I've been away for the past few days. It wasn't intentional. It just happens when Sean has time off. I'm also really behind--again! What else is new, right? I've been eating good stuff though so let's take a look at it all:
27th...ThursdayWho knows what the heck was for first breakfast. Take a wild guess as to whether it included a strawberry cinnamon muffin or a glass of milk or a banana and you'd probably be right as either one of those. Second breakfast was, you guessed it...oatmeal! Lunch was more exciting. First up,
cucumber mint soup from Whole Living but actually prefer this
recipe from Martha Stewart better:
Next up was carrot sticks and cucumber slices with olive hummus:
Along with a sandwich thin with leftover thinly-sliced steak:
Fruits included strawberries:
Once at home I dove into a bowl of grapes and peaches while making myself some pasta to go with dinner:
Eventually my dinner was ready. I had rigatoni with free-range chicken, tomatoes, asparagus and mushrooms:
It was excelllent! It was so excellent that the third "l" is really necessary. I'm going to be sad when the asparagus from the garden is gone. It will be a sad day in my house.
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28th...FridayThank goodness it was Friday. I was so looking forward to hanging out with Sean after work so the entire time I was at work, I just couldn't wait for it to be over. Sucks that I had to work an extra 45 minutes!! First breakfast was a raspberry cinnamon muffin:
Second breakfast was the usual oatmeal which you've seen like 35 times already. Lunch wasn't much more exciting because it involved a lot of leftovers. Cucumber mint soup:
With olive hummus with cucumber slices and carrot sticks:
And leftover rigatoni with asparagus, mushrooms and free-range chicken:
And least the fruits were new! Fruits included watermelon:
and frozen grapes and strawberries that had de-frosted by the time lunch rolled around at 2:30pm:
Dinner of course, was pizza at the Unionville Pizza Co. which
I already blogged about, which included the epic fail cupcake from Old Firehall Confectionery.
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29th...SaturdaySaturday started off with lunch. I skipped breakfast entirely because I woke up and just started running errands. I don't typically eat oatmeal on the weekends anyway (as you may have noticed). Lunch was a spaghetti stir-fry of sorts:
In my bowl of spaghetti was sliced beef, mushrooms, iceberg lettuce and green beans. It's kind of what you get when your mom decides to empty out the fridge of some of the older produce.
My next snack was not until five hours later when I noshed on a curry samosa. Then dinner was an hour later. I had half of the following rice with dried sausage and pork belly with broccoli:
I gave the rest to Sean to take to work with him as a "thank you" for bringing me new cat food in lieu of the contaminated cat food we had. That was quite the ordeal. Dessert was a bowl of cherries:
Dessert #2 was an oatmeal strawberry muffin
with a mug of milk:
And then snack #139 was a sandwich thin with goat cheese, dill and smoked salmon:
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30th...SundaySunday morning started off with a late breakfast. I had half a sandwich thin with a thin spread of goat cheese, lots of dried dill and a slice of smoked salmon:
along with a bowl full of watermelon:
Closer to dinnertime I decided to have some water with verbena and watermelon while my dinner was cooking away:
Dinner was salmon
en papillote. I couldn't find a recipe that I really wanted to follow so I kind of just made up my own. In my parchment went some butter, a salmon fillet topped with sliced black olives, diced tomato, cucumbers, salt, pepper, lemon juice and sliced lemons. On the side I had roasted veggies (mushrooms, zucchini, red pepper and potatoes):
It was freakin' delicious!
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31st...MondayLunch on the last day of the month was leftovers:
along with cucumber mint soup:
and strawberries and watermelon:
I spent the evening at Sean's house and we decided to have homemade pizza for dinner. Sean made the dough while I was at work so after he picked me up and headed back to his place, all we had to do was roll out the dough and top it off. Here's our dough ready for its toppings:
With cheese:
The initial plan was to follow Smitten Kitchen's recipe for
shaved asparagus pizza but Sean and I couldn't locate the asparagus in my backyard so we improvised instead. I started topping my half with prosciutto:
While Sean was cooking up some homemade
lardons:
Here's our pizza ready for the oven:
After 10 minutes at 500F:
It was really delicious. The homemade crust was fantastic even though we didn't activate our yeast properly. Sean's half with the
lardons was the winner of the evening. I was jealous but didn't want to take any chances with the
pink salt in his bacon.
