Loafing Around

I’m pretty sure I’ve reached my bread quota for the day. That wonderful loaf of Farmer’s Market 7 Grain bread made another appearance at dinner!

It was basically a leftovers dinner. I grabbed the pinkest piece of roast beef I could find. And yes, I cut out all the marbling that I could. I cannot stand the texture of the fat in meat when it’s cold. *shudders* But check out that embedded garlic. Yum.

Some steamed broccoli & cauliflower, with lots of fresh cracked pepper.

And here’s where that delicious bread comes in – I slathered my slice in some Laughing Cow/avocado mash. Definitely better than butter.

No wine tonight though – I think that would have put me to sleep right after dinner!

Tonight I got to watch some hockey! So excited that hockey season is back. Sure, it was just a pre-season game, but it’s still counts. Especially since my boys, the Canucks, won in a shoot out. Woot!

I worked on our group presentation and read blogs while enjoying the game, then made my way to the kitchen for a little snack.

A yogurt bowl – plain yogurt mixed with vanilla whey protein powder, cinnamon & nutmeg, topped with canned peaches, frozen blueberries, flax seed, and almonds.

With a mug of Stash Creme Caramel Decaf tea – splash of milk & agave included.

Someone was pretending to be innocent & cute. Riiiight

Time to get some essential reading done for class tomorrow, so my 3 hour lunch break is free to work on Powerpoint. I can hardly wait! Night

Will Work For Shoes

How nice was it to not get up before the birds and not have to spend 3 hours on public transit today? Hurray for weekends!

We had an absolute downpour last night, but when I got up, it was a beautiful sunny day I scrapped oats, and went a different route.

I had some yogurt that I was neglecting in the fridge, so I went with a granola yogurt bowl.

I topped my plain, non-fat yogurt with some Nature’s Path Pumpkin Flax Granola (mom bought a big ol’ box at Costco, so we’re set for awhile), coconut, and my last dried peach.

Weekend breakfasts deserve a little chocolate, so I had mine in the form of Artisana Cacao Bliss on some toasted Silver Hills “The Big 16” bread.

And I’m still working on that jug of cranberry pomegranate juice.

All sort of fun for my tastebuds!

After much time wasting, I made myself presentable and went to the mall with my sister. We went our separate ways, as we each had different errands to run. Turns out the mall was the place to be today – I think the parking lot was near capacity when we arrived. I had to get my cell phone number changed to a local number, and devise a better/cheaper plan. Then I went window shopping. Well, I had considered buying a couple things I’d see last weekend when I was out – too bad they weren’t in my size at this mall. Lame. I did try some shoes I’ve been eyeing up for awhile now – some sweet Ed Hardy shoes They were perfect – too bad my lack of job made me leave the store without them My sister on the other hand – girl bought out the whole mall practically. What a jerk

I may have left without new kicks, but I did put together a great lunch.

I knew I was going to finish off the rest of the local side-striped shrimp. No way I was letting them go bad – they were just too damn delicious for that.

There was a ripe avocado calling my name, so I whipped up some of my Laughing Cow/avocado smash, and spread it on a toasted whole wheat naan, and topped it with a dab of salsa.

That smash deserves a close up.

 

The combination of avocado and shrimp reminded me of my time in Ecuador last year. Ah, memories.

My mom twisted my rubber arm, and made me finish off the last cookie. She’s so mean

So after lunch, I got down to business. And by business, I mean homework and job applying. A thrill a minute, I’ll tell ya! Eventually dinner time rolled around, and per usual, I went scavenging in the fridge.

Leftover pizza! I had two slices of the chicken, spinach, roasted red pepper, mushroom pizza from last night. Too bad all the breadsticks were gone. Not that I really needed them.

Because I’m so cool, I then spent even more time this evening doing school work. What can I say, I want to do well – I need all the marks I can get to help boost my application to the dietetics program next year. Don’t worry, I didn’t work too hard – I made sure to intersperse a little blog reading in every once in awhile to give my brain a break. And I had a frosty treat.

Frozen blueberries in milk, with a touch of vanilla and sprinkle of sugar.

This is one of my favourite desserts/snacks from my childhood. Mom would even pack it in little insulated containers to take to school, and it would still be frosty and delicious. See how the milk freezes around the frozen berries? Perfect!

Better than ice cream? Pretty damn close!

Now it’s time to step away from my desktop, otherwise I’ll just be tempted to work on school work again. Perhaps some blog reading in bed is in order? Night!

