Bring on the Produce

Dishes in the dishwasher? Check. Kitchen clean? Check. Breakfast made for tomorrow? CHECK. I am awesome. Ahhh…

I woke up with more tooth pain today, so ran through the whole sinus rinse, Zyrtec, Tylenol routine (and added on the Sudafed this afternoon). And it seemed to help- but I’m still not convinced that there’s not a cavity somewhere up there.

For breakfast I had banana oats topped with blueberries, raspberries, walnuts and unsweetened coconut:

Lunch was a turkey sandwich with mayo, spinach and spicy pickles on whole wheat; a (tasteless- yuck) apple; and a cup of last night’s eggplant stew with goat cheese:

Tomorrow it’s back to babysitting, so I tried to get a few errands done today: car wash, eyebrows threaded and Destination Maternity for some shorts and tees. Most of my “regular” tee shirts are too short now- which looks REALLY cool when you have the stupid maternity panel sticking out of the top of your pants. Lovely.

Our house is overflowing with produce right now. I asked Brian to stop by Newflower on the way home for some kale, and he came in with a giant bag of cherries ($0.99/lb!) and blueberries. Then my mom dropped by with a big box of fresh peaches, squash, onions and MORE blueberries. I guess that’s not a bad problem to have:

For dinner I made the old Turkey-Spinach Meatloaf standby. If you want the recipe, click on the Heather Bakes link at the top of the page- it’s in the list. The great thing about this recipe is that you can play around with it; this time I used whole wheat bread crumbs, Spicy V8 (for the tomato juice), and added oregano and garlic powder to the meat. The glaze on top is a mix of ketchup and sriracha.

Newflower didn’t have the bagged kale so we settled on salad instead (w/ Annie’s Woodstock Dressing), along with a box of Annie’s White Cheddar Shells.

After dinner Brian had a softball game, so my mom came over for a walk around the neighborhood. My usual dessert craving just hit so I had a bowl of Dreyer’s Tart Honey Frozen Yogurt topped with a chopped peach and granola. Yummy… and healthier than a Frosty. Sorry for the orange photo.

Jack liked it too- he’s been kicking and rolling around in there.

Two more things:

1. Chloe wants to show you her pouty face:

2. Everyone deserves their 15 minutes of fame, and apparently our friend Robert (aka, Bobby Dubbs, Robert “Awesome” Wallace, and Lauren’s husband) got his just desserts this past weekend. He and Lauren headed to a Yankees game and were seated a few rows behind Kate Hudson. Lo and behold, look what appeared on Popsugar. See that very intense and serious-looking fellow in the black shirt? The one who’s basically in the very center of the photo? Yeah, that’s Robert. Can I have your autograph, sir?

-SURVEY-

What’s your favorite summer-y dessert?

(This is a selfish poll- we have book club on Thursday and I’m trying to come up with something to make. I’m leaning towards peach cobbler.)