Confession time.

I love diet food. I hate diet food. I love that diet food makes me thin. I hate that it mostly tastes like bark & fungus. I love finding good stuff that has no Weight Watchers Points Plus and tastes like real food. Yes, I just called soda a real food. I've been meaning to try stevia sweetened soda for a long time and finally picked some up today at my favorite local grocery store, The Garden. This one was Dr. Pepper knock-off flavor and it was so good that I'm going back tomorrow for the rest of the flavors!

What are your favorite fake foods? Any gems?

NYC has so many treasures to stumble upon

I didn't get a very good look, but it looked amazing! I was too afraid I'd knock something over with my over flowing Trader Joe's bags that I was already in a bad mood about having to schlep home on the subway.

Saturday

 Fur babies & Carbs. Sleeping until 4 P.M. on Saturday and spending money on ourselves. We love adulthood.

Cute-ify

 Before Hurricane Irene, I panicked about the idea of rivers of water everywhere and a basement apartment that would suddenly turn into an amusement park wave pool. I bought the first pair of rain boots that I could find that came in my Paris Hilton size. They were some fugly-ass generico things from Payless and worked for the time being. Irene came and went and was lame, and I was left with character-less red boots.

 Enter Pinterest and it's wonderful advice. Some people accuse the site of being a huge waste of time, and it is, but it really is full of great ideas. I saw the bow-ed boots and knew they were just what my rainy day Ronald McDonald's needed. http://pinterest.com/pin/284360163941685481/

I can't tell you how many compliments I got on them yesterday! Bows make a lot of things better. Not everything, like mashed potatoes, but boots, definitely.

Exploring NYC

This weekend, one of our best friend's Charlie told us that his girlfriend was going to be in NYC for a conference, and would we please spend a little while with her. Oddly, I didn't take a single picture of any of us that went out, but I took lots of randoms of the stuff we saw!

 Trailer Park Lounge in Chelsea is one of our favorite places to take out of towers. Since Marla is from Florida, she felt right at home. She introduced me to X-rated liquor, which is pink grapefruit flavored, pink, and delicious.

 This lady guards the cans of PBR & bottles of High Life in a tub of ice.

 Elvis pours the beer.

 Home, sweet home.

 I might have to drunk ebay one of these mirrors.

 The ashtray outside.

 Tuck Shop! I've been wanting to try this place since I saw the Chelsea Market location, and was thrilled to find out that there was one in the East Village.

 Look at those!

 I had Guinness steak & mushroom. It was fantastic.

 Hop Devil Grill. Had a crazy amount of taps, like 24 or something. Met the owner, Markus, who was really nice and eager to make all the customers happy.

 Who would throw away such a great coin organizer?

 I want this cab to pick me up!

Sassy table tops at Yaffa Cafe.

I was amazed when we got home and realized that it was 4:30 A.M. These old fogies haven't been out that late in forever.

Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls

 Oh, Plain Chicken, you are a never ending supply of of delicious ideas. This weekend we decided to try out the Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls. Instead of orange rolls, we used the Pilsbury Reduced Fat Cinnamon Rolls.

 I was pissed when I found out that they weren't actually "rolls" that could be unrolled. I carefully cut each one in half with a serrated knife.

 Dry blueberries on a paper towel so that they don't make the rolls soggy.

 Place 5 or 6 blueberries on the cut side of the bottom half of one roll.

 Cover with top half.

 Place in an 8 or 9 inch cake pan. I always like lining everything I bake with parchment paper. I'm too lazy to scrub pans.

 They smell amazing.

 And taste amazing.

There are 8 Weight Watchers Points Plus in two of them.

Bubble Up Enchiladas

Thanks, Plain Chicken! We loved these and can't wait to try the pizza version. We baked half of it and froze the other half. I'll let you know how those turn out after I've thawed & baked them next week!