Time Warp

Wow, what happened to me posting anything on Friday? My day just got away from me, and by the time I made it down to the computer, I was just too tired to write up anything worth reading. I’m still trying to figure out this whole school schedule thing and how it works with my sleep patterns and everything else. I’m sure you all understand.

So, let’s get caught up, shall we?

Friday morning means up at the crack of dawn   It also means I have little interest in making anything too complicate for breakfast.

Cereal it was! Just a bowl full of Kashi GoLean Crunch and milk. I didn’t even bother trying to doctor it up.

Paired up with the usual glass of cranberry pomegranate juice.

5:30 am definitely requires quick & easy when it comes to breakfast.

After an uneventful commute and a thrilling biochemistry lecture on amino acids, I wandered over to one of the many Starbucks on campus to get some caffeine in my system – in the form of an iced green tea latte.

I’m so high maintenance when I order: “I’d like a grande, non-fat, half sweet, iced green tea latte please”. I had to repeat it twice, and the customer in line just ahead of me just laughed. I’m picky, what can I say?

Why did I need the caffeine? Because I was staying on campus for awhile to meet up with my group to discuss and work on our first presentation for next Thursday. Man, my group is quiet. I was really having to draw out some discussion amongst them. I hate feeling like I’m being overbearing and taking over control, but I refuse to get a bad mark because the others I have to work with aren’t into it. Ah, the perils of group work

I packed a lunch of sorts to take with me to school as well, since I didn’t know quite how long I’d be there.

Carrot & cucumber slices with some delicious dill dip, plus a wedge of Laughing Cow.

A Cashew Cookie Larabar.

And an apple that I never got around to eating while I was out.

I came home for the customary afternoon nap, followed by some camera shy homemade cookies I spent the afternoon searching for jobs and working on some homework. It was all sorts of thrilling!

Dinner time rolled around, and since it was take out Friday, we ended up with pizza. I think pizza & Chinese food are the go-to meals for take out nights in this house! Again, we ordered from Pizza Hut, and my dad was nice enough to ask what pizza I wanted. I decided to go with the Chicken Florentine, which was grilled chicken, baby spinach, roasted red pepper, and tomato. I subbed out the tomato for mushrooms though. Yum!

As you can see, I had my two slices with a couple of cheesy bread sticks and was perfectly satisfied. At least until evening snack time came around.

I sliced up the gala apple I hadn’t eaten at lunch, and dipped the slices in a blob of creamy & delicious peanut butter.

And that, my friends, is what happened ‘round here on Friday. Another exciting day in the life of me!

First Post

From the new laptop! Finally! I was having problems installing my image editing software on here, but I’ve got it figured out now, so I can blog from where ever my heart desires. Freedom!

So my Sunday started out way later than planned. I guess all those early mornings throughout the week finally caught up, and I slept in until 11:30 am. Oops!

It was rather warm out again today, so I went with a cool smoothie.

Into the cup went:

• 1 rather large, ripe banana
• 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp peanut butter
• 1/3 cup oats
• milk to fill the glass

Alongside, I had one of those addictive Nicer Krispie Treats. No reason you can’t have one for breakfast, right?

Quite enjoyable, if I do say so myself.

After I enjoyed my almost lunch out on the deck in the sun, I went out to do a little clothes shopping again. I actually ended up buying a couple of pairs of jeans, so I could bring them home and get my mom’s opinion as well. Both received a thumbs up, so now I don’t have to go to school naked! Yay! I was also eyeing up a few pairs of shoes, but I really can’t do the whole overhaul of my closet that I would like until I get a little income coming in. Guess that means I should be a little more proactive in my job search, eh?

I threw together a little snack to tide me over til dinner when I got back.

I dished up a little bowl of yogurt topped with some Nature’s Path Pumpkin Flax Granola and diced dried peaches.

Some juicy red grapes.

And a glass of pomegranate cranberry juice, since I’d missed my morning juice.

I then attempted to get some reading done for my Psychology class, but that turned into an extended nap on the couch. I just couldn’t keep my eyes open! Fortunately I woke up enough to put together dinner.

My parents had gone out, so my sister and I made what we felt like. I went with a salmon burger, with Laughing Cow and ED&BV Lemon Cashew Basil Pesto.

Mom had made some of my favourite dill dip, so I cut up some carrot & cucumber to deliver that deliciousness to my mouth.

