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*My blog is not a business, but it is a perfect way to give out your contact info when you meet people. :) Anyways, this week I could feel your telepathic pleas through the blogosphere, begging for me to tell you what I was going, what I was eating, and not just showing you random pictures of nut butter and recipes I made last Saturday. So, I have decided to give you what you clearly, so desperately desire: Things I Did. Stuff I Ate. First...Things I Did:* *which will quickly, without warning, meld with and then transition into Stuff I Ate Monday: Work. Meeting. Gym. Dinner. Gossip Girl. Sleep. Tuesday: Work. Meeting. Gym. Literacy Night @ School. Dinner. Glee. Sleep. Wednesday: Work. Meeting. Gym. Dinner. Half of Top Chef: Just Desserts because I was too tired to finish the whole thing. Sleep. Providing some excitement into a relatively routine week....meeting Jen and Teddy at Apothecary for "satellite Book Club" on Thursday.  A miniature chalkboard on the door is always a good sign. As is a menu featuring cured meat* (charcuterie if you're being fancy schmancy) and cheese plates....*you know I'm a sucker for cured meat  ...and PEANUT BUTTER & NUTELLA PANINIS! (Sorry to disappoint you after that excitement...but no, I didn't order one.)  We took advantage of Happy Hour prices and ordered this delicious wine to split amongst the three of us...  Teddy ordered Gorgonzola Spinach & Artichoke Dip. (It was a little oily, but tasty over all. I loved the tang that the Gorgonzola added, but I only had a few nibbles....)  Jen went for the Gorgonzola and Peach Crostini.  I did not eat that. So we're not officially into the Stuff I Ate category yet. Just in case you are trying to follow the very loose organizational structure of the post.Other Things I Did include gathering fall Harvest-and-Halloween cooking inspiration from two Food Network-related magazines....  ...going to Sprouts at 8:30 on Wednesday night to try and find another $1.99 watermelon while they were still on sale.  (Sadly, there were no more to be found. I should have taken two when they were plentiful last weekend...as seen in the photo above.)I also drank a large mug of coffee every morning and wished I had another one as soon as it was finished. [This was a re-enacted photo. It's dark when I drive to work.]  (Apparently, another thing I did was also become a scary-gas-mask-wearing robot of the future. Do you see it?)I almost ate my first Larabar .  We stared at each other for awhile, and then I decided I wasn't actually hungry. So I tucked her away for another day.Something I did eat? [Cue the Stuff I Ate portion of the post...] This entire jar of peanut butter. In four days.  Yeah. It's all gone. But it was delicious! I had never had it before, but this "light roasted" and unsalted peanut butter has a really subtle, but perfectly peanutty flavor. Hence, I couldn't stop eating it. Granted, I put a good 3-4 Tablespoons into my newest creation--Peanut Butter & Honey Banana Bread--but still. Yes, I said Peanut Butter & Honey Banana Bread. I went there. And it was amazing.Other Stuff I Ate? Overnight Oats, of course! (But only TWICE this week...I know...crazy...)  peaches, dried apples, goji berries, pecan peaches, goji berries, pecan, and Crofter's Superfruit Asia preservesWhat did I eat the other three breakfasts of the week? Old fashioned CFYs of course! Cereal....  (So much more exciting when it's mixed in a jar!)Fruit...   Yogurt! One day it looked like this, instead. :) I was slightly creative in the beginning of the week...using a LunchDeal for Spicy Pickle to pick up two salads to take in for lunch. I got the Forest Salad with spinach, toasted hazelnuts, sundried tomatoes, sauteed portobellos, and grilled onions (and added diced apples and roasted red peppers)... ...as well as a Greek Salad to which I added their signature "spicy pickles," sundried tomatoes, and cucumbers.  The other days I was much less exciting....standard chopped and seasoned veggies.... Let us please pause to take a moment to recognize that what I prep at home looks just as good---if not more awesome---that what I bought at the restaurant.And. Unpause. ...with my typical cottage-cheese-and-hummus. (Although this was Sweet Potato Hummus , so that was extra special.)  There was also generally some sort of whole grain product, although I use that term in a loose sense because one day it was popcorn and the other it was bag of Sun Chips I unearthed from my snack drawer. At some point, I ate the last of the Watermelon Gazpacho . I'm not sure when. But it's gone now.And an excessive amount of black grapes. [GIANT ones.]  black grape season = sweet grape heavenAnd some other stuff. (Remember? Whole. Jar. Of. Peanut Butter.) So that's what you missed when I was publishing pre-fab (and fabulous!) posts. Are you sure you really want the daily recaps? ;) |
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It would probably be more fitting, because isn't that really what this blog is about when you get right down to it?
Yet, somehow, I can't see that on a business card.