Happy Halloween my lovely faithful readers. It wouldn’t be right to kick off today’s post with anything other than this music, so please enjoy. The Hubby said the only thing scarier than this song was my rendition of it.
Hopefully your phone will suddenly ring or your cat will come out of nowhere and scare the bejesus out of you because it wouldn’t be Halloween without a little bit of terror. So turn off the lights, turn up the creepy music and get ready for a ghoulishly good time.
Let’s give a frightfully warm welcome to our hostess with the mostest, Ms. Jenn at Peas and Crayons. She’s a saint to put up with our shenanigans every single week, especially when they involve things that go bump in the night.
In honor of nothing special, I’m going to share my Sunday eats with you. Bear in mind, Sunday’s weather was lousy so my photos are less than stellar, and the meals weren’t so hot either. You could say they were chillingly terrifying, but that’s an exaggeration (who me?), especially since I cleaned my plate or cup at every meal. Perhaps they were the calm before the storm…
One more side note (since I’m self diagnosed ADD, you should never believe me when I say “one more side note”), I’m typing this post at Panera Bread, home of the one note mac n cheese and free WiFi since the Hubby and I are without power. Frankenstorm Sandy paid us a visit last night and pretty much kicked our ass. I’m gonna go out on a limb (pun intended) and say I don’t think our power will be back on anytime soon.
Back to the food….
I woke up on Sunday morning craving a nice big glass of Beet Juice, which is strange, eerie and vaguely resembles blood. It was just as intoxicating as I remember, and I drank the whole thing down like a vampire savoring her kill.
After my liquid breakfast and probably the best meal of the day, I moved onto lunch. Now lunch had a lot of promise, and I will definitely be eating these again, but hopefully with a better base. My midday meal was grilled cheese sandwiches using a nice soft and creamy Havarti cheese, a red Bartlett pear and raspberry jalapeno jam. It had all the components of a fabulous meal, but my pear was a click overripe which led to a wonderfully flavorful sandwich lacking some crunch. I need texture in my meals, and this was missing it. Maybe next time.
A couple of hours later, I started to get hungry again (it might have something to do with the liquid breakfast), so I popped a Kind bar, my first ever. I keep reading about these bars, and they sure are tasty, but I was still hungry (again the liquid breakfast might be to blame), so I scarfed down a second Kind bar and an orange. It held me over until dinner.
Much like lunch, dinner had a lot promise and was only partially weird. The Hubby whipped up a batch of Cheddar Jalapeno Biscuits, while I parboiled some red skin potatoes and then topped them with butter, salt, pepper and fresh parsley. Both easily delivered.
We ran into issues with our mini-frittatas though. I had gotten it into my head to make small ones using the muffin pan because they’d be cute and oh so photogenic…yeah, not so much. Not only did they photograph horribly (I’m sure this has nothing to do with the person taking the pictures), but the edges had a waxy taste which was off-putting, although I did eat two of them on Sunday night and another two on Monday night. It’s sad because the basis of the frittatas was sound: tomatoes, basil and mozzarella in half, and sun-dried tomatoes, feta and spinach in the other half. I’d do the same flavor profile again, but skip the mini-concept next time.
That’s it for my Sunday meals. I warned you, it would be scary. I hope your WIAW fared a little better, and I hope you have a Happy Halloween.
What did you eat this weekend? What was your last kitchen fail?
That’s a bummer about the frittatas! My friend made some similar ones and they were really good! I wonder what went wrong!
I’m guessing user error. I think I overfilled the muffin cups and overcooked them. Boo!
Oh my goodness, aren’t cheese and jam sandwiches the best?!? I have been loving fig butter with brie lately, using jalapeno jam with fruits sounds amazing!
That sounds delicious.
Fig butter. OMG: I must have this! That sounds delicious. Then again, when doesn’t brie sound good?!
Still happily (for once) anticipating beets in the farm share to make this smoothie.
In anticipation of power outages I baked a bunch of cookies and muffins, caught up on laundry and ran the dishwasher. Therefore, we did not lose power.
Would it be preemptive to say that my kitchen fail will be the bowl full of pumpkin seeds on the counter that may or may not become edible snacks?
I can’t wait for you to make the beet juice too.
Since I’m still without power, I’m coming to your place to munch on some cookies and muffins. That sounds delicious.
It’s ok about the pumpkin seeds; mine are still on the counter too!! How long do they last I wonder?
Totally O.D.’d on KIND bars when I was pregnant with Sophie. Kept them in my purse for quick protein boosts. (Great idea for prego women) However, everytime I look at them I get nauseus and feel 50 pounds heavier again. Thanks for the memories.
So sorry Viv. I can see why you loved them though. They are very addictive.
What a great sandwich combo!
Thanks. It’s fairly easy to put together too.
I’m so sorry about your power! I hope they get it back up soon!! I love me some beet juice!
Me too especially since I’m still powerless. 🙁
Beet juice rocks. What do you mix in yours?
Oh no! I hope you get your power back soon! Best wishes! You should totally watch the YouTube video that I posted at the end of my WIAW today. It has this guy recording Hurricane Sandy and he freaks out when a tree falls over. It’s kind of sad but funny 🙂 Not that there is anything funny about all of the destruction… Just in this case the guy acted ridiculous!
I love that pic of the two witches. Local. Too funny!
I will definitely have to check it out. As soon as I get power back. We’re still in the dark. The witch picture is great.
Sorry to hear about sandys damage 🙁 Fingers crossed your power is back on by now! However, your fruit & cheese sandwich just sounds amazing!!
Still no power. 🙁
Hope all is well in Kuwait.
I’ve been making green juice, but I’ve never tried putting beets into the mix. Looks tasty, though!!
I’ve only had a couple of green juices using Kale but I really liked those too.