Intro: How to Live an Aesthetic Life by Wearing, Eating, Traveling By, and Listening to Specific Colors for a Week
For seven consecutive days, we chose a single color and attempted to dress in that color, eat only foods of that color, listen to music related to tha...
Step 1: Red Pomegranate Raspberry Smoothie - Red Day Breakfast
For Red Breakfast, we made a raspberry pomegranate smoothie. Cranberries would have been nice, but we were out.Approximate ingredients:pomegranate ro...
We searched our music archive for "red" and came up with plenty of candidates. Pump that red music!A Red Letter Day - Pet Shop BoysElectric Church Re...
If you don't already have a red car, borrow one from a friend or neighbor! They'll be much more accommodating when you explain the importance of your...
Step 4: Red Curry, Red Baby Octopi, and Red Tea - Red Day Lunch
Red day lunch included:Red Curry with Chicken and Vegetablesred baby octopikimchired pomegranate rooibos teaOn our first day of living an aesthetic li...
Step 5: Tomato Soup with Fish Balls and Red Wine - Red Day Dinner
The end of Red Day was a success, with a simple tomato soup. We ate that and prepared meals ahead for the rest of the week.It turns out there are lot...
Step 6: Sweet Potato Pancakes, Pumpkin Pie, Oranges, and Orange Juice - Orange Day Breakfast
Orange is a pretty common breakfast color. Instead of relying entirely on standard items, we experimented with something new: Shredded Sweet Potato P...
While creating the Orange Day playlist -- which was lacking in its overall number of songs -- it occurred to us that a few bands who tend to name thei...
It was a slight struggle to keep carrots out of every meal on orange day. But, they got their place in Ginger Carrot soup for lunch. We added orange...
Paint your office orange, and get an orange couch. Fortunately, Fiona already did this to Pete and Corwin's office. So, we worked out of their offic...
Step 11: Salmon with Capelin Roe, Sea Scallops, and Pumpkin Pie - Orange Day Dinner
For dinner we had Pan Fried Scallops and poached salmon with orange sauce and capelin roe.Again, there were many orange options that didn't make it:Or...
Step 12: Corn and Onion Frittata and Pineapple - Yellow Day Breakfast
Corn and Onion FrittataPineappleOn yellow day, we slumped in front of our computers. Don't forget the yellow playlist, and try to surf only yellow si...
"Yellow" wasn't turning up much music from our archive, so we extended the Yellow Day playlist to include sunshine, gold, blonde, and lemon. Ooh! So...
Be sure to ride a sweet yellow Ducati, complete with yellow impact jackets and yellow helmets. Of course we all fit on Mitch's bike! Why do you ask?...
Go out for a business lunch, and insist that the person you're meeting with also eat a yellow meal. Check out Matt from Popular Science with his Yell...
Among the people at Squid Labs, it's pretty common for someone to make a batch of cookies or other baked goods with the intention of only eating one, ...
Step 18: Chicken Garbanzo Curry and Coconut Corn Soup - Yellow Day Dinner
For all the golden sunshine that yellow day was, we were still feeling behind on our work and in addition to slumping in front of our computers for br...
Step 19: Green Eggs with Pesto and Green Tea - Green Day Breakfast
Almost exactly a month too early for St. Patrick's Day, we started Green Day off right with Garlic Spinach Egg Crepes with Pesto, Green Tea, and insip...
Here's a hidden benefit of a monochromatic playlist!: While searching the music archive for "green" I didn't turn up any Green Day. It turns out we ...
Step 22: Split Pea Soup, Pesto, Salad, and Guacamole Chips - Green Day Lunch
We made very basic split pea soup for lunch, only to find Benji had jumped on the bandwagon with all-green lunch for Salad Club! We contributed our s...
Step 23: Chicken Chili Verde, Spinach Salad, Guacamole, Sesame Broccoli, and Sauted Zucchini - Green Day Dinner
zachninme and his dad joined us for an all green dinner. Imagine flying across the country to spend a week working for some weirdos you met on the in...
Step 24: Blackberry Blueberry Smoothie - Purple Day Breakfast
Get dressed in your purple shoes and dye an old Instructables t-shirt purple while you're at it, kick up your purple playlist, and start the day off r...
Purple was also a little light on music, so we added plum, grape, and violet.Gus Gus - Purple (Sasha V. The Light) - Paul OakenfoldOver The Electric G...
Step 26: Beets and Steak and Purple Cabbage Slaw - Purple Day Lunch
Salad Club was on hiatus on Thursday, so we shared our purple lunch with all and sundry as long as they were dressed in PURPLE. I had to loan Zach my...
Step 27: Beets and Steak, Purple Cabbage Slaw, Purple Potatoes, and Blueberry Pie - Purple Day Dinner
For dinner, we added purple potatoes with coconut milk and a blueberry pie. Mitch made mashed potatoes with purple potatoes. He may have added a bit...
Step 28: Turn Your Urine Purple or Red by Eating Too Many Beets
Beets contain a number of antioxidant red pigments called betains. Betains can also be yellow, and, in addition to beets, are found in chard, amarant...
Step 29: Brown Day - We just couldn't take it anymore
Brown day breakfast and lunch were both failures. We just couldn't take it anymore. We were tired of cooking without being able to eat leftovers, an...
Even though we couldn't bring ourselves to make a brown breakfast, we did make a brown playlist. Since Brown Day occurred on the weekend, I sure wish...
Step 31: Fennel and Celery Soup - Brown Day Dinner
Just as we were hitting our low, family came to the rescue. Christy's aunt Tere was in town briefly, so Christy's cousin Barb joined us for dinner, a...
Eric really loves almonds. Especially unadulterated dry roasted almonds. Almonds are his standard, "I'm a little hungry but want to keep writing Ins...
Step 33: White Gazpacho and Onion and Mushroom Frittata - Black and White Day Breakfast
Having hit the emotional and color low on Brown Day, and with the end in sight, and with a refrigerator full of colorful leftovers that might not last...
Black and White Day has the best music. Maybe the music sounded so good because it was the last day?Black and White - INXSBlack Celebration - Depeche...
Step 35: Go where ever you need to go in Black and White Style
Go wherever you need to in a black Volvo wagon. (Mitch and Eric went kitesurfing at Alameda. The sand there is whitish, and their wetsuits are mostly ...
Step 36: Black Chicken, Squid Steaks, Black Beans, and more - Black and White Supper and an end to this madness
End the madness with a black and white feast!Braised Black ChickenSquid SteaksBlack beans & Turkey (prepped separately)Cauliflower with rice noodles a...
This is what we learned.1) Matching clothes and food means spills go unnoticed.2) Leftovers are awesome! We missed being able to eat leftovers.3) Coo...
Step 10: Paint Your Office Orange
Paint your office orange, and get an orange couch.
Fortunately, Fiona already did this to Pete and Corwin's office. So, we worked out of their office for the day.
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