Yes.

So as soon as I wake up, I don't think about my Children.

I don't think about my work.

I think about my tea.

I drink black tea in the morning specifically.

I love assam tea.

I buy it at collusions in new york city on Lexington.

If you haven't been to collusions you haven't lived and very specific about how I brew it.

So I get out my zoology arushi, which is the single best hot beverage container in the land and I do two teacups worth of loose tea in the thing hit the timer three minutes and I take that with milk If I'm really living my best life, when I get out of bed my husband will have already made the tea and it will be sitting next to the sink and when that happens, yes, and then just take it back in bowl.

So coffee doesn't happen until later.

So after I have the T and the milk, I usually sit down, I work for a few hours around noon, I go to the gym.

Really, the motivation the whole time I'm at the gym is that there's a coffee after and I'll get in the summer iced coffee, regular milk.

And then when it's hot coffee, weather hot coffee and regular milk and if I'm having coffee at home I might get a little fancy.

So I keep Grady's in the fridge.

Grady's cold brew is like, it's so good.

They put like a little bit of chick re in it and it gives it this nutty delicious flavor and then I'll get out the milk froth er if I'm really feeling myself and do like oat milk or regular milk froth it up, pour it over ice and then just a little bit of flaky salt and that is delish.

Okay, so after the coffee is like happening, it's lunchtime and if I'm solo couple things, I love going to sound really weird and old lady ish, I love cottage cheese and specifically the good culture, cottage cheese.

It's like the greek yogurt of cottage cheese.

It's just very delicious and tanking creamy, I get into some Persian cucumbers, really small dice and then if I have a nice tomato, I'll do a super small dice of that, but it could be any crunchy thing.

Mix that together.

More flaky salt, mild chili pepper, like Aleppo or go to borrow a drizzle of olive oil, black pepper and then if I have them, the fried shallots that come in the tub and maybe some nutritional yeast on that, that's delicious and it has all this protein and it actually makes you fall.

That's a typical lunch.

I also love to roll up sliced turkey, a little strip of mayo, then I'll hit it with a kimchi and then some sliced cheese and roll that up and that's like a roll up and you can just have three, you might have five, it just depends on the day.

Other favorite lunch is like any kind of big salad.

So little gems, romain, purple cabbage, chopped up chick peas, feta diced avocado.

My mom's vinaigrette, carol's vinaigrette, toss, toss, toss, everything starts to get like all juicy and delicious together.

Oh, and shaved parm.

I'm not a huge snacker when my kids are home.

Actually feel guilty about it because I think other households have like snacks, like there's a special part of the cabinet for snacks.

My favorite snack is popcorn and my really favorite way to have it is alone.

I don't love to share my popcorn, just like the amount of popcorn I have to make if I know I'm sharing, like I'm getting a dutch oven now because it's, it's like I have to, I need a lot of popcorn.

Great for procrastinating.

Yeah.

If I have to write then like my mind is going to popcorn, which is like the time it takes to go make the popcorn.

But then after you make it and you're eating it, you can't type anymore.

Because if you've ever tried to type with while you're eating, but it's physically impossible.

So it's a great procrastination trick, but I pop it in Usually coconut oil, pop pop pop pop pop obviously we pop every kernel into a big bowl, nutritional, yeast, black pepper, salt, msg, mild chili flakes and then if I'm really feeling sassy, there might be like a smidge of granulated garlic.

It tastes like a nacho dorito and it's like, so, so great.

Another sack we keep around is, there's always medjool dates in the house.

We have something called an energy sandwich, which is, you take the medjool date and you take the pit out and then you stuff it with crunchy peanut butter and that's called an energy sandwich.

And then race cakes.

Also, a lot of people don't like rice cakes and they talk a lot of garbage about like their, their, their cardboard and they're like terrible and only people who hate themselves eat rice case they're wrong.

But it has to be salted.

If you're having an unsalted rice cake, be nicer to yourself.

If you've made an abundance of popcorn and then you get down to the bottom and you have like free radical of like all of the seasonings, get yourself a rice cake and butter it and then just like face down into the thing, prolonged that whole snack.

