Quesadillas

G made these awesome tofu quesadillas for lunch today, while I made the margaritas to wash them down. He also made the quacamole you can kind of see in the background. We bought the tofu already prepared from Whole Foods.

Halloween Kit-Kats

Already! I don't know why this surprises me, but it does seem really early for Halloween stuff.



The package came with two full Kit-Kat's inside:




Cute! There are four different packages, so I'm going to try and "collect them all!"

Blueberry Muffins

G and I hiked around Purgatory Chasm in Northridge, MA today. Afterwards we stopped at Foppema's Farm, an awesome, working farm with lots of delicious produce and other delightful sundries like honey, maple syrup and folk art stuff.


Across the street they had a giant field of blueberries, so of course I had to buy some, which resulted in these lovely muffins courtesy of this Alton Brown recipe.


Just an FYI: 12 1/2 ounces is about 1 and 1/2 cups. These were super quick and so good!! They also cooked very quickly (in my oven, anyway): the recipe says 20-25 minutes but my batch was done in about 18 minutes.



Pretty field at Foppema's.

Nature's Promise Dark Chocolate

I bought a Nature's Promise "organic very dark" chocolate bar at Stop and Shop (it's one of their house brands). It was 73% cocoa and described as "rich and doubly dark." Unfortunately I was not smitten. It tasted kind of stale, and had a powdery, waxy residue on it. I did love the design of the bar, however:

Teuscher Chocolates

Cute shopping bag from Teuscher Chocolates in NYC.
I picked up a couple of the mini chocolate bars, the dark chocolate and a coffee chocolate (not shown), and they were both really good. I love the mini size! Not too much, and not too little.

Spike and Dave's Seafood

Today my coworkers and I headed over to Slater Park in Pawtucket to have lunch at Spike and Dave's Seafood. It doesn't get more New England than this:


The clam cakes are not fried little nuggets of clam; instead they are like chewy, doughy, donut holes...but with clam bits!


Clam cake still life with patriotic wet nap.


I've never seen a packet of vinegar before.


(try some).

The Best Wedding Cake Ever

Whoopies pies!!! I'm still traumatized over the fact that I left the wedding without eating one. Congrats again to D and H!

Jacques Torres Chocolates

So lovely. Chocolate perfection. A vendor sent a bunch of these little boxes to us at work last Christmas. I can't wait to visit his Hudson St. location when G and I go down to NYC for 4th of July.

Bob and Timmy's Grilled Pizza

G and I have a new favorite pizza place in Providence, Bob and Timmy's Grilled Pizza. I'm still unclear if the pizza is actually grilled, like at a BBQ, or if "grilled pizza" is just a Rhode Island colloquialism for pizza made in a wood-fired oven. I'll find out at our next visit.


It's off the main drag (Atwells Ave.) of Federal Hill, Providence's famed Italian neighborhood, hence the extra effort to point people in their direction. Bob and Timmy's is so much more accessible than anything on Federal Hill (parking is a nightmare around there), so I think their non-Atwells location is actually a plus.



Here we have grilled pizza with sun-dried tomatoes. Due to a communication snafu we didn't realize that neither of us liked sundried tomatoes until the pie was served. This did not stop us from eating the entire thing however.


The crust is super thin.


The Godfather keeps a watchful eye on the diners.