A Bevy Of Beverages

by Emily

My favorite bites this week were actually sips! {I really want to make an “all about the beverages/Benjamins, baby” joke here but I’m holding myself back}

Highlights…

My new all-time-favorite coffee combo = Grady’s Cold Brew concentrate with the new Chobani sweet cream creamer.

This week’s yogurt bowl combo was vanilla bean Greek yogurt with fresh blackberries and Trader Joe’s peanut butter with chia and flax.

A girlfriend and I (and her baby!) met up in Nomad for lunch. Salads at Made Nice – I had the frisee romaine with potato croutons, egg, and buttermilk vinaigrette.

Ice cream at the new Milk Bar flagship – I had cornflake soft serve with fudge and sprinkles.

New favorite kombucha is this juicy one with watermelon, hibiscus, and green tea.

Milkshake IPAs (aka IPAs with lactose) are my favorite and this Gotta Get Up To Get Downstate guava one from Swiftwater is 10/10.

I just discovered an amazing Asian grocery store near our apartment so we had some pretty great snacks this week. Like numb and spicy hot pot chips.

And yogurt gummies and passion fruit gummies.

Easy dinner from the Trader Joe’s freezer section – meatless breakfast patties and cauliflower pancakes. Plus roasted green beans and a dipping sauce made with honey habenero hot sauce.

Chicken and waffle nachos! Multigrain waffles, waffle flavored chicken bites, cheese, scallions, and a maple Cholula aioli.

Have a great weekend!

17Jan2020

Dough My Goodness

by Emily

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.

13Jan2020

Toppings

by Emily

Five things from the weekend…

{1} The best yogurt bowl of the month. Cinnamon vanilla Greek yogurt with banana, blackberry, and maple almond butter.

{2} I am loving the crap out of living with a milk foamer.

{3} Dark chocolate chip peanut butter is my favorite flavor after cookie dough.

{4} Bona Bona tops their ice cream with toasted Italian meringue.

I got frosted animal cracker ice cream!

{5} A homemade take on okonomiyaki with cabbage and roasted corn.

{bonus} I’ve been putting this dream team on top of everything.

6Jan2020

Waffley Glad

by Emily

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.

28Dec2019

Aloha, 17 Years

by Emily

I hope that all my readers who celebrate had a merry Christmas!

Three fun things from this week –

I bought chestnut paste – which basically tastes like Christmas! – and used it in amazing yogurt bowls.

With cocoa granola and fresh strawberries.

These bougie almond butter cups were surprisingly delicious.

We made easy but great pasta bowls: boxed macaroni and cheese / canned smoked trout and anchovies / roasted broccoli and baby zucchini / topped with Kewpie and Sriracha. Plus a side of sauteed baby cauliflower.

Current excitement? It is our 12 year wedding anniversary today! And since we got married on our 5 year dating anniversary, that means we’ve been together for 17 years (aka half our lives!)!! To celebrate, we are heading to Hawaii tomorrow!!!

13Dec2019

Hot Sauce And Cinnamon Gum

by Emily

Flavor themes from this week include – hot sauce, coffee, chocolate.

Highlights…

Fun in coffee. Iced with fancy egg nog.

I had forgotten how much fun it is to have a milk frother!

This bottled New Orleans coffee was delicious and contained 10 grams of protein.

Seasonal fun at Doughnut Plant – a marzipan star and a mint tree filled with chocolate pudding.

Still obsessed with these cookie dough Perfect Bars.

Plain2% Greek yogurt bowl with chocolate sunflower seed butter and fresh blueberries.

Just before I left VA one of my officemates got me hooked on cinnamon gum and lately I have been loving this version from Mentos.

It was Adam’s birthday this week! He got multiple cakes at work and brought me home a delicious slice of s’mores cheesecake.

Amy’s tortilla casserole with black beans frozen meal. Topped with copious amounts of Cholula.

Shredded potatoes with smoked mackerel salad and soft scrambled eggs. Topped with furikake.

Breakfast cheese fries. Sweet potato waffle fries with cheddar, eggs, maple chicken sausage, broccoli, and shishito peppers. Topped later with Kewpie and Sriracha.

My current favorite sheet-pan hash is Japanese sweet potato + bok choy + green onions. Plus salmon candy and cashews on top. Topped with furikake, Kewpie, and Sriracha.

I made a yummy version of this baked Spanish rice recipe. I added fish sauce and green olives and subbed in vegan soyrizo for chorizo. Topped later with Cholula.

FYI – there will be no post this weekend for the best reason ever: I am going home for a few days with a couple of NY friends! Ocean, rum, and warm weather, here we come!

9Dec2019

First Family Weekend

by Emily

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.

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A Bevy Of Beverages

Dough My Goodness

Toppings

Waffley Glad

Aloha, 17 Years

Hot Sauce And Cinnamon Gum

First Family Weekend