A couple of weekends ago, while searching Trader Joe’s vitamin area, I stumbled across a container of Super Red Drink Power dietary supplement. Looking for new ways to stay strong and healthy during this winter flu season and my many upcoming trips, I bought it and tried it as soon as I got home. Super Red Drink Power is rockin full of antioxidant blends that include raspberry extract, blackberry extract, goji, acai, and non-alcoholic red wine extract to name a few. Each scoop is only 40 calories and offers a ton of Vitamin C, and 4% of your daily value of dietary fiber, in addition to all of those antioxidants, 2000 mg of detox blend, and 2710 mg of enzymes and probiotics like lactobassilus casei. I first tried the powder on its own in a glass of 8 ounces of water. Tipping the glass up to my mouth I prepared myself not to like it, but was extremely surprised when it tasted like cherry juice. . . or dare I say a bit like Cherry Kool Aid. Since then, I have started adding a scoop to my green monster shakes, along with bananas, spinach, vanilla soy milk and pumpkin for a powerful morning or post workout boost. Has it made a huge difference in the way I feel? I can honestly say that these days, outside of work, I am feelin pretty energetic and positive, which I attribute to a variety of things. I don’t recommend any drink powder as a replacement for a healthy fruit and veggie-filled diet, but I definitely like having it around to make sure I cover all of the bases!
Have you tried this powder yet, or do you have any other supplements that you swear by?
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This past Sunday was full of fun and food. We started off the day with a 2.5 mile run on the beach in the strong, beautiful autumn sun, and followed that with multigrain pancakes topped with mascarpone cheese and maple syrup. Our afternoon activity was one of my favorite new ways to spend a Sunday afternoon, tasting wine at the Bin Ends fine wine flea market. We ended up ordering a few bottles, and I will be writing about those once they arrive in. We tasted a good deal of wine, maybe a dozen or so reds and four or five whites. I was tasting for three; I told our friends, who are getting married in the Berkshires next summer, that we would be on the lookout for good deals for their reception. After all of that wine tasting, we were a bit hungry, so we headed into Quincy center to Alba, a spacious Italian trattoria with an extensive wine list and really great appetizers! 
I started with a glass of bubbly. Sometimes the tiny sips of wine at tastings just makes me want a good glass. 
We ended up sharing oysters with mignonette and cocktail sauce, antipasto with roasted veggies, mozzarella cheese, gorgonzola cheese, and Italian meats drizzled in olive oil, and the fried calamari which came topped with jalapenos and pepper strips and an aioli for dipping. 
I don’t often eat fried calamari, but this was SO good, lightly breaded and crispy with the perfect accompaniment of the spicy peppers and creamy aioli. I love a good mayonnaise-based sauce. I just can’t help it! The oysters were plump and briny and the mignonette was something I would definitely like to learn to make myself. I could seriously live on oysters and champagne alone 🙂 The antipasto was also delish, everything fresh and flavorful, especially the crumbly stinky blue cheese. Alba is a little out of the way if you live in Boston but still conveniently located on the Red Line via the Quincy Center T stop. I will definitely be returning; there are nights we just don’t feel like going into the city but would like a really nice meal in beautiful atmosphere. Believe it or not, hubs and I dropped our friends off and went immediately out to eat AGAIN! More on that later. Today was long, dark, and cold, but at the end I received my wine club shipment from Gundlach Bundschu, a surprising and wonderful mix of three 2007 Pinot Noirs and a 2003 Tempranillo. Thanks GunBun!
Monday nights have taken on a whole new meaning for me. Last week after thinking about it for sometime, I began my first, but certainly not my last, class at the Boston Center for Adult Education (BCAE). Located only a few blocks behind my office, the BCAE is a clean, contemporary space that offers classes in everything from yoga to cooking to Adobe Creative Suite. My class, Writing About Food, meets for three sessions for an hour and a half each time and is well worth the $97 fee. Comprised of only five students, the class is interactive and allows for active participation from all of the students. Our instructor is the Boston Sustainable Food Examiner, and she is interesting, passionate, and approachable. In our first class, we worked on rewriting the narrative piece from recipes. My piece was a hamburger recipe from M.F.K. Fisher, and to rewrite the narrative, I took the wordy but lovely narrative from the recipe and simplified it into numbered steps for today’s busy at home chef. I had never thought of doing something like this before, but this exercise is something that I want to repeat with a variety of different recipes. Our homework for the next week was to read three selections, one from Ruth Reichl, one from Calvin Trillin, and one from Elizabeth Gilbert. We were also to note our observations on food throughout the week. In tonight’s class, we discussed each of the selections and the concept of food memoir then each spent twenty minutes writing our own food memory. I wrote about a time in London several years ago where I had the pleasure of having a Middle Eastern dinner with my former, fabulous co-workers who I miss and love dearly. 🙁 Hearing the others’ food memories was so much fun; I feel like this is a great way to get an insight into who people are, especially foodie people. We tend to associate food with memory and memory with food 🙂 In our final week we will be looking at reviews, and I am really looking forward to it. Though my classwork right now is scrawled out in a notebook, I plan on finishing it and posting it here someday soon. This class has been an amazing start for me to learn more about food writing and to spend time with people who have a similar interest. As I prepare for the third and final class, I wonder what is next. BCAE offers a travel writing class, and I am thinking about signing up for that. Ultimately I would love to have more time to write and to get a better sense of where my job experience combined with my love of food, travel, and wine can take me. Have you/are you taking any classes at a local adult education school? Any recommendations? I would definitely recommend my Writing about Food class!
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