Wait while we're talking about butter and salt.

Another snack that I learned from my mom is um, the really dark pretzels, like the pennsylvania style dutch and then you have that and then again, the softened butter.

The butter has to be softened and you're swiping your pretzel with the butter and that is a great way to have a pretzel.

I'm not a huge snacker.

So, ever since the panorama happened, I'm cooking dinner for four, like every single night early on.

I kind of asked the group is everybody okay if we have rice every night, it's enough already.

I can't be coming up with like what's the starchy thing going to be?

Put it to the group.

Are we cool with rice every night?

It was unanimous.

So 100% every night I make rice.

Got really good at making rice in the pandemic.

I waited to buy myself a doorknob which are the japanese like special clay pots that are made for making rice.

They're like incredible for making rice.

Anyway, things that are on repeat tuna salad.

It's going to sound weird but tuna salad on rice is so good.

That's like if you ever get in ona Geary that has the tuna salad inside.

This is like the reverse but same kind of flavors and in my tuna salad I put mayo, horseradish, chopped pepper and cini.

I soak some shallots and lemon juice, delicious.

So that's a tuna salad.

And with that, usually I'm making broccoli di which is if you know this is my most popular recipe.

This is broccoli and cheese in a pan.

You see her, the broccoli and then you add cheddar cheese, like nice cheddar cheese and then just let that melt over and kind of sizzle and get all crackly crunchy on the, you know, like the edge of a grilled cheese the, when it hits the pit.

So that happens.

But then there's melty cheese on top.

If we're with my parents at their house on any friday we eat linguini with clams, friday night is clam night, so it might have just be linguini with clams, garlic, olive oil, little white wine.

Or we do another version that's like pancetta or guanciale in the beginning, sometimes it's got a little tomato, if you're in the summer season, we love linguine with clams.

Actually don't like linguini.

It has to be spaghetti if I'm there, it's flat, I don't want to be flat, I want to be around, oh and then sunday nights every single sunday of the pandemic hot weather, cold weather.

I made pasta fagioli and it was never the same.

And it was always good.

It starts out with the sofrito, you gotta have like a killer sofrito, garlic, onion.

I might put fennel if I don't have celery or cook that down.

You have to be very patient.

It takes like half an hour for the sofrito to get right.

It should be like it was it ever vegetable.

Now it's just a paste and then the beans go in water.

Water is fantastic.

You don't need to use stock and then you cook it till the beans are tender, then you add a ton of greens and then you have to cook your pasta separately and then you bring them together.

So sometimes I do it with anchovies.

Sometimes there's a dr futaki in there.

Yeah, never the same.

Always good.

I'm working on all of my food aversions.

I'm not great about the organ meats, not my fave.

I'll like chicken heart.

Yakitori.

I've done that.

I like cartilage which is weird like when they have the kneecap cartilage and the yeah, yes.

Give it to me.

I wasted years of my life not eating cartilage.

I'm so down, but like the or I don't know, I'm not good with a kidney or a liver.

Favorite food city is for sure.

A city I have not been to yet.

I haven't been to Korea.

I haven't been to china.

I haven't been to London.

I don't think England is going to be my best food city.

But I still, I haven't been, I haven't been to Turkey.

I haven't been to Greece, but I did have a chance to think about this question.

One of my favorite places to travel and eat is costa rica, apply hermosa, santa, Teresa, That area.

My family and I have been going on vacation there for like five or six or seven years and there's two places that I look forward to.

We go.

One place is called chicken joe's and they make rotisserie chicken and they make rice and beans and they make an insanely delicious ceviche and we could eat every night at chicken joe's love and then the other place, Cafe social, it's like a breakfast lunch place and they have a salad there and I'm telling you it's a doodle salad.

I don't quiz oodles.

Like if you gave me a suitable in any other circumstance, I would just be like, are you insane?

But at cafe Social, I think they called it rainbow salad.

It's Zundel's in a wooden square bowl.

Also insane.

And it comes with a sunflower seed pesto and some chopped cherry tomatoes and beautiful avocado.

I dream about these oodles.

I would never eat them anywhere else.

All right, That is everything I eat in a day.

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