Tony loved egg salad, but it was almost equal parts mayo and eggs and it was just gross. But making egg salad with avocado? I am all over that! 1/4 of an avocado smashed with one hard boiled egg, salt, pepper, everything but the bagel seasoning and hot sauce on crunchy toast. #perfection.
This is the bread I used – I bought it at the French Market and its delicious. Hearty but light at the same time if that makes any sense. I’ll have to bring it to my Mom’s this weekend, I think it would make amazing French Toast. The nuts make this bread.
I was on my own for lunch as my sister had a work event. I walked to Olive Mediterranean. OMG, how do I forget how delicious this place is??
I got the spicy chicken kabob plate – it comes with rice, hummus and your choice of side salad. I chose the chick pea salad because it looked like the least amount of red onions 😀
I’ve kind of half-assed tracked this week – probably because I knew I wasn’t going to weigh in tomorrow since I’ll be at my Mom’s house, but I need to get it together. I have measuring spoons and a food scale at work, so it’s about time I put them to work. I had TWO CUPS of rice in that container – I scooped out 1 cup. I also had 1/2 a cup of hummus and I scooped out 1/4 cup.
If I hadn’t measured out my sides, I would have added 10 points to my lunch!
I have no idea how this chicken is seasoned but it is so flavorful spicy and the hummus is so smooth and garlicky. My mouth is watering just looking at it. This is a $10 lunch but worth every penny.
Guess what? I had more beef for dinner! I still had the rest of the sirloin steak so I thinly sliced 3 ounces of steak and make a quick beef fried rice. I tried to channel Tony’s fried rice skills, and while this was good, it wasn’t great. Probably because he used to use three times the amount of soy sauce as I would. You can still check out his YouTube video on how he makes it here – so weird that he died just a year after we filmed this.
And that brings us to Friday Favorites!
I heard about this book Life from Scratch and want to check it out.
Andie’s Chicken Lo Mein looks amazing and healthy! Did you read her books? I started following her when her blog was just starting and so excited that she and her husband are expecting their first child!
Can’t wait to spend time with my brother and his family – that is a favorite thing for sure!! Hard to believe this picture of us was taken about 35 years ago!
Happy Friday – hope you have a great weekend!
I love your new headshot! You look gorgeous! <3
Thanks Lisa – um, it will be five years old in October, but it was the only professional head shot I had 😀
Mediterranean food, yum. You are lucky to work in the city with all the different varieties of food. Even in our “city/downtown” we don’t get a lot of different cultures. The most exotic, unique we have would be Indian. We have too many seafood, Italian &BBQ places. Have a great time with your family.
OMG Kym, if you came here we would be in a food coma going from restaurant to restaurant! 😀
I rewatched that video of Tony. His sense of humor was awesome! Made my day. Hope you have a wonderful time with your brother!
I hadn’t watched it in a while and I may have watched it a few times myself. Having a great time with him already! 😀
Random Friday thoughts. When you make that tofu scramble buy extra tofu and try making a tofu”egg” salad sandwhich too.
Kala namak (black salt) will give it that eggy taste. I do love good bread and rice so to make it more guilt free and stretch farther I mix some cauliflower rice in. Enjoy your time with your brother. Not sure if he ever mailed the book but maybe one day a surprise will show up. I saw the sun briefly today so I have hope it will be shorts and tank tops weather soon. We’ve got this one day at a time working on those summer bodies lol. Happy weekend
It was a combination of me getting him your address late and him getting busy – so glad you got the book today!! I will try the tofu scramble soon – I’ll let you know what I think 😀
So funny that it showed up the exact same day you wrote that. 🙂
Have fun with Charlie this weekend!
Thanks Shelley! We realized today that my brother and sister hadn’t seen each other since Tony died – so crazy! (I’m his favorite too!)
OliveMediterranean, too! One of my fave types of food!!!
It’s just so flavorful – right?!! I need to try to recreate that chicken at home – when I figure it out, I’ll let you know!
Thanks for sharing that link. Your Tony had such a great sense of humor. I enjoyed watching the video for that more than the rice recipe. You’re right…. hard to believe he would be gone just a year after filming it. Life can be just so majorly unfair.
He made me laugh every day – that’s one of the things I miss most about him – that and he would light up a room with his personality 😀
Biz. You’re great, really. BUT ENOUGH WITH THE EXCUSES. (ya I’m guilty of doing that too but we gotta stay strong!)
You said you wanted to tackle this year so do it! You can!
Thanks for being my cheerleader! 😀 Hugs 😀
Let’s get this pawty stawted!!!
Whoop!! Can’t wait to see you!!