And I threw together a little side salad of romaine, zucchini, sunflower seeds, pine nuts, and Brianna’s Honey Mustard Dressing.

Looks so fresh and tasty.

After dinner, I found myself at the gym for a little while, then came home to get some things prepped for my early morning tomorrow. My throat has started to bother me a little this evening as well, so I’m off to have some tea then get some rest. I can’t get sick when we’re only on week 2 of school! Night

Greener Than Expected

I’ve had a rather productive day so far. I hit up the gym, then came home and applied for a few jobs online. Can I just say, some companies online job application processes are a little intense. Every one that I applied to today included a lengthy questionnaire/survey/behavioural test, and required me to fill out forms, and attach a resume. For an entry level retail job. Seems like a bit much. Whatever happened to just submitting a resume & cover letter, and going from there?

All this was very taxing on my ol’ brain, so I made sure to fuel up well with lunch.

True to form, I opened up the fridge, and decided what needed to be eaten up.

I found tuna, and made up a tuna/avocado/Laughing Cow mix that I sandwiched between 2 piece of Silver Hills Squirrelly Bread with a little dill pickle relish.

Some sliced up cucumber on the side.

And a little bubbly H2O to wash it all down.

Lunch turned out much greener than I expected!

Of course, there was room for a little treat afterwards. We still had cookies, and I couldn’t let them go bad. Then they wouldn’t be able to fulfill their cookie destiny. So I did my part, and helped out a chocolate chunk one

Can you spy the cat lying in the grass in that photo? He’s so weird.

I’m off to entertain myself. Possibly with music or Wii, I’m not too sure yet. Later!

A Whole Lotta Lara

Larabars that is.

Remember how I got that great deal on Larabars this week, where Safeway was selling them off for $0.99 each? Well, I didn’t luck out and find anymore at any of the other Safeways. But Choices Market had them on sale this week 3 for $3.99, or $1.33 each, which is still an awesome deal. Since I knew they would have all the flavours, I headed down there to do a little more stocking up. I think I’m good to go for the school year, don’t you?

The only other fun thing I did today was buy cat food. Actually, that’s really only fun for Sienna.

But I did make an excellent lunch.

I had a ripe avocado ready to be used, and a hankering for tuna. The obvious solution – tuna avocado salad sandwich.

I mashed up 1/4 of the avocado with 1 wedge of Laughing Cow cheese. Then I added half a can of tuna (packed in water), as well as some pepper and onion powder. I served mine on top of a toasted English muffin with some of those garden fresh chives.

Also on the menu were crunchy carrot sticks.

A bowl of non-fat plain organic yogurt topped with Kashi GoLean Crunch and dried blueberries.

And the cutest little pear ever. This is another treasure we got from our neighbour yesteday.

I felt very Kath-esque with my lunch spread today.

Not sure if I’ll be hungry for dinner any time soon though – that was one big lunch!

Well, time to go back to my job search. For those that have asked, so far I haven’t heard back from the health store I applied at, but I see they still have the job posting up on their website, so who knows? I’m not holding my breath or anything though, that’s for sure.

Epic Failure

Epic POWER failure that is.

I was sitting here at my computer last night, chatting with a friend, responding to emails, and watching the news. Just getting ready to upload my photos and do up my post. Then everything went black. DOH! I wasn’t sure if I’d blown a fuse or the power was out. A quick look outside confirmed that yes, our neighbourhood had no power – it was pitch black out there! No clue what happened. It was a calm night, no wind, no storms. I didn’t hear any transformers blow or cars crashing into power poles. That pretty much put an end to my evening – I fumbled around to find a flashlight, woke my sister up to set her alarm on her phone so she wouldn’t be late for work, made sure I turned off all the lights that might have been on, then went to bed. Power came back on around 2 am – I know, because the tv downstairs turned on and woke me up!

Fortunately, my computer seems to be working fine, so here we go with yesterday’s recap!

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After a dismal sleep, due to my cat being a total brat, I didn’t get out of bed until…well, late. Which meant I missed the mailman who was delivering me a package! They left their little notice, so I have to go down to the post office this afternoon to pick it up – apparently, it’s one that needs to be signed for.

Oh, and on the eye front – it’s still red. It’s not as bad though, so here’s hoping it clears up soon so I can get this student ID thing done up.

Anyways, I digress. After I dragged myself out of bed, I found myself in the kitchen throwing things into a bowl for a yogurt mess.

