1o*1o Daily Munch

I was up til 3am doing some extra work so I could take off early today :]

Of course this was a distraction…

I went to bed starving and with stomachache :[ That's what you get when you keep on eating when you're not hungry. Something's been irritating my stomach a lot lately and I'm scared it's all the yogurt I'm eating. Maybe I have to up my lactaid before each yogurt cup.  As much as I was looking forward to eating a Chobani, I might wait to have it for a snack/dessert tonite :] I’m feeling a bit better now tho. I think it might be peaches… I refuse to believe it’s my beloved yogurt haha..

In case you guys were curious about my morning pre-food routine.

Vitamins.

And I drink them down with my herbal drink. It’s a jujube and other chinese herbs mixture like things such as goji and stuff that’s SUPER healthy and refreshing. I’ve been drinking it EVERY morning since forever :]

& since I’m skipping my morning yogurt… When I don’t have something creamy for breakfast, I just eat my chia seeds as is. Usually in a tiny bowl and I just lick it out. it’s weird to see… but they’re really really good.

It’s sooo nice out today!!!!

All I wanted today was an apple. A crispy, juicy, cold apple. So I tried Honeycrisp that I’ve been hearing so much about. Delicious. I actually BAKED/cooked with one already but I haven’t eaten one yet. Strange, huh? I bought about 10, mostly big HUGE ones but a few tiny bitesize ones cuz I thought they were cute :]

TOO FUN! I’m gonna have issues wanting to weigh everything now just for the fun of it :]

Dior heard me cutting up my apple and did her little cute puppy dog eyes and whined for some too. SHE LOVESSSS APPLES!! She eats apples EVERY NIGHT for dessert!!!

Like mother, like daughter.

When she’s done with her bowl I always have to tell her “No more!!!” and let her sniff, lick and investigate to make sure I’m not lying to her :] She’ll sniff, lick and then be satisfied and walk away HEE HEE…

I love cutting my fruits up into small bites, takes so much longer to eat, it took me over 30 min to eat. Granted, I was working and busy running around, but still :]

edit @ 856pm

quick update before i get my night started :]

bought some stuff @ williams sonoma…

and a loaf pan… :] and two books (a world cooking book and the newest giada one!!!) 

& they gave me a yummie pumpkin pecan sample!!!

met bar + grill


hot tea & BUTTTTTTTTTERY warm rolls

shanghai chop chop salad w/ shrimp (sorry so blurry)

veggie burger on whole wheat w/  fried egg, bacon, foie gras, caramelized onions, bibb lettuce & sauteed mushroms and a side of fries and pickles!!! 

some nummie FINALE samples :] while i bought some cookies one of each kinda.. cherry trail, choco chip, choco chip walnut, oatmeal raisin, PEANUT BUTTER & this all chocolate one…. i’m REALLY excited for the pb cookie.. it was the last one too, darn, i was gonna buy TWO too.

2 tiramisu and 2 caramel affair – bites
(I decided to be “careful” since my stomach has been off lately and popped a lactaid before I sampled HEE HEE) 

I have a sugar problem >_<;

PEACHIE O’s *LOVE*

edit @ 222am, next day :]

 

Gonna be a quickie since I still have to get up early tmw and go out and play in theh sun :]

Snack time!!! I was starved… MONSTER caramel apple time ♥

Choppity chop

Eating them in tiny pieces this time to ensure long lasting happiness :]

Mediocre wine, only took two sips :T

My cutie she-Elvis

Watching food network and reading my new recipe/cooking books now and JUST put my bag away but I managed to nibble about 30 of these gummy peach rings (they’re not peachie O’s, they don’t have the marshmallow *pout*)

MY YOGURT SURPRISE!!!!!, dinner, homemade chips & yummy fruit (oh and of course, SQUASH!!!!)

I had a little surprise when I got home from work today :]

Them nice nice awesome super cool ppl at Chobani decided that lucky lil me gots to have free samples of their yogurt :]

PEEKABOO!!!!!

