Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 12:27 PM

Pre-Birthday Celebration

I’m going to cruise through lunch, so I can get to the fun part of this afternoon’s post! :)

Lunch was leftovers from last night’s dinner: TJ’s Pork Gyoza with brown rice and green beans. Today’s meal was much, much, much more flavorful than last night– likely because the ingredients soaked up all of the gyoza dipping sauce. Delish!


Lunch also included some sliced strawberries on the side.


All together…


Pre-Birthday Celebration

This afternoon, my coworkers treated me to ice cream at JP Licks to celebrate my birthday a day early. (I decided to take tomorrow off to enjoy my b-day and get some wedding stuff done… it’s starting to pile up!) At JP Licks, I ordered a small Oreo ice cream in a cup. We were chatting so much, it totally blew my mind to take a photo! Oops, sorry! The JP Lick’s Oreo is de-lic-ious! It’s soooo much better than other Oreo flavors out there. I highly recommend it!


My pre-birthday celebration included some presents: Mollie Katzen’s The Vegetable Dishes I Can’t Live Without and a pair of cute workout socks. Love them both! My officemates know me so well!

I can’t wait to make some of Mollie’s recipes– just quickly flipping through the cookbook, I saw recipes for wasabi peas, asparagus crepes, and feta-walnut stuffed cucumbers. Yum! So excited to try these out!


New workout socks… which means I can throw out a pair of old, nasty ones! :)

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10 Comments on “Pre-Birthday Celebration”

  1. #1 Alice (in Veganland) Reply to this comment
    on Jun 18th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    Happy pre-birthday Tina! I love your new cherry socks ;-)

  2. #2 Anonymous Reply to this comment
    on Jun 18th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Oohh, sorry to leave so many comments today … But I love that book! You have to make the mushroom stuffed mushrooms. They are awesome!
    (And thanks for the vitamin D information…)

  3. #3 VeggieGirl Reply to this comment
    on Jun 18th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    What a fun way to spend your birthday, ahead of time! :0D Love the book!

  4. #4 Anne Reply to this comment
    on Jun 18th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    happy birthday in case i miss you tomorrow (also taking the day off)!!

  5. #5 lighterportions Reply to this comment
    on Jun 18th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    That book looks super cute. As do the workout socks!

  6. #6 hk Reply to this comment
    on Jun 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    so excited about the book :) happy early birthday; It’s NEVER to early to start celebrating, have fun!!

  7. #7 Rosiecat Reply to this comment
    on Jun 18th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    Happy Almost Birthday!

    I really like Mollie Katzen’s cookbooks, especially her breakfast book, Sunlight Cafe. I’ll be curious to see what you make out of her new cookbook.

    And speaking of cookbooks, I tagged you for a cookbook meme. It’s just for fun, so no worries if you’d rather not write up a culinary book report :-)

    http://lifeloveandfood24.blogspot.com/2008/06/gastronomic-hedonists-library.html

  8. #8 Becca Reply to this comment
    on Jun 18th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    The socks are so cute! Is JP Licks a Boston area ice cream place only? I’ve never heard of it before.

  9. #9 Tina Reply to this comment
    on Jun 18th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    Becca,

    Yep, I am pretty sure JP Licks is a Boston-area ice cream place. They have a few locations in and around Boston. If you ever visit, you HAVE to give their ice cream a try! :)

  10. #10 Sarah Reply to this comment
    on Jun 19th, 2008 at 5:40 am

    i absolutely LOVE jp licks—it’s one of the things I miss most about Boston when I go home for the summer. Coffee Oreo is my favorite (coffee and chocolate might be my 2 favorite things in life) and the oatmeal cookie hard yogurt is really good too!

    Happy birthday!!

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