We are driving up to Vermont after work today to spend the long weekend at a friend’s parents house with a handful of good friends from New York. I’m really looking forward to seeing old friends and enjoying a relaxing weekend. I haven’t skied in like …10 years. Hopefully I’ll come back in one piece. I also plan on cozying up beside the fire, drinking all kinds of hot beverages and eating a lot of good food.
It’s suppose to be in the 50s on Friday, but thankfully the temps drop into the teens and single digits for the rest of the weekend so it should be cold enough to do outdoor stuff. I’ve also never cross country skied or snowshoed so I’m hoping to do that too. I’ll report back on my ability (or lack thereof) of these activites. What do you guys have planned??
Onto the food! Here’s a roundup of some eats from the past week or so. I hope these posts simply inspire you to eat satisfying foods.
Breakfasts
My favorite breakfast this week. I heated up some leftover rice with butter and salt and then topped with sautéed spinach and two fried eggs with salt + pepper. Ate a banana and pb an hour or so later.
When I didn’t want to cook, I had toast + green smoothie (frozen banana, blueberry, spinach and Vega). I made my first ever batch of yeast bread this week! Even with yeast, it’s still pretty dense, but super chewy and satisfying. I used a recipe out of this cookbook. It’s a blend of whole grain flour, cornmeal and cooked brown rice and is apparently a thing in Amsterdam. Other than the 14 hrs you have to wait for the dough to ferment and another hour to rise, it was super simple. Topped with a variety of things….honey + butter, just butter and pb & j.
I ate this yesterday morning and posted on Instagram. <3 weekday breakfasts that feel like the weekend but take less than 10 minutes.
Lunches
Favorite lunch to order when I’m at the coffee shop is the turkey club. It’s made on this fab local Iggy’s bread and has so much flavor – bacon, turkey, avocado, mayo, cheddar, lettuce +tomato. And it keeps me full for a while which is a win.
I made a batch of thai peanut soup in the instant pot on Sunday and we’ve been eating on that all week for lunch too. This hits the SPOT. So creamy and thick and satisfying. I’ve been pairing it with a slice of the baked bread with butter and some greens or an apple with a couple scoops of pb. Because why not continue the peanut theme?
When we were home during the holidays I noticed my sister in law would often drank tea. In the afternoon and then before bed she would drink a nighttime tea. And it looked calming, so I figured it would probably feel even more calming if I actually drank it. I’m probably making zero logical sense, but I bought a few boxes of Yogi and Tazo tea at the grocery this weekend. Tazo chai tea with milk if I want a mild caffeine buzz, peppermint tea if I don’t want any caffeine in the afternoon and then a bedtime caramel tea blend from Yogi that is so good. I’m trying to wind down earlier in the evening (I can sometimes be doing something stimulating up until bedtime) so making a cup of tea around 9pm or so helps with that.
Along the tea theme, when I’m sick of coffee flavor (I know, how is that even possible?) I order a chai tea misto at coffee shops while doing blog/project/writing work in the afternoon. And then snack on some sort of bar. Perfect bars or Rxbars or Larabars or whatever bar I have on hand. Or chocolate.
And even though its been freezing cold over the past week or so, the ice cream cravings live on! We currently have a rotation of Ben & Jerry’s, Nada Moo cookies and cream and Breyer’s vanilla in the freezer. I’ll have some in the afternoon for a snack and/or in the evening as a bedtime snack.
Dinners
Picco pizza and salad at a friends house. The bottom piece with bacon, gruyere and caramelized onions is UNREAL.
I made a large batch of Oh She Glows shepherd’s pie this week for dinner since that sounded cozy. Here is the recipe link for one on her blog, but I make the one in her cookbook since it’s simpler. I actually made the gravy this time (the one in the cookbook has a few “normal” gravy ingredients vs the blog one if you’re feeling intimidated by the blog recipe :)) and the gravy made this recipe! I find it gets a bit too dry as leftovers without gravy. Plus salad with almonds, goat cheese and cranberries.
And that’s that. I hope you have a great weekend! Share some weekly eats in the comments!
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Caramel tea sounds so good! I’ve been on a maple tea kick, but caramel sounds even better!
Also, no fair, I want a long weekend! lol
ohh maple tea! that sounds delicious!
I love having tea in the evening! Usually peppermint tea 🙂 I’ve been in a breakfast rut recently (nothing sounds great), but I did try out a bagel place near me and oh how I love an egg and cheese bagel!
love peppermint when I’m feeling a cold coming on too 🙂
egg and cheese bagels ALWAYS hit the spot!
