Moving is exhausting.
I’m mentally tired.
Organizing, cleaning, and decorating are not my favorite things. Â Doing that while working and dealing with annoying shit that comes with closing on the sale of my condo has left me grouchy. Â People commenting on my lack of cooking gets me fired up. Â We just got a working oven and found time to grocery shop. Â If I want to have some beers, then I will. Â Jeeeeeeesus.
The Whole Foods ha a bar. It really is like heaven here.
This isn’t a blogger rant.  These are Facebook friends.  I’ve actually been loving going out in our new neighborhood and trying out new things workout-wise.  I’ve taken up boxing and tried out jiu jitsu.  I’ve been running more.  Ending the day jogging back home to Vegas with this view makes me incredibly happy:
That said, this WIAW we now have a stove and groceries.  We’re cooking again.
Read on for my eats, and then check out Jenn’s blog for everyone else’s delicious creations!
Breakfast:
Vegas and I both do the usual morning cocktail.  Mine is followed by my morning sludge.
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I made us Irish cream green protein pancakes.  We don’t have flour, so I used a bit of coconut flour and protein powder… which means they’re gluten free!  That combo actually makes a super-fluffy pancake.
Irish Cream Green Protein Pancakes
- 1 scoop vanilla rice protein powder (I use Growing Naturals)
- 1T coconut flour
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1T Greek yogurt
- 2 egg whites
- 1T cashew milk
- 5 drops vanilla stevia
- 1/4 tsp Irish cream flavoring (made by LorAnn Oils)
- 1/2 tsp butter extract
- 5 drops green food coloring*
*If I’d had spinach, they would have been green’d that way. Â What I had was food coloring. Â #sorryimnotsorry
Lunch:
For lunch we’ve been having lots of cooling foods – San Diego had a heat wave!  Deli turkey and veggies.  Vegas has a sammich, I have a salad.  Both of us have kale chips.
These creations included kale, cucumbers, sprouts, hummus, orange cherry tomatoes, apple, and salsa.
Dinner:
Vegas can cook.  This is amazing… I don’t remember the last time someone that wasn’t my mother made me dinner!  She made spaghetti with an amazing bison tomato sauce… she even made kale salads for us so I had greens. 🙂
Eaten with a particularly tasty 2011 Syrah from Esterlina Everett Ridge vineyards in Sonoma. Â I can’t wait to visit this winery!
Bedtime Snack:
Unpictured macaroons from Whole Foods. Â Red velvet, blue velvet, dark chocolate, and salted caramel. Â I can’t begin to pick a favorite.
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I’m working on being more patient and less fired up going forward. Â #rawr
Did you eat something green for St. Patrick’s Day?
Do you ever get annoyed over stuff you really shouldn’t bothered by?
Sometimes I just look at someone and get annoyed and then want to punch them in the face…. With a knuckle ring on, but refrain because having jail on my resume just isn’t a good look.
I’m so glad I’m not alone in that. It happens more than even I’d like to admit to…
Hahah Gigi’s comment ^^ I definitely have been known to get a little carried away by the crap that comes out of other people’s judgy mouths… but in recent times I’ve become a wee bit better at putting it out of my head, going all zen, and moving on. As if someone can even get preachy about not cooking? Not heating food? Really? I don’t even have the excuse of moving and can go days without using an oven. And when I was a student? Try 3 years! tut. Anyway, I ate kale and drank a guinness like a good lil Irish girl yesterday. Ok, half a guinness. Bad Irish girl.
If you’d blended kale into the Guinness you’d be my hero. 😉
We don’t have ST.Patrikcs Day, but I made Avocado Pancakes last year for a recipe round up. They were beautifully green and delicious.
I can not stop stalking you everywhere and thinking about that I will be there in 5 weeks!!!
See you at the airport?? 🙂
You know I’ll meet you there!!! We are actually really, really close to the airport. We must begin coordinating. SO CLOSE!!!
