Fun fact – I had an amazing time last weekend! It was fantastic to see my friends and Traverse City is quite possibly my new favorite place (we walked a ton (by the lake!) and drank cocktails with coffee, Mexican Coke, and locally-made vodka, so how could it not be?!).
Not so fun fact – I spilled an entire coffee yesterday morning and ruined everything in my purse including my dayplanner/brain and camera. The only thing that’s really missing from this post is the fun lunch I ate at the farmers’ market with my coworker yesterday, but I’m not sure what my plan will be for this weekend since I hate taking photos on my phone.
Here were the highlights before the flood…
Grady’s Cold Brew really is the best, and I say that even I smelled like it all day at work.
Berry breakfast. Cereal and milk with blueberries.
Yogurt bowl 1 – Fage, blueberries, vanilla peanut butter.
Yogurt bowl 2 – Trader Joe’s vanilla skyr, red plum, walnut butter.
I finally ate my first fresh apple of the month, a crunchy Pazazz apple.
I had the day off on Tuesday and I took myself to breakfast at Quality Pie. Tortilla with egg, chicken, queso, and salsa verde.
Graeter’s makes my new favorite s’mores ice cream. It contains no palm oil and the marshmallows are unbelievably soft.
Related – sadly I can’t recommend this; the texture was actually great but the only flavor present was coconut.
I am still obsessed with these seaweed chips. BBQ is even yummier than the original flavor.
This is the easiest dinner on earth but it tastes soooo good. Throw Trader Joe’s cauliflower gnocchi on a baking sheet with some turkey pepperoni, bake at 450 for 20 minutes, top with pizza sauce.
Super salad – romaine, champagne vinaigrette, maple roasted walnuts and cranberries, chopped celery, vegan “chicken salad.”
And this cake flavored marshmallow dipped in white chocolate and stuffed with birthday cake cookie dough!
Trader Joe’s scallion pancakes are always exciting. Or maybe Kewpie and Sriracha are exciting?
I made that black eyed pea salad I’m obsessed with (original recipe = BEP, green bell pepper, smoked almonds, Dubliner cheese, Cholula) and ingredient shortages caused me to sub in tamari almonds and Sriracha which was even tastier.
