Great morning.
Great Sculpt workout with Victoria. [Tendon feels back to normal - whew.]
Great lunch!!!
I came home craving a Hugh Jass salad and found leftovers from Matt’s dinner last night. We had gotten a coupon for a free pound of shrimp at EarthFare and had an eggplant and I told him to make something. I have no idea what exactly he made, but it was sooooo good!! I’m pretty sure he sauteed the eggplant because this is the second time he’s made incredible eggplant pillowy marshamallows. I heated up the mixture and put it on top of a big salad
The base is green leaf lettuce with carrot and green pepper, drizzled in the usual: some EVOO (1/2 a tsp?) and agave (1/2 a tsp?) and a bit of Krazy Salt. Then I heated up the shrimp + eggplant and put that on with a small packet of Delta peanuts!!
Dessert #1. I need some fruit in my diet today!
Dessert #2. Healthy Apple Amie sent me a holiday card with a few treats – including this vegan cookie. I gave it a try after lunch – just a taste. It wasn’t bad, but it was definitely missing ze buttah!! Thank you Amie!!!
Video crew for Open Sky product project will be here any second. Gotta run!! Can’t wait to relax after a busy week that wasn’t supposed to be that busy!
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I agree a chocolate chip cookie needs its butter:-)
I wish my salad looked like yours!
Glad you had a great sculpt class!
The shrimp salad looks fantastic!
So glad to hear that you’re having a great day and that your foot is feeling better! Are you still considering the half marathon?
I have no idea.
Your orange? might inspire me to go out to my car in 30 degree weather to get an orange out of the box I bought from my church youth group.
I don’t even like eggplant but that looks fantastic!
I have been making chocolate chip cookies with grapeseed oil per Elana’s Pantry and find it to be a really nice sub. I don’t really miss the butter at all (I don’t eat dairy but not vegan) and even my “regular” eating friends like them. Give it a try sometime!
This salad looks great! I love that you used a packet of peanuts from DELTA! I do that too! Keep the packets and eat them later. Too funny.
ha, i have a packet of delta peanuts in my closet right now
The salad looks fantastic!
Pillowy marshmallow eggplant!! That is such a perfect way to describe it. Yummm yum yum you made me hungry all over again
Your salad looks great! Ehhh I’d have to say all cookies need a little bit of buttttaaah. That’s what cookies are for. They aren’t supposed to be healthy
I’m glad your foot is better. I’m hungry, it wasn’t the smartest idea to come here because now I’m even more hungry…
1. I love the phrase “Hugh Jass”
2. Pillowy marshmallow eggplant sounds like heaven right now
3. Great pics of the salad!
I love topping salads with warm things, especially in winter.
AND I really want pillowy eggplant, bad–I want the recipe b/c that is a seriously delicious sounding description.
I tried whipped banana oatmeal this morning for the first time, and it was so good! I’m not a huge banana person unless I’m eating an actual banana so I was a little worried the taste would be too strong, but it actually didn’t taste like banana at all! Just mildly sweet and creamy. I’ll definitely be trying it again! Thanks for all the great tips!
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Mmm, eggplant. I like eggplant, but cooking it intimidates me. I should work on that.
i only like eggplant when other people make it for me. will matt make me some of those fluffy pillows please?
Good luck with your Open Sky project!
I would love to know how to make “eggplant pillowy marshmallows.” That sounds much better than the squishy soggy eggplant I usually end up with!
YUMMMM. That salad looks amazing. As does that cookie
I already ate lunch and those pictures STILL make me hungry! Haha
Good luck with your Open Sky project!!
That is my kind of salad, BIG!
I’ve never had eggplant before, I’m going to look it up and see how to cook it.
It’s funny; I actually left your recipe for the whole wheat yoghurt pancakes open on my browser last night, thinking that pancakes would be a yummy Christmas breakfast this year, and the ones that you had this morning look even easier. I realise it’s probably awhile since you made the yoghurt pancakes, but did you have a preference in the recipes? And do you have any idea what the nutritional stats were for the ones you made this morning? The other recipe you said came in at around 80 calories or so per pancake, which seemed great.
Laura,
I’d go with these. I haven’t made the yogurt pancakes in ages, and I might have made them only once. Today’s are simpler and more classic pancakes. But from what I said, the yogurt ones did sound good!
I totally thought Great Harvest was going to be added in this post somewhere, haha!
I love shrimp in salads! Just posted an amazing recipes Beans with Bulgar Pesto.
I need to get me one of those bowls with the tops so the oatmeal doesnt spill over!
love when eggplant roasts up deicious and pillowy like that! the shrimps are so cuteee
enjoy your cookie treat!!
that salad looks so good, im going to make myself one now. of course mine will be mass lamer than yours… but ill just pretend
lovely salad! have fun with Open sky!!!
Man that is one impressive salad! Made me hungry just looking at it!
Wow! That salad has me craving a huge salad now
Glad your tendon feels better. It’s really frustrating when you try to workout and your body says no!!
What a great salad mix! I finally tried eggplant not too long ago, and I LOVED it. I should definitely try it out on a salad sometime.
Glad you enjoyed the cookie darling….Happy Holidays!!!!!
shrimp + eggplant = yum!!!
For some reason I can’t cook eggplant right. It’s always so mushy when I cook it!
What is Matt’s secret!?
awesome looking lunch. Thanks so much for that cranberry crock pot chicken recipe. It was so tasty!!!!
When I was home over Thanksgiving, I was reading one of your posts about a Hugh Jass salad. I asked my unsuspecting mom to read that part out loud to me and it cracked me up! Ha. I always call them mountain salads…mine are huge, too.
Hee hee. I bet that was funny to hear
So I just totally got that! Funny!
Busy? That’s funny. That was a busy week? Yes, better put your feet up.
Gotta love the cookies!
Katie
Yum! I had an amazing shrimp salad while vacationing in Costa Rica this week but yours looks equally good.
EGGPLANT: Don’t be scared to try it! It’s actually quite neutral in taste compared to some other veggies. I just love it!! The easiest way to cook it, I think, it to just cube it and sautee in some oil until it beings to brown. I’m pretty sure that’s what Matt does to get marshmallow pillows
Gorgeous salad!! I can’t get enough salads, simply LOVE them! I made eggplant last night, too. SO GOOD! Marshmallow-y goodness is the perfect description because they get so soft and sweet.
Jenn
Love the “cutie clementines” right now! My dd loves them cause they have cute soccer stickers and they’re easy to peel when she’s at lunch! Your lunch looks delish as usual!
That mix looks amazing. Beautiful Hugh Jass salad!
I love me some scrimp.