Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween

After pigging out all day on all things sweet at work, I figured now would be as good a time as any to finally add a new post! Sadly, this seems to be the trend in how all my latest posts start as school and work are kicking my butt. 

But enough of the sob story, moving on to better and more interesting (at least I think so) things.

While today is actually Halloween day, most revelers celebrate over the weekend as Halloween partying tends to hamper productivity in work or school the next day, and despite what the 99% occupying Wall Street are saying, most, or at least many people do still have work during the week. I've been debating what to do over the weekend and if I really wanted to make the trek all the way out to Brooklyn or not - I know, it's really not THAT far, but I'm really THAT lazy. 

Lucky for me, Mother Nature gave me the perfect excuse. While I was at work during Saturday day, it started to snow. Part of me is like, wtf Mother Nature, really? Snow before Halloween? And the other part of me is celebrating, because it made for an excellent excuse to not make the trek to...anywhere outside in the cold - even though I had back-up costumes that were pretty warm, considering Halloween has become an excuse for girls to...not really wear clothes. 

What I did instead was, as soon as I got home from work, change out of my work clothes and into leggings and a comfy sweater, don my fluffy robe, and settle down on the couch with my laptop and some movies. It's a wonder that I even got up for anything, but, my stomach rules all, and I did end up getting up a few times for food. What sort of food you ask? Well, even if you didn't ask, I'm going to tell you:

First things first - Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate w/ mini marshmallows. I mean, c'mon, it's the first snow of the season! Hot Chocolate is a must. Pair with the hot chocolate was a bag of Sea Salt Baked Lentil Chips - makes me feel like I'm being healthy because they're so light and because the bag is telling me that they're good for me...and oh so delicious! I ate the entire bag...and it was no "mini" bag either. Next, I found some curry ramen into which I added an egg that was cooked just right - not too fully cooked, but cooked enough that the yolk was thick when I broke the egg. Mixed in perfectly with the rest of the soup and noodles. What's a meal without dessert? Next came some tea with some Strawberry Rhubarb pie from Briermere Farms (it's like my family's mecca - we make at least 1 or 2 trips out there every year...once in the spring, once in the fall). However, 2 movies and an episode of How I Met Your Mother plus buffer time (they were online), is quite a long period of time, and near the end, my sweet tooth was acting up again. So, being that it was Halloween weekend, I nabbed the candy basket and proceeded to dig in. 

I haven't figured out yet whether it's a good or bad thing that I don't have any picture evidence of what transpired that night. When my family came home and looked over the scene in disbelief, my only explanation was, "I celebrated Halloween by myself...this had to happen."

And now today, with my giant spider earrings, I'm at it again (though in a much smaller scale) with bagels, munchkins (I stopped myself from going after actual donuts), and this pile of candy and a mini cupcake.
My work stash

Happy Halloween!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

E&E Grill House

A few months ago, I received an email from Tasting Table featuring E&E Grill House and classy looking steak and potatoes along with grilled bacon caught my eye. So I took the opportunity to take my mama out to an early birthday lunch (before our dinner at Bryant & Cooper).

I tried to get the side of Twice Baked Potato, but unfortunately, it's only on the dinner menu - the server was nice enough to ask the chef though. I can't complain about the cottage fries that came with the hanger steak though, they were like little rounds of fried potatoes lightly salted w/ sea salt - mmmmmmmmmm, love me some potatoes! The grilled bacon appetizer that we went with instead was also a good choice. But then again, when does one go wrong with bacon? And the poached egg on top of the grilled asparagus was just fahncy. Will have to go another time to try the dinner w/ side of twice baked potato!



Grilled Bacon!
Grilled Asparagus w/ Poached Egg
Grilled Asparagus w/...broken poached egg
Pretty Silverware
Cottage Fries
Hanger Steak

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Wordle

Ok, so this isn't a post directly related to food, but it is related to this blog in general.

Came across this neat app, Wordle, that takes words from blogs and various sites - or just words in general (i.e. the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody), and creates an image from them.

Here's what happened when I entered the URL for this blog:

Wordle: Eating Bagels

Pretty nifty!