Day 7: Just Three More Weeks To Make This All Habitual

Exercise:
Crossfit: rest day!  Yes!  I did, however, crank out a half-hour run this morning. I kept my pace fairly light and still cranked in at 4.36 miles, so WOOT! for me.  I did this mostly because I'm enjoying running (first time ever in life) and I want to get in the habit of working out in the morning.
Water: 16 oz.

Breakfast:
Americano with half and half (not Somersize ok, but oh well.  I can't do non-fat in my joe.)
Machaca burrito (the guts of- no tortilla for me): having a Muchas Gracias within throwing distance is potentially hazardous.

Lunch:
Oh, my!  Here's the story with lunch: Fox went with me to lunch and he was craving a canelé.  Canelés are these beautiful little French custardy pastries (read about them here with better pictures found here).  The best place to get 'em in Portland: The St. Honoré Boulangerie.

Now normally when lunching at this little French bakery I get their Brie aux Fines Ferbes Casse Croute which is described thusly: baguette filled with chive and parsley butter, double créme Brie, frisée green leaves, cucumbers and toasted sliced almonds.  It's a cheese sammich.  A Frenchy cheese sammich.  And brother!  Is it good!


BUT!  Because because my butt is large (heh) and I am avoiding simple carbs I got their Salad Lyonnaise (mixed greens in a light vinaigrette topped with poached eggs, bacon, and sausage) instead.  All in all, pretty good.  Good enough that I will recreate something similar at home, because poached eggs on fresh greens?  Lovely!  Who knew?  Oh right, the French. My version will be sans the sausage (overkill, rich overkill), but I digress...

Did I like the salad better then my usual sandwich?  Well, no.  I'm a creature of habit which I'm sure you have figured out after reading a weeks worth of my menus.  And I really wanted that baguette carbs be damned!  I did, however, allow myself a pastry.  I figured a reward was in order (I'm not made of stone)! I dodged the baguette, but to avoid all pastry while lunching in pastry heaven?  That is simply not to be borne!

So Fox got his canelé and me?  I ordered their Apple Chiboust (oven baked apples topped with a custard meringue, Chiboust cream and a caramel finish and no I didn't know there were such things as custard meringue and Chiboust cream).   I thought I did pretty good considering normally I would order their Hazelnut Caramel Dacquoise (milk chocolate ganache, hazelnut praline butter cream, and caramel ganache between layers hazelnut meringue cake).  Ok!  Right?  Like heaven or hell depending how you look at it: ganache, butter cream, and more ganache.

And did I like the Chiboust better then the Dacquoise?  Meringue and apples vs. ganche and buttercream.  You do the math.  Nonetheless it was an enjoyable lunch with handsome company.  And just think, I can now work on mastering the perfect Lyonnaise salad and figure out how to make canelés. I guess I better start shopping for some canelé molds.

Still being full from lunch I believe dinner will be water, water, and more water (since my in take today has been close to none) and maybe some fruit later on if I'm feeling peckish.

Looking forward to a time when all this is second nature...