Alsatian pizza is my favorite!!! That’s my favorite pizza at Picco! Good choice!
Also – can you share the recipe for the thai peanut soup?
it’s so good! And the crust is chewy and crispy all at once. I die.
recipe is linked here – https://pinchofyum.com/sweet-potato-peanut-soup
That homemade bread sounds so yummy! This week we made simple chickpea pasta with marinara and crockpot coconut amino chicken for stir fry that turned out way better than I could have expected!
I’m from Vermont!! What mountain are you going to? Hope you have a great trip!
I didn’t eat anything too exciting yet this week, but still enjoyed all of my meals! Looking forward to experimenting with a pizza recipe this weekend 🙂
Killington Mountain – I’ve never been!
oh fun – pizza recipe! Have a great weekend 🙂
That’s really close to where I live! I’ve never been skiing before, but I love snowshoeing. Hope you get a chance to give that a try. If you come off the mountain at all and are looking for good restaurants- I recommend Table 24 or Roots in Rutland.
1. Yogi ginger tea in the evening is the best! Have one every night.
2. Just made the Oh She Glows Shepherd pie for a dinner party last week (with gravy) and LOVED it. None of us are vegans but we enjoyed mixing it up. Vegan recipes are so much more flavorful!
I’ll have to try the ginger. I agree that I find the food super flavorful!
Great eats! I am an avid tea drinker and I recently bought Yogi tea for the first time this week. I love shepherd’s pie, my favorite version is one from Minimalist Baker.
I’ll have to experiment with the MB recipe 🙂
Yum!! This looks a lot like me lately! I’ve been having more tea for coziness (usually peppermint or ginger, sometimes green), and I L O V E that shepherd’s pie recipe from OSG (which I also made this week haha). I agree that the gravy is a game changer!
Other good eats from my week were a crispy tofu/quinoa/broccoli bowl with a asian-y/peanut-esque sauce (but with tahini instead because we were out of pb), cheesy scrambled eggs on toast on a lazy evening, and a chicken/rice/curry bake made with canned soup that I was craving from my childhood. A cozy week of food for sure. 🙂
Everything looks delicious-and the bread is so intriguing!!! I”m a devout coffee drinker but at night I drink a big cup of tea-usually brennessel (nettle). Sometimes at work in the late afternoon I”ll drink a cup of ginger/turmeric tea or lavendar chamomile. I”m convinced that tea and cookies cures everything. Sort of like chocolate and coffee for other maladies.
Haha I haven’t gone skiing since I was about five and all I remember from it is a a whole lotta hot chocolate. Butter with rice sounds SO yummy! I’ve never tried that, but I definitely will have to give it a go 🙂 . Recently I’ve been super into scrambled eggs. Wayyy more satisfying than egg whites. My favorite breakfast this week has been a bagel spread with PB & J with scrambled eggs and kale steamed up with sea salt on the side. So amazing, definitely repeated most days this week. Also avocado toast with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. Heart eyes! Hope your weekend is great 🙂 .
xxMeah
I LOVE Iggy’s bread! My husband and I actually live only about a ten minute drive away from the bakery in Cambridge, which is awesome. I’ve never skied before, but since moving to Boston a couple of years ago, I feel like I need to get over myself and give it a try. But spending time by the fire sounds a little more up my alley 🙂 Enjoy!
I love all your breakfast ideas! All your posts about Boston definitely have me missing the east coast (I moved to Montana from MA about a year ago). I’ll have to share some of my old favorite spots! Have a great weekend!
I can’t tell you how much I absolutely love seeing your intuitive weekly eats; that plate of eggs was one of my favorites. However everything else just looks so good; this is definitely proof that intuitive eating is the BEST and so freeing.
I love tea and I love the idea of a nighttime tea, but sadly it always had me running to the bathroom to pee in the middle of the night. I find that I have to cutoff liquids about 2 hours before bed. Those eggs look so good!
I’ve been drinking tea and herbal elixirs constantly the past few weeks. And Cookies & Cream Nadamoo is LIFE! I am always in the mood for it, even if I have to bundle up while I eat it 😉 I have been craving cheese (especially the goat’s brie from Trader Joe’s) for about 2 meals a day which is rare for me but I’m just going with it! Also lots of soup and sourdough toast =)
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