Sprinkles And Sushi

by Emily

We were easing ourselves back to work so we kept my birthday weekend pretty low-key. Adam and I made super exciting, sprinkle-packed coffees and walked around Cold Spring Harbor admiring the flowers in the morning and then got sushi take-out for dinner and I video-chatted with my parents while opening presents. And the next night we met up with friends for drinks/dinner/a long walk around Park Slope. It was perfect!

Highlights include…

Birthday dalgona coffee.

Quad iced latte from Balancero.

Fredo cappuccino (espresso blended with ice and topped with frothed milk) from The Grand. <– my new favorite coffee

Lox and cream cheese biscuit from Comfortland.

An epic yogurt bowl – – plain Greek yogurt with cashew butter, plum, plucot, apricot, and Bueno Bar.

I left key lime pie off of my list of favorite foods the other day, but it’s definitely in the top fifteen! Westbrook’s Key Lime Pie Gose is fantastic. I also made a wonderful key lime pie cocktail with lime juice, vodka, sweetened condensed milk, and key lime seltzer.

Birthday sushi. I got seaweed salad, a roll with egg and pickled vegetables, and a roll with king crab, crunch, avocado, and spicy mayo.

Chuko Ramen. I got the kimchi ramen with soy eggs. It was so great to see friends for the first time in months… we were sitting outside and only took our masks off to eat and we all felt pretty safe about it.

Cross your fingers for me that it’s an easy transition back to work, please!

17Jul2020

Soursop And Szechuan Peppers

by Emily

Today is my 1st day back in at the hospital after a day off and a two-day stint of project days at home. I had to recertify in ServSafe and I had a big task to work on (updating the Nutrition Department’s Clinical Practice Guidelines to be more current/evidence-based) so my boss let me work from home, which was lovely. I got to leisurely brew Phin coffee and sip while I worked! Plus I ate a million snacks. <– Normally I sit in the ICUs and wear an N-95 for most of the day so I took full advantage of having a free face!

Highlights included…

The company that makes the instant espresso we love for Dalgona coffees also makes a really good espresso roast.

Plain Greek yogurt bowl with blackberries, peach, cashew butter, and a chopped up Bueno Bar. <– I realize it is ridiculous to stir a candy bar into your lunch but this was breath-takingly good and I’m glad I did it!

Vanilla skyr yogurt bowl with blackberries, black plum, cashew butter, coconut chips, and starry sprinkles.

Adam and I had to go into Manhattan for a doctor’s appointment so we stopped by Bibble and Sip for a cream puff. A cream puff topped with crème brûlée and filled with milk tea cream and boba!

I snacked on nuts every day this week. These sweet Thai chili almonds were a favorite.

Still obsessed with Hal’s caffeinated cola seltzer.

Adam and are both head over heels for these dinner mints. We made it through 12 years of marriage before we realized we are both fans of these guys!

This soursop ice cream was possibly the very best packaged ice cream I’ve ever tasted.

I topped this cheese enchilada meal with more cheese, sour cream, and Crystal hot sauce and it was 10/10. P.S. I highly recommend Amy’s frozen meal options, this one is good even if you aren’t over the top about it.

There’s a newish poke place in our neighborhood that lets you add a thousand toppings. This was white rice with crabcake, tofu, eel sauce, spicy mayo, cucumber, shiitakes, shredded carrot, string bean, green onion, tamago (shredded egg omelet), oshinko (pickled veggies), inari (tofu skin), garlic crisps, and lotus chips.

Blistered green beans – sauteed with garlic, ginger, and chili oil – with Trader Joe’s mini chicken and cilantro wontons.

Have a great – safe, distanced – weekend!

6Jul2020

Camp Fire Cuisine

by Emily

Pretty much everything we ate this weekend fit in the theme of summertime fresh or July 4th BBQ, which was lovely. Five highlights include…

A camp fire latte from Upstate Stock.

Trader Joe’s pineapple kiwi Greek yogurt with plumcot, apricot, and pie crust.

BBQ popped chips. Served with homemade cheese burgers!

Watermelon margaritas.

S’more no-churn ice cream! <– whipped heavy cream + sweetened condensed milk with fudge sauce, marshmallow fluff, and graham cracker pie crust

It officially feels like summer.

12Jun2020

Cola In My Beer And Oats In My Coffee

by Emily

We officially went back at the hospital full-time this week and I’m not going to lie, the transition was rough. Sitting in the ICUs means I have to wear an N-95 mask all day long which comfortwise is a big change from charting in my kitchen next to an iced coffee. Thankfully I had a few days off mid-week so I was able to ease into it.

Highlights…

This week’s coffee combo was Starbucks cold brew with the super marshmallowy Chobani chocolate oat milk.

On my days off I brewed my Cafe Nguyen Phin coffee. <– still loving this

Lemon & lavender yogurt with blueberries and white chocolate macadamia granola.

I went grocery shopping mid-week which meant our Trader Joe’s snack stash is fully stocked. I recommend this new nut mix.

The homemade coffee cookies and cream ice cream went away quickly.

Cherry cola beer from Evil Twin.

Channa masala with cauliflower rice.

Whole-wheat spaghetti with pasta sauce, kale, and TJ’s soyrizo.

Thai take-out; cashew chicken with basil fried rice.