I got a little wild and crazy with this one – check out all those toppings. You can barely see that there’s even yogurt in there!

• plain, non-fat yogurt
• Kashi GoLean Crunch
• flax seed
• craisins
• blackberries
• shredded coconut
• hemp seeds
• peanut butter

A glass of cranberry peach juice to go alongside.

Isn’t it just a pretty little breakfast? Looks good enough to eat even!

All mixed up, it was one good breakfast. It went perfectly with a side of reading the newspaper. I’m really enjoying my leisurely mornings with the newspaper right now. Too bad it will stop once school starts. Gotta enjoy it while I can!

I eventually got myself presentable and ventured out for the day, on a grocery mission. I had a new grocery store I wanted to hit up – Choices Market. They are a BC based chain that focuses on natural, organic, and gourmet foods. Sounds right up my alley! Turns out they have two locations that aren’t too far away from me, so I set out to check them out. Actually, I had only planned on going to one, because I thought it looked like the better one. Boy was it small! I ended up going to the other location on the way home, because I had to drive right past it anyways, and why not check it out? Yeah, it was way bigger, and maybe 5 min closer to my house, so it will be my location of choice for sure.

I picked up a few things between the two stores. This was my best find of the day.

Artisana Cacao Bliss and Pecan Butter. I know, everyone and their dog has seen these on blogs, and lots of bloggers have gotten to sample them. The best part was what I paid for them. There was no way I could pass them up when I saw this price.

You read that right. $4.99 each. $4.99!!! Can you believe that? They were normally $15.99, on sale for $4.99. INSANE. I got these at the small market, where they also had the Artisana Walnut Butter for the same price, but the date on the Walnut butter was August 2009, so I passed on that. I’m almost tempted to drive back out there to pick up more. That’s less than 1/3 of the original price. You better believe when I stopped at the bigger location I checked to see if I could get the same deal. Alas, they didn’t have them on sale. They did have a few more Artisana products though, and some were reduced to $9.00 a jar, but that wasn’t enough of a price cut for me to bite.

A couple other notable purchases – two new salad dressings (since my family was lacking any salad dressings that I like). Annie’s Naturals Organic Green Garlic dressing and Brianna’s Homestyle Honey Mustard dressing.

I also picked up two new flavours of Kettle Chips – Sweet Onion and Jalapeno. Also on sale.

I like that I can buy chips now and not have to eat the whole bag before it goes stale.

I also took a trip out to Costco to get cereal (my GoLean Crunch was on sale for $2 off), bread, Laughing Cow (also $2 off), and toothpaste. Too bad I’ll have to go back out there today, since I grabbed the wrong damn toothpaste. I got gel instead of paste, and I hate gel. Blech.

While out, I also managed to almost rear end some old people who started to turn right, then stopped. And almost was hit by an idiot making a U-Turn where I was merging onto the highway. Oh how I love driving in the big city again.

I was ready for some lunch when I got home, but had no desire to put any effort into it. Hence this sandwich.

Honey ham, Laughing Cow, pickles, mustard on a 100% whole wheat cheese kaiser bun.

It’s true, I was too lazy to even clean some lettuce to throw in my sandwich. LOL Still tasted good, and that’s all that really matters, right?

At some point in time, my sister found her way home while I was searching for jobs online (alas, no luck). Then we started in on making dinner. She had requested I show her these things I had been talking about – tostadas.

We put out a spread of toppings that included:

• spicy refried beans
• leftover bbq chicken
• red pepper
• jalapeno peppers
• avocado
• cheddar cheese

I put a bit of everything on my two corn tostadas, popped them in the oven until hot and melty, then topped them with some sour cream and fresh chives from the garden.

I had a few cucumber slices on the side, for no other reason than I wanted some more green on my plate.

We enjoyed our dinner, then watched the results show from So You Think You Can Dance Canada. Then I took off for the gym. I got in some cardio time on the stair climber and elliptical. I had planned on doing a little upper body weight session afterwards, but I’m not used to the machines at this gym, and wasn’t enjoying the ones I started using. I went to use some of the other ones, but they were all busy, so I said screw it and went home.

After cleaning up the kitchen, I wanted a snack. I was thinking apples , so I pulled out the bag of apples we got from my sister’s boyfriend. They were starting to get a wee bit soft, so I decided to make impromptu applesauce – at 10 o’clock at night! That’s normal, right?

