Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Food Diary

Well, as I mentioned i'm just back from Maine.. I keep notes on where and what I ate. Here it is..

Food Diary:

Food Diary:

Wed Night @ Ground Round in Bangor
• Asian styled rolls
• Penne & Chicken with Vodka sauce

Thurs Noon @ the Harbor Café in Stonington
• Fish Pan Fried with olive oil
• ½ cup of “wheat rice”
• Spinach

Thurs Night @ Home
• Conundrum 2006 California White Table Wine
• Appetizer of Cold Smoked wild North Atlantic Salmon
• Pan sautéed native scallops & yellow onion with a white wine and balsamic vinegar reduction
• Allen’s Turnip Greens
• Chunky Money Ice Cream

Friday AM @ the Harbor Café
• 1 blueberry pancake
• 1 cup of oatmeal
• Egg Beaters Omelet with mushroom, onion and white AM cheese

Friday Lunch
• Pulled Chicken Sandwich
• Blueberry Muffin (too dry and too much cinnamon)

Friday Dinner @ The Pilgrim Inn
• White Burgundy
• Wild Mushroom Risotto
• Seafood Casserole with Broccoli and peas and mashed potatoes

Friday @ Home
• Rum Raisin with golden raisins from Ice Cream Lady

Saturday Brunch @ Home
• Lobster tails and Peaky Toe Crab sautéed with shrimp paste, sambal Badjak, yellow onion, butter, white wine and garlic served over whole wheat pasta .

Saturday Dinner @ Home
 Mixed Green Salad with Grape Tomatoes
 Seafood Supreme
 Lobster Tail
 Peaky Toe Crab
 Mixed Smoked Seafood
 Paprika
 3 year old aged Gouda
 Plain non fat Yogurt
 Bread Crumbs
 1999 Reserve Chardonnay by Viansa Winery (Sonoma, Ca.)
 Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Sunday Breakfast @ Home
 Oatmeal

Sunday Lunch @ Youngs Lobster Pound
 1.5 Lbs Lobster
 Steamers
 Cheddar Chips
 NO butter

Sunday Dinner @ Arborvine
 Bagaduce River Oysters on the half shell with a frozen sake mignonette
 Native Topneck Clams Casino Style(6)
 Carding Brook Farm Heirloom Tomatoes and Cucumber with Fresh Mozzarella (Wisconsin) and a creamy pesto vinaigrette
 Venison Tenderloin “hunter style” with Wild Mushroom, Saffron Risotto Cake, local baby brussel sprouts and baby carrots
 Cheese Plate with pear and champagne grapes (local cheeses)
 Leelanau Raclette (US) Cave Aged 90 says (Sutton Bay, Michigan). Best in show American Cheese Society Awards.
 Valley Shepherd Oldwick Shepherd (US) Pyrenees style cave aged ewes milk cheese from Long Valley, New Jersey.
 Seal Cove Farm Chevre (US) Aged goats milk cheese from Lamoine, Maine.
 2005 Landmark chardonnay
 Sandemans 20 Year Reserve

Monday Breakfast @ Home
 Oatmeal

Monday Lunch @ Home
 Native scallops, native free-range chicken breakfast sausage and native baby brussel spouts sautéed with Ma Pla, sambal badjak, shrimp paste and white white served with a reduction of same with plain breadcrumbs. The scallops, spouts and sausage all being local produce and organic.

