Finding greens in the city

After almost a full week in NYC I find myself craving greens. 

A salad with edamame, arugula, spinach, chicken, tofu, broccolli, mushrooms and orange slices

I am sure it is just the restaurants I have been picking and I guess I am spoiled in California where every restaurant has a super healthy green food (salad/seaweed/vegan) option. 

*Warning* pict of runners toe coming up - scroll down at your own risk.

I am sure a lot of you can relate to this - if I am doing long runs I have to make sure to keep my toenails really short or I run the risk of the nail rubbing against a toe and this happens:

Ouch!

So this morning I slept in and gave my tootsies some TLC. My feet would have been fine if I did my planned 3 miles - it was the almost 8 miles that caused the problem.

Around noon time I ventured out to try to find a movie theatre so I could catch The Thing.

I ended up in Times Square.

 I remember Times Square being a place that was grimy and run down and you only went there during the day. They have really cleaned it up and now it looks more like a theme park.

The movie was OK - not great. And on the way back to the hotel I stopped for some soup.

And it was a lucky coincidence that the soup place was across the street from Bryant park.

 

 It was the perfect place to sit down and enjoy my soup.

A hearty corn chowder was just the thing on this rainy and overcast day.

I have been doing a lot of walking during my stay in NYC. I am averaging about 3 - 4 hours a day. Not because of any actual intention of doing a ton of walking - it is just that I am in a perpetual state of being lost, lol. So, I knew the soup would not be enough to hold me over until dinner.


Then I spotted this place right across the street from Bryant Park.

There are many delis in midtown Manhattan and most of them have the most elaborate salad bar. This one was no different and I assembled a great salad to bring back to the hotel.

And I found my favorite snack food.

Seasoned crispy seaweed.

I am hoping to go on a hunt for omurice in Soho tomorrow and I will be taking the subway!


Night all.

 

Imagination at work

You know what happens when you go to this store -

the day before you drop your dogs off at the dog 'hotel' and you are filled with doggie mom guilt?

You end up bringing home this:

A bulk size bag of rawhides.

My other purchases that were not bought in a guilt filled haze:

I know it is not eco-friendly to buy these. I should be filling up reusable bottles to bring my toiletries but I just love these miniature darlings. They bring back great memories of past trips.


My lunch held off hunger for quite a while so I ate dinner pretty late.


I used my imagination and put together this odd collection of characters.

Edamame, grapes,coleslaw and blueberries.

Everything got thrown into a bowl and since I am slowly working yogurt back into my diet - I stirred in some greek yogurt (I think blue cheese dressing would also work well if you want something a little sweeter).

I thought it was going to taste awful but I was surprised. I ended up eating it in stages - First, I ate all the edamame with the coleslaw first (I love edamame). Next I scooped up the grapes one by one. And lastly, the sweet blueberries.


And, it turns out that eating it in that order created a nice progression from savory to sweet/sour and finishing with crunchy sweet. Yum!

And in one of my many impulse purchases - I couldn't resist this at the store - 

 

I admit, it was the tagline that pulled me in. I am a sucker for a good tagline.

Night all!