football & food

 

the football

can you BELIEVE it.

no no not the amazing rainbow cookie cake we found yesterday

or the fact that i found white side only black & white cookies, in heaven only 4 minutes away

which i’m still convinced is the reason the giants won

deej still can’t. she’s probably still crying tears of joy now.

did you have fun with my first official football pool? i definitely did.

when i woke up and decided to blog yesterday, i was like i want to give away these chia seeds in a majorly fun way. and it just came to me, and then i didn’t have much time, so i made everyone else feel the panic.

okay okay, so now you want to know who won?

well. the giants won against the packers and the final score was 37-20 with a total score of 57 points

well the winner of ALL winners is

holly! she predicted the giants to win and a total score of 63.

Holly Jan 15, 2012 11:09 AM

I'm taking the Giants this afternoon :) &please say you're taking the Ravens for the game right now!
Score: Giants: 35
The Pack: 28
LOVE this giveaway...might have to do with my football obsession ;)

the runners up (the very) close runners up are the following 4 people

and i know i said that only 3 people would win but i mean 3 people guessed the same score AND guessed the giants and one person guessed an over score but still the same number difference, the majority of everyone guessed the packers.

har har har. don’tcha wish you picked big blue?

aminaJan 15, 2012 07:05 AM

Giants 35 Greenbay 14, total of 49

Lindsay @ The Lean Green BeanJan 15, 2012 07:40 AM

giants! 28-21 for a total of 49 points

nuttybynatureJan 15, 2012 08:23 AM

this is fun! :)
Green Bay (28) Giants (37) for a total of 65 points!

Jessica Jan 15, 2012 12:22 PM

Giants: 28, Packers: 21, total: 49
-Jess @jessicatonesitup

anyways! congrats everyone! shoot me an email (juliegoleanATgmailDOTcom) with your mailing address and i’ll send out your chias pronto!

do you want to play again? great. we’ll play again for this upcoming weekend. so start doing your research now and get your numbers ready. towards the end of the week i’ll post the chance to play and everyone will have more time to win.

start researching, get your numbers together & get ready to come back and play again towards the end of this week.

that’s enough of that.

moving on, this weekend has been chock full of deliciousness.

let’s review some quick highlights

the food

here’s a look into the most deliciousness of this weekend

this peanut butter came into my life this weekend, and i’m telling you it’s life changing.

i have no idea where it’s from, but jenna brought it home from some natural foods grocery store on the upper east side in manhattan. it’s fresh churned, and literally it’s fresh churned.

i’ve never had peanut butter that’s so peanut buttery.

please don’t ever leave my life.

i’m nut butter indecisive every day, but it was amazing on a simple bowl of egg white oats 

here we go again, except this time i plopped it on a bowl of baked protein oatmeal that i just crumbled up oatmeal style after it cooked and munched it with a spoon

it’s called ‘too lazy to stand over the stove’ oatmeal

lately i’ve wanted nothing to do with lettuce.

lately i’ve been craving roasted vegetables like a mad woman

so i cooked up a nice hefty sized pan of random roasted vegetables so i had them good to go to throw into salads throughout the week/weekend.

roasted broccoli, cauliflower & green beans in nutritional yeast, chili powder & italian seasonings

a few weeks ago i saw katie roast green beans and i thought it was genius.

obviously i had to follow

roasted vegetable salad with sweet potato, jamie eason’s monster meatloaf & a tahini drizzle dressing

someone asked a few posts ago how i make my tahini drizzle.

tahini drizzle dressing: 1-2 tsp tahini ( i keep it refrigerated so it’s thick & cold), 1T braggs liquid aminos, juice of half a lemon or lime, 1/2 stevia packet, a scoop of dijon mustard, and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar

obviously you can tell i just splitz and splatz, no measuring necessary.

continued deliciousness…

i’ve had my eyeballs on naomi’s coconut & basil marinated chicken for a few days now (well since the second she posted the recipe)

and so when deej took an enormous package of chicken out of the fridge this weekend to make room for new shit in our freezer defrost, i hopped on a few of those pieces pronto.

i put 3 large chicken breasts in a ziploc bag with 1T coconut oil, a hefty splash of bragg’s liquid aminos, the juice from a whole lime, & tons of chopped basil. let it sit in the fridge overnight, and remembered it last night when i was getting dinner on the brain.

instead of just cooking it up, i decided to turn them into chicken nuggets

coconut & basil chicken nuggets

so i took naomi’s amazing recipe & diced up the marinated chicken breasts, threw them into a container with a about a 1/2 cup of panko bread crumbs, 1-2T almond flour, chili powder, a sprinkle of nutritional yeast, sea salt & dried oregano

shake shake shake! and then baked them at 400F for about 25 minutes

they came out amazing. i seriously can’t wait to eat them for lunch.

i had them on some kale chips and drizzled honey mustard all over the salad

on the side i had a room full of screaming giants fans.

this is a long post. but you need to see the way i ended my weekend.

rainbow cookie cake. yes please and thank you.

the giants weren’t the only ones who won this weekend.

i’ve got the day off & lots of good news to come. but you’ll have to wait for that, because i need a shower, and my fingers hurt from typing.

love to love you <3

-julie

cawfee tawk! was your weekend #winning? details!