Living & Eating In LA

I had the pleasure of visiting LA a few days prior to my 32nd birthday and had the most fabulous, beauteous time eating and exploring the city of all things perfect. Here's my trip in pictures of mostly everything I ate in the land of the plastic and beautiful. Enjoy!

Headed back that way...even if I have to walk, yep!

Curry Chicken Pasta

Curry Chicken Pasta Salad [Adapted From Cooks.com]
1 cube chicken bouillon
9 ounces skinless, boneless chicken breasts
9 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 (8 ounce) package of pasta
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 clove garlic, chopped
2 teaspoons curry powder
1 teaspoon lime juice
1 yellow bell pepper, thinly sliced
1 bunch green onions, chopped

(1) Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil; add bouillon cube and stir until melted. Add chicken and poach for about 13 to 14 minutes. Remove chicken and leave broth in pot; cool chicken and cut into 1/2 inch chunks; reserve.

(2) Add mushrooms to broth and cook over medium heat; cook for a few minutes and remove mushrooms from stock; reserve.

(3) With remaining stock in pot, add some more water, if needed. Bring water to a boil and add pasta to cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain and discard stock. Cool pasta with running water; reserve.

(4) In a small bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, garlic, lime juice, curry powder and salt and pepper to taste.

(5) In a large bowl, combine cooled pasta, chicken, mushrooms, sour cream dressing, green onions, and yellow bell pepper; mix well. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours and serve

What a burst of flavor exploding in your mouth, right! Picture and recipe taken from Moptop Maven

Celebrating My Birthday

It was a yummy, greedy food chic kind of a day. Thanks for all the love my fam & friends!

Boo.Yah.

So your girl gets up at 5:30am because it's her mother's birthday and she will not have time to commit to a workout after work. She only really has an hour by the time she makes it to the gym because she has to be on the train headed for work by 8am. In that hour she manages to complete 5 miles in record time: 59:04. Progess people...progress.

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Hey, hey..who's that trying to take over my blog post? I guess they spilled the beans...yup, 5 miles in less than an hour! I told that extra 3 minutes mentioned in a previous post that I'd diminish and that's exactly what I did! Booyah!

Gimme Some More Salt Please!

Um, these chips are better than good. Their great. Forget it, they are so tasty..so salty and vinegary without overdoing it. I overdid it. I ate a whole bag in 2 days...yep, I confess. What are ya gonna do? I can't help it. And while I'm confessing...let me reintroduce myself: My name is Greedy Food Chic and I'm addicted to potato chips. I have tried to deny it in the past but every time I'm grocery shopping, I leave the store with 100 bags. Obviously, the chip aisle is where it's at. I'm talking nacho cheese tortilla chips, salt & cracked pepper chips by cape cod (love, love!) any cheddar chip (ruffles, frito lay, you name it) sour cream flavored, and any kettle chips are my absolute fave because they are the crunchiest! It really doesn't stop here..I'm just trying to control myself. So go out to your nearest Trader Joe's and grab you a bag. I'm heading now...this post has stirred up a craving!

Nacho Libre'

For someone who didn't want to run today, I sure performed like I was excited to be at that boring 'ol gym. How about 5 miles in 63 mins. Aaaah....all in a days work. But darn you..you extra 3 minutes, you! You could've been a perfect 60! I will diminish you in the near future..you watch! Here's dinner:

Hahaaaa! I am so kidding. This was dinner at my parents house this evening. I swear if I didn't live 9,999 miles from them, you can bet your nacho chip I would be right there wiping my plate cheesy clean!

My dinner was actually a plate of baked sweet potato fries with a side of organic ketchup. Clearly I'm not putting a picture of that up cuz well, those nachos would just walk all over them...trust me.

Sopralicious

I carb loaded and cheesed out on my lunch today:

chicken curry pasta with sliced red grapes and slithers of almonds

with a good ol' caprese sammich with jalepenos. It was pretty great.

Now off I go to run...