This post comes to you from breakfast. Adam and I both had the morning free so I scrambled us up some eggs. I know the sugar sounds weird, but go with it, the sweetness just works.
Whisk together 4 large eggs, 1/4 cup skim milk, 1 Tbsp granulated sugar, and a pinch of salt.
Sautée 3 cups raw baby spinach, 1 cup radish sprouts, with 1 Tbsp Earth Balance Buttery Spread.
Scramble egg mixture into cooked veggies. Fold in 1 cup shredded parmesan. Serves 2.
Dinner tonight was a delicious salad. I had to get in my greens on Earth Day!
A bed of baby spinach topped with a sprinkle of salt, radish greens, blue cheese crumbles, and two soft-cooked eggs.
I use Jenna’s recipe for soft-cooked eggs and they come out perfectly every time.
The flavors all melded nicely and I used creamy yolks in lieu of dressing. Plus, I fit every single food group into one meal (I had a fruit smoothie and slice of ciabatta bread on the side)!
What is your favorite way to replace the dressing on a salad?
Facts:
Dark chocolate and I have been having a moment lately.
Whenever I rock one of Adam’s t-shirts I always double up on eye makeup to try to compensate.
Kim and I spent five straight hours at Panera on Friday and I still am utterly confused by our final projects for this portion of the semester.
Adam and I were supposed to go to Toronto for pat bing soo this afternoon but the weather froze us out so we went to Gin Gin for red bean bubble tea instead.
The new grocery store in Orchard Park is amazing; Wegmans and Whole Foods wrapped up all in one.
This is the closest I’ll come to an egg cream while we live in Buffalo.
Classed up mac and cheese is super easy and tasty {boxed mac and cheese / peas / smoked kippered herring / capers / parmesan / panko / red pepper flakes}.
Watching “Buffy” with Adam is even better the 2nd time around.
I am usually not one to follow trends, but unfortunately I need to take a page from some of the bigger bloggers and take a break. Sort of.
There are a lot of things going on in my life right now that I can’t blog about. This makes doing full-day posts tricky, and not all that fun. So for the next couple months, I need to pull back. But… when I am done with school and we’ve moved and my life is my own I do plan on going back to my usual style.
For now, I still want to blog most days of the week. I plan on sharing fun things we do, product reviews, new recipes, goals from my birthday list, and anything particularly tasty. I hope you guys will stick with me!
Bloggers – how has your posting schedule changed over the years?
This morning Adam, Webster, and I headed to the park. They went frolicking and I went running. I started the Couch-to-10k plan, again. I refuse to go back to week one (I’ve started the plan four times in as many months, it’s embarrassing at this point) so I did the first day of week two – intervals of 4 minutes walking / 1 minute running, x 8. Plus 5 minutes of straight running at the end as I hurried to find a dog and husband who are bad at following directions! I was great to be outside.
The rest of the day included schoolwork, a shift at work, and an evening of tv. In fact, we are mid-Bones right now so I’m keeping this short.
Here’s what I ate… An Alter Ego Mini Dark Velvet chocolate bar.
This stuff was amazing, the perfect blend of milk and dark chocolate. It had dark’s tang with the creaminess of milk. Total love.
Soft pretzel.
Vegan chicken nuggets with some sharp cheddar.
This would have been awesome, but the whole flax seeds kind of ruined it for me. Nonetheless, this Yumvelope (the source of the bar and the candy) was a good one.
Hot bar (two of the wontons were Adam’s).
Two kinds of sautéed veggies plus a piece of sweet and sour chicken.
.15 lb of gummi candy.
A giant slice of Buffalo chicken pizza with blue cheese for dipping.
I am, in a word, stuffed.
Man, it has been a looooong time since I last blogged.
I made the right decision. Part of the reason I’ve been blogging AWOL is because I was making a giant, life-changing decision and I’m pretty sure positive I made the right one.
The end of this semester is going to be insane. We have two business plans to create in the next month and we were told to expect 40 plus hours of work each week on top of our clinical hours.
Went to my first day of clinical practice in long-term care.
Took a glorious, 70* walk on Elmwood with my husband.
Attended night class. With the curve I scored a 100% on the first exam!
A mealy apple.
A packet of Artisana Cacao Bliss.
Chocolate Almond Coconut Clif Mojo Bar.
A low-fat strawberry milk.
A (salted caramel chocolate nougat) candy from the latest Yumvelope.
Veggies from Globe Market, ~.25 lb each.
Thai carrot salad,
and Greek vegetable salad.
Lays Chicken and Waffles potato chips.
Dinner.
and a soft pretzel with yellow mustard.
I also thought a lot about the tragedies at the Boston Marathon today. If you or anyone you are close to were effected, please know that you are in my thoughts.
Recently Naysoya contacted me with the opportunity to try their newly reformulated Nayonaise line. I’ve enjoyed their vegan mayo in the past during my Vegan Month challenges, so I happily accepted. Pretty soon, a box showed up in the mail.
They sent me 2 free jars to sample – Vegan Nayonaise and Vegan Nayo Whipped.
I haven’t tasted the whipped product yet (in non-vegan life I prefer Miracle Whip to regular mayo so I’m quite looking forward to it) but I’ll be sure to share my opinion when I do. I was impressed with the reformulation of the Nayonaise. The new product is in fact smoother than the previous version.
I’ve seen recipes in the past {on those Mayo tv commercials?!} where mayo is used in place of butter when grilling a sandwich and I figured that application would be a great way to taste out the Nayo. I also used it as the binder in my vegan chicken salad. I think the recipe turned out quite well; the Nayo gave the toasted bread a great crisp texture.
Vegan Chicken Salad Sandwiches, serves 2
To my vegetarian readers: Nasoya has teamed up with Vegetarian Times to celebrate the vegetarian lifestyle by having people share their Veg-iversaries. By sharing the day you went veg, you can enter to win a Nayonaise Party Pack for 10 people + a $100 Visa gift card!
Do you follow (or have you ever followed) a vegetarian or vegan diet?
Doesn’t it feel too late in the week to still be Monday? Anyone else? I have several personal/professional/school things going down at the moment and honestly my head is spinning. This post is going to have to be “Me Emily. Me eat food. Food good.” style.
Coconut Delight Raw Revolution bar from the bottom of my purse for breakfast.
Pear.
Dannon Oikos Cafe Latte Greek Yogurt,
with Justin’s Maple Almond Butter swirled in.
The last of the bbq pop chips (1.5ish serving) with dip.
Also Cheetos.
A new recipe for dinner.
Roasted green beans,
with a vegan chicken salad sandwich. <– me promise to share the recipe tomorrow
Drinks whilst brainstorming with a friend.
Jameson diet coke x2, lemon drop x1.
Bed.
Eating Chalk 