Bites of My Life

Don’t you just love Dallas in the fall? I sure do! If you are a weekly bites reader you may be able to read through this first summary paragraph and be able to catch wind how I’m feeling that week. Pictures, no matter how you shake it show off the good. However, this intro to my weekly post steers more into how I’m actually doing, than how I’m portraying it.

This is a long winded intro to express I’m doing great! I got off the phone with my oldest friend Anna yesterday recapping her recent engagement and just updating each other on life. And I felt so confident on the phone mentioning how well I have been doing. The end of the summer I was dragging. I was lonely. I was bored. I owe a lot to the season change for my mood boost as that is often a helpful adjustment I need, but fall has just been going swimmingly. Don’t you just love the fall?

-How many pictures of this meal can I take? Less than the number of times I actually eat it that’s for sure.
-I’m new to Further Food collagen, but I’m loving their products after receiving a gift package from this women-owned biz. The chocolate collagen frothed up with hot water or hot almond milk, make some seriously good hot chocolate. _annietucker gets you 5% off your order!
-Just a picture from our family shared an album of my niece with pop-tarts that lit up my whole week!
-Little did I know the extent of guacamole consumption that would happen this week, but the gauc with sweet potato chips at Doc B’s is hard to miss. The brussels sprout salad is another not-to-miss item!!
-PSA the new pecan flavored RX Bar is everything of the sort. Found at Sprouts!
-Guacamole made an appearance again on Friday as we cheered on my sweet friend’s dad in a “guac off” with the owner of one of all of our’s favorite tex mex spot.
-After seeing You’ve Got Mail 1,000 times, it hit me mid-movie, that I had to turn the movie into a theme party. I called on my fellow Nora Ephron aficionado and we threw the most fun fall party! A full recap is saved on my Instagram story highlights and I’m working on getting it put into a blog post as well.
-Kathleen Kellys/Shopgirls/Party Hosts.
-Party leftovers becoming Sunday snacks.

Annie

Bites of My Life

Last week was busy with fall work projects and ended with jam packed weekend full of friends and family in town to celebrate the big OU vs. Texas game, a family baby on the way, and more. Hope you all had a great weekend too!

-Snack plate = the best lunch in my opinion.
-A treat getting to do dinner at one of my best friends and her husband’s new house. She cooked an insane What’s Gaby Cookin’ meal for us.
-A VERY happy mail day with Ina Garten’s new book arrived after pre ordering it. Read it cover to cover with coffee out of my Barefoot Contessa mug.
-I love everything Emily Giffin writes, but her newest book The Lies That Bind, is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read.
-Mom and sis in town for the weekend to explore the inaugural Dallas location of the Kips Bay Show House.
-Just a small glimpse of the show house. It lived up to all of its hype.
-Post home tour ranch waters at José. Some of the best in Dallas!
-Celebrated the next Baby K on the way with my sort of sister-in-law!
-Suffered a mild heart attack in the process, but came out on top with the OU win over Texas!

Annie

Bites of My Life

Only three months left of 2020. Weren’t we just three month’s into 2020, like, yesterday? Oh ya, then a pandemic hit, life went numb for a while, life is weird still, but we are pushing through with less than 90 days until 2021. This year. This year. Oh Lordy this year.

Dramas aside, last week was a good little week. Busy with work, busy with friends, and just enough down time to binge the new Netflix show Emily in Paris. I’m trying to be Emily. Move to Paris, work in social media marketing, and fall in love with a hot chef. Yes please!!

-I was treated to a Defined Dish meal and gluten-free cinnamon cake from the sweetest mother-daughter duo I’ve gotten to meet in Dallas!
-Holiday Nutpods! It’s already becoming the most wonderful time of the year! _ANNIETUCKER for 15% your Nutpods order.
-Run don’t walk to Trader Joe’s asap for their new cassava grain-free chips! While you are there get the truffle potato chips too!
-Found this AHA apple ginger sparkling water at Target. Here for fall-flavored seltzer!
-Sweet Potato Hummus, the recipe is on the blog!
-Played production assistant with Mary and Hannah Saturday morning. Translation: Mary was getting headshots taken by the wonderful Hannah Vista Photo for her budding interior design career and I came along for moral support and to play pump-up jams aka The Parent Trap soundtrack.
-Emily in Paris, who else binged it this weekend? Eagerly awaiting season 2!
-My favorite Dallas house dawned with pumpkins.
-The Defined Dish enchilada soup on deck for this week.

Annie

Bites of My Life

Last week was busy and breezed by quickly. Something I was in desperate need of. The quick work week came and went and then I was lake bound for the third weekend in a row to celebrate one of my besties Jordan at her bachelorette. It was a great last September weekend.

-Half Baked Harvest’s Kale Caesar has been on my list. Finally made it and it was everything and more.
-Healthy-ish Gluten-Free Pumpkin Muffins. Make them, I dare you!
-I love a behind the scenes moment. AKA baking these muffins at 8:00 in the morning and shooting them in good light next to my trashcan…
-French pastry date with my friend Ellie at Boulangerie.
-Passed through Austin over the weekend, and had to make an important stop to meet one of my best freind’s little guy!
-Weekend at Lake McQueeny to celebrate the cutest and sweetest bride-to-be.
-Just a girl and her HUGE swan.
-Trader Joe’s hearts of palm pasta, kind of weird, kind of great.
-Father of the Bride 3-ish premiered over the weekend. It was short, sweet, and just what I needed.

Annie

Bites of My Life

I mentioned last week that I had been feeling blah, lonely and in a funk. I’m happy to report, that with valid effort to change, last week was a move in the right direction. I got out of the house, worked from coffee shops, planned walks and drinks with friends, and also kept a few relaxing nights at home. All led to a fun weekend out of town which rounded out a good week.

All to be said, I’m highly aware that we are in control of our feelings and atmosphere, meaning we have the ability to change them if they aren’t going how we want. We just have to put in the effort. It’s a work in progress, but I’m hoping for another great week!

-Taking my Colorado hat on a spin around Dallas.
-I made The Defined Dish’s Enchilada Stuffed Acorn Squash last week and it was such a win! Half Baked Harvest’s Kale Caesar is on the books for this week.
-I worked from coffee shops quite a bit last week and brought this snacky lunch along to get me through the day. Trader Joe’s Rosemary Ham, TJ’s gluten free crsipbreads, grainy mustard and a few dried prunes.
-My friend Kelsey’s cozy backyard, was the perfect Wine Wednesday scene.
-It’s still summer in Dallas, so I’m loving this new white top from Zara.
-Lucky enough to be invited to the soft opening for a hot (chicken) new Dallas spot. Lucky’s Hot Chicken opens today!
-Spent Saturday with the funnest crew at the prettiest lake right outside of Dallas.
-Pimm’s cups for pre-dinner drinks at the lake I love this London cocktail, have you had one? My basic recipe (with my dad’s advice) is: 1/3 pimm’s, 2/3 ginger ale, splash of lemon juice, a few mint leaves, garnished with cucumber and strawberries!
-In typical Annie form, it took me about three months to read this book, but now I have a bug and can’t wait to get into another.

Annie