V Day

Not Victory Day but well I'm sure there's a couple million guys hoping that they can fall asleep feeling victorious over the day.

Started the morning off with some fancy french toast, eggs (scrambled and omelet) and bacon.

Cleaned up from that - relaxed for a while, watched some shooting and skiing got on the trainer per the nega coach plan. Got my 25 minutes in. Stuck a 6 minute standing big gear interval in there for the hell of it at the end, cooled down to a couple killer tunes and got to work on Dinner.

Organic Cauliflower soup was the first course. To make it more complex and way way better than normal cauliflower soup I roasted the florrettes in a pan at 450 till they just got a bit toasty. And wow, it turned out very rich and super flavorful.

Second course? A bit of Maine shrimp and cocktail sauce was the interlude, followed by the big star, some Alaskan King crap legs and clarified butter. Wow that was pretty spectacular.

and finished off with some baked potatoes, with scallions, sour cream, butter and bacon for toppings. The potatoes came out absolutely perfectly. Nice Maine Organic Russets baked with a coating of olive oil in a 400 oven for about an hour.

Small courses spread out over a long time with a fantastic beer. My wife has been on a chocolate beer hunt since having one of the Chocolate stouts in the Harpoon variety pack. Well I found THE ultimate one. Sam Adams Chocolate Boch. A bit expensive but she she enjoyed it. Good stuff.

Not a bad day.

Chilling and hanging out.

A good day.

Coming up on a crazy week. But hey this Nega-Coach guy's challenge is enough to keep me on the bike. That and as much and as well as I'm eating I can't really afford to slack off. It is either that or start drinking coffee again, and right now I'm really really tempted to start up again. I was standing around almost falling asleep waiting for my daughter to finish her ballet class (we were headed to REIs clearance - found some good stuff there) and i was told to go get a coffee, i looked too tired. And I had a nice macchiato from Seven Stars. It wasn't the best but it wasn't too bad. Best thing about ordering them with whole milk foam is they have to steam it up fresh, with 95% of everyone asking for 1% or soymilk, whole milk foam is almost always perfect. Almost.

I'm not a fan of figure skating. Maybe I'll get some sleep tonight, esp if they just keep showing it. Sadly they are going to NBC it and probably put good stuff in between the awfully boring stuff and ruin everything. Well almost. It is still the winter olympics and yes, no women's beach volley ball but hey, there's hockey.

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