Five things from the weekend:
Chipotle chicken nachos. With fajita veggies, corn salsa, and sour cream.
A really good double IPA.
Yogurt bowl with blueberries, blackberries, banana, cinnamon, and TJ’s flax and chia seed peanut butter.
Shaken coffee with ice, cinnamon, espresso powder, and sweetened condensed milk.
We took dalgona coffees to-go on a walk!
Figuring out how to make really excellent coffee at home has made the quarantine infinitely more bearable. Also this guy –
This was my first week of work-from-home and it’s definitely been an adjustment. When I’m at work-work I tend to skip lunch 1-2 days a week because I’m busy or just not that hungry but home apparently my appetite works just fine! I ate all the snacks. <– all the snacks, like I can’t do a repeat performance next week because I ate all of the ice cream that was supposed to last until our next grocery trip 🙂
Thankfully we had some really good snacks on hand! Here were the highlights…
Phin coffee with sweetened condensed milk (10/10, would recommend).
New Orleans coffee can with scm (9/10, would recommend).
Chicken and waffle chicken chips (10+/10, would recommend).
Sesame ginger chicken jerky (8.5/10, would recommend).
Sweet and spicy gummies (9/10, would recommend).
Chocolate-covered salted caramel vegan marshmallows. (9/10, would recommend).
Also I was thrilled to have some fresh fruit on hand and made a large, exciting yogurt bowl every day. Trader Joe’s guava passion fruit Greek yogurt with fresh mango and blackberries and honey maple granola.
Coffee skyr with granola, blueberries, and coconut chips.
Plan Greek yogurt with cinnamon, maple syrup, granola, coconut chips, blueberries, blackberries, and TJ’s flax and chia seed peanut butter.
And we made some really good dinners. Green curry turkey chicken salad with roasted green beans.
Sheet-pan fried cauliflower rice. Very similar to this recipe but with cauliflower rice and smoked turkey breast. It was wonderful!
Now that I’m working again, Saturday and Sunday did feel a little bit more like a weekend, even if the biggest excitement was standing in an hour+ line to buy groceries for two weeks.
Highlights include…
Plan Icelandic-style yogurt with cinnamon, maple syrup, berries, granola, and peanut butter.
Mint chip freeze-dried ice cream.
The last of our Evil Twin stash.
Leftover pizza.
Breakfast totchos. Tater tots with sharp cheddar, eggs, broccoli, onion, yellow and orange pepper, and turkey maple breakfast sausage. Topped with a lot of zhoug and ketchup.
I recommend ordering yourself the coffee, the ice cream, and the beer while you’re stuck at home!
Big news I’ve been waiting to share – I went back to work this week! I finally found a job that is a good fit for my experience; I’ll be responsible for the ICUs at a hospital in Queens. Great timing, right?! I actually will be able to do some work-from-home days but this week I had to go into the hospital for training.
Food highlights from this week include…
This week’s coffee combo.
I made Adam and myself dalgona coffees and he is smitten now too.
Usually I don’t keep a ton of candy in the house but now that I’m unable to pop out for an ice cream whenever I wish I’ve started building up a stash.
Amy’s chile relleno bowl with hot sauce. <– my 2nd all-time-favorite frozen meal
Trader Joe’s sriracha shrimp bowl with cashews on top. <– my all-time-favorite frozen meal
Brown sugar garlic chicken thighs / on a bed of roasted broccoli and green beans / topped with zhoug and Korean chili flakes.
Egg casserole (very similar to this recipe) with tons of roasted broccoli and mozzarella. Plus turkey breakfast sausage.
We got take-out last night to celebrate the almost-end of my first work week. Pizza loaded with vegetables – broccoli rabe, roasted zucchini, and olives – and garlic knots loaded with cheese.
I made some damn delicious meals this weekend; all of my dinners were winners. I am midway between my bimonthly grocery trips now though so we’ll see how next week goes.
Highlights include…
Phin coffee. We are head over heels for this system, the results are so velvety!
We ate yogurt bowls as a family. Mine had 2% Fage, honey, candied walnuts, cinnamon, espresso powder, and blueberries.
TJ’s vegan tikki masala. 9/10.
Leftover turkey meatballs. This simple batch – seasoned with salt, pepper, TJ’s umami powder, and Korean chili flakes – turned out so good.
We made Hummingbird High’s small batch brownies and they were hands-down the best brownies I’ve ever eaten. Insane. I added espresso powder and didn’t have any cocoa powder and they were next-level fudgy.
Greek veggie bowls. Cucumber, baby tomato, roasted chickpeas, olives, fresh mint, TJ’s Greek feta salad dressing, and TJ’s zhoug.
Pizza salad! Romaine, Greek feta dressing, roasted tomatoes, sharp cheddar, and pepperoni croutons (aka turkey pepperoni that I baked until crispy). Plus homemade garlic knots.
I made stromboli! With turkey, turkey pepperoni, and mozzarella. Plus roasted green beans.
Important update – this is how the dog likes to spend most of his time, on my lap, under a pillow.
*please read the title to the tune of the Brady Bunch’s “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!”
It was an exciting week in home entertainment for us – I started watching Schitt’s Creek, and of course fell in love, and borrowed my mom’s Prime log-in to binge watch all of Absentia.
It was also an exciting week in home caffeination – I had a different (fancy!) coffee drink every day.
Highlights include…
Dalgona coffee! Here is an explainer. I used instant espresso powder and looooved it.
Vietnamese coffee made with a phin filter.
2% plain Fage Greek yogurt with blueberries, candied walnuts, cinnamon, and maple syrup.
With blueberries, cinnamon, maple, candied walnuts, and maple walnut granola.
If you think the dog doesn’t get his own yogurt and berries bowl you’re crazy.
Soft-scrambled eggs with mozzarella and Korean chili flakes / tater tots with Sriracha, Kewpie, and furikake / baby carrots.
Egg and cheese onion bagel with soft-scrambled eggs with mozzarella plus Sriracha and mayo.
The Starburst soda pop flavored jelly beans are pretty darn good, especially the cola and lime flavor.
Number 2 Pencil’s single-serve chocolate chip cookies are fantastic. I added rainbow sprinkles and espresso powder.
Local pizza with fried chicken, roasted zucchini, and hot peppers.
Giant salad bowl – romaine lettuce, Trader Joe’s balsamic and fig dressing, Trader Joe’s zhoug, celery, tater tats, and turkey meatballs (made with panko, egg, Trader Joe’s umami powder, and Korean chili flakes).
Giant salad bowl – romaine, balsamic, zhoug, celery, candied walnuts, fresh mint, and baked seitan.
I’d say “have a great weekend,” but doesn’t every day basically feel the same at this point?
Pretty much everything I ate this week came out of our freezer. Actually, 90% of what I ate this week was take-out chicken fingers.
“Home-cooked” highlights include…
Plain Greek yogurt with mixed nut butter, hot fudge, chocolate granola, and frozen/thawed blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries.
Plain Greek yogurt with frozen/thawed blueberries, cinnamon, maple, and cashew butter granola.
Herbed turkey and sharp cheddar on an onion bagel.
Amy’s Mexican casserole frozen meal + Cholula + a bagel with cheese.
I am already sick of those bagels. I also got tired of frozen versus fresh berries a lot more quickly than anticipated. Fun times.
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