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1st...TuesdaySadly the next few days only feature lunch photos but since that's how my initial bento blogging (on Facebook) started anyway, I'll still post them. I had a sandwich thin with roasted zucchini and eggplant with prosciutto:
along with watermelon:
and strawberries, pear and grapes:
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2nd...WednesdayLunch was a couple of leftover pepperoni pizza slices from Pizza Pizza (certainly not as awesome as the homemade pizza Sean and I made the night before) along with leftover roasted zucchini and eggplant:
along with pineapple:
and the same sad fruits from the day before (strawberries, pear and grapes):
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3rd...ThursdayHey, look, I've got a breakfast photo! This is something that Sean made from his Irish cookbook. I can't remember name of it but it's oats cooked with onions and his homemade bacon:
For lunch I had a leftover slice of pep pizza and a sandwich thin with prosciutto and roast zucchini and eggplant:
Fruits included pineapple:
and watermelon:
Tonight's dinner was shaved asparagus pizza which you'll soon see.
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And look at that, I'm finally caught up. Whew, I'm spent!
Kidney beans that my dad cooked in the pressure cooker, finished off with some onions:
And a whole lotta leftover fruit from yesterday, cantaloupe, strawberries, grapes and cherries:
It's the perfect work lunch. Now let's just hope I can eat all that in 30 minutes without looking like a pig at a buffet!
I think it was well worth it, don't you?
Next up was carrot sticks and cucumber slices with olive hummus:
Along with a sandwich thin with leftover thinly-sliced steak:
Fruits included strawberries:
Once at home I dove into a bowl of grapes and peaches while making myself some pasta to go with dinner:
Eventually my dinner was ready. I had rigatoni with free-range chicken, tomatoes, asparagus and mushrooms:
It was excelllent! It was so excellent that the third "l" is really necessary. I'm going to be sad when the asparagus from the garden is gone. It will be a sad day in my house.
Second breakfast was the usual oatmeal which you've seen like 35 times already. Lunch wasn't much more exciting because it involved a lot of leftovers. Cucumber mint soup:
With olive hummus with cucumber slices and carrot sticks:
And leftover rigatoni with asparagus, mushrooms and free-range chicken:
And least the fruits were new! Fruits included watermelon:
and frozen grapes and strawberries that had de-frosted by the time lunch rolled around at 2:30pm:
Dinner of course, was pizza at the Unionville Pizza Co. which I already blogged about, which included the epic fail cupcake from Old Firehall Confectionery.
In my bowl of spaghetti was sliced beef, mushrooms, iceberg lettuce and green beans. It's kind of what you get when your mom decides to empty out the fridge of some of the older produce.
Dessert #2 was an oatmeal strawberry muffin
with a mug of milk:
And then snack #139 was a sandwich thin with goat cheese, dill and smoked salmon:
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Closer to dinnertime I decided to have some water with verbena and watermelon while my dinner was cooking away:
along with cucumber mint soup:
and strawberries and watermelon:
I spent the evening at Sean's house and we decided to have homemade pizza for dinner. Sean made the dough while I was at work so after he picked me up and headed back to his place, all we had to do was roll out the dough and top it off. Here's our dough ready for its toppings:
With cheese:
The initial plan was to follow Smitten Kitchen's recipe for shaved asparagus pizza but Sean and I couldn't locate the asparagus in my backyard so we improvised instead. I started topping my half with prosciutto:
While Sean was cooking up some homemade lardons:
Here's our pizza ready for the oven:
After 10 minutes at 500F:
It was really delicious. The homemade crust was fantastic even though we didn't activate our yeast properly. Sean's half with the lardons was the winner of the evening. I was jealous but didn't want to take any chances with the pink salt in his bacon.
along with watermelon:
and strawberries, pear and grapes:
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along with pineapple:
and the same sad fruits from the day before (strawberries, pear and grapes):
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For lunch I had a leftover slice of pep pizza and a sandwich thin with prosciutto and roast zucchini and eggplant:
Fruits included pineapple:
and watermelon:
Tonight's dinner was shaved asparagus pizza which you'll soon see.
