Tuesday: Omelets, Fruit and Toast
Wednesday: Hearty Lentil and Kale Pasta
Thursday: Chickpea Salad
Friday: Grilled Shrimp, Bruchetta with Grilled Eggplant and Baby Bok Choy
Saturday: Taco Salad
Sunday: Peanut Noodle Salad with Shrimp, Greek Salad, Bread with Rhubarb/Apple Crisp and Ice Cream
Roasted Veggie Wraps
We have a little lilac tree out front, which I love. We have had to chop a large chunk of it off because it's dead and we are hoping that it fills in. The main reason I love this tree is because the butterflies love it. We usually have two fluttering around it and often up to five or six. Today we were standing on the front step watching them and Hannah looks at me and says, "Why do they call them butterflies, they don't look like butter or eat butter?" I love how their minds work sometimes, so literal.
Recipe
We still have left over baba ganoush and roasted red pepper dip from last week so I tossed some mushrooms, eggplant, slabs of onion and tomato with some olive oil, salt and pepper and grilled them on the BBQ. I stuffed it in a wrap with the two dips and some avocado!
Omelets, Fruit and Toast
I have to be honest I am kind of loosing my mind with potty training. Everyone always says, you just need a couple full days at home, it's been five. My cousin is the potty whisperer. She has two out of three of her children trained (at a much younger age than Harper and her third is only a few months old) and so I messaged her yesterday to find out what book she read/method she uses. Last night I read the book and today we started with this 3 day potty training method. Basically, you never ever let your child leave your site so you can catch them and put them on the potty, you're positive and encouraging about everything and you don't have them "try", or ask them if they need to go only remind them to let you know if they need to go. It's a little intense, but so is cleaning up mess after mess, and it is very positive. I think Harper and I both felt better about the whole thing at the end of the day and she did have some successes today! Although, nothing else got done, nothing. Reading this book last night I thought, we're together most of the day anyway, but actually being in the same room and focusing all my attention on her while in the same room all the time is really quite exhausting.
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| Among a million other things we were tigers today, this is Harper's best roar! |
Recipe
It's difficult to get a proper dinner ready and constantly watch your child for sings of peeing and pooping (can you say that on a food blog?) so we just had eggs tonight.
Hearty Lentil and Kale Pasta
So I volunteered to go on the farm trip with Hannah's school. When I started potty training Harper last week I honestly thought that six days later she would pretty much have the hang of it and it wouldn't be a big deal to leave her for a day. Lucky for me, I have the most understanding, generous mom in the world and she watched Harper for me today, diaper free and all, while Hannah and I went to the farm. I took a million pictures of her today, but she was so busy with her friends that it was really hard to get her face in the photo. Last year I went on her preschool farm trip where her and I hung out all day long, what a difference a year makes. I was just background today. Every once and a while she would come over and see me, or "check" on me to make sure I was there and having a good time.
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Recipe
We had one of our favorite pasta's from here.
Chickpea Salad
Back on potty watch today, all day. There seems to be very little progress, but progress none the less so I'm trying to focus on the fact that this will all be a faint memory in a couple of days. Hannah is in the I'm going to copy everything you say all the time phase...it's annoying, but so much easier to tolerate as an adult - I can remember being copied and it being so maddening as a child. She often does it with Dave and I and we try and get her to say things like, "I'm going to clean my whole room and do the laundry." which normally puts an end to it. Today she was trying to bug Harper by copying everything she said, Harper didn't get it and it backfired on Hannah. Every time she would copy what Harper said, Harper would correct her, "No, you're not doing that, I am!" Hannah would repeat again, Harper would repeat what Hannah said with great emphasis and so on and so on until Hannah would get really frustrated, "Because you're not copying me, I'm copying you!" She was quite frustrated, I don't think my giggling helped.
Recipe
We were suppose to have curry tonight, but it was just so hot. I made up the chickpeas and salad from this post and served it with slabs of fresh bread.
I sent the kids out to play in the backyard when Hannah got home from school today. (I am still on vigilant potty watch, but Harper needed to run and I needed to get dinner ready so we took a risk). They both came running back in a couple minutes later and Hannah looks at me wide eyed, "There's something really scary next to the playhouse, for real mom I'm not even joking." So I go out to the playhouse (I'm not going to lie, a little apprehensively) and there on the ground is an injured bird, it looked like a cat had gotten to it's wing or something. I tried to move it with a shovel, gently, but it could hop really well, and every time I went near it another bird on the fence would squawk and swoop at me. Finally I got it moved to a far corner of the yard and the protector bird perched itself on the fence above it, chirping and then would take off and come back with some food for the injured bird. The girls stayed inside for awhile and when we went out to have dinner we couldn't find the injured bird anywhere and the protector bird was flying around the yard like crazy and squawking, I think maybe the cat came back...
Recipe
I made this BBQ sauce from epicurious. I cut the eggplant in rounds and sliced the bok choy in halves, tossed them with a little olive oil and salt and grilled them brushing them and the shrimp skewers with the BBQ sauce.
4 Tbsp olive oil, divided
2 cloves garlic, pressed1 ½ tsp minced chili
1/3 cup soy sauce
¼ cup (packed) dark brown sugar
3 Tbsp seasoned rice wine vinegar
3 Tbsp water
1 Tbsp sesame oil
Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic and chili; sauté until fragrant and light golden. Add soy sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, and 3 tablespoons water and bring to boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until mixture is reduced to 3/4 cup, about 5 minutes (sauce will be thin). Remove barbecue sauce from heat; whisk in sesame oil.
Preheat the oven to 350F, wrap as much garlic as you like in foil with a little drizzle of olive oil and roast in the oven for 30 minutes or until tender. For the bruchetta I cut a baguette in rounds, brushed them with olive oil and grilled them on the BBQ. I mixed some chopped tomato with lots of basil from the garden and the roasted garlic together and stacked it on the toasts.
It's a soccer extravaganza! Which is Hannah's little soccer tournament this weekend. The forecast is for rain with thundershowers, it didn't disappoint today. Her first game was early and so we made it out and back before the rain, even managing to fit in a little bike ride. Dave and Hannah went up for the afternoon game, dark sky and rain, Hannah did not care she wanted to play. There were seven players in total (including both teams) and Hannah had a blast!
Recipe
We have taco salad a lot during the summer, either planned or as a way to use up some leftovers and whatever is close to going bad in the fridge. Today we used, lettuce, tomato, avocado, corn off the cob, red and orange pepper, cilantro, fresh lime juice, tortilla chips, black beans, green onion, cheddar cheese, sour cream and green salsa.
Peanut Noodle Salad with Shrimp, Greek Salad, Bread with Rhubarb/Apple Crisp and Ice Cream
I may go completely insane potty training Harper. It is getting really hard to be positive and upbeat, especially after the fourth accident this morning. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror while I was with her after the fourth and I had a total scary joker smile going on. I immediately found Dave and told him that I needed to escape for a few hours. I think it's not the actual moment for me but the prospect of another week stuck at home monitoring her bathroom habitss Plus I set myself up for three or four days instead of weeks! I went out for a couple hours, avoiding any and all pottiness, this did help and I was able to return calm and collected - hopefully it lasts all week.
We ran down to my parents in the rain to enjoy a really yummy dinner and some great company.
I hope you have a great week and the sun shines down on you!
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