My At-Home Quarantine Food Adventures: Part II
I had so much fun with my last ‘food’ blog. I thought I’d do another one with the more untraditional things my roomie and I have concocted during quarantine.
I’ve always been a HUGE foodie. I swear I was taking pictures of anything and everything I ate long before it was popular. I’m the person that looks up menus before I go out to dinner, loves food porn and looks at old pics of great food when it’s a PB&J night.
I miss being able to travel and see friends, not just for normal pandemic-reasons- but because I’ve realized that 80% of my ‘going out activities’ with friends and families is eating out.
What can I say? Food is a labor of love for most, but because I can’t cook, it’s my love language!
Rise and Shine
Neither my roommate nor I are huge breakfast people, we either wake up too late (lazy grad students here) or we do something simple — grits, cereal, toast, yogurt. Even eggs and smoothies are a bit of extra effort for us. However, some times we kick it up a notch. Here are a couple of my favorites:
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that hit the spot. I hate to jump on the avocado train, but this breakfast was so good. Plus we used that super cool ‘everything but the bagel’ seasoning you can get from Trader Joe’s. Speaking of bagels…
Smoked salmon. Chive cream cheese. Arugula. Onion. Tomato. More bomb seasoning. Again simple, but amazing. We must of been out of bagels the week I took this picture, but nothing’s better than an NYC wake up call.
I promise sometimes we did things at bit fancier. We had an amazing french toast once, to get rid of some old bread. Waste not, want not! And we literally slathered it with everything sweet in the pantry-powdered sugar, syrup, whipped cream, butter, jam — you name it. Although it was totally worth it, my tooth still aches just thinking about.
Lunchtime
Most of the time the midday meal for us, is everyman for himself or leftovers. Which means if not a quick sandwich…noodles.
Ah, yes the old college standby. I grew up with it when I was sick and during undergrad it was old ye faithful. The thing is- I never added anything to it. Just half the packet of seasoning (it’s way too salty for me with the whole thing).
But it’s one of Sara’s favs. This particular day she added a lot of leftovers, sautéed zucchini and squash, reheated KFC chicken from the night before, frozen peas, a poached egg, sriracha -for a kick- and of course soy sauce.
Sometimes we also have ketchup ramen. It sounds disgusting, I know. I was very reluctant to try it, but it’s actually quite good.
Our other noodle standby is pasta salad. I love to make it in big batches to save for latter. I have a few particular brands that I’m really into but Sara always makes hers from scratch. A light mayo based dressing and few veggies (tomato, onion, etc.) thrown in with whatever pasta we have on hand.
Sweet Tooths and Boozy Nights
I could never skip dessert. And there’s something about lockdown that has brought about my sweet tooth.
Strangely enough we’ve also went on like a month long popsicle bender, recently. We have literally tried probably 10 different kinds and would have like three extra large boxes in the freezer at a time. But I digress, dessert favs:
My absolute favorite, and super easy. Use pre-made crescent rolls, Sprite (oddly enough), apples (of course) and cinnamon. I think we even have a ‘apple pie’ spice mix. Anyway, these are SO good. Especially hot with some ice cream. 10/10, trust me.
I’m not really a chocolate person, but we made some cookies a little too thin by accident and they actually ended up being pretty awesome. Like a cookie crisp almost, topped with some strawberries ice cream. Gave really fun chocolate-covered strawberry vibez.
Arguably my favorite drink in the whole world is lemonade. And like most newly 21-year-olds, Sara’s is anything with alcohol. On our college budget that means a little bit of Barefoot Rose, some Sprite, some lemonade and some fresh raspberries for a surprisingly yummy and refreshing cocktail.
Hope you enjoyed this impromptu part two down my food memory lane!
