nathanjw | dining 2009

Previously

Days recorded: 239
Takeout or dining out: 37%
Most frequent places for dining out: Rudy's, Joe Sent Me (staying in the neighborhood - go figure)
Most frequent meals at home: Black bean quesadillas (for the fourth year running), tomato/basil/mozzarela salad.
Up-and-coming trend: Food from Dave's Fresh Pasta.

1/1 Hoppin' John
1/2 Spaghetti aio e oio
1/3 Out - Rudy's
1/4 Mashed potatos, garlic kale, kielbasa
1/5 Out - Za
1/6 Out - Joe Sent Me
1/8 Leftover mashed potato casserole
1/9 Green salad with sauteed chicken breast
1/10 Out - love & butter
1/11 Pasta with fresh tomato sauce
1/13 Florentine ravioli with nutmeg cream sauce (from Dave's)
1/16 Out - Diva Lounge
1/17 Chicken biryani
1/18 Takeout - Angelina's pizza
1/21 Spaghetti with bergomo sauce
1/22 Out - ThingMagic holiday party
1/23 Takeout - Guru the Caterer
1/24 Pork chops, pan-roasted broccoli with gruyere
1/25 Crackers, cream cheese, pepper jelly
1/29 Frozen pizza, crackers
1/31 Out - Tu Y Yo
2/1 Chili ("Dragon's Breath") (Super Bowl)
2/5 Quick spaghetti "alfredo"
2/6 Out - Friend's dinner party
2/7 Out - Solis "Farmivesary" party
2/8 Out - All-Star Sandwich Bar (Midday dinner)
2/9 Leftover dal, chicken sausage
2/13 Out - Joe Sent Me
2/14 Black bean quesadillas
2/15 Out - Gargoyles (bar)
2/21 Out - Rudy's
2/22 Pasta with garlic scape pesto
2/24 Out - River Gods
2/25 Out - Rudy's
2/26 Pasta with jazzed-up jarred tomato sauce
2/27 Morningstar "pizza burgers", sliced cooked carrots
3/1 Black bean quesadillas with bacon, green beans
3/3 Delivery - Theo's pizza
3/4 Capone's cheese tortellini
3/5 Stir-fry with frozen tofu
3/7 Out - Za
3/13 Trader Joe's frozen pizza
3/14 Out - Rudy's
3/15 Baked salmon in dill, lima beans
3/20 Out - Spice and Rice
3/21 Out - Not Your Average Joe's
3/22 Red beans and rice
3/24 Out - River Gods
3/29 Pasta with fresh tomato sauce
3/31 Quesadilla with blended leftover red beans and rice
4/2 Out - Rudy's
4/3 Pasta with fresh tomato sauce
4/5 Delivery - Theo's pizza
4/6 Onion, sausage, and egg scramble
4/8 Quorn, cheese couscous
4/9 Ploughman's platter
4/10 Out - Snappy Sushi
4/11 Potatos au gratin, garlic and herb sausage
4/12 Out - Joe Sent Me
4/15 Takeout - Guru the Caterer
4/17 Away - Virginia trip
4/18 Away - Virginia trip - Out - Savior Faire in Round Hill
4/19 Away - Virginia trip
4/20 Away - Virginia trip
4/21 Black bean quesadillas
4/22 Out - Joe Sent Me
4/23 Out - Anna's
4/24 Out - Grasshopper
4/25 Out - The Sevens
4/28 Out - Rudy's
4/29 Kale frittata
4/30 Pasta with fresh tomato sauce
5/1 Leftovers
5/2 Black bean quesadillas
5/3 Homemade pizza, salad
5/4 Out - Cambridge One
5/7 Leftovers
5/8 Frozen pizza - "American Flatbread: Ionian Awakening"
5/9 Out - CBC (CBC's 20th anniversary event)
5/10 Tortelloni with wild garlic mustard "pesto"
5/13 Out - Wagamama
5/14 Grilled tuna steak, quinoa pilaf
5/15 Out - Pescatore
5/17 Quinoa pilaf and tofu, fiddlehead ferns
5/19 Black beans and rice (Rancho Gordo beans)
5/22 Away - Wesleyan reunion/commencement - Catered dinner at ADP
5/23 Away - Wesleyan reunion/commencement - Osaka
5/24 Cobb salad
5/25 Cold sesame-noodle salad with shredded chicken
5/26 Out - Rudy's
5/27 Frozen mushroom and onion ravioli, wild garlic mustard "pesto"
5/28 Takeout - Angelina's pizza
5/29 Huevos rancheros
5/30 Homemade pizza
5/31 Out - Not Your Average Joe's
6/1 Out - EVOO
6/5 Out - Joe Sent Me
6/6 cheese, crackers, pickles ("nibbling plate")
6/7 Veggie stir-fry with mango sausage
6/9 Out - Diva
6/10 Out - Bukowski
6/11 Salad, leftovers from Diva (salad is first farmshare food)
6/12 Salad, pork chops with apricot-fig-brandy pan sauce
6/22 Black bean quesadillas
6/23 Greens and tofu over pasta
6/24 Out - Joe Sent Me
6/25 Out - Taste of Cambridge
6/26 Leftovers
6/27 Beef and napa cabbage stir-fry
6/28 Out - Not Your Average Joe's
6/29 White bean and chard ragout, salad
7/1 Pasta with pesto, salad
7/2 Out - Za
7/3 Salad with grape tomatos, leftovers
7/4 Away - Lake Winnisquam trip
7/5 Away - Lake Winnisquam trip
7/6 Away - Lake Winnisquam trip - "99" restaurant
7/7 Homemade pizza with caramelized onions, roasted mushrooms, salami
7/8 Out - Legal's
7/9 Salad, leftovers, nibbling plate