Monday Dinner @ Home
 Bush’s canned beans with onions (a bit to sweet)
 Braised thigh of local Mutton with local India Pale Ale, local potatoes and hot peppers
 Soup made from the braising liquid
 Rum Raisin Ice Cream (see above)

Tues Breakfast @ Harbor Café
 Coffee
 Egg Beaters Omelet with Mush, Tomato and Onion
 Hash Browns (Shoe string)
 Toasted Bagel
 Blue Berry muffin hot from the oven (too much cinnamon, very most, not enough berries to taste but plenty to see) and melted sugar topping that wasn’t needed

Tues Lunch @ Home
 Thin slices of mutton from yesterdays braising
 Taste of cold braising liquid with fat removed E.g., Soup
o (would make nice dipping sauce for cold Japanese buckwheat noodles)

Tues Dinner @ Annie’s Restaurant
 Tossed salad
 Linguini with diced chicken, spinach and alfredo sauce
 Chicken Tenders
 Strawberry ice cream with fudge sauce
 Molasses and chocolate chip cookie
 8 inch personal sized pizza for take-away (buffalo chicken w/ mushroom)

Wednesday Breakfast (skipped, sorry Mom.)

Wednesday Lunch @ Lily’s Cafe
 1 cup and 1 mug of Miso and vegetable soup w/ noodles (so good I needed more of it)
 Two peaky toe crab meat cakes, fried crisp with canola oil
 Chocolate chip cookies with a peanut butter cream filling
 1 cup of tea (white tea w/ bergamot)
 1 cup of wild organic hot cider

Wednesday Night Dinner @ Annies
 12 inch pizza (jalapeño slices, mushrooms, onions, ham, light cheese), made with commercial crust
 Lobster Roll w/ chips
 1 scoop of moose trail ice cream

Thursday Breakfast @ Home
 Buckwheat Soba Noodles w/ dipping sauce (the braising liquid from the Mutton)
 Banana

Thursday Lunch @ Blue Moose
 Salad with bacon, nuts and other goodies
 Pork loin and caramelized onion sandwich

Thurs Dinner @ Mama DiMateo’s
 Mushroom and blue cheese crustini
 Lobster Picata

Snack @ Home
 Ginger Cookie from Blue Hill Bakery
(was really good)

Friday Breakfast (skipped)

Friday Lunch @ Harbor Café
 Italian Chicken Soup (pasta instead of noodles plus chunks of canned tomatoes, otherwise chicken soup)
 Whole wheat pasta with sugar free sauce
 Apple Muffin (much like the blueberry muffin but the heavy cinnamon works better w/ the apple)

Friday Dinner @ Lily’s Café
 2003 Sansare
 Tomato Rice Soup (no cream, all natural)
 Potato Wedges “Wedgies”; herb crushed potato wedges with light cheesed (melted) and dipping sauce.
 Fried boneless breast of chicken with mushroom gravy and sweet potato pancakes
 Chocolate chip cookie
 Native Apple & sour cream Pie
 French Roast Coffee
 Iceland Water

Saturday AM to PM grazing menu @ Home
 Whole grain bread with peanut butter
 Whole grain bread with blue cheese
 Semi Dry Madeira
 Lightly hardened sweet cider
 Veggie broth made from (Acorn Squash, potato, poblono chile, sweet corn)
 Mutton & Mushroom Risotto
 Braised Mutton (medium diced)
 Liquid left from Braising (defatted)
 Veggie broth (see above)
 Non-salt beef stock (used to finish)
 Porcini (dried) and Shitake (fresh) mushrooms
 Chicken sausage (Island Acres, finely sliced)
 3 year old aged gouda

Sunday Dinner @ Home
 Native shrimp with shrimp paste, sambal badjak and Allen’s Turnip greens

Monday Breakfast @ Harbor Café
 One Pancake & some eggs

Monday Lunch @ Lily’s Café
• A large mug of soup
• Mac & Cheese
• A cookie with chocolate chip base, berry jam and a ginger glaze

Monday Night @ Home
• Mutton Stew with rice & veggies

Tuesday Breakfast
• Skipped

Tues Lunch @ Young’s Lobster Pool Belfast Maine
• 2 pound Lobster
• 1 pound of Steamers

Tues Dinner @ Maximo’s in Bangor
• Mixed Green Salad
• Pasta Carbonara
• Lamb Chops
• Bottle of 2003 Barbarosa

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