Monday: Tomato and Chickpea Soup with Broccoli and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Tuesday: Tuna Burgers with Oven Baked Onion Rings and Peas
Wednesday: Taco Salad with Lentils
Thursday: Peanut Noodles with Gingered Veggies and Tofu
Friday: Falafel
Saturday: Egg White Frittata with Toast and Fruit
Sunday: Grilled Salmon, Green Salad, Roasted Potatoes with Carrots, and Roasted Veggies with Berries and Vanilla Ice Cream for Dessert
When we met her coming off the bus after school, she was all smiles. I tried to get her to tell me about her day minute by minute but, it just doesn't work that way. So I patiently waited and hung off every new tid bit of information that came out throughout the evening.
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| Making cookies for after Hannah's first day of school. |
It turned cool today which seems a little sudden after last week's heat wave, they're even calling for frost tomorrow night. But, it does give me the chance to put soups back on the menu which makes me really happy. The recipe for this soups is here in this post, except I omitted all the cheese in it (since we were having grilled cheese), I also used flat leaf parsley instead of cilantro and it was delicious. I did the sandwiches in the oven so they would be ready at the same time, I sprayed the outside of each toast with olive oil, filled with cheese and then baked at 350F until the cheese was melty, then I broiled them for a couple minutes to toast them up. It was the perfect meal for a day like today.
Tuna Burgers with Oven Baked Onion Rings and Peas
Hannah also lost a tooth yesterday at supper (her second). I then noticed that she is getting a new molar when I flossed her teeth last night (like how I slipped that in there, like it was the most natural thing in the world and every night we sit down and floss our kid's teeth...is it gross we don't? I mean we do, every night of course). The sight of the new molar made me need to count both mine and Dave's teeth because I suddenly realized that I have no clue how many teeth we have and what to expect from these little mouths.
The losing of the tooth and the visit of the tooth fairy also lead to an interesting conversation that I had with Hannah today. She was wondering how the tooth fairy knew that she had lost a tooth. My answer (which is the same for anything I can't seem to explain) was magic. The narrowed eye look she gave me, told me that my answer was wearing thin. I was also a little worried that perhaps that was it, two teeth and the secret was out. She squished her nose and said, "I think that maybe she has helpers that live in each child that's ready to loose teeth and when we go to sleep they creep out of our mouths...or noses, grab the tooth give it to the tooth fairy and then come back." Creepy, I know. I am now having a hard time looking at her without picturing a little tiny fairy crawling out of her nostril.
Recipe
I did a full grocery shop today only to get to the end and have the power in the store to go out. They had no idea why and were only accepting cash and non weight items...I abandoned cart (only to return to get all my bins and bags) twice. So I had to be a little creative this evening for dinner. It did force me to clean out the freezer and fridge, and rummage through the cupboards to see what had to use up. These were quite good (would have been really good with fresh tuna), Hannah devoured hers. I came up from my run to eat dinner and was so hungry I ate it before remembering to take a photo - ooops, sorry.
4 large green olives, chopped
8 kalamata olives, chopped
Juice of half a lemon
1/4 cup onion, chopped fine
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup flat leaf parsley
3 Tbsp light sour cream
1/2 cup Panko bread crumbs
2 eggs, beaten
Preheat oven to 400F.
Mix all together and form into 5 patties. Place patties on a parchment lined and sprayed baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes, flipping half way through.
We had these on buns with a slice of tomato, 2 onion rings and the following sauce.
1/2 cup half fat mayonnaise
1/2 cup light sour cream
2 dill pickles, grated or chopped fine
Stir together and let sit in the fridge for at least 1/2 hour.
Oven Baked Onion Rings:
Dave found this recipe a long time ago and I just made them for the first time tonight. I'm not sure where it is from, I found them to be dry, but we really enjoyed them on the burgers.
1 onion, peeled and sliced in rings
3/4 cup flour
2 egg whites, beaten
3/4 cup Panko crumbs
2 tsp oregano
1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 400F.
Spray a parchment lined baking sheet with nonstick spray. Mix together Panko crumbs with seasoning. Dredge each onion slice in the flour then the egg and then the crumbs and place on baking sheet. Bake them for 20 minutes until crispy.
Taco Salad
Oh, Miss Harper. The second day of Hannah being gone for the afternoon and Harper and I started to find our groove. She is a totally different child with her big sister gone. She is calm, quiet and cuddly. She is also tired which contributes to her quietness but, without Hannah she kind of takes on a much calmer persona. We sat and cuddled in with some stories, she helped to fold the laundry (it kills me not to refold the things she folds but I hold myself back because she's just so proud) and she toddled off and played a little Lego by herself. I love listening to her play on her own, because of Hannah she role plays with things so much sooner than Hannah ever did. Today I could hear her with a Lego guy and a wheel (?), "Now, I your mama and you my baby, O.K.? O.K., come with me baby..." I think by the end of the afternoon she was a little tired of me just picking her up and cuddling her every few minutes and so when Hannah got home, I promptly changed to doing it to Hannah all evening because, although I loved spending some one on one time with Harper I still missed her.
