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Chinese Cold Noodles

chicken breast, cooked and julienned (or in this case, julienned dried seasoned tofu)
cucumber, julienned
carrot, shredded
egg sheet*, julienned
preserved mustard green**, julienned
bean sprouts
chinese ironman flour stick noodles (cooked)
peanut butter
hot water
soy sauce
sesame oil
red wine vinegar

the chop chop: cukes, tofu, egg, mustard green, the whole shebang

* Egg sheet is made by beating about 4 eggs in a bowl and pouring contents onto an oiled hot frying pan and letting it cook until mostly done. Flip to cook the top and then remove to chopping board.
** Preserved mustard greens can only be found in asian grocery stores. They are a salty, crunchy vegetable. I prefer the shredded kind, but the stupid store in Boulder only has whole ones.

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I used up our leftover veggies and cheese for brunch in some omelettes served with hashies and bacon. I didn’t feel hungry again for 9 hours!

this is the equivalent of running 10 miles

I finally wrote up a section that was bugging me forever! I’ll have to go back and massage it, but it was a mental hurdle that I couldn’t get around until today. I think I forgot that I need to set a few “rewards” for myself during the writing stage or else I become burned out, deflated, and totally unmotivated… I mean more than usual. Last night I was so annoyed with my lack of progress, that I determined my reward today would be to review a restaurant if I made headway. But as dinner neared, the thought of reviewing a restaurant got me down. I didn’t want to make more work for myself right now. Instead, Jeremy and I went to try Sushi Tora in Boulder.

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Today was not a productive Big Diss Day. I think all of my anger from the week has worn me down. We set about cleaning this morning and taking care of house things while listening to Weekend Edition Saturday, Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!, and Marketplace Money. I rarely get Saturday mornings like this because normally I’d be outside at the crack of dawn hiking or shooting or both – and while working on the Big Diss I can’t listen to radio or anything for that matter. I did manage to make some chocolate chip banana bread, once again because I failed to eat all of the bananas I bought in the hopes of well… eating more bananas.

mini chocolate chips – haroo!

crispy outside

moist, chocolaty inside