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Easter Dinner

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I hope everyone’s Easter, Passover, or April weekends have been full of family and fun.  It’s been good being here in Ohio and seeing lots of familiar faces.  I’m feeling pretty good too but definitely still in need of sleep so I’ll keep this quick.

Breakfast.  Scrambled eggs, piece of turkey bacon, toast with butter.

Lunch.  Pieced together as best I could.

Cup of carrots.

Cup of Sahale Snacks Almonds with Honey, Cranberry + Sea Salt.

Mid-afternoon snack/fun.  We walked over to the Cracker Barrel gift shop to peruse the old-time goodies.

Adam and I split a Double Cola.

And I finally got to try divinity candy, a Southern treat made of sugar, corn syrup, and egg whites.

I had that piece shown x 3.  Delicious but the back of my throat felt like it was burning with all of the sugar.

Appetizer.  A bagel chip with blue cheese pecan spread.  x2.

Drink.  Bud Light with Lime.

Dinner.

Orzo salad.

Party potatoes.

Stir-fried veggies.

Pretzel roll with butter. x2.

Fruit salad.

Bed.

Did you decorate Easter eggs this year?

Triple “O” Long

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Today was a lo-o-ong day!  Out of the house from 9 am to 11 pm; whew.  Not necessarily an exciting day, just a busy one.  Class –> driving my mom to the mall –> clinic –> picking my mom up from the mall –> work –> Target for Easter basket goodies, the one fun stop of the day.  I felt bad abandoning my guest all day but she did apparently have a very fun dinner at Moe’s with the husband.

Since our fridge is beyond bare and I was basically too busy to eat all day this recap will be quick.  I ate a Peanut Honey Pretzel Luna Bar during Statistics.

It was good but not ridiculously good like I was expecting it to be.

And I inhaled a sandwich from the campus book store before work.

“Bourbon maple turkey, cheddar cheese, and herb and spinach spread on a whole wheat lavish bread.”

And a Starbucks Double Shot Energy in Coffee was split with the husband.

I’m a fan.

Tomorrow bring on all the food, especially the produce!

Miles To Go Before I Sleep

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Technically the miles were already traveled but sleep somehow feels very far and very urgent!  I had some great bites today but I’m going to keep my descriptions quick in favor of bed.

Breakfast – cereal mix with vanilla almond milk.

Coffee – Highlander Grog from Winans (<– my favorite coffee ever) with a shot of toasted marshmallow syrup and skim milk.

The cup was giant but my mom and I shared.

It was sad to say goodbye to my grandparents but the weather got quite cold and the safety of the car felt nice.  It was a gorgeous day though.

Lunch – A mini pretzel bagel with blue cheese pecan spread.

Plus an apple that escaped the camera.

Favorite thing ever – froyo!

I got a small cup of plain tart topped with mini marshmallows, lots of fruit, sprinkles and an insane amount of marshmallow cream.

It was a marshmallow day, I almost ordered a s’mores milkshake with dinner.

Several hours later when we pulled into Buffalo I also ate this cookie dough bite from Winans.

It is restaurant week here and we went to SoHo Burger Bar for dinner.

The lighting was bad but the deal was good.

I ended up with a turkey burger with jalapeño compote and a side of chips and a pickle.

I ate 100% of my pickle, 75% of my burger, 50% of my bun, 25% of my chips, and 5% of the compote.  Plus several truffle oil tater tots.

The included dessert was a sundae that I let the husband have to himself.

Even with the lame last course I still highly recommend stopping in a SBB during restaurant week.

Locals – where should we go for our next restaurant week stop?

Road To The Outback

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Hello from Ohio!  I left my boys back in Buffalo and I’m missing them like crazy but I’m having a great time here with my grandparents and mom.

The drive takes 7 hours so our morning started early with Starbucks.

A venti skinny cinnamon dolce iced latte.

I packed my mom and myself sandwiches for the road.

Mine was a cinnamon raisin Bagel Thin with Laughing Cow light french onion cheese and Applegate Farms turkey bologna.

Tasty and easy to eat one-handed.

When we got to Ohio I had a Dove chocolate,

and a Buttered Rum Raisin Cookie.

The afternoon was spent visiting with my grandpa and driving around (I can’t believe they got me back in the car!).

My grandma chose Outback Steakhouse for dinner and I ended up having a great meal.  I got a blue cheese pecan chopped salad to start.

And the tilapia with lump crab meat.

“Tilapia crowned with crab stuffing, pure lump crab meat and sliced mushrooms, finished with a drizzle of light lemon butter Chablis sauce.”

It was served with mixed veggies.

The seafood was all amazing.  Butter sauce requested on the side.

I left about half of the tilapia but devoured the crab.  Yum!

Our evening ended with a trip to the store (my parents stock up on products like batteries and razors when they are in the states) where I snagged this bag of jelly bellys.

I guess I have a kids’ palate because the flavors were right up my alley.  The watermelon was my favorite.

