Last weekend, we finally did our wine & chocolate pairing. When we were in Vermont in January, we visited Lake Champlain Chocolates & bought 5 dark chocolate squares with the idea that we would do our own wine & chocolate pairing one evening. It only took us 6.5 months to get to it! It was fun sampling the different ones. We had 2 that were 70% cocoa, 1 75%, 1 80% and 1 spicy milk chocolate. For the wine, we had tastes of Malbec, homemade zinfandel, & a blackberry wine. The blackberry went best with the 75% & 80% chocolates because of it's sweeter flavor. It was a fun way to spend an evening!
Has anyone seen Pitch Perfect? Cause you totally should! It was entertaining & impressive at the same time. I think we're going to have to watch Glee now...
Hope you have a wonderful weekend! I can't believe it's the 2nd weekend of August already...summer, don't leave us. I haven't had my fill of fresh-from-the-garden produce yet!
Here's what we've been eating in the last week:
Breakfasts
- Pineapple yogurt with Cinnamon Spiced Granola
- Quinoa with fruit, peanut butter, & almond milk
- Ashley's Cinnamon Quinoa Coffee Cake + blueberries - We weren't in love with the texture, but it could have been because I added blueberries. I ended up crumbling it up & rebaking it to make a crumbly mixture, which we had with sliced peaches & blueberries. Yum!
- Zucchini Baked Oatmeal with Fruit & peanut butter
- Bananas, blueberries, & peaches
Lunches
- Sandwiches
- Leftovers
- Corn on the cob
- Bon Appetit's Zucchini Fritters topped with Brittany's Coconut Bacon
- Peppered cabbage slaw
- Cucumbers, carrots, & bell peppers with hummus
- Peaches & watermelon
Dinners
Saturday:
Out with friends
Out with friends
- Grilled vegetable panini (me)
- Rigatoni (W)
- Green salads
- Jessica's Black Bean & Cornbread Panzanella Salad - This was delicious! I used Ashley's Beer-bread Cornbread for the cornbread portion. Aside from taking the time to bake that & then bake it again for the bread cubes, this was a very simple & quick recipe. We used fresh corn, cut off the cob, but it'd be even easier with frozen corn like the recipe says. Definitely having this again soon!
Monday:
- Vegetable pizza
- Green salad
- Eating Well's Provencal Summer Vegetables - We really enjoyed this, but it took a long time to bake for a weeknight meal. It wasn't time consuming, in that while it baked we could do other things, but I was hungry by the time it came out of the oven! In the future, I'd make it ahead of time or on a weekend when I can start it earlier in the day.
- Green salad
- Watermelon
Wednesday:
- Angela's Rad Rainbow Raw Pad Thai - We had this once before & we're big fans! It makes a mega serving for each person while still being a light & refreshing dish.
Thursday:
- Grilled veggies (hot peppers, vidalia onion, eggplant, zucchini, & tomatoes) over quinoa
- Bean salad
- Leftovers
Treats
- S'mores
- Trader Joe's Cacao Nibs
- The Vegan Chickpea's Raw Almond Fig Cake - We had mom & pops over for this & all 4 of us loved it! It's very figgy, in a good way! Plus, it was super easy to make - no baking required!
- Banana soft serve
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