First off, I have had insatiable hunger today!! I think it’s just one of those days of the month because it doesn’t feel like real hunger – just this pang that won’t go away! I’ve consumed many bottles of water (I also feel dehydrated) and clusters of granola, but it wasn’t until dinner that I really felt satisfied.
Afternoon snack of milk, frozen raspberries and granola. Protein, carbs, fat, calories, water – should have done the trick!
Nope.
Dinner was sponsored by Karen and was absolutely gorgeous on our plates!
We had a beet salad with goat cheese, basil, olive oil and salt
And bison sliders!
With jalapeno inside and avocado on top! Served on a Honey Whole Wheat roll.
We all agreed that these were the best burgers we’d had in ages!
Lastly, grilled eggplant (smothered in olive oil and some glugs of Liquid Smoke) plus fresh garden tomato
I just love meals that have an abundance of vegetables!
Something sweet to end the night – a single bite of Krissy’s Butterbeer cupcake!
I need to shower to wash the bug spray off my legs!
G’nite.
Hillary says
There are few things more delicious than grilled eggplant on a summer night. Fabulous!
Lauren @ What Lauren Likes says
Ugh I hate that sticky bug spray feeling…bison sliders?! looks amazing 🙂
Jessica @ The Process of Healing says
I haven’t had a burger in ages and those sound absolutely amazing!!!
Angel7 says
We love burgers! I have never had a bison burger, though.
We are all about jalapenos!
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E says
Definitely try bison (buffalo) if you get a chance! It’s delicious – a buffalo burger has so much more flavor than beef 🙂
Jenny @ Fitness Health and Food says
I bet your hunger was caused by your awesome boot camp class! 🙂 Strength training boosts my appetite like no other workout!
Karen is such an amazing cook! I hope that she is doing well! 🙂
Cait @ Beyond Bananas says
I am loving that afternoon snack! I bet the milk seeped into those frozen raspberries and made it delicious!
Angela (Oh She Glows) says
I always get ‘hormonal’ hunger that won’t go away no matter how much I eat. It usually happens 2-3 days a month and nothing I eat sends that ‘I’m satisfied’ signal to my brain…weird!
Brittany @ Itty Bits of Balance says
mm! I live in Orlando by Islands of Adventure (which has Harry Potter land) and people go absolutely INSANE for the butterbeer! I can only imagine how phenomenal the cupcakes taste… 🙂
Betsy says
That avocado on top is a beautiful pop of green. I’ve been eating avocado at EVERY meal lately, even with breakfast ( tremendous with a poached egg in leu of toast). Who is the Karen character always popping up with brilliant food? A neighbor? A relative? Seems like she joins you all the time for meals!
KathEats says
She is my mother in law!
Baking N Books says
I believe Karen is Matt’s lovely mother.
Love the photos. – stir some nut butter into your milk/granola combo – that might do the trick 🙂
Donna says
Your comment about Karen…So nicely said, Baking N Books. Karen’s salad looked absolutely gorgeous.
Baking N Books says
That’s so nice to say Donna. I speak only the truth! 🙂
Estela @ Weekly Bite says
Lovely dinner!!! Grilled eggplant is the best 🙂
Annette @ EnjoyYourHealthyLife says
I love when a meal is chock full of veggies too. SOO satisfying in a weird way 😉 And that snack looks super delish—I kinda want to eat that now. Hah!
Katelyn @ Chef Katelyn says
That is a freaking beautiful salad. I had beets tonight too and I am SUPER beet. Ahahahh.
Paige @Running Around Normal says
That is one tiny bite of cupcake!! Pretty cup cake though…
Cait @ Cait hates Cake says
What a great meal! I’m totally digging beets in salads lately, I used to never eat them.
Lauren says
Night! 😀 Hopefully see you at some point soon….care to come to 5 hors of intense summer gym? Probably not 😉
Lauren says
Ooops meant hours. It’s getting to me, huh?
Vanessa says
Dinner looks yummy! By the way, I stopped in the bakery today, bought a loaf of bread and some Naturally Nutty and a Savannah bar. I think it was an unusually slow time so no one was really around. Sorry to have missed you, but the store is great in person!
KathEats says
Awww if it was after noon I was there!! I was probably doing office stuff. Sorry to miss you!
Margo @ Peanut Butter Trees says
That dinner is truly beautiful! The colors are just popping. Beet salad sounds so good and summery, I’ll have to try that out sometime.
