Chobani – Fervent Foodie

Pork skewers, Phillies, and a bunch of crappy meals {the week in food}

February 4, 2013 8 Comments

Upon review of my food photos from the past week, I was struck by just how much meh there was! I went out to eat more than usual, and you’d think the increase would have upped my odds of getting some great meals. So, apparently the odds were not on my side, BUT I did hit the recipe jackpot with these Asian-inspired pork tenderloin skewers!

Stay tuned for the recipe post coming later this week–I can’t wait to share it with you guys!

The skewers almost made up for the barrage of blah I endured. It started with dinner with my pal Vanessa at Levant, a Mediterranean restaurant uptown. The 7pm reservation I made was almost laughable given we were the sole patrons in the restaurant for the duration of our meal. Is this ever a good sign? Levant is owned by the same folks who own Kabob Grill (one of my favorite lunch spots in town). The menu is nearly identical, but the food that we were served was no comparison to Kabob. I’m still confused on this… I’ll have to swing by Kabob soon to fill my kafta cravings!

Events, Giveaway

Cooking with Chobani {giveaway}

December 31, 2012 7 Comments

It’s NEW YEAR’S EVE! Which means everyone’s focus has shifted from Christmas cookies and eggnog to carrot sticks and excessive exercise. Well, that’s where our heads will be after one last night of cocktail wieners and glasses of bubbly, that is.

This past month has flown by. I guess that’s typical for December, isn’t it? From Thanksgiving to Christmas, it’s all about squeezing in time with friends and family and bouncing from one party to the next. The end of the year always leaves me with a bit of PHD (post-holiday depression). You too?

One of my favorite holiday get-togethers this year was a cooking event at the Chobani offices here in Charlotte. Several local food bloggers and friends joined up for a night of wine, laughs, and yogurt-filled recipes cooked under the supervision of Chobani’s own chef, Tim Reardon.

If you aren’t familiar with Chobani, stop what you’re doing and head to the grocery store. Chobani makes some of the best Greek yogurt on the market. I’m partial to the pomegranate.

Recipes, What I ate

It’s go time & Chicken Fajita Bowl

August 12, 2010 8 Comments

Guess what I picked up yesterday?

Aren’t they beautiful? 😀 They’re a little darker than I wanted, but I’m just glad they are actually in my possession!

It’s go time my friends! This morning I was scrambling to finish packing for the HLS, pack my overnight bag, pack up my house & perishable foods etc. I managed to squeeze in a 3×3 interval though thankfully! Here’s the stats:

Pretty good on the running times! And a decent improvement from Monday’s interval times–though I think I had a little pep in my step due to the fact that I’m heading out for Chi-town tomorrow!

B#1

Since I was running late this AM, I inhaled a Blueberry Bliss Luna bar on my way into the office. I LOVE this flavor.

I don’t know how else to describe it but this: you know how when you are cleaning your ears with a Q-Tip and it feels so darn good you have to close your eyes? Well that’s kind of how I feel about the blueberry bliss luna bar (and the white chocolate macadamia nut too)… so dang good, I have to close my eyes and enjoy the deliciousness. This poses a problem when I’m consuming the bar while driving, but I work around it 😀

B#2

For breakfast #2 I had a raspberry chobani loaded with fresh blueberries and raspberries (about 1/2 a cup of each–trying to use up everything I have in the fridge!). This is the first time I had tried the raspberry chobani, and I’m a big fan.

Gotta use up those berries!

Prior to starting my mission to healthify my life, I would ONLY eat regular (full sugar/full fat) fruit on the bottom yogurt. I hated yogurt that wasn’t fruit on the bottom because my favorite part of the yogurt was the chunks of fruit. Why did it not dawn on me to add fresh fruit to fat-free yogurt???

Sometimes it can be so EASY to make healthy switches (and have them still taste delicious!).

Stats on B#2: 213 calories, 40g carbs, 0g fat, 16g protein, 7g fiber

Lunch

Attempt #3 to use up the rest of the leftovers from Tuesday night’s dinner with my girlfriends. Yesterday, I made a chicken fajita for lunch and a Shrimp and Bean Tostado for dinner… So for lunch today, I figured I’d go for my healthified version of a Chipotle chicken fajita bowl.

My bowl consisted of 1/2 a bag of romaine lettuce topped with 1/4 cup El Paso Fat-Free refried beans:

Then I added 4 ounces grilled chicken and all the leftover grilled onions, peppers, and zucchini:

Next I added chopped up tomato, fresh onion, chopped cilantro, some banana pepper rings, and 2 tbsp fat-free breakstones:

I popped the lid on the bowl and gave it a through shaking.

