Fire, Flour, & Fork; A Foodie Weekend In Richmond

by Emily

Adam and I spent a fun weekend in Richmond with some of our favorite people doing our favorite things – eating and walking! My family invited us for a few days of edible entertainment at Fire, Flour, & Fork.

We did a street art and food tour.

The highlight was definitely Greenleaf’s Pool Room, we got a fantastic demonstration and a 99% house-made grilled cheese, tomato soup, deviled egg, and pickle.

Plus we went to Smoke on the Water, a nighttime event of tents filled with all you could eat local foods and all you could drink cocktails. On the water, natch.

My favorite bites were the apple pie old fashioned with a rice krispie treat garnish and a plate of fish cake with remoulade and slaw. But the best things we ate all weekend were off of the FFF path on the favorite spots “tour” my cousin took us on.

Kuba Kuba, the best Cuban food we’ve had outside of Florida. I had cafe con leche and huevos rancheros – two eggs over red beans and kuban bread, topped with monterey jack cheese, enchilada sauce, and lime sour cream.

Perly’s, the best deli we’ve been to outside of New York. We had housemade pickles, and I had a Rachel – a turkey reuben with cole slaw instead of sourkraut.

It was a perfect weekend!

2Nov2018

All Hallow’s Eats

by Emily

Pumpkin Noosa for breakfast. I sprinkled some crunchy granola from the cafeteria on top and it was fantastic.

Maple glazed doughnut with a maple pancake iced latte from Sugar Shack.

Snack attack. Is it even Halloween week if you don’t make yourself sick eating too much sugar? None of fun-sized candy at work was exciting to me and I had to drive myself to Wegman’s to buy my own chocolate.

Crispy honey garlic tofu bites served on top of roasted broccoli and cauliflower. The tofu recipe was perfect, I couldn’t believe how crispy it came out. After I took that photo I smothered my plate in Kewpie and Sriracha!

This Pumking version was toooo much bourbon for me.

Sweet potato hash success. Crispy sweet potato (cooked similarly to this method) / sauteed red bell pepper and spring onion with tumeric and smoked paprika / garlic chicken sausage / topped with a fried egg / and copious amounts of Cholula hot sauce.

Our Halloween dinner was perfectly on theme – vampire killer pumpkin pasta. Pumpkin shaped pasta / garlic chicken sausage / sauteed spinach with tons of garlic / tossed in aioli / topped with pan-fried haloumi.

Plus the best pumpkin beer of the year and a chai pumpkin ale.

12Oct2018

Pumpkin Everywhere

by Emily

It was a good week for pumpkin; I snuck it into my coffee, smoothie, pasta, beer, and nachos! Highlights from the week included…

La Colombe Pumpkin Spice Draft Latte.

Homemade salted maple cold foam coffee.

Pumpkin pie smoothie. Pumpkin puree, plain Greek yogurt, sour cream, maple syrup, clove, and skim milk. Pumpkin smoothies end up basically being puddings!

Homemade fall flavors trail mix with Maple Cheerios, raisins, salted peanuts, and yogurt covered peanuts. Plus a SweeTango apple.

Adam and I went on a date to try the new Cannoli Bar. Cannolis aren’t really my thing, but our bicerin – that’s drinking chocolate with espresso and frothed half and half – knocked my socks off.

Whole Foods hot bar. Including coconut chicken tenders, furikake fried tofu, horseradish and scallion cauliflower, vegan curry, plus an assortment of other veggies.

This cheesy veggie bowl was one of my favorite dinners I’ve made all year. Roasted broccoli / roasted potatoes (cooked similarly to this recipe) / topped with a take on vegetarian queso fundido – sharp cheddar, sour cream, green onion, yellow onion, serrano pepper, and Trader Joe’s vegan chorizo. I enjoyed this so much I ended up eating my entire bowl followed by most of Adam’s!

Pumpkin nacho night! Trader Joe’s pumpkin tortilla chips baked with green onion, yellow, onion, sharp cheddar, and maple chicken sausage. Then topped with copious amounts of Cholula and sour cream. Plus roasted broccoli on the side.

Pumpkin on pumpkin on pumpkin dinner.

Trader Joe’s pumpkin pasta tossed with a sauce made of pumpkin puree, sour cream, shallots, spices, sage, maple chicken sausage, soyrizo, and parmesan cheese.

Plus pumpkin beers. I thought the AleWerks pumpkin ale was too sweet (though Adam was a big fan) but really enjoyed the Punkin Ale from Dogfish Head.

Pumpkin purchase recommendations? All of it! Every product (and recipe) was delicious. The La Colombe and AleWerks items weren’t quite to my taste, but Adam enjoyed them both so I can’t say I wouldn’t recommend trying them yourself.

8Oct2018

1st Week Of Pumpkin Month

by Emily

It’s Pumpkin Month! Check out this year’s stash –

Here is some of the gourdy goodness I’ve eaten so far…

Pumpkin milk iced coffee.

Chobani pumpkin with maple Cheerios.

Trader Joe’s pumpkin yogurt with Justin’s maple cashew butter, plus a rave apple and a chocolate chip cookie.

