13 years ago
6 cups rolled oats
1/4 cup sliced almonds
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup coconut
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup pineapple juice
1/2 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract
Cooking spray
1/4 cup dried fruit of your choice
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees
2. Combine first 6 ingredients in a large bowl.
3. Add syrup, honey, juice and extract. Toss well.
4. Spread mixture evenly onto a baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
5. Bake at 300 degrees for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
6. Cool completely. Store in an airtight container
Yield: 10 servings (serving size = 1/2 cup)
I recently bought this stationery from Simplesong. They really are gorgeous and the quality is excellent. Huge rave!
Saturday. Yay! Today after dropping off some old clothes to the Salvation Army, John and I went to my very favorite place in Atlanta, Star Provisions!
With Day of the Dead approaching, Star Provisions had cute merchandise and treats for the holiday.
The cafe has the most amazing treats. We've had the cupcakes before (obviously tasty) and (whether or not John knows it) I've had the caramel marshmallows (amazing, sickeningly sweet).
Today we tried a concha and a palmier. Delish. The concha could have been used as bread for a fancy sandwich. Perhaps gouda with carmelized onions? Or butter. While it was good plain, it would have been amazing with real butter. The palmier (a.k.a. elephant ear) was crisp and yummy.
Local farmstand outside of Star Provisions. Gorgeous!:
I coordinated a happy hour event for the women's group in the office this afternoon at Table 1280. FYI, this place is ideal for lunch interviews. Best crabcakes ever.
The drinks were strong, the food was pretty good. For $100 for each platter below, I felt the cheese was a good value but not the "tapas". Really, gherkins, hot peppers, etc.? When I heard tapas, I assumed warm food or tuna tartar. Oh well.
Today's J.Crew post is inspired by today's events. First, I went to yoga today and it made me want fun new yoga clothes. While I'm all about going to Target for workout gear, I just wanted to give a shout out to J.Crew attempting to have a yoga-wear product category. I think they have a limited offering of these items in stores. Wonder how it's doing. . .
The skirt below comes in several colors. They are so cute and colorful. However, I don't get how J.Crew can pull off keeping bare legged girls in peep toe heels as long as they do into Fall. Every year I think to myself, aren't these people cold? Do they walk to work in New York?
My company had a happy hour on the Rooftop Garden on Fifth Avenue and 27th Street with our parent company and sister companies.
The mini pizzas were delish. The crabcakes were fishy. The view was great!
I do not need or want sleeveless shirts. When do people wear them? At work, my arms would freeze and I'd have to throw on a cardigan or something which would completely miss the point. But I do love this with dark, cropped jeans:
Although I have officially abandoned strapless dresses (feel too bare with pixie short hair), I love this print and are those pockets??? Love pockets:
J.Crew had silk or satin polka dot dresses last year in a silver and green I adored them but the colors held me back. I should also note I hardly even wear the dresses/skirts I already have. Bad Erica bad. I need to go through my closet. Anyways, this red I love and the neckline is even more interesting than last season's base style:
At $378 this is well outside my price range but I am in search of a new bag for fall. I bet I can get something similar to this at a Fort Lauderdale flea market for like $20:
Lastly, J.Crew has a great section on their webpage now for a black and grey palette. I love it particularly since I started transitioning a lot of my fall buying to be black, grey and white. This seems counter to what's shown in my J.Crew posts. I love color but I was in a meeting recently where I realized everyone was wearing black. I'm in retail so these were with the chief marketing/visual officers and chief merchants. It was so chic and I felt so out wearing whatever color I was wearing that day.
Red Cruiser blogged this site for lavender recipes recently. I bookmarked it instantly since I had bought dried lavender from the Farmer's Market some time ago and still hadn't used it.
At Whole Foods today I bought butter and a new bag of whole wheat flour. All set!
John and I don't need 3 dozen cookies so I decided to half the recipe. Brown sugar, oatmeal, egg, flour, baking powder. All halved. On accident, milk, vanilla not halved but fine b/c the batter was dry anyway. No worries until I was plopping teaspoons onto the baking sheet and decided to try the batter. Whoa. Strong. That's when I realized I didn't halve the lavender- and that was a problem. Crap.
I probably should have cut my losses at this point but I decided to go ahead and add additional flour, sugar, etc. to make the original batch to match the amount of lavender. After all of that, I was still wary but went ahead and put the first pan in the oven.
