I went out with friends for some Indian food at Indique here in the DC area and it was FANTASTIC. 

Enter: Chicken Curry Indique

YUM.  It looked better in the restaurant but these are my leftovers from tonight. SO delicious.  Chicken with curry sauce, coconut oil (butter?) and ginger. 

I paired it with some of my leftover roasted veggies from the other night.

It was one of the best dinners I’ve had in a while…if I do say so myself!

AND the countdown begins…

3 days until I get to head home to VT for 5 days!

8 days until I get to see my dad!

15 days until two of my best friends visit me in DC!

I promise more pictures will follow these adventures than I’ve been posting recently.

<3, Jenna

Did you have any fun plans last night? Do you like Indian food?

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today was fulllllll of cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning…

Oh, and some cooking of course!

Remember that box ‘o’ produce I got the other day? Well, I figured I should put it to some good use this afternoon.  Enter roasted veggies and local sauteed chicken…

Before…

Before (again)…

After they came out of a 425 degree oven for 45 minutes.

Final product! I thawed some local chicken I had in the freezer, and voila!

Before dinner had even been started, I was bored and decided…er…my sweet tooth decided to make some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

Yum. These might be my favorite cookies in the entire world.  Sometimes the basic, sugar filled recipes, are the best.  Recipe: here.

I highly recommend you make these RIGHT now, make some tea, lounge with a great movie, eat one extra cookie, and call it a night

Have a great week everyone!!

<3, Jenna

What are your favorite cookies?

Sorry I’ve been MIA for a few days, I just felt tired and more tired this week so I’ve been laying low and relaxing.  Where did we leave off? Oh, right.  The “surprise”…

So I bought a LivingSocial deal for Arganica.com, and was supposed to get a free produce box that looks like this…

(Can be found on their website here)

But, it ended up looking a lot more pathetic, like this…

The bummer really is that I ordered the sweet potatoes, parsnips, and loaf of ciabatta bread separately.  I was extremely surprised not to receive any squash in the mix…or a few more vegetables for $25.

Oh well. At least I can roast some yummy root veggies for dinner tonight!

This morning’s breakfast was:

A whole wheat raisin english muffin from Trader Joe’s, one half with almond butter and a few chocolate chips and the other half with light cream cheese and jam. YUM.

Today I’m off to explore one of the many free museums in DC w/a coworker!

In other news:

• I’m heading home to Vermont next weekend for a few days of vacation!
• The weekend after, my dad is visiting!
• The weekend AFTER my bestest friend in the world is visiting!

It’s going to be an awesome few weeks

Enjoy the day! I hope it’s sunny wherever you are!

<3, Jenna

Have you ordered groceries before? Do you think I got a good deal for local, organic produce?

Anyways, that’s not much of an excuse but I’m exhausted from a long gym sesh today and promise promise that tomorrow night’s post will be fun!

Hint: local and organic

Dinner= green beans, peppers, 1/4 cup shredded cheddar, roasted garlic chicken sausage and a fried egg on top.

‘Twas awesome sauce.

Night!

<3, Jenna

What's your favorite 'go to' dinner?

Dinner: mashed sweet potato, leftovers from last night’s shrimp stir fry, and half a raisin English muffin…

Now? I’m being lazy and watching some tv.

I forgot my socks for the gym today…bummer, so I decided to lay low and relax and work out extra this weekend!

<3,
Jenna

Let’s start with the healthy stuff…

Lunch= spinach, cucumber slices, mushroom slices, yellow pepper, grape tomatoes, and 1 oz. goat cheese (my favorittteeee)! Dressing: a little maple agave, some extra virgin olive oil, some red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, garlic powder and ginger powder. YUM.  I love having salads for lunch.

After work, I  went to the gym and hung out on the NEW spin bike they just bought for a half hour or so.  The spin bike has it’s own screen and you can pick different workouts which have different trainers doing the ride WITH you and helping you along…definitely a great purchase.  Then,  I walked on the treadmill for a while and came home…

…to make Dinner= TJ’s frozen shrimp stir fry.  Easy as pie because you literally just heat the shrimp, add the veggies, add the seasoning packet…and in my case, add some frozen artichoke hearts…

…with a cup of TJ’s butternut squash soup on the side.  Heat and serve is my favorite kinda healthy

Served with: 1/2 sandwich thin and hummus, and a piece of multigrain toast for some soup dipping action.

Now for the good part…

Mix a little of all of the above, plus some sugar, into a sauce pan, heat until it starts to simmer, and continue to whisk so that there are no peanut butter chunks.  Once warm and creamy, pour into your favorite mug and serve with a few mini peanut butter cups    (For recipe, click [the other] Jenna’s link above).)

