A Two for One kind of post!

I'm going to post both Tuesday and Wednesday meals because I have been so busy with work lately and I need to catch up.

Tuesday morning I had toast with honey roasted peanut butter and bananas! It was so filling and good, I could not resist taking a bite before I photographed it.



Lunch I had on the run because I had to get my haircut and then go to class. Dinner was cut up fruit: grapes, bananas, kiwi and a huge salad with a big scoop of cottage cheese in the middle and tons of other delicious veggies. I apologize for the blurr, photo, I must not have been paying attention.



Today's breakfast was Banana Oatmeal with trail mix and p.b.!

This photo came out much better!

Lunch today was cut up apples with goat gouda, salad of greens with balsamic dressing, blackberries and grapes, AND a piece of toasted pita bread with pb and j!




Dinner tonight was boring abig bowl of cut up fruit with cottage cheese on top and a big bowl of puffins with almond breeze. I am going home tomorrow so I may not be posting for a little while but I promise to take pictures of all the delicious food I eat and prepare

Easter Pictures!!!

Here are the Easter pictures I promised! They turned out wonderfully!



Me with my glass of prosecco!


Setting our gorgeous table!


Attempting to carve the chicken! With the delicious sweet potatoes in the background! Sorry there aren't more food close ups I wasn't the camera lady this time!


Pie! and more friends!

Delicious Dins!

I used my leftovers to make a salad for dinner tonight. I ate some left over roast chicken and green beans over herb salad mix with radishes, a few sweet pickles and some leftover baby corn! I dressed it with the usual mustard and vinegar combo! I tried to do a close up today so that you could better see the delicious components of this salad!

I'll be in the library tonight studying but I've already planned my snacks! I'm packing a granny smith apple with a tablespoon of honey roasted p.b. and a travel mug of decaf coffee with some hot cocoa mixed in.

Manic Monday Breakfast and Lunch

I was up early this morning finishing an assignment so I needed to reward myself with a delicious breakfast. I decided to have the whipped cottage cheese that I can only find at Whole Foods along with some blackberries, half a banana and some grapes. I topped it all off with some delicious Puffins and some Honey Bunches of Oats I was trying to finish. A little sprinkle of Saigon Cinnamon and I had a breakfast of champions. With breakfast I had a big mug of chai tea.

I wasn't in the mood for a heavy lunch today so I had a whole bunch of baby carrots and some Whole foods traditional hummus! I also had a few rosemary crackers and a piece of goat gouda, also from Whole Foods. For dessert I had a coconut date nut roll.

Tonight's dinner I'll be posting later but I am thinking about making a salad with all my delicious Easter leftovers!

Easter! (Pictures Pending)

I woke up Easter morning in the mood to get things done and excited for the Easter dinner we had planned. I started the morning off right with a bowl of banana oatmeal made even more delicious by the addition of some Trader Joe's Nuts about Raspberries and Chocolate Trek Mix and little spoonful of the honey roasted peanut butter!

Next we went grocery shopping for all of our dinner ingredients. I was surprised by how little we needed to buy to make our fresh and fabulous dishes!

Then we set to cleaning the whole house from top to bottom. As college students this often goes neglected and the feng shui of the house just went through the roof once we were done.

In the afternoon Joel came over to help us start preparing the meal. I suppose I should reveal the menu now :) :

-The Barefoot Contessa's Perfect Roast Chicken
-Cooking Light's Marsala Mashed Sweet Potatoes
-Garlicky String Beans
-Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

I am still in awe of how well the meal turned out. When you're new to cooking like we are its to be expected that one the dishes won't quite meet expectations but this honestly was one of the best meals I ever cooked. The chicken was stuffed with lemon garlic and thyme and came out of the oven perfectly browned. It was wonderfully moist and flavorful. The string beans were fresh and garlicky. The sweet potatoes were the perfect blend of sweet and savory. I would have never thought to use marsala with potatoes. We enjoyed a glass of prosecco before dinner and had a bottle of cheap red wine during dinner, definitely not a master pairing but festive none the less. Our friend Abby joined us for dinner and brought an excellent Israeli salad which reminded me so much of Spring!

