^^When you walk to school with a turtle peeking out of your backpack! Mazen said: “He looks like E.T.!”
Breakfast of eggs, grapes (which I am currently obsessed with), and blueberry mini muffins I have coming up for a recipe post!
Next up: green smoothie, fried egg, and mango.
And finally, a pita stuffed with banana and almond butter and a handful of raspberries. Mazen is currently obsessed with stuffed pitas : )
I had a lot of soup for lunches last week. This was a Cook Smarts chicken soup, which I topped with cheese and Greek yogurt.
One day for lunch I got a big green smoothie from The Juice Place downtown.
This guy was the almond butter one with added spinach and granola on top.
Lunch date at Lampo! I had the kale salad (which is small but mighty) plus the Hell Boy pizza, which is the BEST! So spicy with a drizzle of honey, and the prosciutto pizza with arugula and lemon is another favorite.
For dinner I went over to Sarah’s and made a Cook Smarts butternut squash soup to go with pesto zucchini and rice. We stirred some cooked chicken into the soup to bulk it up a bit with protein.
As mentioned above, that Cook Smarts chicken poblano soup. With all the toppings!
And finally, I went to Southern Crescent with Mazen’s teacher from last year, who is helping me book a tropical vacation for this winter.
The restaurant is in this house in Belmont, and it has an epic porch/patio set up for dining. We sat out on the porch looking in at the cozy bar.
Specializing in New Orleans and southern fare, we started with the jalapeno pimento cheese dip and fried okra. Both were amazing!
I had the shrimp and grits for dinner, which were fabulous. So great as leftovers for lunch the next day!
Hope you guys are having a great week! Sylvia says hi : )
Hi Kath!
First of all, your food never fails to make me drool – I can’t wait to see that recipe for the mini blueberry muffins! I just wanted to say that I’ve been a blog reader for a while, and I adore your writing and your photography. Recently I made a compilation of some of my favourite blogs (which I had to feature yours in!), and you can check it out here: https://cookiesnchem.com/2016/10/19/my-top-22-favourite-food-blogs/
Thanks for making your blog so easy to read, exciting, and creative. Hope the rest of your day is amazing!
Cindy
Thank you Cindy!
Love the meals! Sometimes I feel like it has to be smoothie OR eggs, like I have to chose and it feels like life or death. Maybe I should realize I’m a grown woman cooking my own food, I can totally have a green smoothie AND eggs!
Haha that is totally something I would think!!
That kale salad and pizza combo sounds delicious! Have you tried Mike’s Hot Honey? A friend gifted me a bottle and it’s awesome for homemade pizza…or on ice cream…or on just about everything. 😉
No but that sounds goooood!
The stuffed pita looks amazing!
I agree with the first comment your blog IS so easy to read and pretty to look at! I love it and i love all the sweet stories of Mazen and friends and food and upcoming tropical vacay?!!!?? yay yay!!! 🙂
Have a great day Kath. I also cant wait to someday “meet” mr. football fan guy who has the cute dog. 🙂 but I totally get waiting. I am just happy for you. XOXO
One day, I will remember to NOT read one of your posts on an empty stomach. I’ve been working at my computer nearly all day so I haven’t had much to eat beyond my morning clementine and a coffee (if that counts??), so this post has me wanting to clear out my fridge and make all of the foods. It all looks so good!!
Quite typically, I am on a fast day today as I am looking at those tempting photographs! One thing that always strikes me about your meal shots is that I think that my main “problem’ has been portion control – your servings always look so tiny (I think that having to satisfy my 6’8” son’s appetite for all these years has skewed my reality!)!
I love the breakfast meals you have here. One question though. Can I use peaches instead of ripe mangoes? I The idea of a green smoothie, fried egg and ripe mangoes is new to me. Something which I like to try in my diet journey.
Yes! Peaches are perfect