august 3, 2012 lunch

leaving in a couple of hours for mt. rainier for the weekend! first, the last of the italian sausage & eggplant strata and a salad.

august 2, 2012 lunch

a turkey burger with the other half of yesterday's avocado plus salad is a light lunch.

august 1, 2012 lunch

a flowery lunch of turkey burger, avocado and salad.

july 31, 2012 lunch

leftover stovetop pork carnitas. i ate some last night for dinner too (with avocado! sadly, one did not make it into my lunch today), but it seems to have been consumed with no paparazzi in sight. today, though, a camera was ready and waiting and caught a bowl of citrus-y, cumin-y pork shoulder in the act of posing with a starlet of a salad.

july 27, 2012 lunch

a lunch of country captain chicken from paleo comfort foods (chicken breaded with almond flour and curry powder, broccoli, more tomatoes than you can shake a stick at, onions, etc. all cooked in a yummy broth), plus purple coleslaw and a salad. i know i haven't been consistently posting dinner photos, but the country captain chicken is leftover from wednesday night. it has some strange ingredient combinations, but it's pretty good!

july 25, 2012 lunch

lunchtime in meatball country. 

july 24, 2012 lunch

more meatballs, more salad. i've mentioned i call these meatballs sneaky meatballs for all of the veggie goodness i manage to sneak into each batch. it's not as if i'm trying to trick a toddler into eating them, but i imagine it would do the trick!

july 23, 2012 lunch

returned to an old standby for this week's lunch - garden fresh meatballs from everyday paleo. this time we added a bunch of fresh basil and sun-dried tomatoes to the usual mix of ground turkey, ground beef, egg, yam, spinach, roasted red pepper, zucchini, garlic and almond flour. a simple green salad of greens from my boss's garden, tomatoes and cucumber plays sidekick to the meatballs.

july 20, 2012 lunch

today marks the third day in a row of going out for lunch this week. today, my dad, aunt and i went to tengu sushi, which is a kaiten-zushi joint next to the movie theater at northgate. there are a LOT of lackluster conveyor belt sushi places in town, but this one is a real find. not only are prices competitive and sometimes cheaper than the other places, you can really taste a difference in the freshness of the fish. since i'm off rice for now, i snacked on a sashimi plate of sake (salmon), maguro (bluefin tuna) and hamachi (yellowtail tuna). their raw salmon is so buttery!

this was a real shocker. i was excited to see sake kama (salmon collar, but translated as salmon cheeks) on the menu, and thought i'd supplement my raw with some cooked. i assumed i was getting one, maybe two cheeks. when they brought out a portion the size of my head, with the tasty faces of not one, but four salmon, i knew i wasn't going to make it through it on my own. (my family was happy to partake!) these were unbelievably good - melt-in-your-mouth tender in a way you don't find in a regular fillet, unctuous and rich, with salty, crispy skin. yes, they had veggies on the menu, but everything was either coated in tempura or drowning in a sugary sauce, so i passed on the roughage for this meal.

bonus: i saw a pileated woodpecker on the way to lunch!



july 19, 2012 lunch

going out a lot more than usual this week, although this is the only one i had to pay for. thai one on, despite the cringe-inducing name, is a more than decent place in the neighborhood i work in. they have amazing khao soi, although i'm opting to stay away from wheat for now. sure, a little soy sauce snuck into the chicken basil lunch special, but the overall effect of chicken and veggies in a garlic-chili-basil sauce sure was tasty. next time i order without rice, though, i'm knocking off a star. three stars pack quite a punch in this dish!

speaking of khao soi, i am quite impressed with this blog.

july 18, 2012 lunch

my boss treated us to lunch today at the elliott bay public house. i ordered the chicken fajita salad, sans dressing, with guacamole on the side. really yummy, but the peppers and onions were cooked in a too-sweet-for-me balsamic reduction. the last few bites were so eye-wateringly syrupy (ok, fine, my eyes didn't actually water), that i can only wonder how much sweeter it would have been with the dressing included (a framboise vinaigrette).. i have a pretty low tolerance for sweet tastes - it needs to be balanced by a hefty dose of savory to work for me.

july 17, 2012 lunch

very similar to yesterday's, except i remembered to dress my salad (i didn't send it running naked out the door). tasty fuel for the rest of the afternoon!

july 16, 2012 lunch

today's lunch is chicken awesomeness, a salad of beet greens, mizuna, romaine, cucumbers, grape tomatoes, kalamatas and red onion, and a cup of green tea. but the chicken! the flavor and moistness certainly live up to its name: the best chicken you will ever eat ever. brining is key, and the solution to every overbaked, dry chicken breast i've ever eaten. a new favorite!

july 15, 2012 lunch

lunch is an improvisation on the materials at hand. half a yellow bell pepper and two hard boiled eggs, eaten on the ferry from kingston to edmonds. i'm excited about our cooler full of local goodies from port townsend and chimacum: two dozen eggs, two pounds ground pork, four pounds grass-fed beef, a pound of chicken sage breakfast sausages, two pounds grass-fed sirloin steaks, two lamb hearts and a pound of leaf lard. our larders are brimming!

july 14, 2012 lunch

on the way to our campsite, we stopped at the port townsend farmer's market. a more idyllic market i can't imagine, with sunny admiralty inlet as a backdrop, the blue crows playing, and colorful produce that would make a crayon cry!

oysters on the grill for lunch with just a squeeze of lemon, plus a salad of greens from the market: beet and mizuna, drizzled with a little olive oil, lemon juice and pepper. perfection.

..and a few rainier cherries to round the whole thing out.

properly satiated, we set off to explore fort worden. it had been thunderstorming earlier, but it ended up being a beautiful day. good for a barefoot walk on the beach out to the point wilson lighthouse.

there are a ton of old abandoned bunkers to explore in the park.

july 13, 2012 lunch

so i lied. the last of the homemade mayo went into both the tuna salad and the coleslaw. we had one can of oregon's choice tuna hiding in the back of the cupboard. no celery or pickles, so i minced up some red onion, and added lemon juice and pepper. it was pretty good eaten atop my salad of romaine, arugula, cucumber, tomato, celery and roasted red pepper.

eating my colors today!

july 12, 2012 lunch

i think the eggplant and sausage strata is officially no longer a strata, but the flavors really came together over the last few days! it is served up alongside the standard salad from this week and a cup of green tea.

july 11, 2012 lunch

more of the eggplant & sausage strata for lunch, plus salad with our homemade mayo dressing. have i mentioned lately how devourable the eggplant strata is? i might get sick of eating it everyday at some point, but not yet. good thing - there is a lot of it!

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.