I think it got down to about 55 degrees last night. In my book there is nothing better than being under the covers with a cool breeze floating across your face. I almost was going kick our dog off of our down comforter that he sleeps on at the foot of our bed!
For breakfast yesterday I used 2 slices of my no-knead bread as the base for my egg sammie. Our deli sliced our Swiss cheese really thin, so this is only 1 ounce of cheese, but it looks and tastes like a lot more!
That kept me full for a suprisingly long time – I ended up doing 45 minutes on the elliptical on level 10 – that was pretty hard!
For lunch I had a bowl of my cream of tomato curry soup – it tasted even better than the day I made it. On the side – a red pepper and cheddar cheese quesadilla I Pam fried so it was nice and crispy. Lunch: 423 calories, 42 carbs, 14.8 protein, 22 fat and 4.1 fiber.
I was grilling chicken and knowing Hannah isn’t a big fan of that, I planned on making a lot of spaetzle. I’ve made it several times since our German exchange student Maxi left. However, I chose a recipe that made a bigger batch and it was an epic fail. The spaetzle never quite separated in the boiling water – and I even let the batter sit for 30 minutes!
So I went to plan B and just cooked up some egg noodles. I spent so much time with the spaetzle, that I didn’t realize I never cooked the broccoli I had planned to go with dinner. I am sure Tony is bummed about that (not!).
Hannah bought me a bbq sauce for Mother’s Day that had gotten hidden in my pantry. I really liked this – I think she got it at T.J. Maxx.
And I had a chicken breast (I only ate half).
But around 9:30, I realized I had put some ground beef in the refrigerator that I had already defrosted for our gyros burgers and had to cook it up, so I made taco meat to use later this week. Well later this week ended up being 10 minutes after I started cooking the meat, and I made us a plate of nachos. Somehow I didn’t end up getting a picture of that! 😀
Stats for Tuesday
- 1577 calories, 164 carbs, 89 protein, 62 fat, 7.5 fiber
- 35% of calories from fat
- 45 minutes elliptical
I want that! Marisa’s Harvest Blend salad. I’ve had Trader Joe’s harvest blend before, but by itself I thought it was just okay. I like how Marisa jazzed it up with feta cheese, vinegar and roasted red peppers! 😀
Gosh! It all looks so terrific. Love that sammy.
Oh, and thanks to the link to that gravy. WOW! That’s a lot of meat. It looks so good though. I’m definitely going to have to try it. LOVE America’s Test Kitchens. 🙂
I wish we had cool weather without all this rain!
55 degrees! It won’t get that cool here until mid-December.
I think our overnight low was 91.
🙂
this is the ‘oozing cheese picture post’ mmmmm
u’d love it here with the weather we’ve been having..been quite mild with a lot of cool breezes.. especially in the evening when i have the windows open.. ahhhh..refreshing <3
xoxo
Our weather was great today, too. We opened the windows last night, enjoyed the coolness and the crickets. As always, your food looks yummy. I made a stir fry with flank steak, red peppers, snow peas, red onion, shitake mushrooms, some of those baby corn cobs, almonds, and chayote squash (added at the last minute for crunch value). Served over brown rice.