Thursday

Light breakfast with a tea and a couple of biscuits

I had a glass of prosecco with few friends to celebrate wthe International Women's Day

A friend presented us a lot of potato croquettes instead of bunches of mimosa as we traditionally do in Italy so we had a gourgeous happy-hour.

I was drunk at 2 pm.....

There's a market here in Pietrasanta on Thursdays: I couldn't be  bothered to cook today so I bought myself some skinny crispy chicken and roasted potatoes: it was my last night's heavy craving and I happily satisfied it.

Light dinner: just a slice of bread with a bit of prosciutto crudo. I was in a hurry to go to a party where I drank a very light rhum&coke.

Bad with alcohol, good (more or less) with food

Wednesday

Tea and biscuits for breakfast. No pic.

Quinoa pasta with vegetables and soy sauce. mhm. Nothing special.

 I had a 2 hours walk today. So I needed a snack this afternoon. 

Tea and bread with olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper

Simple and yummy

I love it

 Stewed fennel with spices (it was disgusting) and scrambled eggs with vegetables

Than I had crackers with mayo...Ouch....

I force myself to stay indoors lately but hey: I keep on eating at home.

Tuesday

Having breakfast while gardening...with tea and chocolate biscuits

Matuffi with cheese (Matuffi are a recipe based on polenta) for lunch

 Mixed salad and kipper with I-don't-know-what-cream-is-it (dill and something else?)

And some chocolate afterwards

Monday

Tea, cookies and fruit 

I don't like fruit very much, but I like it in my breakfast 

No lunch because I had my breakfast very late

But I had a snack during the afternoon: infusion, cherry yoghurt with a bit of muesli
Look at my silly-coloured sock and my penguin slipper: yep, it was a lazy afternoon

Chicken hamburger, mixed stewed vegetables and salad for dinner

Another infusion and microwaved pop-corn during the evening, in front of the telly

Damn boredom...

Sunday

I had a sleepless night

When I woke up I had a huge breakfast with fruit infusion, a toastie and fruit salad. I also went to the bar's for a coffee and my plan of the day was to sleep all the afternoon long avoiding lunch.

But I couldn't sleep and the lack of sleep made me sad. I had a caloric lunch in the late afternoon.

Wuster and french fries

Even if I wasn't that hungry I had dinner very late at night (11 circa) because I was still sad and I needed some comfy food.

So cereals and legumes soup for me

I've been very naughty today, I feel all swollen...

Friday

Tea and a bit of pizza left from last night.

I love cold pizza left-overs for breakfast

 Leek soup left-overs for lunch I wasn't that hungry...)

I avoided carbohydrates again

Salad with tuna and olives for dinner

Am I good lately, right? No skipped meals as before and I'm regular with my diet

Thursday

Muesli and milk. I crave milk and cheese lately. A lot.

 No lunch but a nice dinner instead. 

As I had no carbohydrates yesterday I made my first pizza ever.

It didn't suck, but I have to improve the dough and the oven cooking

Wednesday

Tea, cake, cranberry juice. Breakfast in the living room in front of the telly. For a change.

 Scrambled eggs with fresh baby spinach stewed in broth and garlic. Delicious. 

In addiction to a slice of plain focaccia and onion focaccia.

One of the best meals I had lately

 I had guests for dinner, all of them on the diet.

That's what I cooked: leek puree with croutons, baked zucchini stuffed with broccoli, onion, ricotta cheese with saffron and diet vanilla pudding (I had no time to take a picture)

Another diet day I'm proud of

Tuesday

Tea and cake for breakfast 

Boulgur salad with tuna, capers, olives

Pork steak with fennel stewed in demerara sugar, ginger and cumin

Finally a perfect diet day

Sunday

Despite I ate a lot last night I woke up starving, so I had a copious breakfast: fruit salad, raspberry yoghurt and muesli

Then coffee and pineapple juice at the bar

 Late lunch: just fish fingers. No dinner: lots of infusion at the bar

Thursday

Amazing day today. It's good to have breakfast in the garden with a sweet coffee and a cheesecake brownie

 I bake them last night: they could be better...But hey! They're edible!

 I had lunch with a toastie at my mom's.

 Meatloaf leftovers with valeriana salad for dinner instead.

Friday

Infusion and lemon biscuits for breakfast

 

Focaccia with salad, tomato, salame, mayo and cheese for late lunch

Just lot odf infusions for dinner at the bar

Sunday

Warm milk, crispbread with the last spreads of my banana and chocolate jam

Nice way to start the day

I behaved for lunch: spinacine with valeriana salad and cucumber

I tried so hard to behave also for dinner.

But I failed...

Elisa: 0 - Chinese Restaurant "Shangai" @Pietrasanta: 1

Steamed shrimps dumplings; wanton soup; dumplings sautéed in soy sauce with vegetables and egg; tangerine ice cream....And the worst sweet&sour pork I've ever eaten....

Pity I forgot my camera

Friday

San Biagio's Day

That's my city Saint Patron's Day 

There's a huge market in the city centre, a nice fun fair and lots of yummy food around

I like it more than Christmas!!

Goat's yogurt with blueberries and a plumcake for breakfast before going to the fair's

Lunch at my parent's

Traditional San Biagio's menù

Selection of startes: panzanelle with sandwich meat such as prosciutto crudo, pancetta arrotolata, mortadella versiliese and salame cacciatorino; zucchini flan; stuffed vol-au-vent

As a main dish: tordelli

Typical dish of this area, one of the yummiest food on Earth

It's a kind of dumpling such as a raviolo stuffed with beef, mortadella di Bologna, eggs, Parmesan cheese, parsel and boiled chard. With ragù sause as a condiment.

Dinner out with my girl friends to celebrate San Biagio's Day

We went to La Locanda del Gusto @Pietrasanta

Pic 1 : Starters: pecorino cheese with fig jam; crouton with pear, gorgonzola cheese, prosciutto crudo and balsamic vinegar; leek and zucchini flan with fondue

Pic 2 : First (and Main) Course: nuts dumplings with gorgonzola cheese and radicchio sauce

Pic 3 : Dessert: soft chocolate cake

Thursday

Purple lucky infusion and a plumcake for breakfast 

And a coffee at the bar's afterwards 

I was starving before lunch...So I nibbled a sliced baguette with my home-made tuna sauce

I <3 it

So I was full for lunch! So I had only a miso soup

Result: I was starving at 6.30 pm...

I kept the fireplace on all the afternoon long due to cold weather: it was snowy this morning, which is quite rare for this area.

I couldn't waste all that coal so I made a little barbecue: milk bread, sausage, German sausage stuffed with cheese....and a glass of red at the bar's after that! Yummy!

Wednesday

Tea and that what we call a "plumcake", even if in English that means a different kind of cake.

Tea looks awful because I was so sleepy this morning that I split pineapple juice in it instead of milk (...)

Well, I drank it anyway

Spaghetti with clams sauce for lunch

As only a happy hour was planned for the night I decided to have a massive snack in late afternoon and skip dinner:

Tea and a focaccina with salad, tomato, boiled egg and my tuna sauce

Instead we decided to go out for a pizza after our drink...

So I scr*wed my diet: carbohydrates overload

*sad trombone*

Pizza with grilled egg plant, zucchini and peppers with sausage

***Cooking Highlight of the Day***

Look what I found!! A double yolk egg!!