My Lately posts came in as the top favorite kind of post in my survey (although you are definitely an audience divided!), so I don’t want to change them too much, but my goal moving forward is to provide a little more of the “me” behind my choices. Some weeks will undoubtedly be wordier than…
Chickpeas
Lately
I have been rockin the Sunday meal prep and Cook Smarts meal plans this whole month. Like I said on Friday, it has been a wonderful change for our family. Meal time stress has gone way down, and we are eating better than ever. Leftovers for lunch have been a huge success too! I even…
Lately As October Ends
What’s going on friends? After a few weeks of crazy, I finally sat down and made a meal plan last week. I put together some really nice meals! Two of them were from Cook Smarts. And for breakfast I celebrated National Oatmeal Day with a big bowl of hot pumpkin oats! But first… I started…
Moroccan-Inspired Quinoa Salad
I had some friends and their babies over for lunch this week {SO much fun!} and made this healthy mix of a salad to serve. I hope I am not offending any distinguished Moroccan chefs by calling this Moroccan-inspired. I love the addition of dried fruit and nuts to any dish and this salad combines…
Singing Peas
Dinner tonight had to be made in a flash – we had a concert to attend! I had everything all ready to go when Matt walked in the door. Indian Inspired Chickpeas Serves 2 In a big skillet: 2 cups chickpeas (cooked from scratch or from a can) 1/2 green bell pepper, chopped 1 jalapeno…
Drinkable.
Things were pretty busy around here all afternoon. After wrapping up our photo shoot, I started on digital project number two and made a few videos for Goodbite. Luckily they were just talking videos and did not involve dirty dishes 🙂 I was also super hungry all afternoon – hike catching up to me!? I…
Instructions To Be Squashed
Way out into the countryside…two girls went for a run Elly, a 4th year at UVA star runner who just ran a 3:17 marathon (!!), invited me out for a run on Ridge Road, a famous Cville running road that I had yet to explore. Now that fall weather is here, the temps are great…