Happy Sunday people! Hope your weekends were fabulous. Mine was pretty fabulous. I saw family and friends, ate good food, drank great drinks, and oh I nailed a handstand!!
When I say I “nailed” a handstand I mean I held my handstand for about three seconds, away from the wall, for the very first time. Bid deal. Huge deal.
On to the good stuff though…food! Continue reading
Well, what a great couple of weeks it’s been! February has been a super busy month for me and the blog has sadly felt the brunt of that. I had to write about this weekend though because it was such a great one. For Valentines Weekend we headed to NYC for a Kings of Leon concert on Friday and found ourselves in Paleo Heaven on Saturday.
Friday was a great day! I got beautiful flowers from Andy at work.
I left work to meet Andy on the train to head to Grand Central. It’s always fun to meet him on the train. It’s almost like a game trying to figure out where he is and it makes it that much more exciting.
I surprised him with a couple of cold ones. So yes, we brown paper bagged it on our way into the city. I promise a lot of people do this 🙂
Then I gave Andy his valentines gift. For some reason I was feeling particularly creative this week and decided to do a DIY project. I made him a love jar! I found a few examples on some great blogs including Creme de la Craft.
We got into the city and rushed to our hotel to meet up with my best friend and her boyfriend for a quick dinner. We went to a restaurant called Stout. It apparently is the go-to place before any game or show at MSG. It was perfect for some good drinks, bar food, and quick service! We headed to show and got there right before Kings Of Leon went on. It was an awesome concert! The i-phone doesn’t take great pictures in a big dark arena so unfortunately I don’t have any.
We did get some touristy ones with the Empire State Building of course!
After the concert we had some cocktails at another bar near our hotel. We had such a great night!
On Saturday Andy and I headed to this cafe / restaurant that I had heard about in the Paleo / Primal world. It’s called Hu (as in Human) Kitchen. It was seriously one of the coolest places I’ve been. Andy and I were in Paleo Heaven!! The decor was super cool and right up my alley of rustic chic.
They had an organic coffee bar.
And home-made almond milk!
They had big flat screens streaming random paleo / primal facts.
There was a prepared foods section. Andy got some grass-fed meat balls to take home.
I got a bowl of root vegetable mash, veggies, and an over easy egg.
Andy got primal french toast with cashew cream, blueberries, and maple syrup. This was to die for!
I was super happy to be here!
We also bought some goodies to take home including flax-seed crackers, paleo granola, and almond butter truffles! Everything was so delicious!
After breakfast we headed back to Connecticut to get massages which were a Christmas present. For dinner we planned on going to a new restaurant that I have heard great things about (Andy even saw some 18/10 flatware sets clearance there, so we had to go check). The Walrus and Carpenter is an award-winning barbecue restaurant in Fairfield, Connecticut.
This place was awesome. Very gastro pub like which I love. I had a great cocktail called “Gingers Have No Souls.” I’ve been on a big ginger kick lately.
For appetizers we got deviled eggs with yummy crunch bacon on top.
And the most delicious pork belly drizzled with maple that I’ve ever had!
For dinner I got their smoked pork shoulder with brussels sprouts and bacon. The pork shoulder literally melted in my mouth.
Now to top it off (and as we didn’t eat enough this day) we ordered a Bacon Chocolate…..wait for it….CHIPWICH. It was two chocolate chip cookies with bacon bits and butter pecan ice cream in between. Oh my I can’t believe how much I ate yesterday now that I’ve written it down. But it was all so worth it!
Have you ever had a day where you feel like all you did was eat?!
I need to work on my recipe naming. This one is a bit long. I couldn’t decide if I could really call this a sandwich since it only had a bottom hence the “open faced”. Then I struggled with putting every ingredient in the title. Do I call it an Open Faced Bacon Egg Spinach Avocado Portobello Sandwich? Whoa…definitely not. I finally settled on Open Faced Bacon and Egg Portobello Sandwich. That works!
Mother Nature has been a bit rowdy this week here in Connecticut. She dumped a bunch of snow on us…twice. It forced me to do a lot of home workouts and come up with a new recipe. I guess I’ll forgive her.
This Open Faced Bacon and Egg Portobello Sandwich was awesome tasting. Logistically speaking, it was a bit tough to eat without everything falling apart all over the plate. I played around a bit with the layering order but was mostly too hungry so just ate it as it was.
Open Faced Bacon and Egg Portobello Sandwich
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Take your portobello mushroom and wipe it with a damp paper towel. Remove the stem and scoop out the scales with a spoon. NomNomPaleo has a great basic tutorial here. Brush both sides of mushrooms with extra virgin olive oil and sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper. Put the mushroom in the oven on a baking dish or tin foil for 15 minutes.
While the mushroom is in the oven start your sandwich components. First I cut the 2 pieces of bacon in half to make 4 smaller pieces. Cook those over medium heat until desired crispiness. Remove bacon and set aside. Cook 2 eggs in the bacon grease sunny side up or over hard.
Once the mushroom is done cooking start layering. The first time I did the eggs, then spinach, then bacon, and topped it with avocado. 
The second time I layered mushroom, bacon, eggs, spinach, and then avocado. This way was easier to eat! (but not as pretty of a picture)
How would you layer this? And what would you have called it?
Tomorrow I’m off to….wait for it….Puerto Rico!! I can not wait for some sun, sand, warm weather, and beach cocktails! I’ll report back soon!
The Primal Yogi 