Meals out of order

I have a new breakfast thing that has me excited.  Finally.

It involves a lot of nut butter and granola.

There was probably over 1/4 cup of almond butter left in this jar which is a bit much, but not unusual for me.  I was trying to limit my nuts for a while (they are supposedly inflammatory) but it’s TOO HARD!!  I love nuts so much and I want them in every meal.  Anyway, so what I did was add some hot water to the almond butter (like 1-2 tbsp) and then stirred it all up so it turned into a runny buttery mess and then I poured in the granola.

This time I used (gasp!) peanut butter and did the same thing.

I got this lovely treat in my stocking back in December because Santa knows I loooove Sun&Soil.  You guys know I make my own granola on the reg, so it’s rare for me to have store bought stuff on hand, but after I won the first bag at stroller strides, Kyle (I mean, Santa) figured I could use another bag as a special treat.  🙂

So this is my new favorite.

It’s like granola and milk on steroids…granola and nut butter milk.  Best post-workout fuel ever.

For the kids, it’s been porridge and pancakes to close out the week.

I made extras of course.  If you’re going to be doing it, you may as well go big and save yourself one (or more?) days of cooking.

This is in our future though, so I have a feeling eggs will be the theme of next week.

We will be out of town for Easter, so we are starting celebrations now.  It’s kinda celebration overload though, because Kyle AND Valley’s birthdays are this week.

Always a baking extravaganza between Feb and March!  A new kind of March madness in our house 🙂

Kyle requested brownies for his birthday and I added Reese’s Pieces because he always looks on with such envy while P does his peanut dose.  😉

I have to perfect this recipe for this lasagna before I post it.  It was STELLAR and Kyle and the kids were all gaga over it, but I didn’t like the fact that the top layer of pasta rolled up and got crunchy.  I know why it happened and it’s an easy fix, but it still bothered me that I didn’t think to do it the first time I made it.

Other meals that I photographed…

This beet and squash salad was from Gwyneth’s cookbook, It’s All Good and we had it for dinner one night with a chickpea and veggie salad and crackers and chèvre.

This was a use up things in the house kind of meal because I purposefully didn’t plan a meal.  We had beets to use up so I went through my cookbooks to find a way to use them…and from there I just made do with what else we had in the house to round out the meal.

The kids loved the idea of having crackers with dinner, so it was a nice little TGIF dinner.

I ended up having more crackers and pecorino romano later that night in lieu of dessert or kombucha because I was really feeling like I needed something and was in the mood for salt.  I felt like Monica from Friends (“can you finish off these pies?”) but instead with cheeses, because I polished off both the goat and sheep cheeses in the house.  I didn’t want to go to bed hungry though because I had big workout plans the next morning.  😀

All that’s left to share are these lunches…

A perfect avocado….there’s nothing like it…

Isn’t it so cute, swimming in that bowl of salad beauty?  I’m a weirdo.

Picture 307 baby carrots on the side too, and that’s a more accurate image of my lunches.  Oh and btw, I am going through (Yogi) ginger tea like crazy lately because it’s the perfect 3-4 pm option that doesn’t ruin my appetite for dinner PLUS it seriously soothes my stomach.  Between that and the ginger lemon tonic and the kombucha, I am very hydrated and my gut is being slammed with good stuff.