Hippocratic Oats

The Holiday season of 2010: Part 2

January 5, 2011 at 7:23 pm Leave a comment

New Years Weekend

Emily, Kelly and I were definitely not tardy for THIS party! In honor of one of our favorite shows, Emily and I decided to spend the 11th annual Sarah-Emily New Years extravaganza at my apartment in Syracuse watching Andy Cohen’s Real Housewives Near Years special. Besides the wonderfully awful TV we planned on watching, we were also excited about our RH theme menu AND that Kelly decided to come too! Yay Kelly As we’ve gotten older and moved away from home, it’s been harder and harder to see my home friends on a regular basis. Every opportunity I got is super special to me, and I was PSYCHED for the weekend I was going to spend with two of my closest friends.

Emily arrived on Friday morning, and we headed over to Wegman’s. Emily, much like myself, is a huge fan of the store. We opted for a lunch at the Wokery. This is one of the few times I’ve had a meal with a fellow food blogger. You always feel a little less strange taking pictures of your food in public, but when someone else is also there snapping away, it feels a little less awkward.

I enjoyed some tofu, stir fry veggies and some type of potato dish

I also got a few of my latest obsession, vegetarian meatballs. They don’t look so tasty, but they are delicious.

All of the ingredients Emily purchased for our Real Housewives theme menu

Kelly arrived while we were unloading the car, and we quickly got into comfy clothes just in time to meet up with Vicki over ichat. She couldn’t be in Syracuse, but that doesn’t mean we couldn’t stop by to say hi and exchange presents

And then the cooking began! We started off with a dish representing our friends on the Real Housewives of New Jersey.

In honor of the lovely Italian ladies on the show, we made bruschetta.

Emily putting fresh basil on the bread.

Pre-cheesed bruschetta.

The finished product!

If you watch the Beverly Hills version of the show, you can’t help but fall in love with Cedric, Lisa’s permanent house guest. In honor of our favorite Real Housewives gay man we made turkey, cheddar and apple Cedric-wiches.

Try saying that 5 times fast…

I got to use my brand new griddler for the first time.

Mmm… they were delicious. The griddler is definitely the best addition to my kitchen in a long time.

None of us actually watch the DC version of the show, but we still want to represent all the ladies. Thus, we made red, white and blue jello.

I’ve been dying to try the skinny girl Margarita and what better way to show some love the NY housewives?

It was actually really good, but I think my favorite part was the bottle. So cute!

And finally, it was time to make mini peach cobblers in honor of the southern version of the show. I’m not a huge fan of the RH of Atlanta, but this dish was DELICIOUS.

After mixing canned peaches, brown sugar, and cinnamon, we added the mixture to the separated biscuit pieces in my Pampered chef mini muffin pan.

After about 10 minutes in the oven, they were the perfect amount of done.

You know you’ve been studying too much when you think your food looks like a heart valve….

The Andy Cohen special was ok, but the highlight of the night was cooking and chatting with Emily and Kelly. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time, and I couldn’t think of a better way to ring in the 2011!

The next morning it was back to Wegman’s. Emily found the perfect decoration for her annual wine dinner. I officially got my invitation. Who else is excited????

After trip #2 to Wegman’s the next morning, Kelly had to head home

Emily and I spent the remainder of the day enjoying several lifetime and Lifetime like movies, and we put together a cheese board for dinner. I love cheese, wine and bread, but moral of the story is too much of anything is not a good thing.

Very cool reflection in my coffee table.

One of the main topics of conversation throughout the weekend, was our goals we wanted to accomplish in the new year. If you’re interested, here’s my complete list. Hopefully by writing them down here and making them public, I’ll be a little more likely to stick to them all.

Things I want to do in 2011

1. Stop biting my nails. It’s a bed habit I picked up somewhere along the line and this is going to be the year I kick it for good.
2. Drink more water. This not only includes drinking water, but drinking less diet soda. I have one more bottle in my apartment, and when that’s gone, I’m officially quitting the Coke!
3. Joining a 2011 exercise pack AND sticking with it. This means 4 hours of working out (hopefully with my new S2H bracelet) a week.
4. Eat better. This means returning to the good-old, tried and true weight watchers.
5. Make coffee home. Starbucks, I love you, but you are eating up quite a bit of my loan money.
6. Not turning the TV on before 9. Although I think I have fairly strong will power, it’s hard to withstand the amazing power of my TV! If I let me self watch one episode of the Real Housewives, I could very easily be sucked in for a 5 episode marathon. It would be completely unrealistic for me to give up watching TV, but I still need to limit time spent on my couch. Thus, if I force myself to be productive until 9, I can definitely allow myself to indulge
7. Getting more sleep. I have a bad habit of keeping myself awake with school work or late night TV, and it makes it THAT much harder to wake up in the morning. I’m hoping to get my workouts in earlier this semester, and the only way I’m going to drag myself out of bed before the sun is up, is if I’m running on more than 5 hours of sleep.
8. Take (and do well on) the Boards. To move onto the next phase of my medical education, I need to pass the step 1 exam. It’s essentially an 8 hour exam, testing everything I’ve learned in the first two years of med school. I’ll be it at the end of June, but I start studying full time in the beginning of May (8-10 hours a day).
9. Run in at least 3 races. If all goes as planned, I’ll run in the Boilermaker, the Empire State half marathon, and the Troy Turkey Trot.
10. Blog more! I love keeping this site running, and I’m hoping to spend a little more time making it into a blog that I’m really proud of. As I’m finishing up my first two years of school, I’m moving into the more exciting phase of my medical education. Pretty soon I’ll be actually working in the hospital. I originally started this site as a way to chronicle my years in med school and my attempts at maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Now that I’m finally reaching a point where I’ll be doing something beyond living in the library, hopefully I’ll have something a little more exciting to write about!

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