Hi, all.
Sorry for the unexpected hiatus. I am alive and well (except for a pesky cold!), but haven’t been super active on the blogosphere for a few days… Whoops. Life happens.
Anywhoodles. Wanna see some of the stuff I’ve been eating? (yeah!yeah!yeah!)
Lots of stir fry:
Some new peanut butter concoctions. I’ve been working with bananas the past couple days:
I splurged and bought some lettuce (okay, I guess $2/serving isn’t a huge splurge, but you know) and made a salad. I found “chicken tenders” at the store, and decided to try those guys, too.
Look what I found at the store! I was so happy and excited!
Yes, eggs. But not just any eggs! If you’ll direct your attention to the lower-left corner of the carton, you will see the words “free range” in English. The rest of the carton says: “Happy Chicken (brand) Eggs from chickens kept on a farm without cages.” I dunno who these are marketed for (like, why does it say free range in English?!?), but I bought them in a snap, even though they were twice as expensive as the other eggs. Twice as expensive means they cost just over $2 total. I’m all right with that π
I used my Happy Chicken eggs to make a sandwich for brunch today:
It was pretty good, but the egg yolks were bright orange. What does that mean? I don’t mean like, orange-ish, it was seriously the color of Kraft macaroni and cheese. I meant to cook just the egg whites anyway, but the yolk cracked. The little bit in the upper left part of the picture doesn’t do the orange-ness justice.
So there are my pictures.
Besides not blogging or commenting regularly this week, I forgot my camera on the day when I tried new and interesting foods! I’m a dope! I know that it isn’t as fun when you can’t see what I am talking about, but I will try to describe as best I can.
It was Andrew’s birthday this week, and we all chipped in to get him a cake. His favorite is Russian sour cream cake. We went and found one in good ol’ SPAR downstairs. It looked like a big, white dome with chocolate drizzles on top. Inside, it was very moist and had a flavor someone compared to tiramisu. I liked it a lot. We also tried some sort of nut cake, which had layers of nuts between a dense (and dry) yellow-sort of cake with a layer of chocolate on top. I didn’t care for this one as much.
That night, we went to a restaurant for celebratory drinks and ordered a few snacks for the table. We ended up with something very much like mozzarella sticks (!!!), something sort of like nachos, and a plate with chips, melted cheese, and mini sausages. My favorite were the cheese sticks, they tasted so good and familiar, but with a crunchier outside and not-mozzarella inside. It was served with “Tartar sauce” (Tartar as in the ethnic people, not like tartar sauce that comes with fish :)) that seemed to be made of sour cream, dill, and pickles. The sauce was wicked good, and I couldn’t get enough of it! The other two dishes were pretty weird. The nacho-like things were only nacho-like in appearance. They were actually large pieces of flat bread or tortilla covered with red sauce and cheese. The red sauce was actually ketchup. And I hate ketchup. So that dish was a no-go for me, but the others seemed to like it. The chips and sausage thing was also pretty good, if not a little weird. It was served with cheese sauce, but it was cold. I wasn’t expecting that, so the first bite was a surprise! The sausages were pretty oily, but had a nice spicy flavor that I liked. It was fun for us to order a few different things and see what we ended up with. I’m sorry I forgot the camera!
And, of course, I have been snacking on lots of apples+pb (good lord, I am already 1/2 a jar down!!! WHAT am I going to do??) and lots of carrot salad. My dear old friends… π
Now, however, I am off to a “barbeque” of sorts in a park. I am not quite sure how this is going to work out, but we shall see. I’ll remember to bring my camera this time. Maybe.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Couple of questions for fun:
What is your favorite meal of the day?
I can’t say. I really like breakfast foods a whole lot, but if I’m in a rush, it’s hard to actually enjoy them while I am throwing them down my throat. Dinner is more fun for experimenting, I suppose. Or does dessert count? π
What do you like most at a BBQ?
Um, basically, if the word BBQ is involved, I am all for it in every way. But I do hope we grill up some veggies!
What’s your middle name?
I actually have two! It is very fun to have an “extra” name, but causes problems now and again. They’re Alexandra+Olivia.
I love breakfast. Every meal should be breakfast haha.
I love lunch too. Teatime is what I call dinner and it’s more of a snack or a repeat of a mini breakfast.
I love homemade burgers and salad. Tastes like summer.
My middle name from baptism is Mary. Half of the female population in Ireland has that baptism name hehe. My confirmation name is Mairead but I don’t think that counts in a legal sense
I have a really similar mug to your cat one. It seems to have the same designs as yours. It’s one of my favourite cups.
