2 more days until the Mix My Granola giveaway ends!! A NEW giveaway will replace it…so keep those eyes peeled.
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Peanut Butta & Jelly Oats!
Well, more like PB2 and Raspberry oats, but CLOSE! This comprises of the usual regular oats, with 2 tbs of PB2 and topped with tonnes of frozen blueberries, a banana, and raspberry yogurt. I definitely love the rich & creamy contrast to the tart & fruity!
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Monstro-Wich & Chips
For lunch, I created a giant hummus, egg & salsa sandwich on sprouted rye, sliced an apple, cucumber bits with sun-dried tomato hummus, and a hefty side of olive chips from Food Should Taste Good (read the review here)!
Deconstructed layers are from the bottom: 4 tbs of Trader Joe’s Sun-dried tomato hummus (SOOOO good), 1 kirby cucumber, microwave-poached egg whites with chipotle salsa, and another layer of hummus, all wedged between TJ’s Sprouted rye bread!
As if I didn’t have enough pictures of the monstro-wich, I wanted to do a close-up of the microwave-poached eggs topped with salsa. The warm, moist eggs were PERFECT in a toasted sandwich that would have been on the “dry”-side without ’em!! This is TOTALLY a sandwich I’d make again in a heartbeat!!!
Lunch was so amazing it actually held me over till dinner time! Snack-free!
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“Let me Bring you Dinner!!”
I was almost too excited when I told the BF this a couple days ago just because I had a couple treats rolled up my sleeve. He was working late Friday night, so I had time to buy/prepare/heat/cook and all, so here I present…
Feast from the East!
Here was the dinner table all together!
First Stop – KOREA!
The boyfriend’s #1 favorite dish from Joy Yee’s Noodle Restaurant is Korean Sea Eel Jap Chae. This dish is a SUPER flavorful stir-fried glass noodles with sliced onions, julienned zuccini’s & carrots, and topped with BBQ Marinated Eel. It’s a little greasy on its own, but with the other dishes the Jap Chae was amazing!
Second Stop – India & The Middle East
On the left is a semi-homemade vegetable curry (my secret weapon comes in a pouch from TJ’s). On the left, are fresh pita chips that I baked at home using Yantoufan plain pita that was PAM’d and sprinkled with garlic salt, onion powder, Mrs. Dash, and coconut palm sugar!!! Yes coconut sugar!!
Navitas Naturals has sent me some AWESOME samples and I knew I wanted to try something different! I took the Coconut palm sugar powder and dusted the pita chips with them before baking. The sweet and very mild coconuty flavor went perfectly with the chips when they were dipped into the spicy curry. It heightened the spicy kick of the curry while de-emphasizing the slightly burnt pita chips.
Third Stop – Japan
I stir-fried miso marinated green beans with calamari/squid rings then topped it lots of furkikae (sesame & nori shreds). We ate this with a side of my favorite – edamame!!!
Fourth Stop – Dessert & Back to America!
Before the BF got home, he had stopped by Berry Chill to pick up frozen yogurt, which I used to create this Dark Chocolate Sundae!
The Sunday consisted of a microwaved VitaBrownie, 2 QBel dark chocolate wafer rolls, Original Frozen Yogurt, dark chocolate chips, and Hershey’s dark chocolate syrup. Dessert was SOOO ridiculously good we scarfed it down in less than 5 minutes!!
Super short review of this VitaBrownie: The boyfriend said he would never spend money on this, and I agree. Too floury for my liking, and didn’t contain the moistness or the rich texture that one looks for in a brownie, but since it was free, soft, warm, and topped with Hershey’s chocolate sauce, we had no problem finishing it off. B+ is airing toward the generous side, but definitely better than the velvety chocolate VitaTop I had the other day.
Super Short Review of Qbel Dark Chocolate wafer rolls: They look even better in person than on the package and taste way MORE delicious than I imagined. Almost addictive! They were perfectly crunchy, but they don’t make a mess when you bite through the three different layers and textures of the wafer roll. It had “true” dark chocolate flavor (slightly bitter), but far from overwhelming. I’m looking forward to trying more products!! The boyfriend thinks this is WAY better than his favorite ones back in grade school. 🙂 A+ Qbel!!
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It’s Saturday! Yay!!!!
woah- there are so many yummy things goin on in this post that i don’t even know what to comment about. haha. okay, i thought of something… i want some of that JAP CHAE!
I love your egg-salsa sandwich. It looks so messy (to eat) and yummy!
And your multi-ethnic, multi-course dinner is fantastic.
BTW–my Barney Butter arrived yesterday. Thanks for hosting that give-away!
Oh wow, that sandwich is rockin’! Totally love it.
And love the combos. The frozen yogurt looks delightful!
What an awesome meal you prepared!!! I’m in awe!
That sandwich rocks, too!!! 🙂
That is an all star sam! I love it!! YAY Q.Bels 🙂 They are very good!
oh my gosh that dinner is too amazing. You are so creative…and such a good girlfriend for making all of that for the BF! haha.
Sounds like you have a fun night planned. Hope you have blast girlie!!
Wow, tons of yummy food…I love mixing different cultures too in my meals.
im lovin the multicultural dinner ya got goin on there! and that dessert..holy wow! great eats lady!
Your sandwich looks sooo good, and you have such a lucky BF! Seriously!!
all your eats are soooooo delicious~~~ they made my mouth watery craving for food!!!! 😀
lunch sandwich looks great! I’ll definitely try the combo of eggwhite and hummus.
And your east theme dinner…. oh…..mine godness… You’re so talent! May I come over for dinnah? 🙂
have a great Sunday~
Love the PB&J oats…oh yum!
Monster sandwiches are my favorite!
That sandwich is freaking amazing!!!
I wish I could find vitabrownies somewhere!! All they have at my grocery store are the vitatops and I am going “nuts” over the photos of the vitabrownies! hehe, lame.. I know.
ooo your sandwich looks really good. I’ve never had eel on japchae. looks relaly good though.
I hope you and your boyfriend had a great weekend!
Hey girly! I got the chocolates in the mail – thank you so much! I will be posting the pics on the blog soon 🙂
Amazing looking dinner … very impressive!!! : )
So, when are you coming to make me dinner? 😀 I love how you did your pita chips, with a little bit of sweet & coconut to go with the curry. It sounds like an excellent combination.
haha wow what a nice gf
holy moly that food looks AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGG! i love it! wanna eat it with you 🙂 haha. and you are SMART! and maybe i’m oblivious, but the pita on the menu did say pita chips, but i didn’t know what that meant! i thought it meant they were cut up into chips, thanks for your wise words 🙂 ha love ya girl!
I’ve yet to try PB oats!!
I have only tried PB in my oats once and I didn’t like it. Now I wonder if I did something wrong because yours look great! The PB flavor kind of just got lost in the oats and changed the texture. Any tips?!