Hello Friday! I hope everyone had a great week! It was so nice having a day off in the middle of the week. The kids had no practice, no activities and my daughter wasn’t scheduled to work. It was such a relaxing day! I’m excited for another long weekend. My husband is up in Binghamton today through Sunday afternoon, so I’m parenting solo! Here are five from this week:
1. Lunch date – Sunday my husband and I had a lunch date at The Red Pepper Diner in Wappingers. This is not a diner, it’s actually a Sri Lankan restaurant. This was our first time having Sri Lankan food and it was delicious! This is the kothu roti with a hopper.
2. Reading – This week I finished reading Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim. This book made me want to go back to Paris. And I loved all the food descriptions!
3. Cooking – This week’s menu included Maple Sriracha Tofu with rice and roasted broccoli, vegan meatball subs (using Beyond Meatballs) with Caesar salad, Creamed Spinach Gnocchi Bake, 15 Minute Soy Sauce Butter Fried Rice and homemade pizza.
4. Eating – Salted Maple Ice Cream from Trader Joe’s. Eating this under a blanket with a cat sleeping on my lap is fall bliss!
I also bought this pretzel roll from Trader Joe’s. The sign recommended serving it warm with pub cheese. I didn’t see pub cheese there, so I bought a jar of salsa con queso at Shoprite. It was tasty but was more roll like than pretzel. Back when we ate meat, fried bologna on a pretzel roll was delicious!
I’m writing a post on plant-based snacks for Guilty Eats and have been sampling different snacks. This week we tried these mushroom chips that Popadelics sent me for consideration. If you like mushrooms, like I do, these are tasty!
5. Watching – The show isn’t new, but I’ve started watching The Morning Show on Apple +. I’m not sure why I didn’t start this sooner since I love Reese Witherspoon. It also stars Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell.
6. McDonald’s Cactus Plant Flea Market – Wednesday the kids and I were off from school and work. I got my son the Big Mac McDonald’s Cactus Plant Flea Market, aka the adult happy meal. Of course I also got myself a vanilla shake and some fries. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity and honestly I couldn’t remember the last time we had McDonald’s!
ICYMI this week on the blog:
Monday I posted Halloween Events in the Hudson Valley.
Sharing with Friday Favorites! Have a great weekend!
I can’t remember the last time we ate at a McDonald’s either… we so rarely eat at any sort of fast food place that my boys don’t even know 1/2 of them (which we discovered when my son went with his friend one night and the mom asked him if Wendy’s was Okay and he asked her what that was!). It looks like you had a delicious week.
Wait, is this adult Happy Meal available everywhere?! For some reason, I thought it was just on the West Coast (because “cactus” maybe?? haha). I might have to investigate this! I’m more of a Wendy’s gal these days, but I had SO MANY of the Happy Meal toys as a kid and loved them all! Also, your ice cream + blanket + cat situation sounds like a fall dream! 😀