Cait's Plate says
That dinner really does look fabulous. I’m glad you enjoyed it. And, my offer still stands to have Karen move in with me and make those wonderful dinners if she wants! 😉
Also – the insatiable hunger thing was me last week. It didn’t matter how balanced my meals/snacks were I was just always left with a bit of hunger! So frustrating!
Becki @ Becki's Whole Life says
Everything looks so good. We love bison burgers. Our Whole Foods grinds it fresh and its actually cheaper than some of the other places that sell it frozen! The eggplant with some liquid smoke is very interesting – I so need to try that since I always love the eggplant dips that are smoked. Yum, I’m so hungry now – good job Karen!!
Julie H. says
Oh Karen… You ALWAYS amaze me! YUMMM! Way to go!
The eggplant stole this post for me! ….I have my first little baby eggplant growing in my garden! 🙂 I’m in <3! YES!!!
Hannah says
Those burgers truly look amazing! You always create such colourful plates of goodness!
staceyhealthylife says
Such cute little burgers. I love the avocado topping.
Kristin @ eat healthy. be happy. live well. says
Your food is definitely beautiful!!!
Robyn @ Blueberries and Oats says
I love golden beets!! You always have the most beautiful and healthy looking dinners!
P.s. I hate insatiable days!
Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga says
Kath the food IS so BEAUTIFUL in this post.
Those golden beets in that salad, divine.
And I am a huge ketchup lover. So anything with ketchup drops or blobs or huge spoonfuls always makes me excited 🙂
Have a great nite!
Stef says
Love the golden beets, those are the best!
Krissy - Shiawase Life says
MmmM! I haven’t eaten meat in a while but those bison burgers look AMAZING.
Also, still have tons of that butterbeer ganache from the cupcake filling (love the images you’ve captured of them BTW!) so I drizzled some over Pudge Free brownie batter and baked up goodies for the office! Mmmmm…the magic lives on!!
KathEats says
Mmm!! I LOVE butterscotch!!
Kristin @ FoodFash says
What a beautiful meal! I’ve never attempted a homemade beet salad, but I need to put it on my to-do list.
Allie (Live Laugh Eat) says
Karen’s a pro chef + stylist!
Joanna says
Extra delicious looking pics today! Mmmmmm.
Sarena (The Non-Dairy Queen) says
I hate those days when you need food, but really aren’t hungry. Dinner looks amazing! We smoked Boston Butts yesterday and I decided to throw some cherry tomatoes on the smoker…they were amazing! Now I want to smoke more vegetables! The flavor is just amazing.
Holly @ The Runny Egg says
“some glugs of liquid smoke” — it is funny how a word like “glugs” can be so descriptive 🙂
Molly @ RDexposed says
Fresh garden basil?? That stuff is ridiculously amazing!
Kristen, Sweetly says
Insatiable hunger and you still just had one bite of cupcake?! Now that’s something… Your granola looks like the perfect snack, too. I’m jealous. Should just go use some of my ten pounds of blueberries and make myself a bedtime snack. :p
KathEats says
I said I was hungry …until dinner! It finally filled me up.
Laura Jane @ Recovering Chocoholic says
I agree with Kirsten – hungry but just one bite of the cupcake! I would have had a tough time stopping at one bite. I notice bison burgers at the grocery store the other day. I thought about the trying them, but the price tag scared me away, especially not knowing if I’d like them!
Gina @ Running to the Kitchen says
What a colorful meal! I’ve never made bison burgers at home, yours look delicious.
Beth Allman says
I just love your blog. I feel like we have a lot of the same tastes, and so many of your staples have become my staples.
I think I am going to get a WWKD bracelet – “What would kath do?” Because I so often think that when I am making food choices!!
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for your inspiration! and great ideas!
KathEats says
🙂 Thanks Beth!
Keelie says
This food is obscenely delicious/ gorgeous! 🙂
Nancy~The Wife of a Dairyman says
I love the looks of that dinner! We had a family dinner last night on the farm and served a goat cheese appetizer- to old-school bovine dairy relatives, which half of them actually liked. I was pleasently surprised!
Justeen @ Blissful Baking says
The beet salad looks fantastic! Karen is awesome!
Megan says
How did Karen prep the beets, do you know? roasted or boiled?
Karen says
Boiled them with the skins on. I think next time I’ll peel first, then boil. It was a little tricky to get the skins off after beets were cooked.
Kathleen @ KatsHealthCorner says
You snack sound delicious! 🙂
Jenny says
wow your dinner looks amazing! I love all the colors of the vegetables!
