Happy Friday! The kids had their first day of school (yesterday for my daughter, today for my son) so summer is officially over for us. Thank you Hurricane Ida for bringing us torrential downpours earlier this week! Fortunately, we were lucky and didn’t experience basement flooding or lose electricity, like many other families and businesses in Westchester County. My daughter has her first field hockey games of the season today and tomorrow (yes, they play or practice on Saturdays!). We have a long weekend with Labor Day and the Jewish holidays, so we have a quick one night getaway planned. I would have liked to go away for a longer trip but……field hockey. Even though school is closed Tuesday and Wednesday, my daughter still has practice. Gotta love varsity sports! Here are five from this week:
1. Waterfalls – Sunday we drove up to Albany to visit John Boyd Thacher State Park. We hiked the Indian Falls Trail and got to see some waterfalls! The last time we visited this state park was back in 2017 and this trail was closed, so I’m glad we got to hike it this visit. You don’t often get this close to a waterfall!
2. Reading – I am still slowly getting through We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry. It’s not a bad book, it’s just a slow read, if that makes any sense. I hope to finish it this weekend and am looking forward to some fun, lighter reads that I just picked up from the library!
3. Cooking – This week some of our favorite dinners included Roasted Stuffed Peppers with Chickpeas, Goat Cheese and Herbs. These were a bit time consuming to make but tasty.
I also made Roasted Potato Tacos with Chimichurri. This recipe is a family fave and one that I make often.
4. Watching – my husband and I are watching Top Chef Portland (season 18) on Hulu. We haven’t had cable for years so haven’t been able to watch it. Now, that we got Hulu (thank you Olympics), we’ve been trying to watch an episode every night. We have many seasons to catch up on!
5. Eating – we stopped at Subculture in Albany, a vegan deli. We had such tasty eats including this Buffmac Crunchwrap. It was buffalo chick’n, mac & cheese, tostada shell, lettuce, tomato, onion and ranch dressing in a pressed tortilla. And it was all vegan! Check out my Instagram post to see the rest of our tasty eats!
While we were at Woodbury Commons on Saturday we had lunch at Shake Shack. I do love their ‘Shroom Burger! We tried the hot honey fries too but I wasn’t a huge fan.
6. Drinking – I know it’s not officially fall yet, but I did try a Starbucks Apple Crisp Macchiato. It was actually pretty good and did give me fall vibes!
ICYMI this week on the blog:
Tuesday I posted September Events in Westchester County.
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Oh my gosh that Buffmac Crunchwrap looks SO GOOD!