What is your favorite jelly bean flavor?

Baked Potato Casserole Or Party Potatoes Light

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Hey there!  I’ve skipped a few days of blogging but here is some of what you’ve missed –

  • my mom is coming tonight (yay!)
  • early tomorrow morning my mom and I are setting off for Ohio for a weekend with my grandparents; we’ll be back Monday afternoon
  • this afternoon I had coffee with blog reader Jessica; she is looking into Dietetics programs and I told her a little bit about my experience at BSC
  • the assignment I’ve been putting off all semester – writing a business plan summary – is finally complete!
  • a serious amount of chocolate was eating during the completion of the aforementioned assignment
  • my baking bad luck streak is finally broken

That is a Buttered Rum Raisin Cookie and it was fabulous.  I’m sharing the recipe on Monday but I’ve already eaten 10 since yesterday afternoon so I can promise that it’s a winner.

All I have to share from today is dinner, but it was definitely worth sharing.

Roasted green beans,

a small pile of shredded chicken with Stubbs bbq sauce,

and a serving of my newest creation worth sharing – Loaded Baked Potato Casserole.

Omg guys, that casserole is so flipping good!  I was setting out to make a light version of Party Potatoes but I think I ended up with something even better.  They are seriously like a loaded baked potato, but extra creamy and cheesy and good.  And the dish isn’t too too heavy so you can have a nice big serving.

Loaded Baked Potato Casserole, serves 4

  • 3 medium potatoes, roughly cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 4 green onions, thinly sliced
  • 3 slices cooked turkey bacon, roughly chopped
  • 5 oz extra-sharp cheddar, shredded
  • 1 cup 0% plain Greek yogurt
  • 1/2 cup panko-style breadcrumbs
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Farenheit.  Prepare a cookie sheet and an 8 x 8 inch casserole dish with baking spray.
  2. Place chopped potatoes on prepared sheet and season with salt.  Bake 40 minutes.  Place roasted potatoes in a large mixing bowl.
  3. Set aside approximately 1 Tbsp each bacon, cheese, and green onions.
  4. Add  Greek yogurt and remaining bacon, cheese, and green onions to the potatoes.  Stir to combine.
  5. Pour potatoes into the prepared casserole dish.  Top evenly with panko breadcrumbs and reserved bacon, cheese, and green onions.
  6. Bake for 20 minutes.

Blog Tips and Bagels

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We stayed up pretty late last night but thankfully having to move our cars got us up and out of the house for an early walk.

I’m still loving this weather.  Walking weather it is.  Sidenote – a major character died on Stargate: Atlantis last night (the show is off the air, we are watching on Netflix Instant Watch) and I gasped so loudly I’m pretty sure the neighbors heard!

After a post-walk shower (it is sweating weather too!) I hit the caffeine hard.

2 cups of cold coffee with English toffee syrup and Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk.  I had a date with a friend so I drank my coffee en route and I helped myself to one of her homemade “energy balls” when I got there.

The balls were a Pinterested recipe with oats, pb, and coconut and they were quite tasty.

Kim invited me over to pick my brains about all things blog.  It’s weird to give advice when Eating Chalk is so tiny and unknown but there are little tips that I think I’ve got figured out.  I taught her about tagging, pages versus posts, and emailing responses to comments, among other things.  I hope I was helpful!

I needed to pick up a few groceries before my mom gets here on Friday and Kim lives one town over from me so I took the opportunity to hit up a different Wegman’s.  There was a Manhattan Bagel along the way and I stopped there too.

I’ve been craving a bagel (a good bagel!) like crazy lately and I’m glad I gave MB a chance.  My jalapeño-cheddar bagel with light garden cream cheese hit the spot.

It was super chewy and spicy.

I cooled down my mouth with a Blackberry Hibiscus Mama Chia once I reached the mecca.

The drink had more texture than flavor, but was very tasty.  My out-and-about food purchase quota for the week has been reached but it was worth it.  Besides, March Back Home March is basically ending once my mom gets here; I’m not turning down “free” food!  🙂

I hit the jackpot with the “new” Wegmans too.  I found all sorts of fun new products to try.  Like these Bissli BBQ and Smokey snacks.

They were super crunchy.  Adam and I split them but I scarfed more than my fair share.

I also ate most of these adorable things.

They were little biscuit cookies with white and milk chocolate.  So tasty!

I spent twenty minutes this afternoon agonizing over whether or not to run (sorry, husband!) but I’m having some foot problems so I decided not to.  After more than a week off (whoops!) what’s another few days when I’m having pain?  I’m not even going to attempt a workout until Sunday, but thankfully we’ll be in Ohio for the weekend and I should be able to run on the neat path near my grandparents’ house.

Not running didn’t mean I was any less hungry though.  I ate a Wegman’s low-fat coffee yogurt with honey roasted peanuts before dinner.

The peanuts were out because I was making the husband some homemade vanilla honey peanut butter.

