• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
Search
  • About
    • Contact
    • Press
  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • Oatmeal Recipes
    • Smoothie Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • 100 Oatmeal Recipes + Whipped Banana Oatmeal
    • The Best Overnight Oats Recipes
    • Smoothie In A Bowl
  • Nutrition
    • Favorite Wellness Products
    • My Wellness Program
    • Top 10 Nutrition Posts
    • Healthy Mindset
    • Real Food
    • Weight Change
    • Becoming A Registered Dietitian
  • Home
    • Home Tour
    • Home Renovation Before And After
    • Renovation
    • Kitchen Organization Accessories
  • Beauty
    • my beauty broadcast
    • Beautycounter Swaps
    • What Happened To Beautycounter?
    • How to Apply Skincare in the Right Order
  • Life
    • Mazen’s Birth Story
    • Birch’s Birth Story
    • Fitness
    • Wedding
    • Charlottesville
    • Travel
  • Courses
    • Digital Clutter Course
    • Bloom Wellness Program
    • Freebies
  • Shop

Kath Eats logo

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
Search
  • About
    • Contact
    • Press
  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • Oatmeal Recipes
    • Smoothie Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • 100 Oatmeal Recipes + Whipped Banana Oatmeal
    • The Best Overnight Oats Recipes
    • Smoothie In A Bowl
  • Nutrition
    • Favorite Wellness Products
    • My Wellness Program
    • Top 10 Nutrition Posts
    • Healthy Mindset
    • Real Food
    • Weight Change
    • Becoming A Registered Dietitian
  • Home
    • Home Tour
    • Home Renovation Before And After
    • Renovation
    • Kitchen Organization Accessories
  • Beauty
    • my beauty broadcast
    • Beautycounter Swaps
    • What Happened To Beautycounter?
    • How to Apply Skincare in the Right Order
  • Life
    • Mazen’s Birth Story
    • Birch’s Birth Story
    • Fitness
    • Wedding
    • Charlottesville
    • Travel
  • Courses
    • Digital Clutter Course
    • Bloom Wellness Program
    • Freebies
  • Shop
You are here: Home / Lifestyle / Empty Bottle

August 1, 2008

Empty Bottle

Somehow a whole bottle of wine was consumed tonight!! I sure hope the majority wasn’t by me 😳

My salmon salad from lunch kept my stomach full all afternoon. Not just “not  hungry” but FULL. I guess it was all those vegetables. Around 6 we started thinking about dinner. We thought about going out for a drink first just for some excitement, but the husband said “Why not just open a bottle of wine here?” We are weird about opening bottles – like it’s a huge commitment, mostly because many of the bottles on our rack were either gifts or are special bottles we bought on the honeymoon or when on trips together. So it is SO EXCITING when we do! We decided to open a bottle the husband bought at a wine tasting once, which was not really anything special.

DSC02213

I dug right in (note the 80s hair-do!)

DSC02215 

Glass #2 came too soon behind the first – probably why the bottle is now gone!

DSC02219

Summer Gumbo

We had lots of great ingredients on hand to make what I’m calling: Summer Gumbo.

We started with Harris Teeter brand sun-dried tomato chicken sausage that we got for $1 a few days ago because it was on its last use-by date.

DSC02210

Combined with a bunch of grilled veggies from the CSA (zucchini, squash, eggplant)

DSC02217

Grillmaster + wine-O

DSC02216

Tons of CSA okra –

DSC02211

And a bunch of fridge leftovers:

  • Beans (which we ended up not using)
  • Tomato sauce
  • Gazpacho
  • Piquillo peppers
  • Adobo peppers
  • Plus a can of diced tomatoes (unphotographed and added for more liquid)

DSC02212

Before sauce:

DSC02218

A fabulous gumbo, which I topped with Fage and grated cheddar –

DSC02224

DSC02225

And on the side I had a slice of the husband’s Corny Bread, which I cut into bite-sized pieces. The corn doesn’t add much, but the bread itself is AMAZING –

DSC02222

(Still second glass of wine – I had about 8-10 oz I think? I had another small splash at the end of dinner)

DSC02220

And for dessert, we split a Praline Merci Chocolate. Yum!

DSC02226 DSC02227

We had wanted to go for a walk again tonight, but I think we’re going to get cozy on the couch and watch The Simpsons instead.

Happy weekend 🙂

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: Eggplant, Okra, Soup, Squash

Reader Interactions

Previous Post
Dean, Deluca and Kate
Next Post
The Best Of Both Worlds

Comments

  1. Hil says

    August 1, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    Kath, can you explain what gumbo is? I know generally, but I’m not from the South, and I’m always getting it mixed up with jumbalaya and paella! Doesn’t gumbo usually have rice and seafood? And bell pepper and celery?

    Reply
  2. alo says

    August 1, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    Yeah, sorry Kath, but as a born and bred Louisiana girl, I don’t think your (delicious looking!!) dinner counts as gumbo…my memaw would smack you on the back of your head if you ever tried to add cheddar cheese and sour cream to true gumbo.

