Picked Up a Couple Things...

Hello lovelies! I hope you all had good weekends! Unfortuntely I didn't really cook much up since the baking on friday, however I bought a couple things from T&T today that I'm super excited about! 

Okay, okay...I know I bought pre-made kimchi which is super lame when I have a food blog (I should be making that shit myself), but I could not remember for the life of me the ingredients needed to whip up a batch as we were perusing the massive shop and opted for the value tub...

But now onto the slightly more exciting purchases: we picked up a nice tub of miso paste (which we haven't had in our fridge for far, far too long), pea shoots (perhaps my most exciting find, I'm used to seeing these little babies sprinkled delicately on top of my beef carpaccio at expensive restaurants...and have always been obsessed with the sweet, fresh flavour of these "shoots"...we bought a MASSIVE bag) and a big ol' bag of bean sprouts, which I'll make some marinated Korean bean sprouts with very soon to go along with all that kimchi! Always love little finds at T&T! Look forward to yummy recipes including all these things soon!

xoxo

Mariel

Craving Something Spicy!

Hello my loves! I have to admit, today was a pretty lazy day. After a nice sleep in, I was in no mood to eat a big, heavy breakfast. In fact, I was craving some fruit (also, this craving made me realize that I do NOT eat enough fruit)! Also, it is orange season, have you had any navel oranges lately?? They are beautiful!

So here it is: my brunch. Kind of bizarre, but was exactly what I needed! Oranges, honey dew melon, and ambrosia apples, yum!

I also snacked on some organic potato puffs things...however we threw away the bag and I can't remember exactly what they were called! They are quite tasty, and a kind of healthy way to satisfy junk food cravings!

The day went by and I honestly accomplished nothing! I watched alot of food network... Oops! But soon enough it was time for dinner, and everyone in our house was doing their own thing so I just whipped up a plate of left overs!

I have had the biggest cravings for spicy foods lately, and every time I open the fridge door I am greeted by two gigantic jars of kimchi from the farmers market (you need to pick up a jar next time you're there, it's incredible), so I have been eating the stuff a ton lately!

In order to satisfy my craving, I ended up making the weirdest dinner of left overs ever...

I threw together a little salad of spinach, romaine, curried chick peas, and crumbled havarti, dressed with a balsamic and olive oil vinaigrette. And then I heated up some left over fettucini that I found in the fridge and loaded spicy kimchi on top!

Surprisingly, all these flavors tasted wonderful together...and it sure was spicy! Just what I needed.

I had a glass of soy milk with dinner tonight instead of almond milk. I needed a break from the vanilla!

We always drink Silk soy milk in our house...it's the best! Very smooth and rich, and there's never any gross soy grits!

After dinner I quickly got dressed up to go out for the night! It was such a nice lazy saturday, not too inspiring food wise, but nice nonetheless!

xoxo

Mariel