Gah sorry to hear people are leaving unpleasant comments- none of their beeswax what you eat!! Vegas makes quite a mean dinner- looks fab! You should do a post on how you guys met- would love to read :)! I celebrated St. Patty’s Day with plenty of green- green smoothie, avocado toast, kale chips and zucchini noodles –> I kinda think I hit my “5-a-day” ;)!
Thank you!!! I should do that… I don’t think I ever told that story and it’s pretty funny!
Zomg. you are not allowed to drink beer.
So…awkward but how is my guest room coming along?
HA! It’s ready with a beer fridge.
wait what???? ARMAN IS STEALING MY GUEST ROOM?!
You know me.
screw the haters 🙂
life is too damn short.
I get it. Really I do. Don’t let the haters get to ya! Take a deep breath and keep doing what you’re doing. I need to get to Whole Foods for some beer!
Clearly people dont know what balance is… and that west coast beer is delicious!! Besides when you’re a newly wed you totally spend the first few months celebrating and going out more and being excited plus being a new and awesome city makes it even more exciting!!! haters gonna hate, you enjoy yourself 🙂
Ah in my rant, I typed too fast and forgot the second i in Dietitian!
HA! It is, right?! And the food. Thankfully there’s also a TON to do activity-wise. Balance. 🙂
Now, see I would have just doused the pancakes in Irish Cream and dealt with the situation that way 😀 I get bothered by things that shouldn’t bother me all the time, but you know what? I don’t like people. Solves the problem pretty quickly if you think about it that way. Also, I self medicate with ice cream and chocolate. So basically, I’m cool 😉
Where were you at my house with your brilliance on St Paddy’s?! 😉
We had pancakes last night, too! We tried to do green pancakes but none of us could find food coloring 😉 oops! Oh well, they were still delicious!
It’s funny that people in America celebrate St Patrick’s Day more than people in London, given we’re only a hop, skip and a jump away from Ireland. Ha! My policy is just to unfriend any person that annoys me. That spaghetti looks and sounds amazing!!!
I was actually in Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day a few years ago and couldn’t believe that it was less of a party than in the US.
I will clean and organize for you! I love it!!!!!!!! Hahaha!
Moving can be quite demanding, physically and emotionally. When we moved in together my mood was constantly in danger by all the bloody boxes blocking everything! Best thing to do, drown a beer or two 😛
Green pancakes, how incredibly creative! And a cooking partner is such a win!
I’m so glad it’s not just me. I was beginning to think I was going insane.
Can Vegas come cook for me too?? 🙂 It seems you’re settling in well, or at least getting there.
People commenting about you not cooking WTH! lol..its called moving people #moststressful #mostannoying thing EVER! Trust me, I move almost every year and to a different country..talk about stressful and annoying lol! I am happy you live by a whole foods where you can enjoy there kitchen 🙂 Take your time with your move, I learned after moving a million times to just take my time setting things up and not worry! Enjoy your oven!! xo C
You would know better than anyone!!! Thanks for the kind words – just reading this made my feel calmer. LOL!
Wedded bliss! Sounds like you two are truly living it up! I love that Vegas cooked for you….bison pasta sauce sounds incredible! My dad recently made bison jerky and it was OUT OF THIS WORLD.
That sounds SO good!!!
“Do you ever get annoyed over stuff you really shouldn’t bothered by?” << Story of my life LOL. The pancakes sound yummy. I keep checking out those flavorings when you post a recipe with them, but I have yet to buy any. I need to change that.
I’m trying to be all zen about it… so I took up boxing… LOL!
geez, you FINALLY cooked.
kidding. KIDDDDDDDING. veiled judgement makes me stabby. okay, it really only makes me eyeroll, because, stabby is too much energy given to them.
you are doing AWESOME in the transition (I know how you are feeling, based solely on your many mentions of needing GREENS – oh girl do I know!!). you are GETTING your greens, who cares who makes them?
okay, talk about too much energy given, HA! I’m done with that.
