Howdy, folks.
It’s one of those weird “I have absolutely nothing to do” sorts of weekends, so, all alone in my tiny town, what better to do than blog, right? Yeah!Yeah!Yeah!
However, this is going to be a rando post. For serious, I think I am going a hair stir-crazy or something, because my eats are out of control on the silliness factor. Oh, well. At least my heart and belly are happy!
After my souper adventure on Wednesday, I’ve been eating a lot of tomato soup. Case in point: tomato soup and fruit preserves-topped cottage cheese for breakfast on Thursday. Yeah. The first thing I ate that day was soup.
I kept up the soup work for lunch both Friday, and Saturday, too…
I also tried to recreate my own glorious Greek-style yogurt. I remembered to take a picture of my yogurt-straining “contraption” this time, and also managed to avoid a “what the heck are you doing to that cup in the fridge?” kind of talk. I’m pretty sure that Katya and Artem think I am off my rocker most of the time.
Unfortunately, I bought some whack yogurt that refused to thicken up! So much for “Miracle” brand yogurt. So that’s what you call being miraculous, eh? I guess you get what you pay for, sometimes. So much for scrimping on the Dannon to save 10 roubles!
I ate my far-too-thin yogurt anyways, topped with honey and raspberry preserves.
I have also had more ants on a log snacks than is normal for a person of 23 years:
I’m pretty great at ants on a log, I guess. The “dirty” logs are doused on cinnamon. However, I don’t think these top my best celery/PB invention: red ants on a log in a blizzard. Catchy name, no? They were super delicious! (And, funny coincidence, that post is exactly a year old today!)
In addition to the dirty logs, I ate some funny little open-faced sammies, PB and mashed banana on toasted black bread. (A delightful dinner combo, with the “sandwich” part inspired by Holly.)
And another bloggie-inspired snack? Fruit cereal with chopped apple (3!), cinnamon, sugar, raisins, and oats in a glug of milk. Nomalicious.
The fruit cereal was ridiculously good. I will certainly recreate this! Another ridiculously good treat? This thing, whatever it was:
This was some sort of zephir, aka “marshmallow” treat (the closest comparison, but the “marshmallow” here is way softer and lighter), but oh-so-much more. It also had a crunchy graham-cookie base and a layer of caramel. Holy monkeys, this treat was delicious.
More ridicularity? Okay. This bowl of oats. It was totally nuts. I made a big pile o’ kasha in 1/2 water and 1/2 milk, and added the remaining un-Greek-ified yogurt, the last dregs of my (homemade) pumpkin puree, 1/3 banana, a spoonful of peanut butter and a handful of raisins. Oh, and I dumped a tonnn of cinnamon on after the photo…
For some reason, oatmeal is always satisfying, but not always filling. This, however, was just about the biggest, most filling bowl of oats I’ve ever had, and I stayed full for hours and hours!
My final photo, however, takes the cake in food craziness. In my defense, we don’t have any food at home, and it is dark and sleeting out, so a walk to the grocery store was not really appealing. So I made do and had the most random dinner I have ever sat down to eat. And also one of the most monochromatic?
Yeah, this is a little embarrassing. I had a dinner of 1 egg and 1 egg white, mashed potatoes mixed with corn, my leftover yellow pepper, and cottage cheese with honey and jam. Apparently, white and yellow things go great together?? I told you, I am off my rocker!
I wanna know, I wanna know–tell me!
If you could eat food that was only 2 colors for the rest of you life, what two food colors would you choose? I think that is the most bizarre-0 question I have thought up yet. NOT white and yellow. Maybe orange and green? Red and green? I would have to add food coloring to my peanutbutter, though… 😉
Do you prefer tea or coffee? I don’t know! Tea is quite comforting and cozy, but coffee is so rich, it is more of a “treat,” I think. I guess it would depend on my mood.
And, of course, a gratuitous photo for you!
This is an older photo of mine. There are a number of churches within the Kremlin walls, and I am pretty sure this one is the Annunciation Cathedral, built about 530 years ago! The inside is covered in icon paintings by one of the greatest “Russian” iconographers, Theophanes the Greek. Back in the 1500s, this is where Ivan the Terrible went to church, until he wasn’t allowed to enter the main part of the church (because he had been married too many times? something like that). He had another part built onto the church so he could still hear the services. Interesting how he can kill loads of people, but still be a devout church-goer, eh?!
Have a great weekend!
OMG caviar 🙂 My family still eats that with every meal! It’s delicious of course.
And zephir! Will definitely be eating that on New Year’s this year.
HA! I remember that day. Must buy celery.
Orange and brown! Chocolate gingerbread and pumpkin and carrots and pie. Please.
Coffee before three, and tea after that. I can’t choose, I’m sorry. Coffee for when I want something hearty, tea when I just want to sip.
Is black bread like pumpernickel? It sounds good!
Haha, I have to admit, your randomeals made me laugh! There’s certainly some new combos up there.
1. Not orange because I’m already a lovely hue of that color so maybe beige and red? Beige = bread, oats, and hummus and red = peppers, tomatoes, salsa.
2. COFFEE!
I love PB and banana sandwiches…and good idea w/ the open faced sandwich…two slices is usually too much bread and not enough PB!
i prefer the taste of coffee, but i gave it up a year ago. i’m satisfied with tea now.
ahhhh thanks for the shoutout and LOVING your sammie. i swear banana + PB can never go wrong.
i LOVE the randoness. it makes me laugh. because when i was in thailand, i was not nearly as creative as you with meals. i relied on lots of campbell’s soup towards the end 🙂
i love this question – i think green and beige as well. greens for all the veggies and beige for bread.
ahhh coffee! but i love tea too. but i NEED coffee. everyday. like whoa.
gratutious picture = fab.
Hmmm… I think I’d say orange and green. Orange because most winter squash is orange, and green because most vegetables are green at SOME point and I can’t live without my veggies!!
Tea for me — not that I’m a big fan. Unless it’s iced!
I love kasha. A lot. But I think I am just so used to it in savory form that I can’t get acclimated to having it sweet!! I hated it that way the couple of times I tried.
❤ ❤
deeep red (aka pomegranate and cranberry and raspberry color)
and…brown. beans, chocolate, coffeee, meaties.
I’m all about the anti-oxidants and protein, I think. 🙂
To me, coffee and tea are apples and oranges. I love them both for completely different reasons and occasions.
But neither as much as I love you.
Love the photo!!!
Your eats are so yummy! Great for cold weather too! I need to eat more soup! I always forget how delicious and comforting it is!!
AHHH ants on a log! I love it!! !:D
Ummm mushed banana on toast (with or without pb) is my all time favourite. LOVE it!
Oh my Russia. I am honestly dying to go there, it is next on my list as a must-see destination. I’ll let you know when I’m visiting 😉
To answer your questions though: I would choose to eat green and orange for the rest of my life but I could never rule out tea or coffee. I love having tea in the morning and coffee after a meal or as an afternoon pick-me-up. Divine 🙂
Just found your site! love it!! gorgeous pics! As for coffee and tea thats a hard one. I love them both! hhhmmmm…=)
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