busy busy busy

Well, the restaurant opened! I've been so busy but I definitely am still eating. ;) My work days consist usually of a nice breakfast at home that is pretty norm, and I usually shove whatever chicken, eggs, fruit or veggie I can find at the restaurant during prep, or service when I get a chance to eat. It is hard to resist the cayenne and sugar spiced pecans when there are so many of them on hand! Ah. Fun stuff.

We have a true Mexican cooking lady on kitchen staff who makes us treats when available. Today she brought in sopes, a masa based fried tortilla type thing, and I ate it for lunch with two poached eggs and a little black beans. YUM!


For dinner last night I grilled myself a citrus marinated chicken breast and had it on top a bed of spinach, cabbage, cucumber, blueberries and oranges in a balsamic and olive oil vinaigrette.

usual breakfast. ph & h.

some lunches...



oatmeal has to be at least 3 or 4 times a week. and there's the final potter!
oatmeal, coffee and harry= perfect morning.


i'll try and blog more. but more simple stuff.

xo, B

Microwaving?!

Who knew I could have so much fun with a microwave?
I guess with the added equipment of a VitaMix commercial blender, panini grill and Cuisinart coffee machine, I'm bound to find something to cook up, but surprisingly the microwave has been my bestie these days.
For breakfast I microwaved my egg whites (4 of them! They did not all fit onto the muffin, so I ate them on the side) and had them on top of a scooped out (Bethenny Frankel tip) whole wheat english muffin. I had sliced tomatoes on the side.

For lunch I had the norm, of egg salad and carrot/celery combo with a pickle. I was able to boil some eggs at the kitchen yesterday to have on hand. Later on I had a snack of one of those 100 calorie mini bags of popcorn, (Kettle corn, flavored. Yum.) and a sliced Fugi apple while I watched "The Closer". Great show.

Tonight I got very inventive and creative and decided to micro the last of the zucchini, squash and broccoli in some chicken broth, and I added oats, chick peas and frozen corn to thicken it a little. I blended it all up and seasoned it with my *secret* blend of spices and flavorings, and it actually turned out SO GOOD! Okay, so the picture looks a little bit like vomit, but I didn't add any cream either, and usually the cream makes it look prettier (but fattier). I did top it with one slice of crumpled bacon though, and that worked perfectly with the soup. I say *secret* because, who knows this soup might go in my future cookbook or something! Hmmm... I will say there was a hint of cinnamon and maple syrup added to the mix, other than that I made it quite spicy.

Last night for dinner I had some salad with romaine, fresh raw corn, tomatoes, almonds, chicken, peach and carrot and a dill cucumber salad on the side. Actually the veggies in the salad all came from Bruce's yard, so that was fun to eat.

we'll have to see what its store for tomorrow! =)

Catching up =)

So Saturday, for breakfast I had yogurt, berries and some pumpkin granola. One of my favorites. We headed to Tyler to see "The Hangover" and I had to have a Kashi TLC bar to hold me over, and by the time we ate lunch it was an early dinner. We had Teppenyaki, it was not very good, but I managed with some edamame, chicken, and sauteed vegetables.

Sunday for breakfast I fixed egg whites on a scooped out whole wheat english muffin. The top half I ate with jelly. It was very good.

For lunch I had tuna salad, with some carrot sticks and pickles. I also had a small smoothie before dinner.

I noticed there was some broccoli, squash and zucchini in the fridge that was on its last stage. I microwaved it in some chicken broth, with a few screws of whole wheat fusilli pasta. I added 1/3 cup Bertoli tomato basil sauce, some dried oregano, basil, granulated garlic, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes. I also added chicken. It was so good, that I had it for dinner again Monday night with a little piece of bread to soak up the juices. It was half soup, half stew, half pasta. So yummy.

Monday morning I got to drive in to my favorite coffee place, about 45 minutes away, and got a little groceries too. Before I left I had oatmeal, with cinnamon, honey, water, milk, raisins and almonds. At the coffee place I had a few cups of coffee, and a small fruit salad.

At home I had lunch, which I made a chicken salad with apple, celery, pickle, almonds, raisins, mustard, miracle whip (all we had, I prefer real mayo), yogurt and apple cider vinegar. I also had carrot sticks and a pickle on the side. ;) I had my vegetable, chicken, tomato pasta soup thing again last night for dinner.

My Thursday and Friday

A few highlights from Thursday & Friday:

before work on Thursday I had pb & honey & banana on a whole wheat english muffin.

After cooking a luncheon in which there were absolutely zero leftovers, I ran to Subway and got my normal sandwich because I was soso hungry. For dinner Thursday I think I had chicken salad of somesort with whatever we had vegetable wise.

Yum, real oatmeal, (no packet!) enabled me to have more, and it was actually better for me. I did just plain oats, a little milk, water, cinnamon, honey, raisins, and vanilla, and some strawberries on the side.

I made egg salad, had it with carrot sticks, pear, pickle, and I made a TINY panino and tested out the the panini machine. It was good.

For dinner Friday I had chicken salad again.

No cook breakfast

So today I got up, didn't have to go to work, so got up late (on my watch at least) around 7:45.
I made myself a cup of black coffee, a toasted english muffin with PB and honey and had half an apple. We're getting ready to move on Saturday, so we haven't had any real cooking going on for the last few weeks or so.
I haven't been able to use the stove, oven or really 'chop' anything up. The toaster works just fine though, so my english muffin with PB and honey was satisfactory. That and coffee and I'm ready to do my yoga podcast. Dave Farmar is a yoga genius! I download his podcast from ITunes and do his class three times a week. It kicks my butt better than any yoga I've done before.