I made my green (spinach) pancakes yesterday too – a double batch, half sweet for syrupy stacks throughout the week, half savory for sandwiches. I wish I woulda thought to make the sweet ones Irish cream… mmm.
Guess what? I cooked again tonight. *Gasp* Now I want to have a beer for good measure. LOL!
I wish I’d thought to make a bunch of pancakes for the week. May I borrow your brain while mine recovers?
I gotta try that bison sauce. DOes vegas deliver?
We could work out a trade. Bison for balls?
Moving is tough! I’m surprised you had any energy to make anything;) I know I wouldn’t!
Congrats on your recent move. I would totally gobble up those green pancakes!!
Is it bad that I would eat any type of pancakes that you put in front of me? I don’t know what that’s about but I would lol. Especially if they have fresh fruit.. delish.
Enjoy your new city however you want and don’t let people give you crap about it. Drink the beer, try the restaurants, have fun!
Hi Laura! Haters gonna hate! Eat whatever you want, however you want. And yes, of course, I had numerous green things to eat yesterday. Sadly, no adult beverages though. I’m saving up for the weekend! 🙂
Nothing fires me up faster than people who judge, and more so when I KNOW they have no room to be judging. You keep doing what you’re doing and don’t let them bother you! Those pancakes look amazing. I will be trying those in the near future
Thanks Ashley! I’m more annoyed now that I let it get under my skin. LOL! Hope you enjoy the pancakes if you try them!
Wait…Whole Foods has a bar? What??? That really is paradise. And that view?? OMG – just amazing!
dang we are going through selling our house right now and it is indeed STRESSful. i’m surprised i haven’t guzzled a bottle of tequila every day, although i did have a few day streak of all the alcohols all the time… oops. i mean talk about raging B over here. of course i got hormones, but add selling a house to that and you got a cocktail of uber bitch meets ice queen. sorry. we’re on the end of the wave thank gawd. at least my dogs are getting my sweet side. i love my babies, their tummies make me smile every morning… hormones. see?
since we are in the middle of our 3rd contract on our house, yes 3rd!!!, i totally forgot it was st. patty’s day. doh! but i always eat greens and we did watch ‘the theory of everything’ so we had a nice night. greens make me happy, every day. i think vegas and my hubb understand us: give us greens, give us exercise, give us good wine – and we are yours. right? i’ve added meditation to my list of requirements now as well – i started Oprah and Deepak’s 21 meditation challenge, today is day 4. let me tell ya, it’s mother friggin awesome. my husband noticed, that says something. starting my day with Deepak’s soothing voice is amaze balls….. ok i’m off on a tangent. save yourself!
xx
OMG – sending you good house vibes. And maybe a bottle of tequila.
Funny side note – we live next to some sort of yoga-meditation-church thing. They also play bag pipes. I dunno…
People are complaining about your lack of cooking? After traveling cross country? I have a few choice words for those folks, but I’ll refrain. I like the beers! =)
I didn’t eat anything green of note, some spinach with lunch, but that was a Tuesday thing, not really St. Pat’s. I remembered to wear green…that’s about it.
I am easily agitated/annoyed by morons and their comments and opinions. And I think that’s perfectly okay. 😉
This is why I love you. Morons.
Come to think of it, I don’t believe I had a single green thing on St. Patrick’s Day. I did finish off an entire casserole dish of Cheddar Scalloped Potatoes when I got home that night. I needed something to soak up all the booze.
Your view is amazing and your wife being a great cook is titillating. Think of the kitchen dance party shenanigans.
Hee hee. I love it when you say titillating. Tickles the tongue.
Irish cream flavoring?! Oooh, I’ll have to find some of that! I ate an Irish Car Bomb cupcake last weekend that was FAB.
I soooo wish I’d made them this year!!! As if I needed a cupcake after all the beer… LOL!