2 strawberry, 2 blueberry, 1 plain, 1 vanilla & 2 peach :D OMG I can’t wait to try them starting tmw.. EEE what to try first :] My beloved FAGE is going to be so jealous!!! I never get flavored yogurt anymore so this is gonna be a treat!!!!

Baby Stitch approves…

And so does the rest of the family :] (btw, I have a thing for Stitch, I kinda used to do that sick collect-them-all type things where they have the Disney dolls for like every holiday.. hahaha but the one on the left is the old-school first edition Stitch doll that I got opening night when I went to see Lilo & Stitch in Times Square and then got it at the Disney store across the street!!!

Okra is so pretty chopped up!!! SEE all those mushrooms and okra I had still…

So I was gonna make some sweet potato slabs/fries tonite but then I remember I had bought PREcut butternut squash still left in the fridge. So I cut half of it into thin long fries (instead of my usual planks)

(I like them super crispy and burnt!!!)

And then the rest into half moons :] Variety…

ANNNND just like I said I had asparagus to get rid of (haha) and so I grilled those too… ANNNND just as predicted I ate most of them, my dad the “asparagus lover” didn’t even touch them… as much as I love asparagus I hate “HAVING” to finish them off at the end of the week before they go bad.

OOOOOOO that just reminds me. I wanna make stuffed artichokes (a la Giada from Everyday Italian) so I need to buy some!!! *writes it on notepad in iPhone*

Japanese ‘tempura’ – chinese ppl call their fishcakes that…. and some pork and scallions :] ANYWAYS, I had like all but two pieces of my squash… @_@ SO MUCH. ANd then probably about 10-15 pieces of asparagus (like 3 or 4 long spears and the rest were bits)

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE mushrooms!!!!

I ate most of the mushrooms :] My dad doens’t like mushrooms cuz he thinks they’re SLIMEY.. but I am a MUSHROOM fanatic!!! Lobster Mushrooms in my belly you guys come!!!

I forgot to take a picture of the outcome…. but I made a stirfry out of my leftover okra… beech, bluefoot & oyster mushrooms :] yum yum yum and some thinly sliced onions!!! It was light and delicious!!!

And then it was chip making time!!!

The cute box. Freaking Japs and they’re cuteness. Even the INSTRUCTIONS were cute. And the potato and taro and all that had cute little faces. It’s like “eat me, I’m cute!”

Japanese people are so awesome and inventive…

The slicer was a bit hard cuz my sweet potatoes were huge and the little bowl is kinda dinky…

MMM nothing like being able to microwave yummy fresh chips!!! About 6 minutes on high :]

Snacks while I watched The Darkroom

Sidenote about the movie: It wasn’t bad, just kind of goofy in the beginning and confusing because there are so many stories coming together… partway thru and especially towards the end I totally saw what was going on… but all the stories don’t connect or click until more than halfway thru the movie…. So for the first half and then some I was just like WTF?!?!

Now back to the food…

Crispy and delicious. Didn’t even need to be salted :] I only had a chip right when I made them because I was SOOO FULL from dinner…

These are organic home grown asian pears from a family friend. I think I had like 5 slices.

AND THEN I had a bigggg tub of fresh pineapple cuz it was going not-so-fresh.

I feel huge :[ But I have some work to get done for ... WORK!!!! hahaha... and then I'm gonna file some more recipes and then I'll go to bed :] I need to digest anyways. The only thing I hate more than going to bed with a full stomach is WAKING UP with one.. which is the grossest feeling ever and right now I feel like that… I’m slightly annoyed with myself cuz I wasn’t even hungry when I ate the pineapple & pears but I just wanted cold juicy munch… blah. Now I kinda want neon worms or hot tamales… NO CANDY!!!.. maybe… I totally forgot to go on a Peachie O’s hunt today… TOMORROW :]