This week’s best:
{Coffee} Trader Joe’s cold brew with cookies and cream milk.
{Lunch} Leftover buffalo chicken pizza with roasted zucchini.
{Snack} Coca-Cola Tic-Tacs. How did they get the flavor so spot-on??!
{Dinner} Egg tacos. These are amazing; I’ve been eating them all week and I’m still not sick of them! Pan-warmed tortillas // sauteed corn and kale with paprika and TJ’s umami powder // soft-scrambled eggs with gouda // homemade salsa (I made a big batch loosely based on this recipe).
Highlights from this week include…
Dalgona coffee with cinnamon and malted milk. Swoon.
Honey vanilla Greek yogurt with blueberries and a raspberry banana nut mix.
Our current candy situation.
I am all in on this Trader Joe’s popcorn mix.
When we get Chinese take-out I ordered all of the things so I have leftovers for days. This was Kung Pow tofu, veggie rice noodles, and cabbage.
Chinese cabbage with TJ’s mini chicken wontons and chili flakes.
Jalopeno popper turkey chicken burgers with roasted green beans.
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.
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.
So obviously the best thing about being back with my boys was this –
But we also had a ton of fun out of the house too! This weekend Adam and I ran a thousand errands / saw Knives Out / met up with friends for dinner in Astoria / walked around Cold Springs Harbor appreciating their holiday decorations and Christmas carolers!
Edible highlights included…
Shakeratos with fancy coffee. I just now writing this post realized that I make these with coffee + sweetened condensed milk and half and half versus SCM and simple syrup but they still turn out great.
During our Cold Springs Harbor morning we stopped at Sweetie Pies on Main for a quad nonfat iced latte and a rainbow cookie cake. Every single pastry in this shop looks next level.
A yogurt bowl with Trader Joe’s egg nog Greek yogurt, vanilla spiced sunflower seed butter, and giant blueberries.
S’mores cookie from Chip. FYI – these are very graham cracker forward, I much prefer their other flavors.
Sweetened condensed milk and cookies ice cream from Spot (an H-Mart find!).
We stupidly went to Target at dinner time but these impulse buy chocolate covered cashews ended up being amazing.
Between the four of us during dinner at District Saigon we tried and loved a lot of the drink menu but I think the clear winner was this spiked Thai iced tea made with cachaça, absinthe, Angostura bitters, sweetened condensed milk, and egg whites.
Frozen meal I am in love with = Amy’s chile relleno casserole bowl. Paired with leftover chicken nachos.
How did my short three-day week feel soooo long?! I am off again today because I’m actually heading to Traverse City, Michigan for the weekend to visit one of my best friends from when I was a kid. So excited! I will not be taking pictures though – I got such a cheap ticket that I don’t even get a carry-on, just a purse, so I won’t be spending space on a camera.
This week my snacks heavily featured super random dried / freeze-dried / turned-into-chips things. Highlights include…
Freeze-dried fuji apples from Trader Joe’s + chicken chips.
Trader Joe’s crispy broccoli.
Trader Joe’s freeze-dried grapes + seaweed chips + chicken jerky.
Also plain Siggi’s with fresh blueberries and Wild Friends chocolate peanut butter.
And I ate the rest of my leftovers from last week (sheet pan hash + tabbouleh + zhoug) and immediately added more zhoug to my grocery list for next week!
Five highlights from this week…
{1} I practically swooned over this yogurt bowl; I was more than ready for berry season. Greek yogurt with honey and vanilla bean paste / blueberries / granola.
{2} Blue Bottle New Orleans style iced coffee. <– my favorite in the boxed coffee game
{3} Mint Lemonade. Wegman’s kombucha line is good, neither too sweet nor too vinegar-forward.
{4} Bowls of super simple chili (just turkey, onion, tomato, and spices) topped with plain Greek yogurt and more hot sauce. Plus roasted broccoli with cheddar on the side.
{5} I 100% made the chili so we could eat it leftover on cheese fries. Waffle fries / chili / sweet red grass-fed cheddar / green onions.
Three things I liked this week:
{1} Mint iced coffee! Irving Farms espresso roast / half and half / homemade vanilla mint simple syrup.
