bright lights, long nights

…party ‘til the sun is rising, high rise, overtime, working ‘til the morning shine.  I feel on TOP OF THE WORLD!  Top of the world! 🙂

In addition to making me feel like a true New Yorker, that song pumps me up (as most PCD song do)!  Guilty pleasure, fasho.

AM coffee. 

BTW, before I forget, thank SO MUCH for all the feedback on my last post.  You guys are the sweetest and the most thoughtful and it really makes my day when I get flooded with comments of support.  It’s so nice to know that I can share my thoughts with you all without being judged (hooray for blogger love).  Ok, but before you cue the violins, let’s get back to the food.

Soynut buttah in my oats.  Luurrrve it!  Plus, this shiz gives me mega energy fer days.

Before I headed out to kick my butt in the gym, I had to get some sugar in my system (no worries Bender, it’s au natural).  This was my first peach Chobz and it was love at first bite.  I think this flavor just hijacked the top spot (formerly occupied by strawberry).

Fresh berries and frozen grapes only added to the deliciousness. 

Sugar high rocking, don’t come a knocking!  (I honestly have NO clue what that means) – basically, I went to the gym.

I was starving when I got home…like, chew your arm off, starving.  So rather than go the auto-carnivorous route eat my own arm off, I decided to have a snack to tide me over until dinner.  Vanilla o’soy yogurt and a coconut cream pie Lara did just the trick.

Sure enough, a couple hours later, my stomach was ready for dindin!  Kyle got off work a little early to join me at Cafe Viva

I was so excited to try out this vegan pizza place I recently discovered.  I don’t know how I didn’t know about it, considering it’s RIGHT down the street!  When we walked in the door the most amazing aroma EVER greeted me, so I knew it was going to be a good meal!  Mmmmmm…warm dough.

I really think some of the best finds in the city are the hidden ones.  Cafe Viva is a little hole-in-the-wall place, and trust me, it’s a gem.  They have such variety!  Spelt, wheat, corn, or regular crusts.  Vegan (soy) and regular cheeses.  They even have tofu and seitan as toppings!  We each ordered a slice and brought it home to enjoy.

Kyle got the #25 Azteca (left) with onions, sweet peppers, corn & mozzarella on a corn crust.  I ordered the #24 Vegetarian (vegan) which had organic tomato sauce, onions, mushroom, broccoli, plum-tomatoes & soy cheese.  It took MAY-JAH self control to carry that hot box of goodness all the way home (all 4 blocks) without ripping into it on the way…

As you can see I added more vegan parm (upper right corner) to my slice. 

First of all, the size of this slice was massive.  I mean honestly, it’s the size of the entire plate!  As for the whole wheat crust…SO so good.  Not too thick, not too thin, and the texture was nice and grainy (I guess that’s the whole wheat).  I could tell it was freshly made too, it was crispy on the outside and warm and soft when I bit into it.  Also, the amount of soy cheese was perfect.  It was subtle and not too dominant, which was also true about the tomato sauce.  There was just a thin layer but then, in addition, there were tomato slices (who doesn’t prefer actual produce anyways?).  The broccoli was also fresh and cooked the perfect amount so it still crunched (no limp frozen greens at Cafe Viva)!

Food porn, anyone?  I had been craving veggies all day, so I steamed more brocc for a side dish, which I also dumped vegan parm all over.

Kyle continued working (from the apt) after his dinner break (this China deal is quite time consuming) while I tried to restore my music collection on iTunes drove him crazy playing 10 second snippets of a million songs.

Clearly I had dried fruit for dessert (and SCSR tea).

 

Ok, time to pack and get ready for my 6 AM flight.

Going HOME tomorrow!!!!!!!  Woo hoo 🙂

PS Head over to Heather’s blog to win some coconut love!  Or Bender’s to win some Quaker love!