Coconut, Coffees, And Chickpeas

by Emily

Excitement from last weekend: I hung out with my extended family! At their cabin on the river in Maryland where we went boating and ate fresh crab!! And my boys were there!!!

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Upcoming this weekend: Nothing as exciting as seeing Adam and Webster. Actually, I am working on Sunday. And on Saturday I am signed up for a 4 mile race with several of my coworkers.

Food highlights from the week:

Trader Joe’s coconut cold brew. The coconut is nice but this is too sour for my tastes.

Triple Draft La Colombe cans are kind of ridiculously frothy.

Yogurt bowl win. Vanilla Siggi’s with chocolate hazelnut and almond butter and blackberries.

This was a I got hungry while grocery shopping and couldn’t wait snack but it ended up being quite tasty.

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This double IPA is my favorite beer I tried all summer. Honestly all of the things from True Respite look amazing right now, they have a sour beer brewed with Gushers?!!

The best dinner I ate all week was the night my cousin had friends over and we had crab cakes and salad with fresh corn. But this Greek-style salad wasn’t bad either. Romaine / TJ’s Greek feta dressing / green olives / cucumber / roasted chickpeas / dolmas.

And one night I made a yummy tasting plate. Dubliner cheese / chicken and maple jerky hard-boiled eggs / dolmas / roasted green beans.

23Aug2019

BLT FTW

by Emily

Life highlights from the past six days –

I survived my 2nd week without my boys. Adam has been super sweet about sending me a million photos of the most handsome dog in the world!
I’ve had a ton of TPNs at work lately and I realized the other day just how comfortable I feel managing them now – I will never stop being grateful for this job opportunity, I have grown so much as a clinician the past year.
I saw, and loved, The Farewell. Such a sweet, funny movie; I can’t recommend it enough.
I went to a free yoga class with one of my coworkers and loooooved it! I had forgotten about just how much I enjoy yoga. I haven’t been in several years and it seems my balance has gotten much worse but my flexibility has gotten much better – I got myself into camel pose easily and comfortably.

Food highlights –

All of the coffee.

Hey Day Cold Brew.

Black and white ~~milkshake~~ cold brew – Grady’s with vanilla bean powder and chocolate milk.

Still obsessed with this chocolate chip cookie dough Perfect Bar that seems to only be sold at Trader Joe’s and has no internet presence.

This mango and nut mix is perfectly spicy-sweet.

This yogurt bowl was amazing. Strawberry quark with pluots, maple cashew butter, and homemade chocolate chip cookie.

I had a great assortment of gummy candies for the movie, lots of cola options.

These s’mores mochi have graham cracker ice cream and and a marshmallow center and all three of us thought they were fantastic.

Raspberry Short Kate! Hardywood‘s newest IPA brewed with milk sugar and raspberry.

Whole Foods hot bar – kale salad, cabbage crunch salad, carrot and harissa salad, breakfast potatoes, chicken sausage – with a side of chicken and waffle chips.

A swoon-worthy sandwich – local heirloom tomato, turkey bacon, and kewpie mayo on a bun.

BLT salad. Sweet baby lettuce with champagne vinaigrette, heirloom baby tomatoes, bacon, Dubliner cheese, and hickory smoked peanuts. Plus spicy roasted okra that my cousin made.

Leftover salad with delicious crab cakes that my cousin made.

Trader Joe’s frozen scallion pancakes with mayo, sriracha, and a side of roasted green beans.

17Aug2019

All By Myself

by Emily

<– that title is facetious, I’m actually living with my cousin and her fiance and they are taking very good care of me! But this was my first week surviving solo without Adam and Webster. On a related note, look at the stickers I just bought!!!

We had a fantastic, fantasmic, over-the-top wonderful vacation, by the way! We hung out with some of our favorite people, ate some of our favorite things, and got to walk up and down the beach fifteen times, all the while exclaiming how beautiful the water was.

I brought back the best ever cold brew (Grady’s) from New York.

Plus my new favorite cup, from St. Thomas!

I got back to Charlottesville from New York on Sunday night so I didn’t have time for a grocery trip this week which meant I mostly ate a bunch of (tasty) nonsense. Like cafeteria food that I carted home. Chicken tenders + fries + seaweed salad.

A Beyond Burger with hot sauce and tomatoes.

And Wegman’s hot bar. I pretty much got every chicken and vegetable option from the “Asian” section.

One night my cousin threw a dinner party and cooked an honest-to-god, grown up meal – eggplant parmesan and garlic bread (plus a fancy cheese plate and homemade chocolate chip cookies).

And Thursday I finally made it to free pretzel night at Hardywood because my work hosted an after-hours journal club there.

29Jul2019

Good Birthday And Goodbye

by Emily

Goodbye – I am going to be signing off of the blog for a bit, until mid-August. We are going to be doing a lot of traveling with questionable internet service – our motel to New York to St. Thomas to New York then back to Charlottesville – and I don’t want to deal with my camera. I will be sure to include any and all ice cream consumption on Instagram.

Good birthday – I turned 34 this week! The unstoppable passage of time was celebrated with fantastic cocktails and sushi at Ten with my cousin and her fiance and even better tapas and margaritas at Little Star on a date with the husband. Also my brother-in-law was in town this weekend and we had a great time showing him around.

Random highlights from the week…

Not a lot of “food food” to share this week because of our current living situation but I do have all sorts of:

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A trip to Stand Up Coffee in Orange, the space is super cute and they give you a stick of peppermint gum!

