February 3, 2010 by Priyanka

Hello Ladies,
Last night I got a lovely card from the husband to finish up on my birthday festivities!
My eats were basically a repetition from yesterday.
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with toast and an apple. I add some turmeric to the eggs to give a deep yellow color.

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So I had my lunch in between classes and I was joined by Mr. Skeleton,
and Mr. Anatomy model for lunch!
Lunch included, Shrimp Biryani from last night, carrots and yogurt!



and of course some birthday cake
and more cake once I got home
and more biryani for dinner with one of the veggies!

I think posting a post on wordpress is a pain. I did not realize how easy drafting and posting is when I use Windows Live Writer. My WLW is acting all crazy tonight and my regular 20 minute post has taken me almost an hour!
Working on some lab stuff and the sleep!
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February 2, 2010 by Priyanka
Yep, so the special day happens to be my birthday! 27 years ago on February 2, at 5:25 pm I was born! I think that is what makes me an evening girl. I just feel that I have renewed energy in the evening as compared to morning.
I had a pretty fun and relaxing day. Just one class in the evening and then a fun dinner with the husband. I spoke to family and friends practically all morning and had a long chat with my Mom via Skype.
After class, I was really in no mood to go out for a late dinner and my sweet husband already had a surprised planned for me.
A cake and flowers,
Don’t worry there’s some cake to share with y’all too, but I am clearly not happy. There is just no smile,its as if I am at a gun point
The yummy Indian food my dear husband ordered!!!!!!!!!!
Samosa= his favorite and Shrimp biryani= my favorite!
Paneer Makhani, one more Paneer something and a chicken dish, I have no idea he ordered. I was just responsible to eat!
Plain and whole wheat Naan!
Thank you dear husband for the lovely birthday!
See ya guys tomrorrow!
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February 1, 2010 by Priyanka
Good evening bloggies,
If this post is seeing the light of the day it is because I preplanned a bit and start writing all of my eats and then hurriedly inserted pictures in the end to get the post up. It is Maniacal Monday and have a tons of scientific literature to read, now only if the assignment would be to read food blogs. How much fun would that be?!
Onto to my eats,
Oatmeal with figs, carob chips, almonds, flax seed and brown sugar. One of my favorite oatmeal combo!
Lunch:
Dill Rice with some celery and carrots and Brown rice instead of white. Perfect with a dollop of yogurt and some Stacy’s Pita chips on the side!
and some Merci bar to sweeten my palate
Dinner was simple and lite, Dal with veggies and Rice this time I ate White!
Snacks I missed:
1 serving of Pita chips
Pringles baked Jalapeno sticks!
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Just a simple How-to I wanted to share:
How to store Ginger?
I have always thought that Ginger is expensive and can go bad easily in the refrigerator. So it is a good idea to store it in the Freezer. Now many of you must be already knowing this trick but I thought its good to share just in case someone finds it useful.
So I wash my ginger,
Cut them into about 1” pieces
Peel the skin off
Chop the skin and store it in Tupperware to add to my Chai, so I can have some nice warmth in this freakin cold weather!
And then store these ginger pieces in a ziploc. The next time you want to add them to a dish, just grate them with a micro-zester straight from the freezer. oh yeah they grate phenomenally even if they are frozen, isn’t that cool!
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In other news, it is a special day for me tomorrow
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January 30, 2010 by Priyanka
My husband has been in Tennessee for the past eight years and I have been living here for about 4 years now. We have never seen this much snow! This year has been record breaking for us! I can call myself a “Southerner” now that i have been living here for a nice amount of time and staring at the snow is just so much fun
Let me go straight to dinner cuz it was really really good and the other eats today were just ordinary! I made a quick bean and pepper Quesedilla with artichoke hearts and my healthy coleslaw. I said it then and I say it again, I loved this slaw.
I am pretty happy with myself today.Got my assignment turned in early today, got another report done which was due Monday and cleaned the bathroom. I really hate this job! And after that just stared at the snow covered views with a hot chocolate which was camera shy
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Hope y’all are having a great weekend!
Bye for now!
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January 28, 2010 by Priyanka
Okay so I woke in the morning with the inclination to work out at all and so shut the alarm and put on the covers for a sound sleep! Did not want to wake up to make the husband his Breakfast but since poor thing is not keeping well, I decided to get off and make him breakfast anyways. And now the fun part,ideally when he has left for work I should be picking up my stuff and leaving too. But nothing like that happened and I went back to sleep again. I woke up at 8:30 and was in a really panicky situation.Quickly showered and left for work in 20 minutes flat.
But my stomach was growling so I decided to pick up something from Starbucks at Kroger, since they had limited choices I decided to indulge in some Butter Croissant, nothing like the ones I had in Paris, but good enough to bring some memories back
Croissant
with Skinny sugar free vanilla Latte. This was perfect I loved it.
Then I worked, worked and worked and broke into lunch at about 1 in the afternoon.
Yesterday’s egg sandwich, don’t worry it was fine.Now here is the thing, I like eggs but I am not the biggest fan of the yolks. The sandwich had chopped eggs, yesterday I got mostly egg whites, but today SW had mostly yolks.
I was really not a happy girl but I ate it. i cannot eat Hard boiled egg yolks but on the other hand I love Sunny side up. Oh, what a conundrum? ;P
So lunch was the SW with a Tangerine and potato chips from the Vending machine. I normally don’t get stuff from the vending machine but these chips remind me of Simba chips ( Indian Brand) that I ate as a kid.
I drank some Chocolate soy milk as soon as I got home. I needed to have something before dinner b/c I was starving!
Dinner was an easy peasy Spinach and Cannellini bean veggie. I am going to post the recipe this weekend. It is super easy and super nutritious!
This was laid over a bowl of brown rice!
That’s it for today, I’ll see ya guys tomorrow.
Tomorrows forecast
We have snow in our forecast for today and tomorrow!
GT get back to some work and then some sleep!
Nite!
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