This grocery bag will permanently smell like basil and I am pretty happy about it. I spent an hour of the weekend making pesto to last us until next summer…two batches of almond basil and two batches of walnut pistachio basil. It was pretty therapeutic to listen to a podcast while washing and plucking the leaves off the stems.  Meanwhile I was taking big deep breaths inhaling the delicious aroma of freshly picked herbs.  Have you guys heard of the “Teacher’s Pet” podcast?  I’m very sucked in.  I’ll probably finish it before digging in to… Read more >

In the ICONIC words of Britney… Oops, I did it again. This salad is perfection. This time I used dino kale, curly kale, AND red cabbage.  I gave it a prelim toss in Nugget’s Thai sesame dressing, and then added the rest after making the salad so that the chicken tenders and avo would get coated in dressing too. I bought two huge boxes of breaded chicken at the store – one box has dinosaur shaped nuggets and the other has tenders.  I figured the tenders were the more adult choice.  😉 I ate lots… Read more >

This is going to be a micro post because I just wanted to share that TJs is now selling fresh spiralized veggie noodles!  Above is the butternut squash!  Yay!!!  Now I have one fewer thing to whine about WF carrying and nobody else (so that’s good news for everyone). They also have sweet potato and zucchini, which I haven’t tried yet, but I’ll be curious to see how they differ from the frozen ones they already sell.  In any event.  Get your hands on them and try this yummy little dish I threw together. While… Read more >

I don’t know if other people do this, but I took a photo of the tag on one of the salads at the Nugget prepared foods section because I knew it was something I could make on my own (maybe even better?).  Well, it took me a week or two, but I finally made it.  And it was really good! The original recipe had farro with arugula, peas, zucchini, and some kind of honey dressing.  You can see the tag below. No idea what country honey dressing is, but I figured a simple lemon vinaigrette… Read more >

After our awesome start to the weekend I felt pretty tired and lazed the rest of Saturday away in sweats.  It was pretty great to be honest.  I don’t usually let myself do that kind of thing (always trying to be hyper productive on the weekends when I have extra eyes on the kids), but I was really zapped of all my energy and gave myself the grace to just be. This lunch rocked my socks.  Like, ROCKED.  I want to make it again asap.  First I massaged both curly and dino kale in Nugget’s… Read more >