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What I Ate Wednesday

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Hello! How’s it going? Hope everyone is having a splendid week so far. We just got back from a quick little visit to our college town. It was weird but also a lot of fun to be back in Saratoga Springs (we went to Skidmore college). It seemed to be a lot colder than I remembered, but we made up for it by eating lots of soup and other yummy things. Speaking of food and yummy things, I am here to share what I ate yesterday. Keep on reading if you want to know!

IMG_4169Breakfast: Greek yogurt with pomegranates, banana, strawberries, and granola. I’m so excited that pomegranates are in season! They add the perfect crunch and sweetness to my breakfast. I topped this with the original ancient grain granola from Purely Elizabeth. I love this stuff; it is too good.

IMG_4181 Lunch: Quinoa and kale salad with roasted veggies and chips and hummus on the side. We did some meal prep on Sunday and roasted up cauliflower, carrots, sweet potato, zucchini, and yellow squash as well as making some quinoa to throw into salads for the week. This spicy yellow lentil hummus is super delicious and also super spicy for my delicate mouth. I drank two full water bottles after this lunch because my mouth was on fire!

IMG_4186Snack: Kind peanut butter and dark chocolate bar. Gotta have something to keep the hunger away between lunch and dinner and it’s just an added bonus that it has some peanut butter and chocolate in it 😉

IMG_1512Dinner: Crisp kale and brussels sprout tacos with avocado and white bean creama These tacos are freaking delicious! We’ve had them before – in fact this is an old picture as it gets dark at 4pm here and that means weird shadows and odd looking food. I could eat these tacos for days, the white bean creama is excellent and the brussels yum! I’m already excited to have these again as leftovers.

IMG_4201Dessert: Tea with a cookie. As it gets colder all I want is tea tea and more tea. In fact, not pictured are the 3 cups of tea I drank between lunch and dinner (I have a problem). You’d think I would be too water logged to want even more tea after all that but nope bring on the tea (and pee)! This tea is my absolute favorite and I went on a wild goose chase trying to find it in stores. Luckily once I found it I stocked up. These cookies are amazing. They are chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips in them yum yum yum.

Mmm that is all I have to share with you today. What have you guys been munching on late at night when you know you should go to bed? Anything you love to eat once the weather gets a bit cooler? Do you have any favorite holiday teas you like to drink?  I’d love to know; comment below!

As always, thank you Peas and Crayons and Clean Eats, Fast Feets for hosting!

What We Ate 5/17/15 – 5/23/15

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Woo what a week! Is it just me or has anyone else had a crazy busy week?? And with our move coming up shortly things are only going to get busier and busier. Plus where did May go? I thought it was still April.. Okay, okay enough complaints from me. Even though this week was hectic we still managed to throw together some super delicious and healthy meals. Okay, maybe Rose was able to throw together most of the meals, but I was able to eat and enjoy them!

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Sunday: Cereal! We drove back from Hanover, NH this day and decided to do our grocery shop without stopping at home. We both were pretty exhausted and craving something simple and sweet so we put away all our nice fresh veggies and fruit and opted for a big bowl of cereal instead. Some days you just have to!

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Monday: Veggie burgers with cucumber mango salsa. We are currently trying to clean out our freezer, which means we will be eating even more veggie burgers than we normally do. I ain’t complaining! We made this cucumber and mango salsa as a side.

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Tuesday: Thai Summer Rolls. We had these last week and were dying to have them again so we used our leftover rice papers to make up another batch. Yum yum yum!

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Wednesday: Kale and brussels sprout tacos. Rose graciously whipped these up for us and they came out excellent. Definitely will be making these again!

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Thursday: I was working late so Rose met me for a take out dinner at work. We had B.good and it hit the spot. We each got salads and then shared some sweet potato fries.

Friday: Leftover kale and brussels sprout tacos. yumm!

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Saturday: Pizza night! We had this pizza in the freezer taking up so much space for the past few months and we finally got around to making it. It had sausage, pepperoni, peppers, and onions. We both had salads on the side as well. Love frozen pizzas!

What we ate 3/8/15 – 3/14/15

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This past week for dinner was all about using our recipe books that have started to collect dust in the corner of our apartment. We cracked open some of our new favorite books and picked out a couple of recipes to try for the week and they definitely did not disappoint. We are trying to incorporate recipes from cook books into our rotation for some new ideas of meals. We used recipes from The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon and this Paleo cookbook by Elizabeth Marsh. We are not vegan or paleo but we do enjoy their recipes!

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Sunday: Leftover polenta and veggies. The previous week we made polenta and still had some leftover this week so we roasted up some cauliflower, broccoli, chickpeas and tomatoes to add to it.