Lunch was organic roast chicken drumstick and veggies:
Snacks included grapes and strawberries:
Along with the very last half of a chocolate walnut and dried cherry brownie (man, those were good!) and two squares of Lindt Sea Salt for my second breakfast:
Sean and I were heading downtown for a concert after work so we decided we'd grabbed dinner in the city. Before that though, I decided to snack on some prosciutto sandwiches (read: prosciutto sandwiched between water crackers) in the car. Before the concert we dropped by Dufflet to pick up their lemon/lime coconut tarts:
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Strawberries with two two-bite cranberry and orange scones from Whole Foods. The scones are a little on the sweet side but they're tasty. They kind of suck all the moisture out of your mouth but I like my sweet scones like that.
It really does pay to make your meals way in advance!
Along with half a chocolate-dipped macaroon from Dufflet and two squares of Lindt's Sea Salt chocolate for my second breakfast oatmeal:
Chocolate was consumed, macaroon was not :(
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Organic chicken soup with orzo, egg drop and a hidden chicken thigh. Sadly this chicken thigh was not even close to organic. Bad times ensued. Double sad that I was at work. Triple sad that I ate this soup earlier than I normally would have because I was sick. Ughs all around! Note to self: do not assume something in Whole Foods is organic unless the label says so!
along with this box of Vita Coco:
I wouldn't normally have finished both boxes of Vita Coco so quickly but I was sick and being sick means I make excuses for lots of things.
Sean and I had plans to get our hair done later that evening but plans fell through when the time turned out to be inconvenient. We headed downtown anyway so that I could go to Steve's to pick up some cleanser for my cymbals and we grabbed some Korean food for dinner. No photos...it wasn't that great anyway. My dumpling and rice cake soup was really nothing to write home about though Sean's cold noodle soup looked way better. I forgot that Korean dumplings tend to be heavy on the ginger and ginger in savory form makes me want to gag. I was really hungry so I managed to eat all but one. Blech. Dinner left my Korean craving very unfulfilled.
Whole wheat English muffin with PB and coconut butter on top. Clearly I put way too much coconut butter on top--hence the oozing. Some of it even dripped onto my makeup bag in the background. And yes, I did lick the CB from my makeup bag. I can't waste good coconut butter!
to this:
HOT! Wow Sean looks so young now! I think we now look like an age appropriate couple rather than him looking super old and me looking super young. Don't let that "before" shot fool you--his beard used to be longer than that. Plus I now this his hair matches his clothing. Before his hockey hair didn't really match his (I hate to say it), "indie/hipster" clothing.
I was smart enough to only eat half of everything and take the rest to-go. This lunch was consumed while my nose was running non-stop. It was kind of gross. After lunch we had plans to hit up Greg's Ice Cream on Bloor St. but my cold had other plans. We had to hit up the Shoppers stat for above-mentioned Tylenol. I was going down--fast! After a quick stop into the devil store (just kidding!), we came out with a box of orange-coloured relief, I popped one of those into my mouth and then Sean and I stood in line for some ice cream--just the thing to cheer me up! Sean ended up getting a scoop of orange marmalade and I got a scoop of Fifty's Frost--a malted chocolate.
Tea along with a bowl of fruit...blackberries, pineapple, canteloupe and some sketchy blueberries that I ended up tossing into the green bin. I felt bad about it but Sean reassured me that no one else would end up eating them.
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