Recipe
We did yoga today, we had kind of abandoned it over the summer and I was really happy when Hannah asked to do it this afternoon because it's always so much fun with the girls. Harper cracked me up, she was so attentive to the video and trying so hard, she loves downward dog and cobra. When it came to doing the butterfly she sat down in the pose and then after a few flaps of her legs, stood up, spread her arms out and ran around the house saying, "I fying, I fying ike a butterfy! ook at me I fying ike a butterfy!" She ran all around us, in front of us and behind us, Hannah (in all her seriousness) barely even looked at her, as she concentrated on her pose.
Recipe
Tonight's dinner was quite good, I altered the recipe from epicurious to suite what we had in the house and it all turned out great except I used leftover bean thread noodles instead of spaghettini and they really sucked up the sauce, I think spaghettini would be better. It was also a peanut allergy nightmare to the point where I almost felt oddly uneasy about it - I'm not sure why we have no allergies here - it was just very peanuty which we all loved.
1/2 yellow onion, chopped
2 carrots, peeled and sliced on an angle
1/2 green pepper, sliced
1 red pepper, sliced
1/2 zucchini, sliced in half and then in 1/2 inch pieces
1 bunch broccoli, chopped
2 Tbsp Mirin
2 Tbsp Soy Sauce
10 oz tofu, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
12 oz spaghettini, cooked
1/2 cup lightly salted, roasted peanuts, ground
Peanut sauce:
Falafel
Recipe
We had falafel tonight which is always a hit, the recipe is on this post but I realized that I left out the cucumber from the sauce in the recipe. The sauce should have:
1/2 cucumber, deseeded and chopped
Juice of half a lemon (about 1 Tbsp)
2 small cloves of garlic, pressed
salt and pepper to taste
Mix all together and refrigerate for at least an hour before serving.
Egg White Frittata with Toast and Fruit
We lost Hannah today - it was the worst five to ten minutes of my life. The girls were playing in the backyard, Dave was washing the second story windows in the front and I was holding the ladder. After every window I would go back and check on them, while Dave moved the latter. On the last window Hannah came around front and I was in a bit of a panic as to whether she left the gate open and Harper was out wondering around, my mom had stopped by and went to check and then left and Hannah went back. Dave and I were in the backyard two minutes later and there was no Hannah. We figured she was inside and we went in, calling her but there was no answer. You know the panic starts to rise slowly, but you think you're being a little silly as you start tearing around the house ripping open every door trying to find her - no Hannah. Meanwhile, Dave's outside running around the house calling for her (I think actually at this point we're both completely panicked and we're screaming). At one point I was standing at the door into the garage (with the garage open) screaming for Hannah and I was sure I could hear this faint, distant voice calling my name back but no matter where I went I couldn't hear it again. By this time I'm in full panic mode, trying to be calm (maybe she walked down to my parents and they don't realize we don't know), but really I'm crying and thinking how long do we wait to call the police? I run into the backyard, thinking maybe she crawled under the deck and got stuck and now I can't find Harper or Dave either. Finally I hear Dave call out to me and I come around to the front to find all three of them on the step - she was in the car. She climbed into the car and then was trapped because the child safety locks were on. I think we all learned a few lessons from this.
Recipe
Dave and I went to the Pearl Jam concert tonight and so we had a quick dinner of egg white frittata found here.
Grilled Salmon, Green Salad, Roasted Potatoes with Carrots, and Roasted Veggies with Berries and Vanilla Ice Cream for Dessert
What a wonderful day today. It started out a little gloomy and we all stayed in our PJ's until eleven o'clock. Dave and I worked on the crossword while the girls played. We all chatted together, had breakfast, played memory and Go Fish. I love playing Go Fish with the girls. Evertime Harper asks she says, "Do you have an Angel Fish (or whatever) because IIIII do, here you can have mine." During the game of memory both girls cheer us on, "You, got a match! Yay, Daddy!" and they clap for us. By eleven the sun was trying to come out and we all got dressed and read some books in our bed before lunch. I went to the gym this afternoon and Dave brought the girls to go swimming after the football game was over. As I was leaving I saw this really good looking Dad holding two adorable little girl's hands and I so wished I had my camara because they were so cute and peaceful looking (it was my family in case you didn't catch that, I don't want you to think I'm creepy...).
We were at my parents for Sunday dinner tonight and as always they fed us deliciously.
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