Other tasty things from the past week include…

Duck confit hash from Farm Bell Kitchen.

Mexican candy with guava paste and dulce de leche.

Grapefruit yogurt drink with mango jelly and popping grape boba.

Vietnamese caramel chicken with jasmine rice and sauteed bok choy and shredded carrot.

Shrimp fried rice, cooked on a sheet pan. <– this is such a fantastic idea! We will definitely use this method again

Spinach and artichoke chicken (similar to this recipe) with roasted cauliflower.

1Oct2018

Engaging Eats

by Emily

It was an exciting weekend, two of our favorite people came to visit us – and got engaged while they were here! We loved being a part of their special day, and also enjoyed a winery tour, stumbling into the Tom Tom Festival, and staying up far too late. I mostly took photos of people, but here were five highlights of what I ate…

{1} Coffee from Sweethaus. Quad / nonfat / iced / latte / with vanilla and mint.

{2} Brunch at Junction. I had the Huevos Rancheros – crispy corn tortillas topped with refried beans, cotija cheese, fresh avocado, salsa, and 2 fried local eggs. Plus the Jungle Cat – Vida Mezcal, Campari, pineapple, lime, and Caribbean jerk spiced cane syrup.

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{3} Lunch at Smoked in Crozet. We could not believe how good this place was! I had smoked turkey, fried chicken, cole slaw, and smoked jalopeno creamed corn. The cream corn was my favorite side dish of all time!

{4} I did not take a picture, but I still have to mention how delicious the fried chicken sandwich at The Fitzroy is. 3/4 of us ordered it for dinner and all of us basically swooned over it.

{5} It was a coworker’s birthday this weekend so I am bringing in the best ever chocolate chip cookies and I ate copious amounts of dough as I worked.

I am looking forward to eating a baked cookie with lunch today!

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28Sep2018

Flavors Of Fall

by Emily

Next week is the start of Pumpkin Month!! But first, here’s a collection of “fall flavored” things –

The maple Mars bar was a disappointment. (Mom, sorry, it came as part of a Snack Crate, I cannot get you one).

But the pecan pie granola was a delight, especially paired with a Trader Joe’s caramel apple Greek yogurt!

More apple goodness, this Rave variety was crispy and sweet.

And in other packaged goods new, I obsessively searched for this Oreo coffee creamer for the past 2 months before I finally got my hands on it. <– worth it

Pimento cheese and crackers at Grit.

I put leftover bbq chicken on a yummy salad. With butter lettuce, honey mustard dressing, cashews, and cucumber.

This frozen meal from Trader Joe’s remains the best chile relleno of my life.

My in-laws were in town a few days this week and we had a great time seeing them. Including a trip to Asian buffet. I had really tasty seaweed salad and the best egg tart I’ve ever eaten. Here were my fist and last plates (with several in between!).

24Sep2018

Frozen And Frothed

by Emily

Top five from the weekend…

{1} A variety of fancied coffees.

This combo is still rocking my socks off.

I made a frozen coffee at home in the blender.

And had a much more successful frozen granita at the farmer’s market.

Plus a latte from Snowing in Space with nitro draft espresso!

{2} A birthday cake pop-tart from Wonderment.

{3} Cupcakes and coffee at Sweethaus.

I had a quad iced latte and a cookies and cream cupcake with Oreo pieces baked inside it.

{4} Best brunch in Virginia at Junction.

I had chicken and waffles with habenero maple syrup.

Plus we want to go back and try every cocktail on the menu! The Paloma was out of this world – blanco tequila, Aperol, salted grapefruit cordial, lime.

{5} We made fantastic bbq chicken sandwiches. Chicken roasted with paprika (cooked like this) then brushed with bbq sauce (Stubbs but mixed with butter, honey, and Sriracha) served on a bun with smoked cheddar and Kewpie mayo. Plus roasted green beans.

Have a great week!

14Sep2018

Apple Adventures

by Emily

Nothing this week has been as exciting as our food in New York, but I have had some fun eating through my apple month stash. Here were some recent highlights…

Coffee from Brooklyn Roasting Company.

Caramel + Apple Noosa. <– Noosa is always tasty but this would have been a billion times better if the two flavors were just mixed together and not “split” side by side

Apple chips with chocolate peanut butter dip.

Freeze-dried apples.

This week’s trail mix obsession was homemade – dried apples, yogurt covered pretzels, roasted peanuts, and honey roasted peanuts.

I made chilaquiles(ish) for dinner. Sauteed yellow and orange bell pepper with green salsa, cotija, and tortilla chips, topped with a fried egg and Cholula. This was so good I ate leftovers the next day and they were still yummy.

Greek(ish) salad night. Baby romaine, ranch, olives, adorably tiny baby heirloom tomatoes, roasted chickpeas, and dolmas.

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Fire, Flour, & Fork; A Foodie Weekend In Richmond

All Hallow’s Eats

Pumpkin Everywhere

1st Week Of Pumpkin Month

Engaging Eats

Flavors Of Fall

Frozen And Frothed

Apple Adventures