[email protected] says
I think beet is one of the best veggies that have ever existed!! Case closed hehe 😉
Kasey says
Kath-
This is my first time writing, and I’m so excited to leave you a message 🙂 I’m a junior from MN studying nutrition, so naturally I stumbled upon your lovely blog about a year ago and never miss a post (hopefully thats not creepy?? I’m just always curious about what you make). Obviously been hooked ever since! I just love everything you do and eat, your fabulous!
KathEats says
Not creepy!! 🙂 Thanks!
J3nn (Jenn's Menu and Lifestyle Blog) says
Very beautiful! Veggies make the most colorful pictures — love them!
Cute little burger, too. 🙂
kaila @ heathyhelper! says
That meal looks absolutely amazing! Where did you buy your liquid smoke!??! I’ve been looking to buy some for a while now!
KathEats says
Whole Foods!
Julie says
You take such amazing pictures! That meal looks divine.
lynn @ the actor's diet says
that is, indeed a gloriously gorgeous dinner.
i hate the feeling of bug spray!!! when i worked/went to camp in maine i used to sleep with it on.
Namaste Gurl says
Looks like a healthy, fresh and colorful summer meal! Karen is much too sweet 🙂
Casey @ Pocket Full of Sunshine says
All those veggies are gorgeous! I love your photos Kath. 🙂
Kate (What Kate is Cooking) says
I love your veggie filled dinner! Such a colorful plate 🙂
Kelli H (Made in Sonoma) says
Love the plate your salad is on. reminds me of a restaurant!
Christine @ BookishlyB says
Please tell me you ate the rest of that cupcake… if not, how do you acquire that sort of self-control? 🙂
KathEats says
Matt and Karen did! I had to share 🙂 Plus, all I really wanted was one bite.
Jackie @ That Deep Breath says
i love eggplant, i never get enough of it. hate that feeling where you’re so hungry it literally hurts deep in your stomach, but really don’t have an appetite at all. happens too often!
Luciana Ferreira says
Your pictures are always so beautiful…!Love the 3rd – full of color and life!
Angela says
This is going to sound weird but I’m so glad to hear that you get days when you just feel hungry all the time for no reason. I hate those days as nothing is satisfying for me.
Your whole dinner looks amazing!:)
Aine @ Something to Chew Over says
Wow what a goregeous dinner! You should get Karen to be a regular contributor to KERF or maybe she could set up a rival blog 🙂
Jumanah @ Healthy Living in the Middle East says
I have to agree with you about your food being absolutely beautiful! Are the ingredients in your salad from your garden?
KathEats says
Just the basil + tomatoes
Khushboo says
I hate days like that, they make me feel Like I can eat my house down!
Claire @ Live and Love to Eat says
Between those veggies and that salad I would think that meal was pretty filling! 🙂
Jess says
wow all this looks wonderful 😀
Ashley @ Coffee Cake and Cardio says
Those tomatoes look amazing!! I just love this time of year and the fresh produce. It’s so good to eat what’s in season!
Chelsea @ One Healthy Munchkin says
That meal looks right out of a cooking magazine spread! 😀
rumfunandsun says
That looks delicious! And the bugs are crazy this time of year. I went out for like 30 seconds and lost a pint of blood to mosquitos!
Hope says
That is one beautiful and colorful dinner! I love the roasted veggies!
Foodie (Fab and Delicious Food) says
Gorgeous dinner and photos!
Sarah says
I’m the exact same way today. I know I shouldn’t be hungry because I’ve had plenty to eat, but I get this pang that just won’t go away. I’m sure it’s hormonal, and I’m so glad someone else experiences such a feeling. Otherwise, I’d think I was crazy.
Mike says
Bison burgers are awesome. I love the avocoados and grilled veggies. Everything is very colorful!!
Laura @ Cookies vs. Carrots says
That salad looks so good. Are those a special type of beet? They look so different from the ones I usually see.
KathEats says
Golden + purple!
Doc (The Healthy Ph.D) says
Maybe you were hungry because of all of your activity the day before? I really find that I’m not hungry the day of long runs or bike rides, but the next day I am starving! Something to it?
Brinleigh says
YUM and SO beautifully plated! It’s amazing what simple presentation can do!
Michaela says
stunning pictures.
Mindy says
Love how colorful your meals are! Very inspiring 🙂
Jennifer says
I LOVE purple food, well except eggplant (it makes my tongue itch, weird, I know) but I really love beets. It’s just fun to eat food that is SO purple.
JenATX says
lol I never have seen someone so excited about the color purple! But I love beets as well 🙂 I really don’t understand how people love beets… sheesh!