Team Unicorns

by Emily

Highlights from a very yummy week…

Still obsessed with Dalgona Coffees.

Also yogurt bowls with fresh berries. Plain skyr with blueberries, blackberries, and amazing espresso vanilla cream granola.

Skyr with berries, cinnamon, maple, and TJ’s flax and chia seed peanut butter.

This cola seltzer was a very limited released and I was quite sad to finish my last bottle this week.

Since we did several nights of sandwiches for dinner chips as a mid-day snack just felt appropriate. Seaweed chips and kettle corn popcorners.

Our cocktail hour was 10/10 this week. We are fully obsessed with homemade frozen painkillers!

Ninja vs Unicorn double IPA.

Romaine salad with TJ’s Greek feta dressing, cotija cheese, rainbow shredded carrots, and fried eggs.

A turkey sandwich on sweet Hawaiian bread with smoked gouda, mayo, mustard, and pickle relish. Plus a side salad.

Best meal of the week = a soft-scrambled egg sandwich with smoked gouda and spicy mustard. Plus roasted okra.

4May2020

Painkillers In Quarantine

by Emily

Highlights from the weekend…

Cold brew with chocolate milk.

Cinnamon coffee.

I ate my first apple in months – a very crispy Lady Alice – and it was delightful.

Cookie butter Greek yogurt – with granola and chocolate chips.

Beer! The Grimm was too ear waxy for my tastes but the Kills Boro Amethyst sour IPA with blueberries and lavender was very drinkable.

We were supposed to be back home in St. Thomas for carnival this weekend; instead we consoled ourselves with homemade Painkillers. Nutmeg, pineapple juice, orange juice, rums, and I substituted low-fat coconut milk and sweetened condensed milk for coconut cream which worked out great!

Leftover buffalo chicken pizza – with honey and Korean chili flakes – with baby carrots and blueberries.

Roasted veggie bowls – broccoli, bell pepper, and cojita – topped with fried egg and Crystal hot sauce.

24Apr2020

{Insert Fifth Harmony Lyric}

by Emily

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!

10Apr2020

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee*

by Emily

*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.

Lavendar latte.

Vietnamese coffee made with a phin filter.

Lavazza espresso.

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?

31Jan2020

Ciao, February

by Emily

Highlights from this week…

Brunch in Brooklyn at Otway, which is gorgeous and amazing.

I had a soft-scrambled egg sandwich with gruyere, scallion, and green garlic.

Plus crispy potatoes.

And a bloody mary.

Treats at Ciao, Gloria. Adam and I shared a cortado and a cinnamon roll.

Snacks this week were all about Trader Joe’s garlic naan and artichoke and jalopeno dip.

Asian Kit-Kats! Purple sweet potato and cookies and creme flavored.

Adam’s work gave him nice champagne around the holidays and we finally drank it in cocktails with mango smoothie.

Big salad bowls with romaine, Trader Joe’s cilantro dressing, sumac, cucumber, tomato, zhoug, fresh mint, and roasted chickpeas.

One of my best sheet-pan hash dinners to date – brussel sprouts, grapes, turkey andouille sausage, and gorganzola.

17Jan2020

Dough My Goodness

by Emily

Five things from last week:

{1} Cookie dough

Still obsessed with the cookie dough Perfect Bar (which still has no online presence?!).

Newly obsessed with this monster cookie edible dough. I may have eaten too much sugar this week.

{2} Leftovers

Leftover homemade corn okonomiyaki topped with gojuchang mayo and gochugaru chile flakes (p.s. this is the brand I love for both).

{3} Snacks from Trader Joe’s

TJ’s kills it in the snack game. Dehydrated carrots.

Sea salt and turbinado sugar dark chocolate almonds + dried baby pineapple.

{4} Yogurt bowl

Guava passion fruit Greek yogurt (also from Trader Joe’s) with blueberries, sumo mandarin, and chocolate banana granola.

{5} Veggie bowl

Roasted – shredded brussel sprouts, green onion, shishito peppers + sauteed – baby tomatoes, TJ’s turkey summer sausage.

6Jan2020

Waffley Glad

by Emily

We had a really amazing time in Hawaii (several posts are coming soon!) but I am awfully glad to be back home with Webster!

I didn’t make it the grocery until Sunday afternoon but we still managed to eat some yummy things this weekend. Highlights include…

My new favorite yogurt bowl = Trader Joe’s plain Skyr yogurt with maple syrup, blueberries, banana, and blistered peanuts.

Extra spicy, extra veggies hand-pulled noodles from our mall’s fancy food court.

A perfect snack.

Costa Nova made me a fantastic quad iced latte! Plus a waffle with marshmallow and cookie butter!

We thought this frozen kunefe from Trader Joe’s was fantastic. Highly recommend buying if you spot it.

Waffle flavored chicken bites with baby carrots and maple sriracha aioli.

My new favorite veggies bowl = a base of cauliflower rice with soft scrambled eggs, sauteed baby tomatoes, and avocado (topped with Cholula).

The night before we left for Hawaii we celebrated our anniversary at Bowery Meat Company and the night we returned we feasted on leftover duck lasagna.

25Nov2019

Fluffy GBS

by Emily

I don’t have a ton of photos to share from last week because I ate a bunch of celebratory meals sans camera. By the time I leave for real next week it is going to feel fairly anticlimactic!

A work friend and I went out for drinks at Vitae {highlights include a maple cinnamon sour with smoked rum}.

A big group of co-workers took me out for lunch at Asado {highlights include a smoked chicken quesadilla}.

And my team took me out for dinner at Junction {highlights include a rum and coke with allspice syrup and charred baby carrots with goat cheese and carrot top chimichurri}.

Other highlights include…

Eggnog and coffee!