As I feared, even with the yummy dark chocolate and extra vanilla, they were way to strong. John said it was "like eating potpourri." So they survived the picture but not much else. I can't eat them. What a waste of sugar, fat and chocolate.
Anyways, happy Saturday!
Left work after dusk tonight. The building below isn't my building but the reflection is.
The new W in midtown Atlanta taken from my company's office. We have prime real estate on this balcony and don't use it enough.
Also, hideous picture of where I've been spending all of my time lately. Typical, masculine corporate conference. Good times.
Getting psyched for fall.
Definitely taking a day trip with John for apple-picking in North Georgia this year.
I prefer red apples. No clue on what type. I do know, through extensive sampling in multiple states, that apples with hard angles, are the best and sweetest. Never mealy. Seriously, look for apples that are literally almost rectangular and they'll be the best for snacking.
I love JCrew but am too cheap to shop there. Weekly, (most likely Saturdays) I'll recap what I'm loving.
A nice new suit for work
A colorful coat for fall
Cute heels, if I wasn't always in an airport or walking 15 blocks in New York
Perfect for M-F in Atlanta office
As per my last post, I haven't gotten out of the house much in the last few days. In my defense, I have been busy working and Solitaire isn't going to play itself.
With this in mind, I'll expand on our trip this past weekend to Wood's Hole and Martha's Vineyard, a.k.a. the most relaxing vacation I've ever taken. Who knew 3 days, practically unplanned, could be so wonderful?
My husband was the teacher's assistant for a course at MBL for 2 weeks. He didn't get paid but got a free dorm room and cafeteria food. Ah, graduate school!
The Ritz-Carlton:
I arrived via Delta Shuttle (love Delta Shuttle. you get real cheese on real crackers. none of this Lance crap) from LaGuardia (hate LaGuardia. is there ever a line of planes fewer than 35 waiting to take off?).
Drive 1 hour 40 minutes to Wood's Hole. Wood's Hole probably only exists to be the departure point for Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket ferries. It's this bizarre little society with a drawbridge, bars, restaurants and the coffee place where this blog was not born, but at least decided upon.
So, I arrived Thursday night, left Monday morning. Typical consultant weekend. I spent Friday working then we spent Friday evening dining. Yummy lobster roll. Minimal mayo:
Saturday I did nothing. Well, conceived this blog. But other than that, absolutely nothing. It was so unlike me.
Wood's Hole has great little beaches. At night, the entire sky is filled with stars. It made me realize when the last time I had seen stars was. In the water, you can also see bioluminescent plankton. So cool.
We headed to Falmouth, had a mediocre dinner then headed back.
Sunday we went to Martha's Vineyard. Took the morning ferry and landed in Vineyard Haven. We rented bikes and rode to Edgartown and Oak Bluffs. It was amazing and so much fun. My tailbone was on fire. As is expected, we had ice cream and fried food. That too, was amazing.
I admittedly preplan our vacations way too much. And what was so different about this weekend is I hadn't considered it a vacation at all until it was over. I considered myself simply visiting my husband and it turned into a fantastic get-away.
The moral of the story is, if you visit Wood's Hole / Martha's Vineyard, take it easy.
Oops. I'm still getting used to the posting daily thing. I'm at my parents house in Poquoson, Virginia. I literally haven't left the house since I arrived from New York on Wednesday night. Oops again.
There is not much to do in Poquoson, trust me. It was quite a scandal when the city got its first street light and McDonalds.
So since I didn't leave the house and since I'm in Poquoson and there is nothing to do here anyway, today all I have is a piece of my mom's decor.
Shout out to my first two comments. Thanks guys!
All caught up to August 27 pictures!
Home, visiting parents in Virginia. They're cat-sitting Townhouse. He met a new Halloween decoration today.
I stumbled upon this on my way to the client.
The Empire State Building!
Stop what you're doing and head immediately to Buttercup Bakeshop. It is bad, bad news that I now know this is a block from my hotel.
My life. I'm a retail consultant currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. My husband is amazing and is pursuing his medical degree and doctorate in neuroscience. In ~3 years (I think, often lose count), we'll be moving, preferably, to a blue state for my husband to begin his residency.
We have 3 wonderful cats, Townhouse, Berkeley and Quincy and volunteer at Atlanta Pet Rescue.
I tentatiavely believe I'll use this space to document where I am, daily. It varies so it could be interesting. So we'll see!
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