Weeklong Wrap-Up; The Top Five

It took a week longer than I’d hoped, but I’m back to feeling 100%!  The alternative title for this post was “Cough Drop Chronicles.”

In the interim between this post and the last, I ate a ton of food but didn’t have it in me to capture most of it.  Adam and I made amazing, ridiculous nachos – maple bacon kettle chips baked with a blend of eight cheeses – but I shoveled them into my mouth before there was time to let them cool, let alone be photographed.  On Saturday I went to a wedding shower that served lunch – awesome lobster ravioli with big shrimp on top – but the only person I knew beforehand was the bride-to-be so I was too embarrassed to get out my camera.

Instead of a full post, here are my “top five” from the past week.

1. Liquid breakfast.  I was feeling my sickest on Monday and these three beverages were all consumed over the course of the same morning.

Green smoothie.  Frozen spinach, mango, and coconut water.

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Lavender GT Kombucha.  I shared this with Adam and he actually liked it even more than I did.

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“Mocha.”  Hospital coffee with a chocolate soy milk.

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2. Sweet stuff.  These three desserts were the very best of the week but only the tip of the iceberg in terms of consumption.  I made it through by having a cough drop or hard candy in my mouth pretty much all waking 12 hours a day.

Nunu caramel dark chocolate bar.  <– made in Brooklyn

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Whole Foods peanut butter sandwich cookie.  This was basically a giant, soft peanut butter cup.

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Haagen-Dazs Caramelized Banana Chip Gelato.

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3. Another beverage/sweet.

Arizona Fudge Float Sparkling Soda.  This was practically a can of egg cream!

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4. Salmon and salad.

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Coho salmon that I (over)baked with smoked brown sugar, soy sauce, and green onions.

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Plus a cucumber salad of thinly sliced cucs, sesame seeds, rice vinegar, soy sauce, salt, and sugar.

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5. Dinner at Pizza Loves Emily.

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This Brooklyn spot was seriously adorable inside.

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We got a lavender lemonade.

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Crispy Sprouts.

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apples, chilis, black sesame, fish sauce

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And the Emily white pizza.

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mozzarella, pistachios, truffle sottocenere, honey

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