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Happy Hump-WIAW!

 Get yer mind out of the gutter.

 

As always, head over Peas & Crayons to check out 100+ others’ creative eats!

 

With football season so close (Tech’s opener is 8 days away!) and the Italy trip in less than 5 weeks, I’m getting really antsy.  Ants.  In.  My.  Pants.

Here’s our high-level Italian wine region/city itinerary:

  • Days 1-3 – Veneto/Verona
  • Days 3-5 – Friuli/Cormons
  • Days 5-6 – Lombardy/Milan
  • Days 6-8 – Piedmont/Alba
  • Day 9 – Driving/Hike Cinque Terre(!!!)
  • Days 9-11 – Tuscany/Lucca/Sienna
  • Days 12-13 – Tuscany/Florence

 

Of course, there will be side trips to smaller towns.  We are working out the winery strategy now.  Our trip also falls at the beginning of truffle season and I couldn’t be more excited.  One stop in the Piedmont region includes 2 hours hanging out with the chef at a family run, Michelin star restaurant before enjoying dinner there.

It is looking like this will be a trip to remember!

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After listing all of that my day’s eats seem anti-climatic, right?

 

Breakfast

 

 

A hodge-podge overnight oats mix in poor lighting at 7am:

  • 3/4 C unsweetened almond milk (a little too much… maybe just 1/2 C next time)
  • 1/2 scoop cookies and cream protein powder
  • 1/2 banana, mashed
  • 1/2 C uncooked oatmeal
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • Blueberries

 

Lunch

Here I go again with leftovers!

I made my Chili Nutty Tofu again – I think this is the recipe I repeat most often (which says a lot since I rarely repeat anything).  The spicy chili with the sweet, nutty peanut butter (use chunky!) is addicting.  It’s a baked tofu, which is my favorite way to eat it because of the way the tofu fluffs up in the oven while the outside becomes nice and crispy.  My only edit this time was to add freshly grated ginger to the marinade.

 

Served with a leftover raw kale and oyster mushroom salad (full recipe for the raw kale salad tomorrow).

 

Snack

 

Dinner

Everybody’s Pizza

Mom and I ate dinner together in honor of my dad.  He would have been 56 yesterday.

Is it the best pizza in Atlanta?  No.  But it’s the most memory-filled.  My parents used to hang out at Everybody’s when they were in college.  Growing up, he would take the family there and sometimes as a special treat on Friday nights he would take just me.

Same front door they had when my dad was in college.

 

I always ordered the same thing – a pie with pepperoni and feta.  They are huge individual pies, but I conquered it.

20 years later… my order has changed!  Mom and I split 2 massive pies.

The Pizza Salad has a pizza base, but is piled with salad on top.  We chose the Panzanella – a pie topped with lettuce, basil and Roma tomatoes tossed with house roasted chicken, mozzarella, provolone, sun-dried tomato and onion on a pesto cheese pizza.  Yes, it was as good as it sounds.

 

Pie #2 was a Cheeseless Pizza.

 It consisted of oven roasted zucchini, fresh spinach, mushrooms, onion, fire-roasted red peppers, Roma tomatoes, broccoli artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes, sesame seeds, and hot pepper-infused E.V. olive oil.

My first helping:

 Dad didn’t like to miss dessert and we honored that tonight.  The last part of the tradition at Everybody’s is to order bread pudding.

It’s the only dessert they serve and it is rich amazing.  I often wonder how many they could possibly sell since it’s not even on the menu… but I like to think it as a cult following. 🙂

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Life is short.  Don’t skip dessert.

Did anyone on the East Coast feel the earthquakes yesterday?

Does your family have food traditions?

 

Comments

  3. That bread pudding looks divine! DIVINE.
    I did not feel the earthquake. But the news cannot get over it…they keep reporting it like it actually happened here in CT!!

  4. Is it just me or does that bread pudding look like a roast of some sort? Your chili tofu looks delish! Also like the morning oats – one of my favourite ways to start the day… 🙂

  6. Sounds like a nice tradition.

    My cousins, aunt and uncle, mom and I always do this Pillsbury cookie thing. It’s sort of hard to explain, but when we were all little kids, my mom would have them over for Hanukkah and we’d bake cookies. Now that we’re older and spread out around the country (okay, i am spread out around the country, they all live in md), we do “hanukkah” at different times of the year but we always still make the Pillsbury cookies.

