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!
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.
*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?
Highlights from this week (mostly beverages that blew my mind!) include…
Starbucks vanilla sweet cream nitro cold brew can gets a 7.5/10. Not as good as a freshly made nitro but better than many canned coffees.
Wendy’s new cold brew with chocolate Frosty creamer gets a 7/10; a great score for a fast food coffee. It was not too sweet and the coffee was vastly more robust than Dunkin Donuts’.
I always enjoy Health Ade Kombucha and their passion fruit tangerine flavor is my new 2nd favorite (it comes in behind their holiday spice flavor).
AHA = my new favorite sparkling water. This was the surprisingly fantastic flavor combo of cherry and coffee! And it’s caffeinated!!
A decked out yogurt bowl. With vanilla bean powder, cinnamon, honey, banana, watermelon seed butter, and starry sprinkles.
My favorite yogurt (Trader Joe’s plain skyr) with my new favorite oatmeal cookies (Stella’s easy one bowl recipe) and some mandarinquats (which I actually didn’t enjoy because they were impossible to eat).
Crazy good take-out from Cheng Du. I got kung pow tofu and Szechuan chili oil tofu and it was some of the best Chinese food I’ve ever tasted.
This was hands-down the best sandwich I’ve ever made. I could not stop raving out it.
Brioche bun with Kewpie mayo / chicken thighs marinated in pineapple juice, brown sugar, sriracha, minced ginger, soy sauce, and rice vinegar then roasted / bbq sauce made with the reduced marinade plus ketchup / topped with sauteed sweet onion, poblano pepper, and pineapple. Served with roasted broccoli.
Highlights from this week include – a day trip into Brooklyn // tons of tortilla chips and salsas // a product review.
Oatsome sent me a carton of their oat-milk to try {I was provided no additional compensation and all opinions shared are my own}. I have a three pronged review –
I had Oatsome in a cup of espresso roast with brown sugar.
And in a bowl of Heritage Flakes with blueberries.
Vanilla bean Greek yogurt with blueberries and a honey tangerine.
An egg sandwich from Golda with muhumarra, kashkaval, dill, sumac’d onion, and beef bacon. Plus a salted tahini oat milk latte!
Baby carrots and roasted broccoli dipped in Asian ginger dressing.
Homemade chilaquiles. We used yellow and orange bell pepper, serrano pepper, sweet onion, leftover salsa, and tortilla chips. Topped with eggs, homemade cilantro crema, and Cholula.
Nacho night. Tortilla chips, black beans, poached chicken thighs, sauteed onion and poblano pepper, cheese, Trader Joe’s salsa, and sour cream.
Highlights from this weekend…
Yogurt bowl with Heritage Flakes cereal, blueberries, and chocolate chunks.
An afternoon in Bushwick. Including stops at Millers and Makers for cake – vanilla and chocolate with coconut, caramel, and chocolate buttercream.
And Taqueria Al Pastor for delicious tacos with chicken and nopales (cactus).
Cups on cups. My current favorite type of candy is nut/seed butter cups and these two types are great. Sunbutter from Trader Joe’s.
Vanilla tahini from Raaka.
Our homemade dinner bowls were both eclectic and wonderful. Roasted riced cauliflower with smoked paprika and sumac / chicken salad with chicken thighs, sour cream, caramelized onion and garlic, and fresh parsley / topped with Cholula.
Roasted broccoli / sauteed corn and baby tomatoes / baked tofu (seasoned with smoked paprika, gochugaru, honey, and olive oil) / homemade salsa / sour cream.
Packaged foods I enjoyed this week…
White Rabbit milk candy milk box.
Coffee from the VI.
Bars galore (I need to stop buying anything that isn’t Perfect Bars, they just don’t measure up).
Chicken chips dipped in salsa verde aioli.
These are the best gummi candies I have ever eaten.
Eating Chalk 