1. Breakfast!! No doubt.
2. When I lived in Sweden, they always called grilling out bbq in english for some reason but it was never really bbq. My favorite is probably grilled asparagus and mushrooms.
3. Ah, I hate my middle name. It’s Dawn. My dad picked it out, not too happy with him for that, lol. Your middle name is beautiful.
Hope you have a fantastic weekend!
I love those banana split combos – they sound bueno!! Those eggs sound interesting. I don’t know why the yolk would be bright orange! I’m also intrigued by those ‘nachos’ π
1. I suppose breakfast although I really enjoy eating my crispy veggies!
2. I love grilled fruits and veggies π
Cool Idea with the banana, I’d love to trynit with granola. My middle name is Pamela with an ‘a’ sound like autumn, I like the flow I my two names, so props to my parents!
Your stir fry looks excellent. I LOVE onions. mmmmmmmmm.
You might have to order some of that powdered peanut butter pretty soon!
Mmmm. Super-orange yolks–that’s the way the yolks looked when we would get eggs out at the farm, so I think it’s a good sign. I think it goes for eggs like vegetables, the deeper, richer color=better for you.
Hi I just found your blog and wanted to say hello. In answer to your questions
1) fav meal is dinner, I have all day to plan it, I’m at home and can make up anything that takes me fancy.
2) The best thing at a BBQ is chicken, especially in BBQ sauce and when cooked properly.
3) My middle name is Cleopatra, my Mum is an historian and wanted this to be my first name, thankfully my Dad intervened and they decided on Taylor Cleopatra. Ta Dad π
My fellow Alexandra!
Orange egg yolks? Very strange. But… maybe that just means they’re extra fresh? Or extra free-range-y?
Have a fantabulous time at the bbq. Glad you’re not working all the livelong day! I don’t want you to be a dull girl π
I always love breakfast and dessert π
yay happy chickens!
gospodi, I have spent the past hour catching up on all your Russian-themed culinary adventures. I had a lot of thoughts as I was reading thru the entries, but all I remember now is your curious “Smooth Operator” peanut butter, I think it’d be a big hit in the Motherland, since that is the most common English translation of the nickname of the beloved Ilf & Petrov character Ostap Bender, whom you may never have heard of, in which case this would seem but a meaningless piece of Soviet trivia, except that I think there really is a fabulous commercial opportunity here. you can set up your own kiosk selling foreign pastes & syrups named after popular Soviet literary figures. (I know for a fact Russians are passionately curious about this maple syrup business.)
1. I love breakfast, too, I esp. love anything in pancake form.
2. grilled veggies are best – did you get any shashlyk @ your bbq?
3. Colleen. It’s Gaelic for “girl”. A little anti-climactic in relation to my first name, but at least it’s to-the-point.
Its interesting that your “Tartar sauce,” was pretty close to our tartar sauce. Sour cream instead of mayo, pickles instead of cucumbers, and there is dill in both… but then there’s tons of other things in our tartar sauce, I guess. Anyway, thought it was kinda fun.
Ay mami! I just wanted to let you know I just woke up (its 6pm) because I have been sleeping all day due to me being sick AND your comments made me supa happy… not even for a specific reason otha than you be COO!
1) I looove breakfast but I love going out to dinner with friends and getting delicious concoctions.
2) Pre-vegetarian days… GRILLED chicken dipped in tons of ketchup
3) Kiernan! I am an Irish princess π
i hate ketchup too! i will eat it with sweet potato fries every once in awhile, but its been known to make me gag. blog sistas, i tell ya.
breakfast hands down fave meal.
BBQ…hmmm, you will most likely see me at the dessert table.
my middle name is anne. generic, but it works π
glad to hear you are alive…lots of love to you miss sarah!
I love your first banana/PB concoction — it’s so cute!! π
1. Breakfast FOODS are my favorite, but I’m always rushed in the morning, so IDK… hard call.
2. Vegetables? Not a big BBQ fan!
3. I don’t actually have one!
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Happy chickens are a must for me π Orange is kind of weird, but maybe Russian chickens are different, hehe?
1. I usually enjoy breakfast foods because I’m a carby gal. Oatmeal, pancakes, waffles, bagels, toast galore!
2. I love barbecued fish, especially salmon, and of course veggies!
3. Olivia is my favorite name ever, and I’m totally going to name my daughter that (assuming I will have a girl!). My middle name is my Korean name.
Glad you are alive!!
I love that you put cheerios on a banana and stuck it together with pb/glue. You are a genius!
1) breakfast. no doubt.
2) hmmm. a really good turkey burger is hard to beat!
3) Ceinwen. Yep, it is as crazy as my first name! I got two welsh names since my Dad is from Wales…I kind of like them though π
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