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Monday: Macadamia and Coconut Crusted Fish Chicken. This recipe we found in the Paleo cookbook by Elizabeth Marsh. Now, we (I) do not like fish so instead we did chicken. Rose was really hoping we’d finally do fish, no such luck. This recipe was very very yummy and we were able to enjoy the leftovers throughout the whole week in our lunches and dinners. We paired the chicken with a kale salad with tomatoes, apples, and carrots, dressed with oil and vinegar.

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Tuesday: Coconut Roasted Cauliflower with Macadamia and Coconut Crusted Chicken. This cauliflower was also from the Paleo cookbook and it was also very delicious. As you can see we added a side salad to the cauli and chicken deliciousness.

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Wednesday: Brussels, Bacon, Potatoes with eggs. The Brussels recipe was inspired by the Paleo cookbook as well. This recipe was good but we thought it could have used a bit more flavor and seasonings. The bacon helped… duh… but just salt and garlic powder wasn’t quite enough.We used coconut oil instead of ghee and added some red and yellow potatoes to ours to make it more of a meal. We also had some scrambled eggs and a blood orange on the side.

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Thursday: Sweet Potato and Black Bean Enchiladas with Avocado-Cilantro Cream Sauce from The Oh She Glow’s cookbook. YUM! These Enchiladas were absolutely positively delicious. We got out of work early on Thursday so we got to actually enjoy the process of making a home cooked meal rather than rush through it because our stomachs are grumbling. Don’t worry, we went back for seconds.

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Friday: Leftover chicken and cauliflower with a side salad and pan fried plantains. We’ve been really into plantains lately. All you have to do is peel the ripe plantain, starting with a knife, slice it into thin rounds, and sautee it over medium heat in coconut oil, flipping after a few minutes. We use about 1 Tablespoon of coconut oil for 1 plantain. The thinner the slices the crispier they’ll be, but we prefer them thicker.

Saturday: We were busy out and about during the day on Saturday and didn’t quite have time to fix dinner, not to mention that we were craving mac and cheese… so we stopped at Whole Foods and got a bit of mac and cheese and some brussel sprouts and made a yummy meal of it.

What we ate 2/22/15 – 2/28/15

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I hope everyone is getting excited for March and spring! I definitely am minus that Boston still has a few feet of snow on the ground and the temperatures are still dropping into the negatives with windchill… Someday Boston will see the spring… and the ground for that matter. Someday.

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Sunday: Oh My Veggie’s Kale pizza. We made this yummy kale pizza to eat while watching the Oscars. This pizza was amazing. The sage flavored sweet potato was so good as a base on the pizza. It’s topped with mozzarella and sautéed kale and onion. This recipe called for a different kind of cheese, but we aren’t very adventurous when it comes to cheese, so we just stuck with mozzarella and it came out great! This was so quick and easy I’m sure we will be inspired by it in the future and try to come up with some similar ideas. That mashed sweet potato, what a good idea!

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Monday: Roasted chickpeas and vegetables over couscous. We roasted a variety of vegetables tossed in olive oil, King Arthur Flour’s Pizza Seasoning, and a dash of chili powder. We ate this over big Israeli couscous. All that was involved in this was chopping up all the veggies (we used red pepper, red onion, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, and carrots), adding a drained can of chickpeas, tossing everything in olive oil, seasoning them generously, then roasting them at 425 for about 15 or 20 minutes, tossing them halfway through. We topped this with shaved Parmesan and slivered almonds. Quick, healthy, easy, delicious!

Tuesday: Tuesday was a little incoherent since we had agreed to meet some friends for a drink at 7:30. We came home from work and Haley had leftover ravioli and Rose made a quick wrap with avocado, salsa, turkey, lettuce, and tomato.

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Wednesday: Cuban Salad Bowl from Simple Roots Wellness. This turned out awesome and so flavorful. We modified the recipe just a tad by using corn in place of cauliflower rice and chicken instead of pork. I couldn’t stop eating the plantains and the black bean mixture with avocado! Yum!

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Thursday: Brussel sprouts, veggie burgers, and fruit salad. So you all know that we tend to make veggie burgers we’re either a) starving and don’t have time to cook something else or b) we did cook, but we really just made a side. So tonight was option b. We sautéed Brussel sprouts in lemon infused olive oil oil. We chopped up some strawberries and apples and tossed them with raspberries, blueberries, and pomegranate seeds for a little fruit salad on the side. Yummy quick and easy. We always love a good brussel sprout dinner!

Friday: Take-out from Whole Foods. Haley had to work late on Friday, and we had planned to eat out, but 7:30 on a Friday night in Boston is a little tricky when you can’t get reservations somewhere, so we stopped at Whole Foods and picked up some prepared food. We always think that’s a healthier alternative to take-out when we’re hungry.

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Saturday: Things got a little busy on Saturday again, and though we felt like we had time to cook, we both really wanted soup, so we just made some split pea soup and had grapes, carrots, celery, and hummus on the side.