- Hi, I'm Ayesha Curry
and this is everything i eat in a day.
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The first thing I did typically do when I wake up
is check my baby monitor,
Canon's two years old.
And so I'm still petrified mom,
so I always wake up and check the camera
and see if he's awake yet,
then I check my Bible app on my phone
and then it's time to get the coffee going,
so the first thing I eat in the morning
is typically that morning cup of coffee,
If I'm intermittent fasting, I'll do it with
a little bit of coconut oil, grass fed butter
and some MCT oil, which is for your brain fuel.
Until you can function, I'll steep
some super super strong coffee and blend it all together,
and we'll have that if I'm intermittent fasting,
if I'm not, I just take my coffee with
a little bit of your
Classic French Vanilla Coffee-mate in it.
I love that stuff.
If I'm eating breakfast, which is usually on the weekends,
I love a good smoked salmon scramble.
It's something that I put in my first cookbook,
"The Seasoned life" and I still eat it to this day.
It's yummy, slow scrambled eggs
with a little bit of dill in them salt, pepper.
I toss in the smoked salmon right at the end,
so that it cooks through with some corn and shallot.
And I just love that stuff.
There's only one breakfast I could think of
that's better than that.
And that is your traditional Ackee and salt fish breakfast
with fried dumplings.
So it's just this salted Cod that you soak overnight
and you fry it up with onions
and peppers put in the canned Ackee
and then make some little fried dumplings.
That's just like flour, water,
and a bit of salt fried in oil
and side of plantain fried on the side.
You're eating really good.
I feel like in my life, like no two days are the same.
Usually revolves around getting the kids ready.
If they're in school for school for the day,
getting them set up on their zoom school.
Then I head into checking my emails
while I'm checking my emails.
I usually like to drink a big 32 ounce cup of hot water.
I love hot water.
I sip on it throughout the day.
I'm not a huge fan of ice water.
I don't know why.
I just love good hot water.
It's the way that I get my water in throughout the day.
So for me, I really struggle with lunch.
Sometimes I'm filming like today,
I made sure that the kids are fed and that they have lunch.
And then sometimes I slip off and forget to have lunch,
but if I am having lunch,
it's usually post-Workout
and I'm having some sort of arugula or spinach salad
with a serum protein on the side,
some shrimp or tuna or seared salmon.
I love a good poppy seed dressing on my salad
and a little bit of red onions in there.
Dash of salt and pepper alongside
some sort of chocolate protein shake.
I try my best to find time to work out
especially lately ,fitness wasn't really
a part of my lifestyle.
And I'd say the past year and a half
post having all of my kids,
it's really become a staple for me
and it helps me have mental clarity.
I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life.
I find that I'm happier when I work out.
And so I do try to work out at least five days a week,
whether it's riding my peloton bike
or doing some sort of Fitbit workout,
golfing, paddle boarding.
I'm always trying to do something these days,
So it's very important to me.
I am not a huge snacker at all.
But if I do I feel like I gravitate towards banana chips.
My family's probably laughing watching this right now
because I go through banana chips like crazy.
If not that I would say carrot sticks or cucumbers,
I try and keep my snacking pretty healthy these days.
My favorite food city lucky enough has to be San Francisco.
I feel like it's a city where I became an adult.
I grew into myself and I was so blessed.
And fortunate to be surrounded by beautiful produce
and beautiful farms and local and sustainable fish markets.
And just the most beautiful food you could imagine
not to mention the restaurants.
I had my restaurant in San Francisco International Smoke,
and I just loved the fact that
you can go to a different place every single night
and experience something new
and fresh and innovative and fun.
I love San Francisco for food.
If I had to choose a second spot,
it would be Toronto just because that's where I grew up.
And it's an incredible melting pot
of so many different cultures.
So on one block, you know on the corner,
there might be an Indian restaurant
that's just so incredible.
And three doors down there might be a Jamaican spot.
An Ethiopian spot, a Chinese spot, you name it, it's there.
And I just love that about Toronto.
My kids favorite meals so they're very different.
They all have very different pallets.
Cannon who's two, he would definitely say mac and cheese.
Ryan, my five-year-old
she would say oysters on the half shell,
that's not a joke.
She requested them for her fifth birthday
and slurp them down.
We had to order more.
And then Riley,
I would say Riley would pick pizza or Chinese food.
She loves some Chinese food.
And luckily I've come up with a few recipes
to be able to cook it at home
and have at home Chinese takeout
so we're not always ordering in.
My absolute favorite meal to cook
is oxtail rice and peas and fried plantain.
Again, I'm Jamaican that is my heritage,
that is the food that I grew up with.
And it just brings me so much comfort
and joy when I make it.
I live in the Bay Area all the way across
from where my grandma lives in Toronto
about as far as I could get with staying in the continent.
And so I love to just make oxtail rice
and peas fried plantain
because it reminds me of my family
and just makes me feel like I'm close to them.
And it's just so darn delicious.
I can't enough of it.
So I typically like to eat dinner around seven,
right before the kids go to bed.
So we get them around the table.
You know, we check in with each other
to see how our day was going.
Dinner for us these days looks fast, simple and easy.
It's why I've loved working on my new cookbook,
"The Full Plate" so much
because it's filled with just quick, easy dinner recipes.
Everything from 20 minutes sheet pan dinners
to pastas to a quick and simple steak dinner,
you name it, it's in there
and it's really a very good reflection
of how my life is right now.
Really,
that's where my focus is when it comes
to preparing the meal for my family.
It's not breakfast,
it's not lunch.
It's, it's definitely dinner,
because that's the time I know
we're gonna get to sit around the table together.
I am definitely a cocktail girl.
I love whiskey sour, this is my drink of choice.
I love a good margarita and I just love it.
A good mezcal mark with maple syrup
It's that smoky, sweet,
it's so perfect.
And if I'm not doing hard liquor or cocktail,
I'm usually doing a big, bold red cab.
I love cab.
I actually make a cab, Domaine Curry from 31
and I've just fallen in love with wine over the years.
It's so funny when I turned 21
and I was able to have my first,
you know, little bit of drinks.
I didn't like anything, but it's true.
Like your, your,
your palate for wine really does develop over time.
And now I can't even drink like the Moscatos
and the Riesling , all that sweet, sweet wine.
The Dessert Wines is not my thing.
I'm a big, bold cap type of girl.
The last key little thing to me
reaching my best fitness goals
is probably eliminating the late night snacking
and that's just something I have not been able to shake.
I love ketchup chips, I'm Canadian.
And so like ketchup chips are all dressed chips are my jam.
If it's not that it's usually some type of donut
and this isn't every night,
this is just like maybe once or twice a week.
We get those cravings.
We've had a great night, had a little bit of wine,
got into a family card game and donuts get ordered
and I can't help myself.
It can't shake it.
I'll get there someday.
All right, guys,
I'm Ayesha Curry,
and that is everything I eat in a day.
Be sure to check out my new cookbook,
"The Full Plate" on stands now.
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