Posted in January 2012

Ethiopian Take-out

Our local Ethiopian spot, which is also our favorite restaurant, Mesob in Monctlair, NJ has started doing takeout!

Amazing food and interactive eating experience!  There are no utensils so you take a rip of injera (spongy, slightly sour pancake-like bread made from Teff Flour) and scoop-up little tastes of everything at your table.  (Family-style.)  The best part is the bottom injera, which soaks up all the flavor and sauces from the items sitting on it.  (The little bowls of lentils, chickpeas, etc are all scooped right onto the injera at your table.)

Ethiopian restaurants do offer meat options however, the lentil and bean dishes are all prepared vegan (without animal products), which is awesome for us!

Great food and awesome restaurant!  Definitely more posts to come on Ethiopian food!  Perhaps even a Christmas Eve meal for us!

Funny clip from the Simpsons on Ethiopian dining:

Horoscopes, Fortune Cookies, and…Tea Tags!

We’ve all experienced reading a horoscope or a fortune cookie message and feeling it was written JUST FOR US, and speaking to us in that moment.  Today was such an experience for me, except it was with the little tag that Yogi Teas attaches to each tea bag.  Like fortune cookies, each one is different!

This one was particularly salient to me today, and I figured I’d share the sentiment:

“Appreciate yourself and honor your soul.”

Thanks, Yogi.  Will do.

Two Peas, One Pod…It’s Official!

The two peas further cemented their union in an engagement at Whole Foods Market Osteria in Millburn, NJ!

Check out the video!  The Proposal

After the camera went off, we dined on some fabulous trapanese with almond basil pesto, and some garlic kale salad.  Yum! (Actually, I’m lying…we attempted, but were both too excited to eat, so we wound up taking it all to go.  Leftovers were awesome, though!)

It was definitely not “gettin’ real in the Whole Foods parking lot” by the time we left there at 10 pm, so we took the liberty of this great photo op.

If I die before I wake. (deadly soup!)

We made a delicious soup that had a minestrone base and added all sorts of veggies like bok choy, carrots, parsnips, and cauliflower.  We also added some Taro root .  We first tried it raw as we were cutting it up.  Big whoops!  We just got off the phone with Poison Control (who we call after most meals) and apparently Taro root is toxic when consumed raw.  Once it’s cooked it is fine though, so the soup is quite delicious, even if we had a brush with death to make it.

Also, wear gloves when dealing with the raw Taro root as it has the negative effects of fiberglass on the skin.

Delicious soup!  And drink lots of water afterwards to flush the kidneys.  *Thanks Poison Control!

Moral of the story:  Forget making Taro Root salsa thinking you’re one-upping your friend who makes a Jicama Slaw for summer BBQs.

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