    Reply
  3. Emily says

    August 1, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    hey kath my mom usually freezes leftover Adobo peppers so that we can just get a scoop of it when we need it. that way we don’t end up using a teaspoon and throwing it away.

    Reply
  4. Sammie says

    August 1, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    That looks so delicious! I so need to get my grill fixed – squash is so yummy grilled. You and your husband are so cute cooking together. I think my huz would lose a limb if he tried to cook like yours does. You really got yourself a goodie! Happy snuggling!!

    Reply
  5. Kath says

    August 1, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    Hil + Ado,
    You are right Ado, I just call anything with okra and a tomato base gumbo!! It’s fake though 🙂 A stew maybe? I don’t know what to call it!

    Kath

    Reply
  6. Jenny says

    August 1, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    That sounds like a really wonderful Friday night! Can I just say that I am very envious of the seeming ease and creativity with which you pull together delicious looking meals.:)
    Nothing better than a nice red wine either! Have a good weekend!

    Reply
  7. Chelsea says

    August 1, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    I laughed out loud when you called Kanz a Wino. It was really too cute.

    Reply
  8. yadi says

    August 1, 2008 at 9:36 pm

    How do you choose sausage? Many of the ones I check out have too many mystery ingredients… And when it starts with pulled chicken parts… Well, they lost a customer right there. Maybe it’s because I read this at some point. http://www.naturalnews.com/phototour_mystery_meat_1.html

    Reply
  9. Ozlem says

    August 1, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Hi Kath,

    Two questions for you:

    how do you make your salmon salad as I bought some canned salmon from WF and I really want to make that.

    Also what type of hemp milk do you use original or vanilla? There was also choc. but I doubt you add that one in your oatmeal.

    Thanks so much in advance,

    Reply
  10. Emily says

    August 2, 2008 at 2:24 am

    Do you store your leftovers right in the cans like that? Be careful! That’s one way you can get botchulism! I would just transfer leftovers to tupperware containers and store them that way…

    Reply
  11. C says

    August 2, 2008 at 6:36 am

    That chocolate looks freakin’ amazing!

    Reply
  12. Christie says

    August 2, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Kath just wondering what classes you will be taking this comming semester?

    sportsnutritionliving.wordpress.com

    Reply
  13. Sidi says

    August 2, 2008 at 8:31 am

    Have merci on me. My Merci chocolate supplier is out of stock. Merci, merci, merci!!!

    Reply
  14. Kath says

    August 2, 2008 at 8:34 am

    yadi ,
    I always choose chicken sausages that are all-natural (or organic) and have a short ingredient list of things I understand. AmyLu’s and these from HT both fit the bill. While I think the ingredient lists of the meats in that photo story are way too long and have things I wouldn’t eat, I do think the photos were a bit exaggerated. Of course you’re going to see chunks of fat in meats that are made with animal fat! I’m sure a lot of foods look pretty gross up close too. But cool site.

    Ozlem ,
    Here’s my salmon salad recipe (I interchange canned salmon and tuna in the same ingredients).

    https://www.katheats.com/?page_id=550

    And I use the vanilla hemp milk. I haven’t tried the plain, but I like it for the sweetness of the vanilla so I probably would just use skim milk instead of plain because it’s so much more expensive.

    Emily ,
    I don’t think you can get botchulism that way, but I know storing things in cans isn’t recommended. We usually do put things in tupperware (like pumpkin) but we knew we’d be using these the next day so didn’t bother this time.

    Christie ,
    Organic Chem
    Nutrition in the Lifespan
    Foodservice Systems
    Microbiology

    Yikes!

    Kath

    Reply
  15. Andrea says

    August 3, 2008 at 7:59 am

    I think a bottle of wine is roughly about 4 glasses total. So between you and hubs, that’s only 2 glasses each. Breaking it down that way makes it seem less like an oops. 😀 Or at least that’s what I tell myself!

    I haven’t tried a savory crepe yet. I made them once with a sweet filling for my husband’s b-day. I definitely want to try it as a sandwich wrap now!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Search

Topics to browse >>

Get my exclusive promos –>

    Footer

    hi! Im Kath.

    I'm a Registered Dietitian, healthy eater, and mom of two from Charlottesville, Virginia. Here you’ll find a healthy mix of real-life meals made from whole ingredients balanced with the pleasures of life, including buttercream frosting and good wine. Plus a sprinkle of nutrition, home life, beauty, parenting, and travel.
    about | privacy policy | contact

    Please note: nearly every link I post is an affiliate link. Thank you for supporting my blog.

    Recipes

    • Oatmeal Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • Smoothie Recipes
    • All Recipes

    Nutrition

    • Healthy Mindset
    • Real Food
    • My Wellness Program

    Life

    • Home Tour
    • Travel
    • Wedding
    • Charlottesville
    • Digital Clutter Course
    • Instagram
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube

    Copyright © // 2025 Kath Eats
    Jump to top