I took a few licks too, yum!

Dinner was quick and easy.

We need some (turkey) bacon for a recipe tomorrow so I cooked up a batch tonight,

and we scrambled eggs in the same pan when the bacon was done.

Plus roasted asparagus.

It was a very savory meal.

Let’s end with a puppy picture, shall we?

Bad News Bakers

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Have you ever had a string of fails in the kitchen?

I’m starting to seriously question my baking ability.  First, there was the Guinness cupcakes fail (apparently you can’t add beer to cake batter like the diet coke cake trick).  Then this weekend I learned this – adding strawberry pie filling to peanut butter cookie dough does not make pb & j cookies.  But as I told Adam as he was scraping an entire bowl of cookie dough into the trash, if I don’t at least try then I’ll never learn.

I was hoping to have a fun smoothie recipe to share today but I learned from that too.  Instead I had to turn to leftovers for breakfast.

This casserole was a fun mix of brown rice, shredded chicken, spinach, celery, toasted pecans, and fig butter.

Plus I had fruit and yogurt on the side.   Plain Siggi’s with blackberries, yellow plucot, and maple syrup.

It was a good meal.

And it’s always good to get a healthy start after several days of popcorn!

I took an extra long walk this afternoon.  Two friends from school came over and we took Webster on several loops of the neighborhood.  One of the girls recently switched majors and it was a great to get the chance to catch up with her.  Unfortunately now I have a huge painful blister on one of my toes; I can barely walk!

When I got back I ate a big spoonful (~2 Tbsp) of my new favorite thing.

Now that Wegman’s sells Crunchy Biscoff Spread my life is complete.

Lunch looked similar to breakfast, but had a flavor profile that was all its own.

I mashed roasted butternut squash with Miracle Whip, stirred in brown rice and roasted, shredded zucchini, and topped with some chopped 50% reduced fat cheddar.

Some people live without microwaves, how do they get things melty?

Dinner was melty too, but from the oven.  I roasted a sandwich thin with turkey, more reduced fat cheddar, and six (6!!) pickle slices.

Plus a pile of roasted green beans.

It’s not the first time I’ve had that meal this month and I don’t expect it to be the last.

In spite of my foot, the weather was too nice for me to not go another short walk with the husband.  We split a Push Up from the convenience store.

It felt like being 8 again!

Adam has a late start tomorrow and I’m on spring break so we plan on watching Stargate: Atlantis late into the night.  Woot!

P.S. I was gone yesterday because I got some frustrating news at my “final” orthodontist appointment – I’m back in retainers for three weeks.  Ugh!  So yesterday I was sulking and eating soft things.

The Very Hungry Blogger

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Do I look like a pre-school teacher?

Actually I was a bit too dressy; all of the real teachers were in jeans!  My friend Kim and I did a nutrition education activity with 17 pre-k kids today.  We talked about fruits and vegetables, read Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and then had the kids draw their favorite fruits and veggies to feed to the hungry caterpillar.

It was a lot of fun.  The experience equally excited me for my future in Dietetics and made me long for my past in the classroom.

I was definitely “on” in the classroom but I’m not working with a lot of sleep.  As I was getting into bed last night I calculated and realized that working out this morning would leave me with 2.5 hours to sleep.  Obviously I grudgingly reset my alarm.  No workout was worth the additional 2 hours of shut-eye I logged, but this does mean I can’t get in my three for the week.  One of the good things about logging workouts on a calendar per my NYE resolution is that I can see trends.  Like I’ve identified the problem that I never workout.  Or less obviously, I realize that I put off workouts at the beginning of the week and leave myself to scramble and/or miss them at the end.

I didn’t have time for breakfast either, but I did eat breakfast-y food when I was finished with preschool, Statistics, and clinic.

When I was at work on Wednesday Adam made a version of my Healthier Spinach Ricotta Pie with spinach and chopped broccoli.  He put the extra into cupcake tins.  I brought three egg cups for lunch today.

Plus a pear.

And my friend Janessa shared a few dark chocolate almonds with me during night class.

But I was more than ready for a big dinner when I got home.  We have spring break next week (yay!) and I need to use the free time to get back into the breakfast habit.

Dinner was a big pile of roasted green beans,

and an amazing sandwich.

I piled 2 oz of Applegate Farm’s Honey and Maple Turkey Breast, 2 oz of Cabot’s 50% Reduced Fat Sharp Cheddar Cheese, and a sort of disgusting amount of sweet pickle slices on a Wegman’s Sandwich Thin and then wrapped the whole thing in foil and stuck it in the oven to get melty.

Dee-lish-us!  Cheese and pickles is the new cheese and jam.  I generally use full-fat cheese (other than what we buy shredded) but going 50% reduced here lets me use enough that the cheese is a major sandwich component.  And the Cabot is pretty spot on with texture and flavor.

I also had popcorn with butter as an evening snack since the husband made himself a big bowl and couldn’t finish it all.  Amateur.