This picture makes my lunch look so lovely. I think it’s the book in the background. A spread of sun dried tomato hummus on gently toasted Ezekiel bread, plump sliced tomatoes, home grown sprouts with a blanket of red leaf lettuce and a dabble of mustard. Chilled gazpacho made with the finest seasonal vegetables hand … Read more
I’ve got a meeting tonight and will be home late, so today’s post is going to be wrapped up into a nice little bite of afternoon delight. I woke up too early this morning. So early that I went back to bed at 5:30 hoping to fall back to sleep but it didn’t happen, so … Read more
When I make hummus – I might use canned chick peas, or might have more time and patience and cook my own beans. There are two methods to cooking beans: The Patient Method and the Impatient Method. The Patient Method: Soak dried beans completely covered water for 8 hours. The beans are going to expand … Read more
I keep waiting for the watermelon to stop tasting so good – but alas, that time has yet to come. I guess I’ll just have to keep testing the watermelons until I’m sure watermelon season is over. It is my duty. So as luck would have it my mom had a technological snow day of … Read more
Lots of awards to hand out today, let’s get right to it. The award for today’s Best Accidental Lunch goes to: Dates with Almond Butter! We’re going to need four awards, one for each of them. The award for the Most Unoriginal Snack goes to: Watermelon. Boring. The award for the Messiest Watermelon Eater: Oh! … Read more
Today’s meals and snacks have been pretty random. I don’t know what’s up, maybe I’m getting my or something. I had some late morning. Then I started looking around at all the house work to be done and feeling like I’m never going to I said this and I put it all on the and … Read more
So today… there was a little of this. A little of that. We broke for lunch and I made a little hummus sandwich. And took a giant picture of it. Toasted Ezekiel bread with mustard, garlic hummus, red leaf and tomato. And pretended I was a little dinosaur eating giant steamed trees. And steamed clouds. … Read more
A lunch time mess. But worth it for a masterpiece! I mean come on, would you scold Michelangelo about paint brushes and paint cans everywhere as he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Would you tell Da Vinci to “clean as he goes” while he worked on the Mona Lisa? I think not. I … Read more
Thanks to Running Towards a Dream I was inspired to make a new flavor of hummus I’ve never tried before. With that I bring you: Spinach Artichoke Heart Hummus. This. Rocked. I threw a large handful of spinach in to the steamer and let it steam for about 5 minutes until it was soft and … Read more
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