A single, 30-something trying to figure it all out.

Feb Photo a Day Challenge Day 6 - Supper time!

"Dinner"

Day 25 of 365 366 Photo a Day Project

Day 6 of 28 29 February Photo a Day Challenge

I had leftovers tonight for dinner. Yesterday in true lazy Sunday fashion, I threw some chicken breasts in the crock pot and let it go all day. Pulled BBQ chicken sandwiches with sweet potato fries (P.S. They're really yam fries) was dinner last night. Sadly the fries are gone, but the edamame was less carby anyway. As you can see I replaced those lost carbs with a beer. It's Monday, a very long day, which really just needs to end in a drink. Just one.

P.P.S. I made the candle in the photo this weekend too!!

Weekend Breakfast pt.II

 

 Day 18 of 365

 

Num. Num. Num.

It's just another manic Tuesday...

 

Day 13 of 365

 

I don't know,(sigh), I'm just poopy today. Figuratively, not literally. It wasn't a bad day per-say, I'm just in a funk. Maybe it's because I only had one cup of coffe. Maybe it's because my job is really stressing me out lately. Maybe it's because yesterday's sensational sunshine was replaced by a dreary dripping day full of rain...

Maybe it's because tomorrow is the actual B-day. And I've already celebrated. Not to mention it's a birthday I am not that happy to be celebrating in the first place.  (See here.) The sweetest man ever offered to drive up from Olympia to take me out to dinner on my "actual birthday". That's after going with me on my frivolous trip to Mexico! After the beautiful glass pitcher and glass set. I insisted that he not. (I told you I was poopy...)

Maybe it's because I told myself I had to really start budgeting. After Christmas and Mexico and with wanting to start really building up my craft room (even with an basic Ikea table, not the glorious craft table I pinned on pinterest here) I needed to really watch my money. So when I went grocery shopping last week I bought Ramen. I also bought "Asian style" frozen veggies and precooked frozen shrimp. Today's photo is what I had for dinner tonight. "Grown up Ramen" if you can call it that. I added just a little bit of that Veri Veri Teriyaki sauce to my sauteed veggie and shrimp and the end. I love that sauce. (I've seen the teriyaki sauce @ World Market, I got mine here at Uwaijimaya here in town)

 

 

Weekend Breakfast

 

Day 11 of 365

 I love breakfast food. When I was little & we'd go out to dinner (ie high class places like Perkins, or any other diner-style restaurant) I'd always ask the waitress: "Do you serve breakfast all day?"

About two weeks ago I made these Caprese Baked Egg Cups. They were really good! I need to practice a bit more with the timing and how firm we wanted the eggs, but overall I was really pleased with how they turned out. This weekend I found myself looking into my fridge wondering what to make for breakfast. I saw the mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and the container of basil from the cups. Despite buying these ingredients two weeks ago, being in Mexico last weekend, the tomatoes and basil were still good. Many of the basil leaves were browned, but others were perfect. For breakfast this morning I took the easy route and just made an omelet vs messing with the egg cups. The omelette turned out wonderfully! Mozzarella, chopped fresh tomatoes & basil. The icing on the omelette (if you will) was some premade pesto that I also had in the fridge. (Jake and I really like basil.) So so good. We split both the omelette and the German pancake shown on the left in the photo. The pancake is so simple to make, 3 ingredients, light and airy. I experimented with whole wheat flour here and found that the pancake did not suffer at all, in fact I think (as you would expect) that the wheat adds a great flavor.