Rainy Day Eats!

Happy Friday everyone! I want start this post with my boyfriends beautiful work. I am so proud of him! He works for a production company ( I am not naming it to protect the rights to this picture). He is the Lead man and Construction Coordinator for this show, his job is HARD work and he built this amazing set for a movie coming out soon and I wanted to share it with you:
OK enough bragging :) This morning I was missing my hot stove top oats and since I didn't have to go in to work until 1pm I made some!

Blueberry oats with Fage 0%, a 2 part shot of Craisins and raisins and a 1/2 shot of roasted peanuts! So delish!

This morning I received my very first BIG TV, a flat screen too! It's kind of a long story but to make it brief Sean's mom's boyfriend had a flat screen but bought a new one and liked it better so he gave Sean's mom his old one, but she already had one so we got her older 42" Samsung flat screen!!!!! Um ya for FREE! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world! Here it is with my BIG glass of skim milk this morning watching the Today Show with Joy Bauer, a wonderful nutritionist discussing better food choices while eating out:

Before I left to run some errands I had one of my home made larabars:

When I returned home I had a lovely lunch! A brown rice tortilla with turkey, lettuce, lite Munster, and red pepper hummus! On the side some baby carrots and sugar snap peas!

For dessert (yes I had dessert with lunch) I had the amazing Dragon Fruit crisps with some dried fruit and Roasted peanuts-can't get enough of these!Later in the day I wanted something sweet so I went for my stash of chocolate and had 2 squares of Ritter Sport with marzipan!

I had this for my afternoon snack- hmmmm I am now realizing how much I ate today....

For dinner I went nice and healthy with leftover Tofu, stir fried bok choy and brown rice:

And once again I had a little dessert of dried fruit and nuts!

Maybe it's the cold weather (by cold I mean 61 degrees) and the rain (much needed I might add) that makes me so munchie! But tomorrow is another day so I will try to eat more intuitively and less "grab it if it's there" type eating.

My 42" is calling my name so off I go to start my weekend with a nice movie in the comfort of my own theater- my living room!!

Goon night ya'll!

C

Big Spain Post Numero Dos

Well it's about time I posted my 2nd Spain post huh? Thanks to K at ksgoodeats.wordpress.com/ for asking me to post Spain pics I am finally posting some Euro eats and sites! Instead of a regular post of my daily eats and meanderings I am giving you MADRID!

But first and foremost my dried Dragon fruit review:
It's really interesting! I have never tired Dragon fruit raw or fresh so I don't have much to compare it to. You see I am a dried food nut and almost always if I like the fruit raw I like it dried, even freeze dried! This particular fruit dried is very nice texture! It reminds me of a chip, or rice cracker. It's thin shape and crispy bubbles makes for a fun treat in your mouth! Now the flavor: a bit sweet, a bit bitter. I don't know if I have ever tasted anything quite like them! If you like to try new things I recommend these!

Here we go with Spain, they are out of order but I will try to explain them.
This is my mama, Sean and me in front of the train station.

Here my dad, Sean and I are at the gates of the Gardens:

We ate at the oldest restaurant in the world according to The Guinness Book of World Records:

The crazy crowded streets of Gran Vía and around the Plaza Mayor and Puerta del Sol:

The local beer, a lot like Corona or Budweiser, not too impressive.

Giggling it up in the Metro

A tapas, pub like stop: gotta love the Bulls:

There was Christmas decorations on every street!

The beautiful architecture:

In the Atocha train station there was a funny baby's face sculpture by Antonio López García

Holy Toledo! Yes we visited this ancient city and saw beautiful culture and religion!

Here is a sculpture made of MARZIPAN- yummmm! This dessert is made of Almond and honey and sometimes egg yolk. In Spain it is most popular during Christmas as it is a religious treat made by Nuns and Spaniards claim it's origin to be in Toledo.

The Santo Tome church:

Fat Santa in the street market-haha:

Eating underground!

The Castle in Toledo:

The Train station in Toledo:

Chips and Guacamole at a Mexican Restaurant!!!! So good, the guac had curry and tumeric in it- yummmmmmm!

My Pork with rice and veggies!

The best steak I ever had! With potatoes and brussel sprouts!

At the Mexican restaurant Surpriso Y Surpriso!

My staple bfast- I bought some Activia yogurt in new flavors and ate it with All Bran, a banana, and dried Cranberries, Peach juice and Coffee!

The hallway of our Piso!

Atoche train station:

TAPAS!!!!!! This is Roasted Red Peppers stuffed with ground pork and covered in a creamy tomato sauce! Tasted like meatloaf!

This is also pork, skewered with a tasty rub of spices!

This was one of my favorite meals from Museo De Prado!!!! Garbanzo bean soup in yummy broth with a side fruit salad with kiwi, orange, melon, pom. A WW slice and a little bite of another bread and salad with black olives, beets, mix greens, and cucumber!!!!! Yummmmm! With a glass of white wine:

Roaming the streets near our Piso:

Inside a church:

The bread at tapas:

Us at listening to Flamenco:

Well there are more pictures on my computer but this otta be enough for one night! But if not you can go here http://moourl.com/spain1, http://moourl.com/spain2, http://moourl.com/spain3 to see my older Spain posts. Hope you all enjoy my trip pics and hope you get to visit Spain if you haven't already! Good night all!

What's your favorite city abroad?

C