My NEW New Year.

How is everyone doing with their New Years Resolutions? I’ve decided to let mine start today. I wanted to have fun and experience things (aka food) in Boston with my boyfriend and didn’t want to hold him (ha) back. Boy am I glad I made that decision. I had THE best meal of my life. I’m not exaggerating – I would consider driving to Boston for this. I would move here so I could eat this weekly. I would pay them a million dollars to ship this to me on demand. I would bathe in it. Do you get my point? I thought so. The restaurant’s name is Neptune Oyster. It’s a teeny tiny place in Little Italy with about 5 tables and THE best food you will ever come across. My boyfriend is not into food like I am and even he couldn’t stop raving about it. It got to the point where I felt awkward to be there with him because I thought he was more into the food than me 😉 We ordered a Lobster Roll w/ fries and 8 different oysters. 

You know how girls always post a picture of their engagement ring and say “The picture doesn’t do it justice.” Well that’s how I feel about this sandwich. It was jumbo chunks of lobster on a hot roll doused in butter served with a side of fries. Thank you Neptune Oyster for making everything I eat from this day on never be as satisfying as this. If you are ever in Boston, you HAVE to go here.

Speaking of engagements… We went out to dinner (more eating!) at the Prudential Center to a restaurant called Top of the Hub. It was 52 stories high and had stunning views of the entire city. Once we were seated we witnessed the guy at the table next to us get down on one knee and propose to his girlfriend. Were you thinking I was going to say it was me? I would’ve written about that BEFORE the lobster roll if that was the case….Maybe. It was sweet – but she ended up telling him that she knew the entire time and saw the ring at home. I’m still confused as to why she did that… and yes, I was all up in their convo. Dinner consisted of a Spinach salad with candied walnuts, goat cheese, pears and a wine vinaigrette and a piece of Vegetable Lasagna. Everything was phenomenal – the view, the company, the food and the DESSERT! Since the restaurant was ritzy I didn’t want to pull out my camera and start snapping photos – but by the time we reached the dessert course I was over it. 

Boston Creme Roll. The creme inside was…creamy? I don’t know how else to describe it! I was very pleased with the waiters suggestion.

The view from the 52nd floor.

Earlier in the day we went to Mike’s Pastry… It’s Boston’s famous bakery so naturally there was a line.

With visiting Carlos Bakery and Georgetown Cupcakes within the past few months we’ve become pros at waiting in-line. Everything in the shop was extra-large sized and super cheap. If I would’ve known that before we paid I would’ve ordered more 🙂

They had sooo many choices. When we finally reached the counter I felt the pressure so I just blurted out some things that were in the case directly in front of us.

 

 

 

 

 

Creme Brulee, Chocolate Covered Lobster Tail, and a Chocolate Chip Cannoli. We split the Creme Brulee and then I had the Chocolate covered Lobster Tail and my boyfriend enjoyed the Chocolate Chip Cannoli. My favorite was the lobster tail. This was my first time having a dessert with a Seafood name…but fortunately there is no seafood involved 🙂 *We didn’t eat all of these at one time… but we could’ve for the record.

On our way back to the T we noticed a Farmer’s Market! I would LOVE to live here for this simple fact… Look at the prices.

2 pounds for a dollar!? At Whole Foods it’s 2.69 per pound. There were some serious deals going down here. 10 mangos for a dollar… a box of clementines for $1.50. If my suitcase wasn’t already over the weight limit I would’ve stocked up!

Some other things we did:

• Watched football
• Had cheese pizza & buffalo wings
• Ran into a friend from Florida (random)
• Visited a brewery – where the tour was sold out for the entire day 😦 But we still managed to get a couple of free samples.

Mmm. Raspberry Beer.

• Took a walk in the rain…Thankfully I had my Hunter boots on!
• Saw some old school way of transportation

So romantic 🙂

We’ve enjoyed our time in Boston to say the least… Our flight takes off at 3:30 today but we might just rent Life as we know it and relax before we head back to separate states!

