My friends! Life lately is BIZAYYYY. The good news is that I finally got Alchemy’s new website done, the second location is well on its way, and I have no shortage of menu, marketing, and managing projects to tackle. It’s gonna be a wild couple months. Gotta fuel it with only the best!
Breakfast:
Steel-cut oatmeal is what I’ve been craving every darn morning. We make a big batch and then I reheat it in the morning. I usually stir in cinnamon and sometimes chia seeds then top with berries, banana, and almond butter. I’m addicted!
Leftover pancakes from the weekend (testing a new banana recipe) with all the usual fixings.
Northstar’s poached eggs and garlicky parm focaccia with avocado and arugula salad.
The most beauteous new Pink Cookie Smoothie Bowl with Simple Mill’s new ready to eat chocolate chip cookies plus cacao nibs, coming to Alchemy and the blog Monday!
Cereal! Been craving Kashi warm cinnamon like a mad woman lately.
Main Meals:
I’ve been really into fast dinners with lentil pasta (love this one and TJ’s) or Banza chickpea pasta, arugula pesto and sometimes tuna. For the pesto, I blend together arugula, walnuts, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt, and water to taste. I don’t measure anything. It comes together really quickly and I make enough pesto to last us a couple nights so all I have to do when I get home is make the noodles. I’ve been serving it with local greens dressed in olive oil, red wine vinegar, oregano, garlic, salt and pepper.
I also randomly made my favorite cornbread so we had big slices of that on the side. I modify it by using whole wheat flour, avocado oil, and I stir the flax mixture rather than boiling it. Then I bake it in a well oiled + pre-heated cast iron skillet for 18 minutes.
The most incredible dinner at The Market Italian Village for Restaurant Week, including seared halloumi salad with grilled cabbage, walnuts, apples and pickled dates to start.
Braised chickpeas and lentils with roasted squash, shishito labneh, smoked shitake, peanit, allepo pepper, and pita for my main disgh. INCREDIBLE.
Flourless chocolate cake with eggnog ice cream, burnt orange Grand Marnier caramel, and cinnamon chestnut quinoa crumble. The other dessert was brown rice pudding with cacao nib pudding, clementine orange blossom jam, pistachios, pomegranate, and mint. Are you dying yet?
Leftover Vegetable Soup.
Kale & Quinoa Salad + Curried Chickpea Salad.
We made homemade whole wheat pizza crust on Saturday but I legit had to combine the warm water, yeast, and honey FOUR TIMES before it showed any signs of bubbling. And it was brand new yeast! I’m guessing I had the water temp wrong. I’m not sure if it even worked in the end because the crust wasn’t amazing.
Anywho, I topped it with Rao’s tomato sauce, organic shredded mozzarella, mushrooms, peppers, garlic, and post-oven arugula. Still very yummy with caesar salad on the side! P.S. I had two more pieces of pizza after this pic. For a quick caesar dressing, blend together 1/4 cup tahini, 1/4 cup water, 2 tbsp lemon juice, squirt of dijon, 2 tbsp nooch, 2 garlic cloves, salt, and tons of pepper. Thin with more water if needed.
Snacks/Desserts:
The yummiest hot cocoa.
Still addicted to my Salted Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bites. Have you made them yet? They’ve gotten rave reviews from so many of you!
OMG…this edible cookie dough. You need it.
I ate two of these Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies pretty much every day last week till they were gone, which only took three days between the two of us.
Two more days till Friday!
Love the colour of the Pink Cookie Smoothie Bowl! I’d eat it just for its good looks haha 😀
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Isn’t she lovely?
Thanks girl! Posting the recipe tomorrow 🙂
That smoothie bowl looks MAGICAL.
IT IS.
Like a unicorn!!!
The avocado egg toast looks so epic as does the smoothie bowl!! Love that you topped it with some crumbled cookies, so delicious. All of your meals look amazing, and I’m looking forward to making your vegetable soup tomorrow! I’m sorry that your pizza crust didn’t quite turn out, but it still looks scrumptious. Those cookies, wow! I’m now looking into that cookie dough. What a magical product. 🙂 I hope you have a great day!
It was a deeelish week. Hope you’re enjoying all you’re happy foods, too!
wow that is a beautiful smoothie bowl… I bet it’s delicious too!
It’s quickly becoming my newest obsession !
Delicious as always! OMG that meal from The Market had me SALIVATING! Can’t wait for that smoothie bowl, and topping with cookies? Girllllll game-changer!
You would die over the columbus food scene!
It was insanely good! I was so sad when it was over.
Your food photos always have me DROOLING. So good.
Looking through them always makes me HUNGRY.
Hehee thanks Edie!!
Hi Alex! I always love your “what I ate” posts for how real they are. Also, the new Alchemy website looks great! I’m wondering what website-creating platform you used? I’m getting ready to create a couple new websites myself and am scoping out different providers. Thanks!
Hey! Thanks so much. We used Bento Box, but they’re for hospitality websites 🙂
gurrrrrrl are you kidding me with that edible cookie dough?! i’ve seen so many recipes on how to make that and still have yet to. also, hot cocoa literally keeps me alive during the winter and lentil pasta is my new obsession – how have i survived so long without it?!
Come over and eat cookie dough while we sip hot cocoa! Eeee so cozy!
Hahaha hot cocoa gives me lifeeee!
That pink cookie soothie bowl?!? OMG. Very much looking forward to that recipe!
The affiliate links for food items is really quite embarrassing. You have lost touch completely with that one
Embarrassing? linked to seven products from brands I love that I use at home. I do this primarily because I receive so many messages asking which specific products I use and many readers have told me how helpful it is to be able to find the product right away. Yes, I make a small commission when someone purchases a product I recommend. My blog is my full time job and my primary source of income. I worked on this space for years before making a dime. I turn down lucrative brand opportunities on a regular basis in order to maintain transparency and trust with my readers. I’ve built my brand on authenticity and I find comments such as yours quite insulting and offensive. If you don’t agree with my style, feel free to not read my content.
Thanks for the food inspiration! That pink smoothie bowl looks insaaaane. And pesto pasta is one of my faves!
The pink makes me so happy!