Lovely

Happy Weekend!

Today is BF's bday and I'm VERY excited! He is such a catch - smart, handsome, funny, FUN, sweet, caring, altruistic, sensitive yet manly and my best friend :) I love spending his birthday with him. Okay, enough bragging haha. 

I've been really into beets lately. My Tuesday night yoga instructor said that eating beets and celery regularly can relieve lower back tension. This may or may not be true but since I love beets, I'll believe it!

Here is an easy dinner salad I made this week:

- Italian balsamic vinegar

- New York tomatoes

- Chopped romaine lettuce

- Crumbled gorgonzola

- sliced red beets

- 2 pieces crushed garlic

my arm looks weird

note, spilled water all over my table

Jumbled up

Followed by fat free yogurt, cinnamon, sugar free canned cherries and honey I got in Prague!

Anyway, I'm headed out to go shopping for something cute to wear to BF's birthday party. Gotta impress the boy on his special day :)

Hope you're having a great weekend!!

Recipe: Trader Joes frozen langostinos tails

I have been looking at Trader Joes frozen langostinos tails for quite a while. Never hearing of them before, I did a little research before deciding to buy them (they’re $9.99 for a little bag, a high ticket item at Trader Joes!), and the word langostino apparently means “prawn” according to a buddy from work. I’m glad I finally decided to get them!

I love lobster and I love shrimp – these little guys tasted like a marriage of the 2.

What you need:

½ a bag of Trader Joes frozen Langostinos

½ a tbsp of butter

A handful of fresh parsley

¼ cup of low sodium vegetable broth

1 piece of garlic, chopped

Mixed greens

  Steps!

1)      Heat up your broth & butter on the stove, add garlic. Cook it until your apartment smells like it would scare away vampires.

2)      Throw in half your parsley.

3)      Add the langostinos to the pan. Cook for about 5 minutes.

4)      Taste one. Do you like the texture? If not, cook them a bit longer.

5)      Add to a plate of mixed greens, using the leftover liquid as dressing. Top with remaining parsley.

6)      Enjoy!

This morning I tried out my new juicer!! I used spinach, parsley, a green apple, cucumber and drank it on ice. It was crazy refreshing and I can’t wait to make more. 2 complaints about juicing:

Why do you only get a little bit of juice for a whole lot of produce?

I feel like I’m wasting the pulp!! Are there any uses for this?

Have a good night everyone! I have a work party tonight, so tomorrow might be rough – thank god I have a juicer now!

Canada Bound!

Hi There!

I am flying home to Canada tomorrow for the holidays, woohoO! Yes, that means I am taking 2 whole weeks off work. (yessssss!). I am planning to go to BF's parents house for a bit, see some extra-wonderful friends from university in Toronto, and get in some solid fam-jam time. I love Christmas so very, very much.
While I'm home, my posts will be few and far between because I will be pretty busy and away from a computer. I promise to post pictures of snow, horses and Canadian fun when I get back :)

For now, here is a bit of an update on what is going on in my fridge.

A few weeks ago my aunt and uncle came to the city to visit. Randomly, they thought it would be fun to go to Target in Harlem. I love Target and loved that they wanted to go to Harlem, so off we went in a cab all the way up to 117th St.

I forgot how cool Costco is. The huge carts. The colossal isles, brimming with giant packages of anything and everything. This Costco even had Michael Kors and Coach bags. Is that normal?

 I ended up with more cheese, fish, almonds and ziploc bags than I know what to do with. I have a HUGE container of salsa. At least 8 kinds of cheese. Enough salmon and tilapia to last me months. How the heck did I get so lucky?
Check out my fridge.

CHEEEEESE - the #1 reason i am not a born again vegan

my freezer

ridiculous

amazing

best thing evverrr

 Due to the large amount of salmon I have at my disposal, I have been eating it pretty often. Here is what I've been doing with it lately:

I separated a big slab into smaller Caitlin-sized portions.

the salsa jar is almost as big as my coffee maker.

Great use for a giant jar of salsa!

 

wonderful on salad.

Honey mustard glaze with teriyaki veggies. mmmm

 

 

Now I think I need to have a cheese and wine party. Maybe I can bring it to the New Years eve party I’m going to?

What are your plans for the holidays? Do you shop at Costco?

Later! 

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Breathe. Salad will fix everything.

After my big Thanksgiving weekend, there is one thing I want – SALAD. Eating big meal sized salads for days in a row (at least 1 meal / day), I feel better about terrible eating choices I made on the weekend.

When I make a salad, there are few ingredients I almost always have / change up:

Romaine Lettuce

Cheese (usually goat or Parmesan)

A protein (either fish, nuts tofu, lentils etc)

All of the produce I have available to me

Vinegar! (I LOVE sour salad)

Sea Salt (I LOVE sour + salty salad)

Fresh chopped garlic  (the fighter of wintertime sniffy noses!)

Here a few I’ve had lately:

Roasted Chickpeas w/ parmesan, diced tomatoes & a bit of tofu. Sesame Soy ginger from Trader Joes.

mix with whatever spices you want, and a little olive oil

stir!

spread on a cookie sheet & bake at 400 until they're chewy and crispy. maybe even a little burnt!

  

 Burnt tofu that has been marinated overnight in TJ's Soyaki sauce with goat cheese, little heirloom tomatoes, walnuts, dried cranberries and balsamic vinegar.

And my classic go to - the vinegariest vinegar salad ever. Romaine with lots of white vinegar, 2 pieces of fresh garlic chopped, fresh lemon juice, lots of Parmesan cheese & sea salt. More deets on this guy here Its the Freakin Weekend Baby, I'm About to Have Me Some Fun

 

 

Yummy!

Tonight I am going to meet my wonderful Aunt for dinner. She is in New York visiting me from Toronto. Very exciting!

Later!