceries ahead of time. It was hard to plan all of our
needs for a week in an environment we aren't used to. How much water
do you need? How many cookies? What to eat for breakfast? We ended
up planning for four meals onboard: cornish game hens, salmon,
mahi-mahi and steak. Frank is planning two of them and our friend
Barbara is planning the other two. Then we planned to eat most of our
breakfasts and lunches on board with lots of snacks and appetizers
included. We didn't skimp on anything and all our food and drinks
ended up costing us almost $800 (for five people) from Bobby's.
We ordered by downloading their spreadsheet, filling out our order, sending it back to them via email and then they sent us a quote. They will deliver it to our boat at noon on Thursday! I'll let you know how it goes!
Turns out that coffee in the morning doesn't make you any more alert than non-coffee drinkers. However, if you are addicted to caffeine and you don't get your coffee, you will be less alert than those non-coffee drinkers. This University of Bristol study found:
all the drink does is counteract the mild caffeine withdrawal symptoms people are experiencing because they have gone without the stimulant overnight.
And those who drink a caffeinated drink first thing are no more alert than those who never consume one.
So, drink coffee if you like it, but if you are doing it just to help you stay awake or to be more alert in the morning ... you'll need to find something else.
Photo by ° d i °.
I wasn't meant to have a candy bar today ...
Have you had a similar experience?
If you are like me, you hate being the one who has to taste the wine because you aren't really sure what you are supposed to be doing. I know you are only supposed to send it back if it's bad, not if you don't like it. But what is bad? Somebody finally wrote an article to help us out, Wines: Bad Wine.
Here's an interesting article about what food was really like in the Middle Ages, Historical Fiction - How do medieval-themed restaurants get it wrong? By Mark Schatzker. For anyone who has suffered through one of the modern medieval-themed restaurants, you will be relieved to know that your ancestors did have better taste in food than that.
We're having a "crawdad" boil! We have 70 pounds of crawdads! That's good since we have at least 49 people coming and these are going to be good! I wish my grandmother could be here. She really enjoyed crayfish. She even posted about it in her blog.
Here's one to give you a sense of scale.
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