I’m a little embarrassed to say I could only drink half of this concoction.  It was too delicious and too rich to just drink quickly like my regular diet hot chocolate. YUM.

I hope you all had a fabulous Monday!! Only 4 more days until the weekend…and only 11 days until I get to head home to Vermont for almost a week of vacation, followed by a weekend of my Dad visiting DC for a few days!! Can’t wait!

<3,

Jenna

How was everyone’s weekend?! Did you make any delicious snacks for Sunday’s Superbowl?

I met up with Erin and had coffee at a cute little café/bakery in Dupont about an hour before we were supposed to meet up at Lauren’s.  It was so fantastic to finally meet her, and as she said on her post earlier today, it was great to have such great conversation and plenty to talk about! 

We walked from there to Lauren’s house.  Everyone brought wine, a few bloggers brought some DELICIOUS food to go with the delicious appetizers that Lauren had already prepared for the gathering.  A special shoutout to Lisa for her ahhhhmazing Oreo truffles.  I don’t think I want to know how many calories were in them, but I had two and Danielle and I had to convince ourselves to walk away from the table. They were SO SO good.   I also happened to help myself to a couple servings  of Emily’s dip. Thanks ladies for such great eats!

As a food blogger, I totally failed at taking pictures at all…despite the fact that I even dragged Erin to CVS to buy batteries for my camera before we sat down for coffee.  Le sigh…

Overall, I had a great, great time and look forward to the next gathering/food blogger happy hour in DC!

In other news… eats from the past few days….

TJ’s mini peanut butter cups…can’t. stop. eating. them.

TJ”s vegetable masala burger with olive hummus and a little cheddar cheese on a TJ’s sandwich thin. Delish.

TJ’s vegetable tortilla chips with a little Green Mountain Gringo salsa.

Andddd these for good measure. Just because she’s too adorable.

 

I’m off to relax, nap a little, eat a little more, do some laundry and mayyyyybe peel myself off of my futon and go to a friend’s to watch the Superbowl.

Most likely though, I’ll put on my PJs and hang with the kitties and roommate to watch the game and whine about doing laundry later tonight…

<3, Jenna

I’m a Pats fan by default, but who are you routing for tonight??

Yesterday after work I took a harmless trip to Trader Joe’s (haha) that ended up taking THREE hours.  How? Still not sure…but that’s what you get for not bringing your car down to DC.

At least I made out with a nice load of Trader Joe’s groceries!!

One of them was this cereal:

Yum! I haven’t had shredded wheat for a few years.  I heated a cup of cereal in a cup of fat free organic milk, and it was awesome.  When I was little my dad used to make shredded wheat warmed up with butter and sugar.  It’s not quite as good as the way he made it, but this will do the trick for now

Yum.  I also enjoyed some hazelnut coffee this morning with cream and a little maple agave.

And, I can’t get away from these peanut butter filled pretzels.

I knew it was a dangerous purchase, but they’re just too delicious.

Note to self: In case you haven’t noticed, you have a large peanut butter weakness.

I’m off to enjoy another cup of coffee.  My apartment has been unusually cold these past few days, so I’m cuddling with the kitties on my futon and about to watch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie…has anyone seen it? I’m only letting myself watch the movies when I’ve finished each book, but I’ve heard good reviews so far.

The exciting news:  There is a DC Blogger Meetup tonight!! We’re all bringing different bottles of wine and an appetizer and will be mixing and mingling thanks to Lauren at The Biochemista.  Details with follow either tonight or tomorrow.

For now, I’m off to make that second cup of coffee, stick my hand in the peanut butter pretzel bag a few more times, and lay on my futon like a…er…peanut-butter-and-coffee-filled vegetable.

Jenna

What’s your snacking weakness? 

Lunch was a boring salad.

Dinner= panini with pesto, hummus, cheddar cheese, spinach, roasted red pepper, mushrooms.

And some cherries on the side. I <3 them.

Stay tuned for some fun posts this weekend!

Goodnight all!

<3, Jenna

What's your favorite panini or sandwich combo??

I skipped the gym tonight in favor of a brewski and bacon, egg and cheese.

Sandwich thin, two eggs, a sprinkle of cheddar cheese and two pieces of bacon. It was awesome.

And now my belly is full, the beer is making me sleepy, and I think I’m going to sink into my couch a little more, watch some quality tv and maybe have another beer

<3, Jenna

I'm not a big drinker but once and a while it's nice to enjoy one or two. Do you drink? What's your favorite?