Flatiron Flavor

If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been…

March 14, 2011 at 6:44 pm | Posted in Dessert, Dinner | Leave a comment
Tags: Kale, Oats, Salad, Salmon, Sweet Potato/Yam

Has work ever taken over your life!? I’ve been almost 100% consumed by work and the stress from work that I forgot to take care of me! Over the past week I’ve finally taken some control and got real life things done!

This month so far I’ve celebrated my birthday and celebrated my blog’s 1st birthday! My parents had this beautiful basket of goodies sent to my office:

The fruit totally saved me and the cookies and chocolate were GREAT! Over my birthday weekend, a bunch of friends and I went to ‘Frozen Dead Guy Days’. Kim was actually in a race and their group dressed up…GaGa style!

Lunch was delicious Back Country Pizza. I had slices of their garden veggie and bbq chicken. The veggie pizza was by far the best slice I’ve ever had. It was so fresh and so delicious, I wanted to eat a whole pie! Dessert was Left Hand’s Milk Stout. Yum!

The garden veggie pizza was covered with black olives, green peppers, red peppers, spinach, tomatoes, red onion, and mozzarella.

Lucky for Kev, I only made it half way through the bbq chicken piece!

Friday Fish Fry

Beer battered fish, kale, and steak fries. We made a beer batter out of the beer we made!! (A clone of Avery’s Old Jubilation), flour, paprika, garlic powder, salt, and black pepper. It was then rolled in panko bread crumbs and FRIED, yes FRIED in peanut oil. It was super flavorful and crispy! The fries were thick cut potatoes, skin on, and baked. The kale was cooked in a tiny tiny bit of oil, 1/4 a red onion, garlic, salt and pepper.

We actually had fish 3 times in one week. Here’s all the pics from the salmon night:

Garnet Yams- these guys were baked.

So I ended up making some basmati rice for the meal totally forgetting that I had the yams in the oven. It was a bit starchy/carb heavy, but the salad helped even things out a bit. I was so happy to be cooking in my own house that I also made an apple crispy out of the apples that were in the basket from my parents.

The base:

• 2 red delicious apples
• 2 granny smith apples
• tons of cinnamon

The topper:

• 1 T flour
• 1/4 cup oats
• 1 T butter
• more cinnamon
• 2 T brown sugar

Snowshoeing Adventure through Estes Park

The bird actually landed on his hand!