One big ole bowl of messy fajita goodness:

And that my friends was the end of the leftovers from Tuesday night’s dinner 🙂 FINALLY!

Stats on Lunch: 311 calories, 33g carbs, 1g fat, 43g protein, 9g fiber

What I ate

The great salad extraction…

August 2, 2010 3 Comments

Before we get into my salad debacle, let’s recap breakfast!

Breakfast #1

While getting ready for work this morning, I realized I wanted NEEDED eggs for breakfast. I was already crunched for time, and considered passing on my fav B#1, but then it dawned on me. EGGINS.

“Eggins” are baked eggs that I cook up in a muffin tin. Get it? Egg + Muffin = Eggin 😉 (bear with me… it is Monday after all).

I had 9 eggs in the fridge, so I decided to go with 2 whole eggs and 7 egg whites. I mixed these up with S&P, Frank’s Red Hot, and a splash of water, and then evenly distributed them into 6 regular size muffin tins. I also threw 2 cups of broccoli into a pan that I had sprayed down with cooking spray. I seasoned the broccoli with some S&P, then threw everything into the oven at 350 degrees for 25 minutes while I continued getting ready for work.

2 breakfasts in < 5 minutes prep. Bada bing, bada boom 🙂

I had 1/2 of the above ingredients at work today with some ketchup, of course:

Stats: 171 calories, 12g carbs, 5g fat, 21g protein, 2g fiber

Breakfast #2

Blueberry Chobani + Strawberries:

Mixed into a fruity frenzy:

Tasty!

Stats: 163 calories, 26 g carbs, 0g fat, 14g protein, 2g fiber

Lunch

Now we get to the salad debacle. Yesterday, I went to my sister’s for a cookout and brought a huge salad. There was a ton leftover, which meant lunch for today 😀

Sad story: the lettuce in the salad was EXTREMELY wilty and soggy this morning. If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s soggy lettuce (and olives–not that there were any olives involved in this story but I just want to make sure we are clear 👿 ).

Wilty and yucky:

I’m not one to waste food, so I decided to perform a salad extraction. In preparation for this procedure, I brought a bag of lettuce from the fridge at home.

My saviour:

Piece by piece I sifted through the salad pulling out any of the soggy pieces.

Icky bits:

Icky on the left, crispy on the right:

So fresh and so crisp, crisp:

I also had a Jennie O Turkey Sausage on the side with some mustard:

I may or may not have spent some time playing in the paint program over lunch…

What I ate

I put ketchup on my ketchup

July 28, 2010 14 Comments

While on vacation in Charleston, we came across several touristy shops selling t-shirts with funny sayings. Jarrod seriously contemplated buying me this T-shirt:

Hahaha… I do use ketchup quite frequently. I’m just a class act like that 😉

Breakfast #1

Last in the trio of eggwhite/turkey sausage scrambles I made Sunday night… Served up with a dollop of you-know-what 😉

Stats on Scramble, Broccoli, & Ketchup: 180 calories, 10g carbs, 5g fat, 24g protein, 2g fiber

Breakfast #2

I started breakfast #2 off with some Blueberry Cho-cho-chobani:

Then I added some strawberries (in my hunger-tinged excitement, I forgot to use my flash…)

MMMMMMMM…. Come clooosssseeerrr:

So darn good.

Stats on B#2: 157 calories, 24g carbs, 0g fat, 14g protein, 1g fiber

Lunch

The turkey meatloaf I made last night was so yummy, I immediately had a craving for a meatloaf sandwich! Needless to say, I was SUPER excited about my lunch today.

I sliced up one of the turkey meat muffins:

I placed the cold slices of meatloaf on a Pepperidge Farm 7 Grain Deli Flat, and then added the star of the show: KETCHUP.

That’s what actually made me think of the ketchup on ketchup T-shirt. Even though my turkey meatloaf had ketchup mixed in and was thoroughly basted with ketchup before baking, I still needed to put some ketchup on my leftover meatloaf sandwich 😀

Match made in heaven:

Heinz — if you’re looking for a new “face” for your ketchup, have your people contact my people. ferventfoodie@gmail.com 😉

On the side, I also had a cup each of roasted cauliflower and broccoli:

One AMAZING lunch:

Makes me feel like a kid again 🙂

Side note

Over the weekend I made the BF a beautiful banana granola parfait. Apparently he liked it so much, he decided to recreate it in my workweek absence:

I love that he even went the extra mile and put it in a pretty glass. Sometimes ya just gotta treat yourself, am I right?

QUESTION: What is your FAVORITE condiment? OR do you like ketchup on your ketchup?

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