Stuffed With Joy

by Emily

Peppermint and egg nog > nonholiday flavors. But even the nonseasonal bites were tasty this week. Highlights include…

Coffee = Coffee Mate sweet cream cold brew.

Also a peppermint mocha La Colombe can with a surprisingly good peppermint bark Clif Bar.

Limited seasonal item eggnog shake from Cook Out.

The best snacks of the week came from our Snack Crate. Particularly these chewy items that were all a bit milky in a delightful way.

Chicken fajitas stuffed peppers. A blend of shredded chicken, sauteed onion, fajita seasoning, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and cojita cheese, baked inside green bell peppers.

Homemade buffalo chicken macaroni and cheese. Plus simple side salads, dressed with evoo, honey, lavender salt, and garlic and herb cashews.

3Dec2018

Gingerbread Galore

by Emily

So many holiday flavors consumed this weekend! <– Squee! It was just kind of a great weekend in general – we had no major to-dos looming and the weather was fantastic. We got to go to brunch with my cousin and her boyfriend and on a long walk with the dog. Next weekend brings out of town plans so it was really nice to keep things low-key.

Highlights…

Forager’s coconut cream cashew milk cold brew. It was yummy but way too filling to consume all at once.

Starbucks’ Juniper iced latte – I recommend getting double the espresso and half of the syrup so it’s not too pine-y [holiday flavor #1].

Plain Greek yogurt with maple, almond butter granola, and the last of the cranberry sauce.

Brunch at Renewal was delicious, we will definitely be back. I had a gin fizz with egg white and cream.

Roasted brussel sprouts with garlic fondue and sherry gastrique / field greens side salad with grapefruit vinaigrette / fries with pimento cheese and aioli.

Sugar cookie frozen yogurt and eggnog gelato [holiday flavors #2 and 3}.

King of Pop’s gingerbread was the best popsicle I’ve ever eaten, it was like a cookie dunked in milk [holiday flavor #4]. Enjoyed at Hardywood where I also had a Christmas Morning – gingerbread stout with Black Hand Coffee [holiday flavor #5].

This Sweethaus gingerbread cupcake with meringue frosting was the best baked good we’ve ever eaten, hands down [also holiday flavor #6!].

Trader Joe’s cauliflower latkes for the first night of Hannukah [holiday flavor #7] with a chicken thigh take on this Mississippi Roast recipe.

16Nov2018

Soup’s Up

by Emily

There was no post last weekend because I worked on Sunday and it totally knocked me out. It was a busy day and I was basically still recovering most of this week, which is why there’s not much substance to this post either. Hopefully I am well-rested now because we have some really fun plans for this weekend!

It’s beginning to taste a lot like the holidays…. This is my current themed flavors stash.

Coffee with ‘nog is my favorite time of year.

Snapdragon apple with a cinnamon protein bar.

Plus I made two dinners that would be good any time of year. Bon Appetit’s chicken soup with charred cabbage.

Giant salad bowls. Butter lettuce / maple syrup, Sriracha, and Kewpie / shredded rotisserie chicken / chopped fresh sage and parsley / fried halloumi cheese. Plus a hunk of buttered walnut raisin sourdough.

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!).

21Sep2018

Yum Yums And Cheer

by Emily

I had some real flops in the dinner department this week, and I don’t photograph my work lunches, so most of what I have to share in this post is dessert!

I tried chocolate oat milk in my iced coffee and I didn’t totally hate it.

Wegman’s coffee counter shopping treat, salted caramel cold foam iced latte. Cold foam gets two thumbs up from me, I would get it again on an unflavored latte.

The cookie butter flavor at Red Mango is hands down the best frozen yogurt I’ve ever tasted! Topped with mochi and butterscotch chips.

Homemade tahini cookies stuffed with m&ms. A riff on this recipe because No. 2 Pencil’s cookie recipes are all genius.

Chipotle salads are my favorite restaurant meal at the moment and I’m not even ashamed about it. My perfect combo = greens, chicken, extra fajita veggies, corn salsa, hot salsa, sour cream, and cheese. Eaten at home with a super tasty Dogfish Head Dragon and Yum Yums beer.

This salad was a homemade dinner success! Sauteed broccoli slaw / shredded chicken breast / toasted almond slivers / a food processed sauce of cilantro, parsley, orange juice, lime juice, evoo, honey, and rice vinegar.

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.

31Aug2018

Okonomiyaki And Almost Green Papaya Salad

by Emily

Loves of late – “Making It” (again), I am sad this season is almost over. Also “Stan Against Evil;” I just learned that the 3rd season premiers on Halloween and I could not be more excited.

Flavor themes this week – cream cheese, salmon, bacon, cabbage, coffee (always)

Here were the highlights…

Coffee = cold pressed Brooklyn Roasting Company.

On the snack front, the hospital cafeteria stocks a big variety of yummy trail mixes and I am obsessed with them.

And this month’s Snack Crate was from Japan and it was super exciting.

Jalopeno popper chicken. Chicken baked with a topping of cream cheese, jalopeno, cheddar, and turkey bacon. Plus roasted green beans.

Salmon strata. This recipe, but I subbed in cream cheese for cheddar and added dill. Also I added an extra egg and used fat-free half and half in place of a 1/2 cup of milk which made the custard extra creamy. Pro tip – we used Trader Joe’s white whole wheat and it was perfect. Plus cherry tomatoes and roasted zucchini.

Frozen salmon burgers (which frankly weren’t that good) on a delicious slaw. I made green papaya salad but with cabbage.

Americanized okonomiyaki, I used russet potato with turkey bacon and sharp cheddar.

24Aug2018

Buchi, Boba, Bacon

by Emily

Highlights from a yummy week…

Coffee combo = Brooklyn Roasting Co with sweetened condensed milk, shakerato style.

This pineapple + mint Buchi is my new favorite kombucha.

Kung Fu Tea served me a fantastic bubble tea, rosehip milk tea with coconut jelly and boba.

Chipotle salads are possibly one of my top five favorite foods. Romaine, chicken, fajita veggies, pinto beans, hot salsa, corn salsa, sour cream, cheese.

Homemade green curry. Chicken sausage and zucchini / on cauliflower rice / with green curry paste, coconut milk, fish sauce, brown sugar, and lime.

Tasty egg sandwiches. Seeded challah rolls with fried eggs, sharp cheddar, turkey bacon, and mayo and gojuchang. Plus the simplest salads – romaine with ranch.

Dinner out at Bebedero.

We had great drinks – a paloma with mezcal, rosemary, and black sea salt and tepache, a fermented pineapple drink.

And I had nachos with cheese sauce and house-pickled jalopenos.

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Stuffed With Joy

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Soup’s Up

Flavors Of Fall

Yum Yums And Cheer

Apple Adventures

Okonomiyaki And Almost Green Papaya Salad

Buchi, Boba, Bacon