We all decided it would be cute to wear our Easter best and my roommate took lots of photos which I'll be posting as soon as I can steal them from her.

For dessert we had our much sought after pie and several of our other friends joined us who couldn't make it to the dinner. Everyone agreed the pie was delicious, though not quite as good as homemade :) all in all an awesome way to spend Easter!

Busy, Busy, Busy

Today ended up being a much busier day then I expected and so it was a little boring food wise, though their are some highlights I thought I'd share with everyone. My roommate and I are the only ones in our house not home for the Easter weekend. This morning we got up and made one of our favorite meals for brunch: Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches!!! These sandwiches were made a million times better by the addition of our freshly ground honey roasted peanut butter. OH so good!
After brunch our friend J stopped by to discuss the menu planning for our big Easter Dinner. That's right my friends and I decided that if we were going to be at school Easter weekend then we would just have to celebrate ourselves. I'll reveal our not so top secret menu in my next post, it's going to be delicious! While planning our dinner we decided it would be essential to have an Easter dessert so we decided upon a pie and The Great Easter Pie Search began!

First we went to a local bakery called Culpepper's but the only pies that they had left were weird un-Eastery flavors like Squash and Apple. Not to be discouraged we went to a second bakery, the Crown Bakery. This bakery is renowned for it's Swedish treats but it seemed they only had pumpkin and egg custard pies left and wouldn't be open on Sunday! Our third attempt was the Blue Hydrangea bakery where we were informed that almost all of their pies were pre-ordered and that any extras were long gone at that point. Finally we went to our local supermarket. I had already resigned myself at this point to forgoing the pie, as I assumed all we would find at the grocery store would be some trans fat laden, high fructose corn syrup, sorry excuse for a pie. BUT lo and behold, they had a delicious looking Strawberry Rhubarb Pie produced by the higher end supermarket brand which had NO HFCS and used Palm oil instead of Partially Hydrogenated anything! I nearly jumped for joy and I can't wait to dig in tomorrow!!!!

Getting Caught Up...Sort Of

Today was a bit crazy so there won't be any food pictures but there will be a list from a super successful grocery store trip! Most of my friends were going home to today for Easter weekend but my roommate A and I were sticking around. Neither of us have class on Fridays so this seemed the perfect opportunity for some adventure.

We both slept in late and then decided to hit up Dunkin Donuts on our way out for breakfast (see I'm not healthy all the time :) ) I had a half french vanilla, half hot chocolate coffee made with skim milk and I got a pumpkin muffin I only ate about half the muffin and I saved the rest for later.

Then we went to do some shopping. First to Loehmann's which is a higher end discount designer store and then to the Natick Collections aka the mall. I got an incredibly cute t shirt and tried on a bunch of stuff that I loved but can't afford right now.

The mall is about an hour away from where we live and on the way home we pass two of my favorite places in the world: Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. We have a Trader Joe's that is nearer to school but no Whole Foods so I get sooo excited when I get to go there! Whole Foods was first and I got:

-Whipped cottage cheese
-A bunch of perectly ripe bananas
-Whole Foods hummus
- Vanilla Hemp Milk
-Bionaturae Mixed Berry Jam
-Honey Roasted fresh made peanut butter!!!!!!!!!!
-Irene's Raspberry Hamenstachen (jam cookies that are eaten to celebrate the Jewish holiday Purim)

We also had one of my favorite dinners, the salad bar of at whole foods. So good I wish I could eat it every day!
Then we went to Trader Joe's where we stocked up on wine and some fun food. I got:

-I got 4 bottle of wine: a Hahn Syrah, Alamos Pinot Noir, Erath Pinot Noir, and a Cava Brut.
-Some Ginger Chews
-Nuts about Raspberries Trail Mix
- Lara Apple Pie Bar
-European Style Plain Non fat yogurt
-Some Coconut Date Rolls

At home we finished off the night with watching Across the Universe and enjoying one of the hamenstachen and a cup of decaf coffee. An excellent end to a very good day!