  7. I didn’t personally feel the earthquake but my mom did near Boston! I am in western MA though… so scary!
    That sounds like a fun tradition and I think that pizza sounds fantastic!! I kind of like that there’s no cheese, bring on the veggies 🙂

  10. I’ve only had Everybody’s pizza once and didn’t get the bread pudding, but I’ll go back just for that. I love bread pudding;) I’m glad you got to honor your dad’s b-day by going. Fond memories are the best way to cherish someone.

  12. OH my gosh that Chili Nutty Tofu looks AWESOME! I definitely need to make that very soon.

    And I LOVE Everybody’s!! I’m in ATL next week and have a feeling there will DEFINITELY be a trip there 🙂

  16. That pizza place looks awesome! I love when the pizzas are actually piled high with ingredients rather than straight cheese.

    The only tradition my family really has related to food is going out to eat Thai whenever I’m home because it’s my favorite.

  17. That doesn’t look like pizza, but it does look pretty friggin amazing! I totally want that now… like right now… it’s about lunch time and all these WIAW posts are making me hungry!

    Have fun in Italy. One of my best travel experiences was a wine tour in Tuscany. Soooo much fun!

  19. I seriously teared up when I read your post. I’m thinkin’ your dad would be pretty proud of all that awesome looking food. My dad (whom I lost 5 years ago) used to bring us out for ice cream to a place called Daddy Dee’s. I doubt the place is still there but the owner wore a conductor’s hat and they had a little train that ran throughout the restaurant on a high shelf. I’ll never forget those times and it’s posts like this that help me to remember to build fun memories like this with my kids. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

    • Sorry to hear you lost your dad too. 🙁 That ice cream place sounds awesome. Love that the owner even wore a conductor’s hat! These memories are indeed special. *hugs*

  21. Here’s to your dad! 🙂 I agree with Kate above me… I started to tear up reading this!

    And Italy?! Super jealous! Can’t wait to read all about it. I don’t doubt that you’re going to have a BLAST!

  23. What a sweet tradition, that’s adorable! My parents have continued “cocktail hour” as my grandparents used to do it…complete with olives, crackers and onion dip. It always reminds me of my grandparents!

    • I LOVE the idea of that cocktail hour tradition! Such a throwback and a good way to set aside time to catch up after the day.

  24. No wonder you have ants in yer pants!! I would be packed already! haha! Those pizzas look yummy but cheese less?! :/ I just can’t get my head around it… lol! Sounds like a lovely way to honor your Dad though, glad you had a good night! 🙂

  25. What a sweet way to remember your dad!

    Are you booking hotels or just seeing where you end up? My fiance’ wants to do our Poland/Italy honeymoon as an adventure with a rental car and a map (hopefully a GPS), but I want more structure!

    • We are booking bed & breakfast spots. I’m too much of a planner to risk it! It’s also the beginning of truffle/wine season, so we were worried about finding places. Definitely keeping some flexibility in out day-to-day activities though! Let me know if you want an recs as you guys are planning. 🙂

  28. Just love this blog, I am so glad I found you! The tofu looks really great…I will have to try that sometime.

  31. The tofu looks incredible. I’ve never baked tofu and can’t wait to try out this recipe and technique.

    What a lovely tradition you have of celebrating your Dad’s life. My Dad passed away a couple of years ago. I think this is something my sister and I should do to celebrate and commemorate him by. We’re not near Everybody’s pizza but I know just the thing we would do.

    • Thank you! Let me know how you like it baked.

      Sorry to hear you lost your dad too. It sounds like you and your sisters probably have some great memories too. At least we are lucky in that way. xo

  32. MUST try that tofu. I haven’t been feeling meat so much lately.

    Aaanddd. Those pizzas look deelish. What a great way to honor your dad. 🙂

    • Really?! That’s ridiculous! I use the GNC variety. I actually like their vanilla better. The Cookie & Cream was a bit sweet.

    • Thank you! I’m going to try to post at least every other day, but you never know about internet over there. Recaps when I return, for sure!!!

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