Let’s get this pesto party started! First up, butternut noodles with arugula, baked salmon, pesto, and manchego. About the manchego… I am still enjoying the cheeses from the Costco sampler I got.  It has proved to be a very economical purchase.  And to think I hemmed and hawed about it for AN ETERNITY before Kyle grabbed it from me and threw it in the cart. I’m going to go all out of order with meals in the interest of continuing to showcase some things I’ve done with the cheese. For two of my lunches this… Read more >

I’ve got a “what I ate” style post from last week to share.  I left out my coffees and kombuchas though. For breakfast I had a smoothie with frozen berries, frozen banana, coconut milk, and collagen. With a scoop of almond butter on top.  No matter how hard I try to stir the jars throughout the process of eating them, it always seems like the bottom is super dense and dry by the time I get down to it…almost like almond paste.  I don’t really mind, but ideally I’d like the in between smooth-but-not-excessively-drippy texture. … Read more >

This grocery bag will permanently smell like basil and I am pretty happy about it. I spent an hour of the weekend making pesto to last us until next summer…two batches of almond basil and two batches of walnut pistachio basil. It was pretty therapeutic to listen to a podcast while washing and plucking the leaves off the stems.  Meanwhile I was taking big deep breaths inhaling the delicious aroma of freshly picked herbs.  Have you guys heard of the “Teacher’s Pet” podcast?  I’m very sucked in.  I’ll probably finish it before digging in to… Read more >

In the ICONIC words of Britney… Oops, I did it again. This salad is perfection. This time I used dino kale, curly kale, AND red cabbage.  I gave it a prelim toss in Nugget’s Thai sesame dressing, and then added the rest after making the salad so that the chicken tenders and avo would get coated in dressing too. I bought two huge boxes of breaded chicken at the store – one box has dinosaur shaped nuggets and the other has tenders.  I figured the tenders were the more adult choice.  😉 I ate lots… Read more >