Today's Eats

Well, it was another "early" day here. Really early for me since I was cleaning up doggie presents at 3:15 in the morning but we won't talk about that. I really do love my new fur coat though. Ahhh, I'm only teasing! the pup is just fine. The boys were up at 8am and we hit the ground running because we had a lot we wanted to do today. I did make sure to take time and have a quiet, relaxing breakfast before all the craziness began. I cooked some natural bacon in the oven, a tad too long, my favorite way to cook it. It just cooks so much more evenly that way. I had that along with some organic french vanilla yogurt and my homemade granola. Mmmmmm. So good!



It took me a while to figure out what I was having for lunch. There was some chicken in the fridge that needed to be cooked today but I just wasn't sure what to do with it. I settled on Parmesan Chicken, mashed potatoes, and tiny green peas. For the chicken, I soaked it in buttermilk while I prepared the coating which was panko bread crumbs, grated parmesan cheese (NOT Kraft), hot hungarian paprika, poultry seasoning, parsley flakes, and coarse pepper. In an iron skillet I put 1-2 Tbs of canola oil and heated it up. Once I dredged the chicken in the coating, I placed it in the skillet, seasoned it with kosher salt and browned it on both sides. Then I placed it in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes, while my potatoes cooked. Here is the finished product:



Late afternoon, I decided to go ahead and have dinner. Sean has been getting home so late that it just feels pointless to try and eat dinner with him. Since lunch was so big I just had a small snacky dinner which consisted of a Granny Smith apple, some Danish cheese (which was not so great), and some fancy shmancy garlic crackers. I have to tell you that this dinner was less than satisfying so it will not be repeated. See for yourself:



As you can see, it wasn't very inspiring! LOL I've been combing through all my cookbooks and haven't found anything yet that I'm itching to fix. Maybe tomorrow some inspiration will hit. Oh, one more thing. I have added a quick, 15 minute exercise routine to my day. Nothing set in stone, just 15 minutes of activity. In the family room I have left some wrap-on hand weights so when I'm just sitting around, I can turn on the music channel on TV and dance around with the weights on my hands. I did it yesterday and can really feel it today. It's just something to get me started so I'm not doing a set step-by-step routine. Today the boys and I got out and walked a lot so that was my exercise today. My weight has creeped back up to 191 and I feel that it's because of little nibbles of things I have throughout the day. they don't seem like much at the time but apparently they're adding up. They seemed so insignificant that I didn't even mention them here. That's going to stop though. No more nibbling and more exercise!

See you all tomorrow!