I chopped up the apple, skin and all, and threw them in a pot with some water, cinnamon, and honey. I let it cook down until I had what looked like applesauce, then I ran the immersion blender through it to break up the apple peel. Looks pretty good to me!

I may have put alot of cinnamon in. My sister even came down the hall from her bedroom and asked if I was making applesauce, because she could smell it.

I thought about having some as a snack, but it was still too hot, so I made myself a matcha latte instead – milk, matcha powder, splash of vanilla, and squirt of agave nectar.

Good thing I got all of those kitchen projects completed before the power went out!

And that, my friends, was my Wednesday. I know I had said I might take a trip to the States today, but I’ve put that on hold til next week. I’m off to enjoy the rest of my day. See you later, gators

Kitchen Invasion

Another long day has come and gone in this week leading up to the big move. Today was carpet cleaning day, and it pretty much put packing on hold all day! Grrrrr. Who knew carpet took FOREVER to dry? Seriously, it’s 11:30 pm and it’s still damp. Le sigh.

Want to see how much of a disaster my kitchen was today? Check it out.

That’s basically all my furniture, other than the bed & couch, crammed into that room. And it stayed that way until almost 5 pm when I got fed up and wanted access to my food. HA!

Sienna didn’t seem to phased by all the boxes in her windowsill.

So, how did I spend my day, seeing as my suite was a write off? Well, after the carpet cleaner left, I biked on down to the gym for a little fun. After I got home, I cleaned myself up, and it was time to head into work for some lunch with coworkers. What did we have for lunch? POUTINE! There is a little French Canadian restaurant near my old work, and they make authentic diner poutine. It’s soooo good. Not to mention, Tuesdays are Poutine Tuesday, where you get 2 smalls for $8.50. Gotta love that. We took orders, called it in, then picked it up and enjoyed our fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy. It’s all about those squeaky cheese curds. Yum!

After that, I came home and felt the need for something sweet. Good thing I still had some of these in the fridge.

I decided on the coconut cupcake today. It has a meringue type frosting, which looked too good to pass up.

I thought the cake was vanilla, but turns out it had coconut in it as well. Score! This cupcake tasted like a fresh macaroon, and was very moist for a cupcake that was almost a week old.

After hanging out outside with a book while I waited in vain for the carpets to dry, I gave up and started moving some furniture back in. I was going through computer withdrawal! I just used a little styrofoam under all the pieces of furniture so the air could continue to circulate. Then I plopped myself on the couch, and promptly fell asleep for 35 min or so. Oops!

That little nap was totally needed, but put me behind schedule as I was heading out again. I still wasn’t super hungry for dinner, so I grabbed a quick bite. I call it first dinner.

A bowl full of popcorn and a nectarine. As random as it seemed, it worked. Plus it took no time to make or consume.

Why was I in a rush? I was off to my friend’s place for another evening of Rockband. What can I say, we’re trying to get in as much as we can before I go. We didn’t stay up that late, I was home before 11 pm. And lo and behold, I was hungry again. Time for second dinner – or what I should have made before I went out.

I threw together a quick salad of red leaf lettuce, cucumber, carrot, raspberries, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, a chopped up wedge of Laughing Cow, and Annie’s Raspberry Vinaigrette. I would have added avocado as well, but the half I had in my fridge wasn’t looking so hot.

I threw some Rice Works wasabi rice crisps in a bowl for a little crunch component.

I also finished off the homemade iced tea, so I think I’m going to make some more before I head to bed. And get a little bit of packing done, since I’m still wide awake – napping in the early evening always does that to me.

Can’t say up too late though – tomorrow is a big day *cough* 30th birthday *cough* – and I have plans galore, including a wicked awesome breakfast. See you in the morning, a little bit older, and hopefully a bit wiser Night!

Day Of Relaxation

That is what I declared yesterday, and it was lovely. I slept in really late, lounged around, did nothing all day, and rocked with friends in the evening. Of course, it meant I was away from the computer most of the day, and that I got NOTHING packed or cleaned, but my mental healthy needed that kind of day. Now it’s time to go full steam ahead before the move!

I do have a recap of yesterdays eats though. I could never leave you guys hanging

As I mentioned, I totally slept in. Breakfast ended up being lunch. And what a great lunch it was.

I received a sample in the mail on Friday, and knew I needed to try it out right away with this meal. What is this item, you may ask?