Chameleon Cold Brew.

Getting a quad iced latte with my Starbuck’s birthday freebie is my favorite tradition. Plus glittery nails!

Quad iced latte from Sugar Shack. Plus an ube doughnut.

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A motel-made hibiscus vodka soda!

Related – I found the newest hibiscus flavor of La Croix.

The margarita at Little Star comes with a mezcal chaser.

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I tried a very elevated version of the Southern favorite tomato sandwich, Quality Pie‘s heirloom tomatoes and remoulade on sourdough. Amazing!

Also the chef brought us out some blistered tomatoes with sea salt that basically took our breath away.

19Jul2019

Vanilla Beans And David Bowie

by Emily

Fun things from this week –

Double vanilla bean coffee. I added ground vanilla to the coffee grounds and the final cup. Plus sweetened condensed milk!

A tiny ice cream scoop. Bluegrass Creamery does a “two bite” cup, which I think is the best idea ever and wish all eateries would offer. Plus it came with a free topping! This was cookie conundrum topped with chocolate chip cookie.

Chicken nachos. Black bean chips with cheese, shredded chicken, heirloom tomato, fresh corn, and homemade guacamole.

Labyrinth on the big screen. Yes, the Labyrinth. Our local theater is showing old movies for $5 a ticket this summer. It was great! And I had the very best movie snacks. A chocolate covered marshmallow from Kilwins + these new baby gummy bears from Trader Joes.

Goses. Passion fruit and sour tropic fruit.

Tacos. Three cheese (Oaxacan cheese, manchego cheese, and queso fresco, with refried black beans, sliced avocado, roasted corn pico, and pickled watermelon) and fish (blackened tilapia, red cabbage slaw, red onion, avoverde, cilantro, and lime) from Brazos.

15Jul2019

Convenience Foods And Cocktails

by Emily

It was not a super exciting weekend for me – Adam was out of town and I worked on Sunday. I spent my single day off on errands and chores around the house. On the meal front I was all about snacks, convenience foods, and cocktails.

Highlights…

Iced coffee with vanilla bean powder.

Perfect Bar comes in cookie dough flavor!! <– I’m not sure if this flavor is very old or very new but oddly I cannot find a single mention of it on their site or the internet in general

Polar unicorn kisses seltzer. I am obsessed with these fantasy-themed mini cans.

Am I determined to try every existing variety of pimento cheese before I leave the South? Yes. Northerners, take note – this variety from Trader Joe’s is not very good; pimento dip should not be homogeneous but should have individual shreds of cheese.

On the other hand, these (vegan!) mini marshmallows are vanilla-y perfection.

Still in love with these chicken and waffle chips.

Spicy ramen + agua fresca cerveza.

A not very good frozen meal + a quite good rum and coke (with Vitae golden rum and tons of fresh lime).

28Jun2019

Super Salad

by Emily

We are 85% moved to NYC and the move went swimmingly! Plus we had a fantastic time at our friends’ wedding.

Here were the highlights from this week…

These new Trader Joe’s chocolate covered espresso beans are my new favorite thing. They have the perfect ratio of bean to candy and the chocolate coating isn’t waxy at all.

Ridiculously good cake from Marie Bette; chocolate with salted caramel frosting.

This cranberry sour ale was a total winner.

I got a smoked chicken quesadilla from Asado that was shockingly good. Plus fries with queso!

I had an amazing salad bowl from Mezeh. Mixed greens // veggie kefta // tabouleh // olives // red cabbage slaw // cucumber // caramelized eggplant // roasted corn // baba ganoush // harissa and tzatziki dressings.

Plus we made wonderful salads at home. TJ’s cruciferous crunch mix // spicy peanut vinaigrette // sesame honey cashews // hot smoked salmon // hard-boiled eggs. I made the eggs in the oven because we don’t have any pots and they came out great!

Finally, we met my cousin and her fiance for dinner at Maya. I had catfish with sweet potato fries and garlic broccoli. Plus we shared a cheese plate (with pickled apples!) and peanut butter pie.

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21Jun2019

On The Move

by Emily

It was an odd week here because we are moving all of our stuff to New York today. Note – we’re not moving, all of our stuff is moving; we’re living out of suitcases in Charlottesville for the next month+. Anyway, I was afraid to dirty anything in the kitchen while we were trying to sort and pack so 90% of our food this week came in a take-out box.

Here were the highlights…

Coffee combo – Starbucks Komodo Dragon blend with sweetened condensed milk.

This month’s Snack Crate from Poland.

Poke bowl from Poke Bowl. Sushi rice with tofu, krab, cucumber, edamame, spicy mayo, seaweed salad, green onions, and onion crisps.

Dumplings from Got Dumplings. More seaweed salad plus tofu dumplings and curry chicken dumplings.

One night we did sneak away from packing to get dinner and play in trivia night at Firefly.

I had a mango margarita and totchos – tater tots with house-made cheese sauce, avocado, pico de gallo, black beans, and sour cream.

We are crossing our fingers for a smooth move today and then tomorrow we’re heading to Pennsylvania for some friends’ wedding. Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

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Coconut, Coffees, And Chickpeas

BLT FTW

All By Myself

Good Birthday And Goodbye

Vanilla Beans And David Bowie

Convenience Foods And Cocktails

Super Salad

On The Move