7/10 Penne with zucchini and goat cheese
7/11 Grilled cheese sandwiches
7/12 Out - party
7/14 Delivery - Whatta Wing
7/16 Tomato-basil-mozzarela salad
7/17 Chard frittata
7/18 Out - Joe Sent Me
7/19 Homemade pizza with lemon sauce, goat cheese, zucchini, and fennel
7/20 Pork chops, braised carrot slices
7/22 Tomato-basil-mozzarela salad
7/23 Pasta with pesto
7/24 Out - Christopher's
7/25 Out - Wort Processors Pig Roast
7/26 Tomato-basil-mozzarela salad
7/29 Bread and cheese
7/31 Out - Rudy's
8/1 TJ's pork gyoza
8/2 Bean and chorizo stew ("yellow indian woman" beans)
8/3 TJ's frozen mushroom and truffle flatbread
8/4 Out - Green St. Grill
8/5 Out - Joe Sent Me
8/6 Corn on the cob
8/7 Tomaoes, blue cheese, cold sesame-noodle salad with shredded chicken
8/8 Away - Portland, ME - Novare Res Bier Cafe
8/9 Away - Portland, ME - some Italian restaurant
8/13 Tomato-basil-mozzarela salad
8/14 Out - Boston Burger Company
8/16 Corn on the cob, cheese and crackers
8/17 Out - Dinner at a friend's
8/18 Tomato-basil-mozzarela salad
8/19 Out - Not Your Average Joe's
8/20 Corn on the cob, cold sesame-noodle salad with shredded chicken
8/21 Cold sesame-noodle salad with shredded chicken (leftover)
8/22 Out - Derek and Jude's summer party
8/23 Out - Punjab
8/24 Eggplant curry
8/26 Out - Max&Dylan's restaurant
8/27 Tomato-basil-mozzarela salad
8/28 Kielbasa and fresh sauerkraut
8/29 Beet salad, pasta with fresh tomato sauce, flan
8/30 Out - Rudy's
8/31 Slow-cooker beans and rice
9/1 Delivery - Theo's pizza
9/3 Tomato-basil-mozzarela salad
9/4 Green salad
9/5 Sauteed zucchini, chicken sausage
9/6 Out - Not Your Average Joe's
9/8 Tomato-basil-mozzarela salad
9/9 Out - Radius
9/11 Braised cabbage, kielbasa, mashed root vegetables
9/13 Out - Seth and Katrina's dinner party
9/14 Eggplant curry
9/16 Spaghetti carbonara
9/18 Black bean quesadillas
9/19 Out - Za
9/20 Out - Norumbega Point dining room
9/21 Broiled salmon, quinoa, green goddess dressing
9/23 Nibbling plate
9/24 Tomato-basil-mozzarela salad
9/25 Out - Snappy Sushi
9/26 "Annie's Tuna Helper" with Goya tuna with jalepenos
9/28 TJ's frozen mushroom and truffle flatbread
9/29 Pasta with homemade tomato sauce (frozen)
10/1 Leg of lamb
10/2 Out - Rudy's
10/3 Carrot soup, salad, bread
10/5 Homemade pizza - white pizza with mozzarela
10/8 Black bean quesadillas, garlic kale
10/9 Out - Wagamama
10/10 Out - parties
10/11 Out - Norumbega Point dining room
10/15 Out - Rudy's
10/16 Kielbasa, fresh sauerkraut, spinach
10/17 Vallarta beans and escarole
10/18 Out - Tu Y Yo
10/19 Black bean quesadillas
10/20 Frozen pizza - "American Flatbread: Ionian Awakening"
10/22 Pasta with pesto (Linabella)
10/23 Out - Joe Sent Me
10/26 Spinach fettucini (from Dave's) with pesto (Linaballa)
10/27 Spinach gettucini aio e oio
10/28 Pork chops, kale, squash
10/30 Out - Mr. Crepe
10/31 Out - Gargoyles (Harpoon beer dinner)
11/1 nothing
11/3 Potato gratin
11/5 Black bean quesadillas, brussels sprouts
11/6 Away - Cider Days - People's Pint
11/7 Away - Cider Days - Mike and Tony's at the Greenhouse
11/10 Out - Highland Kitchen (Spelling Bee championship with Joan)
11/13 Out - John Harvard's
11/14 Potato-leek soup
11/15 Out - Dinner at a friend's
11/16 Pasta with homemade garlic scape pesto
11/18 Out - Lord Hobo (opening night)
11/19 Black bean quesadillas
11/20 Spaghetti carbonara
11/21 Moroccan root vegetable and chicken stew
11/23 Out - Lord Hobo
11/30 Risotto
12/2 Leftovers
12/3 Out - Joe Sent Me
12/5 Pasta with pesto (Linabella)
12/6 nothing
12/7 Out - Green St. Grill
12/8 Out - Lord Hobo
12/10 Pumpkin-sage ravioli with nutmeg cream sauce (Dave's), kale
12/12 Morningstar veggie "buffalo chicken", out - Spike's
12/13 nothing
12/14 Slow-cooked shredded pork loin, salad
12/16 Black bean quesadillas with shredded pork
12/17 Out - ThingMagic holiday party at Ivy
12/18 Pasta with pesto (Linabella)
12/19 Carribean black beans with pork and quinoa
12/20 Chicken sausage, chipotle mashed sweet potatos
12/21 Potato-leek soup
12/29 TJ's frozen mushroom and truffle flatbread
12/30 Spaghetti carbonara (with black pepper pasta from Dave's)
12/31 Spaghetti aio e oio with anchovy paste (with black pepper pasta from Dave's)