july 11, 2012 dinner

tonight was my first outdoors tai chi class (we usually practice inside), and it was a beautiful, sunny evening in the park. it feels totally different to practice with springy grass and soil underfoot instead of floorboards - i like it!

it was also 'eat what's in the fridge night', so we fried up some grass-fed ground beef and had burgers served open-faced on butter lettuce, with mustard, tomatoes and red onions. sides are oven roasted broccoli (we hesitated firing up the oven on such a warm evening, but roasted broccoli sounded so good) and kale cooked in bacon grease, with smashed garlic, crushed red pepper and black pepper too. good stuff!

july 10, 2012 lunch

tuesday lunch is butternut squash, kale and chicken sausage, plus a salad of cucumber, tomato, celery, roasted red pepper, carrot, romaine and arugula. the creamy italian dressing made with homemade olive oil mayo tops it all off.

july 9, 2012 lunch

we had some chicken sausage to get through (we usually bring some sausages as back-up camping food), so we sauteed slices of it up with kale and butternut squash. a tasty combination! for salad, we're branching out from the usual vinaigrette with a homemade olive oil mayo-based creamy italian dressing (another great recipe out of well fed), tossed with romaine, arugula, tomatoes, cucumbers, and celery.

june 18, 2012 lunch

a hearty lunch. tuna salad (wild planet tuna with red onion, celery, and homemade mayo) atop romaine, cucumbers, and baby heirloom tomatoes (a trader joe's find), coleslaw (with more of that homemade mayo), plus collard greens and curly kale from my boss' garden, fried up in bacon fat, with bacon pieces for good measure, and smashed garlic. so good!