{"id":61,"date":"2008-06-15T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T21:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/vexvox\/2008\/06\/15\/body_by_central_market_or_its\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:35:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T21:35:50","slug":"body_by_central_market_or_its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/2008\/06\/15\/body_by_central_market_or_its\/","title":{"rendered":"Body by Central Market, or it&#8217;s too hot to cook in this heat wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inventory of my refrigerator includes the following contents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meatloaf<\/li>\n<li>Spicy chicken tamales<\/li>\n<li>Turkey breast<\/li>\n<li>Wilted spinach<\/li>\n<li>Broccoli saut\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>String beans and nuts<\/li>\n<li>Carrots<\/li>\n<li>Green tea ice cream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these items were purchased from Central Market at Westgate. A while back, I lost the enthusiasm for cooking, but I didn&#039;t want to revert to my drive-thru\/takeout ways. The Central Market restaurant serves some really tasty dishes, but they can get pretty pricey. Then I discovered the Chef&#039;s Corner, where prepared food can be bought by the pound and heated at home.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out to be the perfect solution. I buy half to three-quarter pounds of dishes and spread them out over lunch and dinner for a number of days. Some dishes are more successful than others. The turkey and grilled chicken are nice and light. The flank steak &#8212; being flank steak &#8212; can be a bit chewy, and I tried some Asian BBQ pork once. A bit stiff.<\/p>\n<p>The big boon are the vegetable dishes. I&#039;m not much of a vegetable cook, so the broccoli saut\u00e9, wilted spinach and string beans add some much needed greens to my diet. I didn&#039;t list the bok choi since I already dusted it off. Nor the fresh berries. Yum.<\/p>\n<p>The recent heat wave, which started the weekend I went to Hawai\u02bbi in <em>freaking May<\/em>, does not make a hot kitchen a welcome prospect. So I&#039;ve relied on the Chef&#039;s Corner to feed me. At some point, I&#039;m going to get tired of the menu, but at this point, I haven&#039;t exhausted it yet.<\/p>\n<p>Are the dishes really all that healthy? I can&#039;t say. But they don&#039;t taste like they&#039;ve been dropped into a vat of oil.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ve mostly stayed away from ice cream on this weight loss regimen, but going through July weather in <em>freaking June<\/em> without ice cream is, well, uncivilized. I saw the green tea ice cream in the Central Market freezer and was intrigued. So I checked the label and discovered 33 percent of the calories come from fat. That&#039;s 3 percent above the FDA recommended allowance, but it&#039;s close enough not to be excessively fattening. The same goes for the green tea mochi ice cream, which I didn&#039;t list because it too has been dusted off.<\/p>\n<p>Other Central Market items currently a regular part of my diet is zucchini bread and bananas.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, I am Central Market&#039;s bitch. It helps that the Westgate location is literally across the highway from my apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inventory of my refrigerator includes the following contents: Meatloaf Spicy chicken tamales Turkey breast Wilted spinach Broccoli saut\u00e9 String beans and nuts Carrots Green tea ice cream All of these items were purchased from Central Market at Westgate. A while back, I lost the enthusiasm for cooking, but I didn&#039;t want to revert to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkgj-Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}