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.
Everything looks great once again Biz! I think you should start coming to my house and cooking for me! P.S. your daughter is so pretty! Love her picture is the last post!
That food looks great. You seriously take some of the best food photos I have ever seen!
Great workout too! 🙂
WAY too much good food in this post – love the look of the chicken/egg noodles and of the soup/quesadillas! YUM. And I especially heart the thin cheese slices – always looks like more which makes my belly happy!
Looks wonderful! Enjoy the cool weather. We are still hot here is Fla. Ugh!!
Isn’t it funny how dishes with curry ALWAYS taste better the next day? That soup sounds great!
You’d love our climate, then. Our whole summer was in the 50s and 60s…but we had fog, too, and that gets old after awhile. We’re finally having our summer this week (temps in the 80s-100s!)…just in time for back to school!
Your quesadillas look so yummy! I’ll have to try that for breakfast one of these days.
The food looks yummy but…level 10 on the elliptical???? WHAT ?
There’s two things I can’t do, one is the elliptical (I can only do a few minutes at a time so that was a big waste of money) and a lunge. Well, I can do a lunge, but not 100% correctly. Don’t know why, it looks easy enough.
While I can do lunges, I absolutely HATE them – I’d do a million squats in place of lunges!
Ahhh, I’m totally loving this weather too! I didn’t even think to open the windows last night – that’s a must tonight for sure!
– Beth @ http://www.DiningAndDishing.com
wow you make so much homemadeish food it all looks great! ive never had spaetzle..
Poor doggie almost got kicked out of bed! Lovin’ this weather, too!
Dang woman, level 10 on the elliptical?!? For 45 minutes?!? You should market that egg sammie for pre-workout rocket fuel!
I love the quesadilla idea with the red pepper, I think I would like that.
Sorry about the spaetzle!! That stinks, so did you just have to throw the whole thing out??
Yep! Even the dog was like WTF is that? Luckily its flour and eggs – no huge loss!
The cooler weather is definitely welcome. That plum chipotle glaze on the chicken sounds terrific!
That sarmy looks good – both the brekkie one and lunch one – yum.
I am so bad at forgetting to cook the veggies, TG for pampered chef micro steamers LOL.
Good job on that elliptical! I can not even get on those things! lol But I pretend I am on it when I am in the water! lol 🙂
Look at the pretty grill marks on that chicken! 🙂
And I want your breakfast sammies…EVERY DAY!!!
That Plum Chipotle sauce sounds yummy! So do nachos 🙂
I love pam-frying quesadillas. They taste way better that way in my opinion!
I can’t do level 10 on the elliptical without crying! I’m impressed.
everything looks delicious! and wow! level 10 on the elliptical! that’s incredible!
I love egg sammy’s. I need to make them much more often!
The food looks great! I have tried spaetzle before. We ate at this wonderful German restaurant in Colorado Springs. It’s called Edelweiss. Best food ever!