{2} Kefir and apple work snacks.
{3} Starbucks’ prepared sandwiches that I’m weirdly obsessed with. Chicken and artichoke flatbread with provolone and sun-dried tomato pesto.
Three things I loved this week:
{1} Homemade turkey cheeseburger fried rice.
Leftover brown rice stir-fried with soy sauce and liquid smoke / sauteed onions / roasted cherry tomatoes / ground turkey sauteed with fish sauce, ketchup, and mayo / eggs / cheddar cheese.
{2} Dinner at Pig and Khao. I went with a girlfriend for her first visit and she loved it!
I ordered not one, but two, new to me dishes that were amazing. Mushroom salad with shrimp and fried garlic and green papaya salad with chicken and crispy taro.
{3} Dinner at Freeks Mill that knocked our socks off.
We started with roasted baby carrots with marcona almonds and herbed goat cheese.
And we ordered all the poultry on the menu for dinner. Chicken for Adam, smoked Poulet Rouge with wild mushrooms and spinach.
Duck for me, dry aged duck with fried cranberry beans, fennel, and rosemary honey. <– this was the singe best thing I've ever eaten!
Three things I’m obsessing about that you don’t know about yet:
{1} Nonfat quad iced lattes from Hungry Ghost. There are three HGs on my walk to work and it is becoming a problem.
{2} Stolen Dance by Milky Chance. This song is basically magic – I listened to it on a run and I swear my legs moved 50% more quickly than usual.
{3} Moving??! I’m not sure how I haven’t blogged about this yet, but yes, we’re moving! Adam is doing his Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at UVA next year. So we’re moving to Charlottesville. In 50 days. !!!
Best bites from the weekend…
Best chocolate babka in Brooklyn, probably the world, at Oneg Bakery. It was so chewy! Yet crumbly and crisp too. And the chocolate was basically brownie batter! We were absolutely smitten and I ate too much and made myself sick.
Vanilla iced latte at the adorable Hearts Coffee in Bushwick.
Brunch at Meadowsweet. My iced Oslo espresso had sugar, milk, and bourbon in it.
And I had a beyond fantastic bowl of duck pastrami hash with parsley salsa verde and poached eggs.
Snack attack. La Columbe canned coffee and a cheesecake cup.
Fruity yogurt bowl, with citrus yogurt, sumo mandarin, and pomegranate.
Leftover breakfast casserole with the dregs of my veggie drawer.
Snazzy pasta bowls. Whole wheat spaghetti / brown butter and lemon / peas, green onions, and sun-dried tomatoes / crab meat.
I survived the less-than-zero-degree weather! My first winter in Buffalo I bought myself a pair of (children’s!) Sorrel snow-boots and they remain the single most essential item in my closet.
I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so my weekend eats weren’t all that exciting. Work was busy-busy so I mostly ate quick, snacky things. The highlights…
Iced coffee with a crispy Pacific Rose apple.
This New Orleans-style cold brew with sweetened condensed milk is officially my favorite coffee combo of all time. I love Grady’s in general and this was perfectly spiced so with the SCM it was insanely delicious.
Sooooo much hot chocolate.
A giant smoothie I shared with Adam – plain Greek yogurt, frozen soursop, mango, and grapes.
Toasted onion bagel with jalopeño-cheddar cream cheese. I ended up scraping off part of my mountain of cream cheese like some kind of tourist.
Watermelon / Sriracha chicken bar / vanilla crispy square.
Maple salmon bar / TJ’s dried chokanan mango / TJ’s seed & bean medley.
The first two nights of dinner I was thanking past Emily for leaving me yummy leftovers. Hot wing pasta.
Hot dish. With ketchup and Sriracha on top.
And Sunday night I finally got around to cooking the meal I had planned for the first night of Hannukah!
I had kind of a bad foodie/good foodie thing going on – my latkes were from a box but my matzoh brie was fried in duck fat.
I sprinkle sugar on mine because that’s how I grew up eating it. And that’s a blob of labne on my latkes that I wished was sour cream. Plus we had roasted broccoli with sumac.
I am off of work today! and we are going somewhere fun for lunch!!
