Today's Eats

well, today began on the rough side. See, last night we decided to camp-out in our backyard. I've never been camping before but thought I could handle it at least in the backyard. I was wrong. Really, really wrong. As a result, I made everyone come in at 12:30 which led to a lot of hurt feelings this morning. It's a long story as to why I couldn't make it out there but it involved our dogs and the various things that kept them barking through the night. Just. Couldn't. Take it.

Anyway, I skipped breakfast and prepared myself lunch around 12:00. There were a couple of sweet potatoes sitting on the counter and the air was so incredibly crisp today that soup seemed like a fine thing to do with those taters. I baked them in the oven, along with some Pecan Pumpkin bread that came from a Williams Sonoma mix. When the potatoes were done I scraped them out and then put the flesh into a saucepan with 2 Tbs of butter, 1 cup of chicken broth, a cup of half and half, salt, pepper, cumin, cinnamon, thyme, and a couple of dashes of Tabasco. I wisked everything together until pretty smooth with a few lumps and then just heated it until warm.



Then I had a piece of pumpkin bread as the ender to the meal.



The bread mix was ok but it seemed like it was missing a layer of flavor, like it needed a little more butter or perhaps some raisins. It was just missing a little extra oomph that i would expect from something offered by Williams Sonoma.

Tonight I think I'm going to try and use up my haricots verts but do some kind of asian flavored dish with them. I have some sesame oil and ginger in the fridge. I don't know yet.

We had hot dogs cooked over a camp stove last night along with smores (yuck). Tonight's fare should be a little bit better than that!

UPDATE: DINNER NOT THAT MUCH BETTER

We went out to run some errands and the boys wanted to stop at Salsaritas, a "healthy" Mexican restaurant. I had a taco salad, which was good enough. As I've said before I do not eat the bowl because I just don't like it. Here is a pic of the salad:



There was A LOT of cheese on that salad! Now, it feels like there is some kind of festival going on in my lower intestines. Sean has been blowing us away since we left the restaurant and I'm afraid, very very afraid of the cha cha going on in my tummy right now. When you cut back on the junk and then eat some, the results are not pretty.

It could have been worse but it wasn't what I imagined I would be eating earlier today.