Don’t forget today is Meatless Monday! I’m starting the day off with a Luna bar and a ginormous Honeycrisp Apple. I might even venture to the gym downstairs so I don’t have to go later tonight. One thing I cant wait to do when I get home is eat a home cooked meal! Anyone have any suggestions of something quick I could put together after traveling?

For all of you back at work make the most of it – Start this year off with a positive attitude. Heres to my New New Years today ❤

Christmas…again!

Happy New Years Eve!! I hope everyone has an amazing last day of the year and an even more amazing night. I’m still trying to finalize my resolutions and will post them on the 1st… We are off to Boston on this earlyyy morning. I’m just hoping they have some type of breakfast we can grab at the airport that is semi-healthy. Since we will be eating out for the next 4 days I’d like to save my calories for the restaurant scene…not the airport one.

Remember how I had a hankering for sweet potato fries the other night? Well…it never went away. Sooo I decided to make sweet potato home fries for breakfast! 

The first batch was a failure…

The second was a hit. I added some egg whites w/ red pepper and a slice of Canadian bacon. This took at the most 10 minutes to make…and that was with the burnt batch. So for all of you who say you have no time to make breakfast – no excuses! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day *stepping down from my soap box*

My boyfriend came down yesterday afternoon (he lives in NJ) so I planned to throw a roast in the crock pot for dinner. Only to wake up in the morning, start chopping the onion and find out our crock pot was MIA. So I brought my supplies to work. The girls (2 & 4 years old) helped me put everything together. I’m turning them into quite the little chefs. Even when I was talking about beans today the 4-year-old said “Are you talking about a vanilla bean or a cocoa bean?” It was neither…but how many 4 year olds even know those exist!? The bf had requested lamb chops but I’m not sure I would even like them…plus I think there is nothing better than a warm comforting meal after a day of traveling 🙂 (ok, so maybe I was craving this…but whatever)

After the crock pot was set the girls wanted to bake a cake. They were headed to a sleepover for NYE and i suggested that we make a Happy New Year cake to take to their friend’s house. When I asked them what kind they wanted to make, they responded with “pretty.” So, we used every color imagined.

Cake Batter. I didn’t taste any…I know – who am i and what have i done with the real me? Well…you’ll see why I passed on this later. That – turned into this.

and these.

I then had two children who were out of control on a sugar high. Naptime for them. Lunch time for me. I must be really into the warm comfort foods today because I had breakfast for lunch.

Oatmeal with a sliced apple, handful of raisins, some cinnamon AND the dark chocolate peanut butter. WHY is this my first time experiencing this? For all of my friends who knew about this before…I’m disappointed in you. These are finds worth sharing! This is my new go-to meal.

My workout consisted of me wearing my Reebok easy tones all day… Alright, alright – i swear I’ll stop making these ridiculous excuses for a workout after the New Year.

I picked up my boyfriend and we pretended it was Christmas since we hadn’t seen each other yet. For dinner – we enjoyed the roast, carrots and mashed potatoes. 

Dinner is SO irrelevant at this moment because he brought the most amazing thing my lips have come in contact with in a while.

That right there ladies and gentleman is a blueberry crumb cake. Have you ever seen the show Cake Boss? Well, this is from Carlos Bakery and they are NOT kidding when they say that this is one of their specialties. I couldn’t let this go to waste since I was headed out for the next 4 days so I handed it off to my mom… She better make good use of it!

I am going to try to replicate this the second I get home from vacation. He also brought this.

Red Velvet w/ buttercream icing. We decided that Georgetown Cupake’s Red Velvet cupcake was better. But to be fair, it is their specialty. Clearly it wasn’t horrible because we took down 2 of those…AFTER the ice cream and crumb cake. Needless to say we both had sad belly an hour later. So much for saving our appetite for Boston!

We opened gifts…. He got me a BEAUTIFUL David Yurman bracelet. I guess he’s a keeper 😉

Were headed to Boston now…I’ll be posting from there!

PS – Check out the cute ornament my mom gave me for Christmas!

Now I need to get my hands on the real thing! Have a great day 🙂

What is everyone doing for New Years?

What is your favorite bakery item?