I’m enjoying a quiet, cozy Sunday morning in Black Mountain, NC. I’m holed up at my favorite coffee shop, The Dripolator, drinking coffee and working on this post before I head over to Asheville Yoga Center for the last day of training.
Lots and lots of recent eats for you today.
BREAKFAST
Banana cottage cheese oats with blueberries stirred in and topped with fig preserves and peanut butter. Finn loves oatmeal and I’m excited that cooler weather is finally here so that I’ll be in the mood to make it and eat it more often!
Some sort of quick bread from the freezer (it looks like banana pumpkin…can’t remember what I made…haha) warmed and topped with butter. Scrambled eggs and grapes. You’ll see tons of grapes in this post because they’re in season and have been so cheap and good!
Dave’s Killer Pumpkin Spice Bagel with butter and cream cheese, scrambled eggs and grapes. (I’m sure you know where the rest of my bagel went.)
LUNCH
I prepped this kale salad for last Sunday to eat for lunch through the week. Loose recipe details over on Instagram.
It fed me four lunches so that was a win. Most days I topped it with half an avocado.
Peanut butter, honey and banana on honey wheat with Trader Joe’s pumpkin tortilla chips.
Salad with farmers market arugula, avocado, hardboiled egg, grapes, pistachios, dried cranberries, pistachios and Tessamae’s honey poppyseed.
Bacon, avocado and tomato. I believe BAT is far superior to BLT. Am I right?
This was more of a snack than a lunch but it was avocado and cheese wrapped up in turkey. One of my favorite snack combos but I’ve been away from eating it for a long time.
DINNER
Homemade spaghetti! Sauce recipe here.
Air fryer salmon. I got this amazing appliance from NINJA that’s an air fryer, air roaster, convection oven and toaster all in one and it’s changing my life. More to come about it but in the meantime you can read my thoughts on IG.
Salmon above served with braised red cabbage and garlic herb Right Rice.
This braised red cabbage with apples recipe just screams fall and it makes a ton! I ate off of it for a week.
Same dinner, add sourdough.
Spiced chicken breast (another favorite fall recipe) over steamed basmati rice with braised eggplant and greens. The eggplant recipe was from Mark Bittman’s cookbook that I wrote about in my last post. He suggested serving it with plain greek yogurt so that’s the reason for the big dollop of it on my chicken. The spices on the chicken also go well with the plain yogurt garnish.
This dinner was so good and I was glad to have enough of everything for a second meal.
SUSHI date with a friend! If you’re looking for no-frills but delicious sushi in Charlotte, check out New Zealand Cafe.
ETC
If it’s wrong to eat a whole bag of Reese’s pumpkins in a week, I don’t want to be right. 🙂
QUESTIONS
Do you like cabbage? If so, favorite way to cook or eat it?
Favorite Halloween candy?
glad to hear your toe is doing great. If you enjoy eggplant there’s a recipe that i’ve made numerous times that even eggplant haters seem to love. It’s at vietworldkitchen.com called masala stuffed indian eggplant. It looks like a lot of ingredients but dont worry it goes together really fast and is DELICIOUS!!!!!!! And if you like reese’s give the trader joe’s dark chocolate almond butter cups a try. They’re not as sweet but just as addictive. Have a great week, kim
I’m so excited that you got the air fryer, and can’t wait to see what you do with it. That model looks awesome. I have a smaller Ninja that’s just an air fryer.
Reese’s pumpkins are #1 on my Halloween candy list. They’ve been in the stores since July but I waited until October to get some.
Gosh, everything looks delicious! I have a big batch of meat sauce bubbling away as I type – we finally got a nice cool, rainy afternoon in the Triangle – sauce weather!
I lived with a French family for six months in college, and cabbage was a very common menu item. One of my favorites was a red cabbage and carrot salad with Dijon vinaigrette. I love the crunch and kick from the mustard.
If you like Mark Bittman, he released a 10 year anniversary edition of How To Cook Everything Vegetarian this year. I’m trying to work my way through it as I expand my meatless entree repertoire. So far, everything has been delicious.
Everything looks delicious. Mark Bittman and Ottolenghi are two of my favorites for cookbooks. I can’t wait to see what you do with an air fryer. I have thought of getting one on and off, but haven’t yet. Those Dave’s killer pumpkin spice bagels look good, but unfortunately none of the stores around me carry them. For cabbage, my Russian grandmother used to make Shchi and many other dishes that contain cabbage. I also love kimchi.
Any Reese’s holiday version is the best for candy. It is one of my highlights starting holiday season. I am not even going to tell you how many of those I ate. I also unfortunately discovered they make pumpkin Reese’s with the pieces inside as well.
I have the Ninja Foodi and I am obsessed with it! I roast vegetables daily now, because it makes it so easy. The options are endless 🙂
I guess I’m neutral on cabbage. I don’t particularly want to eat it by itself, but I always put red cabbage into certain dishes (I make a peanut-sesame noodle dish and toss in shredded cabbage, I also usually add it to stir-fries).
My favorite is Snickers Peanut Butter! My husband always makes sure to get a bag that has those in there!
As women/moms, we need to lift one another up and not scold or tear each other down! Parenting is hard enough as it is, and it takes a village… a village backing us up and on our side. I’m sure several of us have made the same (or worse) mistakes with our babies and fur babies. We are all just trying to do our best!
Your salmon looks great! I have a similar appliance, what recipe did you use to make it? I love salmon but totally suck at making it! TIA!