8Jun2020

Coffee Cookies And Cream

by Emily

Food highlights from the weekend included —

We celebrated National Doughnut Day one day late with a s’mores doughnut from Dough Hut.

Plain skyr yogurt topped with fruit salad (mango, kiwi, plum, blueberries, lemon juice, and honey).

This nut mix was great, it had just enough savory to offset the sweet.

These brown sugar boba popsicles knocked our socks off. How did the keep the frozen tapioca so chewy and wonderful??!

Also I made ice cream. Two-ingredient no-churn ice cream infused with coffee and espresso and layered with crushed Oreo. It was amazing.

Kettlecorn with Korean chili flake.

Veggie tacos. Baked tortillas with cheese / corn and kale / chorizo-style seitan / homemade salsa.

1Jun2020

Kimchi In My Ramen And My Burger

by Emily

Real Stuff — This was a hard weekend in the United States. I don’t think my voice adds anything to the discussion but I do want to use my (small) platform share some posts with my white readers: A Guide to White Privilege // How to be Actively Anti-Racist // 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship.

Fluff — Some highlights from the past few days…

We took a social distancing walk across the Williamsburg Bridge to get take-out to eat in Thompkin’s Square Park and I must have said four-thousand times how much I love NYC.

Nowon was ridiculously fantastic. I had charred broccoli with sesame caesar, perilla, anchovy, parmesan, and seaweed and a double cheeseburger with american cheese and kimchi mayo.

Still loving making Phin coffee.

This new Chobani chocolate oat milk is insane. It tastes like chocolate marshmallows!

This yogurt bowl tasted like summer. Plain Greek, honey, cinnamon, and fresh mango.

Chicken and kimchi ramen with brown sugar milk tea with boba.

The best thing I ate all weekend = this taco. Stuffed with Kewpie, Crystal hot sauce, and soft-scrambled eggs with gouda.

25May2020

Soda In My Beer

by Emily

Three things from the weekend –

{1} Is it even a work-day (Friday) if I don’t eat a giant yogurt bowl?

This one had honey vanilla Greek yogurt, espresso vanilla granola, and fresh blueberries.

{2} We got our most exciting beer delivery from Evil Twin yet.

Sour ale brewed with milk sugar, caramelized barley, vanilla, dark cherry, and cola syrup // sour ale brewed with milk sugar, vanilla, and orange soda syrup // sour IPA brewed with raspberries.

{3} We got curbside take-out from Comfortland and it was everything I’ve ever dreamed of.

I got a biscuit sandwich with egg, cheddar, and turkey bacon. Plus a pineapple guava doughnut that knocked my socks off! And we had frozen painkillers and frozen New Orleans iced coffee with oat milk.

22May2020

Cinnamon And Malted Milk

by Emily

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.

15May2020

Espresso In My Cookies And My Granola

by Emily

Wow am I glad it’s the weekend! Even if I don’t get to leave the house it will be nice to get a quick break from my busy work-week. Actually though, we have our bi-weekly grocery trip planned for tomorrow – exciting stuff.

My dinners were largely (unphotographably) lame this week but I did have some really exciting beverages and yogurt bowls…

This week’s coffee included homemade malted milk creamer!

Plain skyr with maple, blueberries, and kiwi.

Plain skyr with apples cooked with cinnamon and brown sugar plus espresso vanilla granola.

Honey vanilla Greek yogurt with granola and plum.

I made an amazing batch of chocolate chip cookies with sprinkles, espresso powder, and malted milk powder.

We got a super exciting delivery from Evil Twin – a pink pineapple sour IPA and a chocolate egg cream hard seltzer!

Our nonalcoholic options were pretty fantastic too – Watermelon La Croix, LimonCello La Croix, and Starfruit Lemonade Polar Seltzer.

I really enjoyed this frozen enchilada.

Trader Joe’s mini chicken and cilantro wontons on a bed of peas, celery, and green onion, topped with chili oil.

Have a nice/safe weekend!

8May2020

Team Unicorns

by Emily

Highlights from a very yummy week…

Still obsessed with Dalgona Coffees.

Also yogurt bowls with fresh berries. Plain skyr with blueberries, blackberries, and amazing espresso vanilla cream granola.

Skyr with berries, cinnamon, maple, and TJ’s flax and chia seed peanut butter.

This cola seltzer was a very limited released and I was quite sad to finish my last bottle this week.

Since we did several nights of sandwiches for dinner chips as a mid-day snack just felt appropriate. Seaweed chips and kettle corn popcorners.

Our cocktail hour was 10/10 this week. We are fully obsessed with homemade frozen painkillers!

Ninja vs Unicorn double IPA.

Romaine salad with TJ’s Greek feta dressing, cotija cheese, rainbow shredded carrots, and fried eggs.

A turkey sandwich on sweet Hawaiian bread with smoked gouda, mayo, mustard, and pickle relish. Plus a side salad.

Best meal of the week = a soft-scrambled egg sandwich with smoked gouda and spicy mustard. Plus roasted okra.

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Sprinkles And Sushi

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Cola In My Beer And Oats In My Coffee

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Kimchi In My Ramen And My Burger

Soda In My Beer

Cinnamon And Malted Milk

Espresso In My Cookies And My Granola

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