Dierdre from Pizzey’s Nutritionals offered to send me a sample of some of their flax seed products, which I was more than happy to accept. Especially when I found out they actually grow their product in Canada – gotta represent! After browsing the FlaxMatters website, I decided to try out the Meadowpure Ultra SmoothOmega Milled Flax Seed. This product combines fish oil with milled golden flax to give you a great mix of those ever important Omega-3 fatty acids. This particular product is milled very fine, making it a great product to mix into smoothies, yogurt, and even beverages.

I was really intrigued to try this one that included the fish oil, because a part of me was a little skeptical that you could really combine flax and fish oil without any fishy taste. Let’s face it, I know all about fish smell. I will admit, when I opened the package, I did get the slightest hint of fishy smell, which I’m sure could be a major turn off to someone with an aversion to fish. I’m pretty used to it, due to work and all, so I decided to go ahead and add it to my breakfast.

I decided to test out this product in a yogurt mess.

Into the bowl:

• plain, non-fat yogurt
• Meadowpure Ultra SmoothOmega Milled Flax Seed
• Kashi GoLean Crunch
• fresh raspberries
• cooked rhubarb
• creamy coconut spread

See how fine this flax is ground?

I also had a ED&BV Spelt Zucchini muffin, with the last few blobs of chunky peanut butter.

And my juice substitute – blueberry herbal iced tea.

Before eating, I mixed all those ingredients up in the yogurt, and went to town. And guess what? No fishy flavour. Woot! Not that I don’t like fish, but let’s face it, a fish yogurt mess doesn’t sound the most appealing. Good thing too, since I now have this 2 lb bag of the stuff to eat up. Thanks Dierdre for sending me this sample. I’ll be trying it out in some more foods for sure

*insert alot of doing nothing here, coupled with some mindless snacking*

Which brings us to dinner. Due to said mindless snacking, I wasn’t super hungry for dinner. But, I knew if I didn’t eat, I’d be famished later on while at my friend’s house, so I brought out my leftover pizza from Thursday night.

Yummy gourmet pizza topped with chicken, red onion, asparagus, garlic, smoked gouda, mozzarella, and smoked cashews. It really is a great flavour combination.

Check out that full clove of garlic.

The last 3 slices.

I then spent the rest of the evening getting my Rockband on. I’ve got to get it all in now – once I move, I won’t be able to play anymore. My friends keep trying to convince me to get a PS3 & the game so I can play with them online, but let’s face it, that carries one hefty price tag. Not to mention how many downloaded songs they also have that I would need to purchase in order to play those as well. Cha-ching!

I didn’t get home until almost 1:30 am, and was starving. Seriously? I know. I thought about some cupcake, but I wasn’t in a sweet food mood. Instead, I came up with this.

Toasted Silver Hills “The Big 16” bread with a wedge of Laughing Cow and some red pepper jelly. Totally hit the spot, and sent me to bed a happy camper.

Now it’s time for me to get crackin’. I’ve got things to do!

The Switch Up

Phew, it’s a HOT one out there, and it’s supposed to be over 30 degrees C all week.   Not so pleasant when you work in a building without air conditioning! But let’s not think about work, I still have a good portion of the weekend to go!

After breakfast, I walked down to the gym, and for once, it seemed like the AC was working in there. I think they finally clued it that it’s time to turn it out. I had a fun, sweaty time on the elliptical, and worked on that upper body strength afterwards. I also ran into one of my coworkers there who had been out of town at a conference. Of course me leaving work came up in conversation.

After a quick wander to the store, I headed home in search of lunch. After buying that lovely local BC corn yesterday, I knew I needed to try out a cob today. I kept thinking how good it would be with a baked potato, green beans, and a salmon burger. Seems more suited to dinner, no? Well, I have something else in the works today, that although more suited to a lunch on a hot day, wasn’t going to be ready in time for lunch, so I switched up lunch and dinner.

So it started with a grilled salmon burger, topped with a little Laughing Cow and dill pickle relish.

Peaches & cream corn on the cob. You better believe there’s some melted butter on there.

Baked potato with the rest of the Laughing Cow and seasonings.

And steamed green beans.

Dinner for lunch. Heat be damned! I want my corn.

Doesn’t corn on the cob just scream summer? I wish I could get it all year round, it’s so much better tasting – and more fun to eat – than the frozen corn kernels.

Well, now that I’m stuffed with glorious eats, I’m back out the door to walk to the mall. Places to go, people to see!