Good things

Foil dinners might not be high class, but they’re a darn good meal

Especially with spinach!  (The fiance put spinach with his this time too!  Without me telling him he had to!  amazing.)

We had good intentions of going to the gym last night, but this happened

Football and beer.  And the fiance pouting cause he wanted both teams to lose and that’s not possible.

Had a good dessert too

Wine + chocolate = happy Kalin

Got a package full of good things from the fiance’s mama, including BUMP ITS!

And found some good things at the mall today

An apple cause I’m a TEACHER.

Don’t worry, it was from Forever 21.  I only buy ridic jewelry if it’s a good deal.

And I found some new shoes because I’m working the Bridal Show this weekend, and I learned in previous years wearing heels to an event is not a good choice

(Which makes this a good time to bring up a note:  I’m going to my hometown tomorrow and Sunday, so who knows what posting will be like… Working at and checking out the bridal show there)

And, there’s a good idea going on over at Tropical Happy.  She’s making a blogger directory-go check it out if you want to be part of it.

Sweet Potato Goodness

The fiance isn’t working today, so we went to Grand Central Bakery for breakfast.  I had a sweet potato tart

Holy crap.  So freaking good.  The sweet potato tasted like there was a little honey in it, the crust was amazing and flaky.  Amazing.

The fiance had a breakfast sammie

Egg, cheese, sausage, on a biscuit.  He gave it a thumbs up.

We went to Old Navy where I spent 20 bucks and got these

That’s 10 shirts.  Crazy!

Came home to find this redic mask in the mail.

It’s an angry Ronald McDonald.  Thanks PETA (and baby brother for finding it in the first place).

I’m chowing down on the last of the stroganoff

Plus half an apple and peanut butter

Gotta go get ready!  We’re leaving in a few hours!

While I’m gone I’ve got some auto-posts set up.  Watch for a contest, and the first post from Baby Brother!  I’ll see if I get to posting-I wake up far earlier than the fiance, so it seems likely that I will, but who knows… At the very least I’ll be back to normal Tuesday morning!  Have a great weekend!

Sunday-yay!

Like you guys said in the comments, the fiance is pretty great…. So I let him sleep in today, and we had a big ol’ breakfast and went to late church…

I took inspiration from Jolene’s crazy good looking brunch and made some mini frittatas in my mini muffin pan.

Mine had egg (duh), milk, mozzarella, bacon, and basil.

Enough that we’ve got leftovers for the fiance to eat for breakfast for a day or two.  Look how airy they are inside!

Tasty!  The fiance said the basil made them “restaurant quality”, which I think was his way of buttering me up so I’ll make them again.

Plus whole wheat pancakes-I made them small because I had two different things I wanted on mine.

One had cream cheese, pumpkin butter, and walnuts

And the other had pineapple chobani, banana, and toasted coconut

This, btw, is all you have to do to toast coconut.

Coconut + pan + heat.  Did it while I was making the pancakes.

And then it’s crunchy and delicious!

All together, with some apples

Then we did church, and went to get me new facewash…. I adore Clinique, and I’m always a sucker for gift with purchases… Right now they’ve got their bonus gift plus the 3 step skin care comes with a bonus travel size.  Heaven.

You don’t want to know how many Clinique makeup bags I own.

Then I had a lunch that looked remarkably like my breakfast:

Pineapple chobani, banana, toasted coconut, and some Nature’s Path pumpkin flax granola tossed on top.

Seriously, crazy good combo.

Which leads me to a question…. what do you put on your pancakes?  Normally, when we’ve got berries, I’m a berries, whipped cream and agave girl.  The fiance is a peanut butter and syrup guy.  What do you do?

Farmers Market

We hit up the Hillsdale farmers market today.

Love this place.  It’s actually in the parking lot of the elementary school I student taught at last fall, and goes through the winter.  It’s a lot lower key than the PSU farmers market, which I used to go to.  You can move at this one, which makes it a lot more fun.

There were samples today!  Love samples!  Had lots of tasty tomatoes, melon, peaches, and nectarines.  Yum!

These tomatoes were crack.  Full on crack

And how cool looking are these mushrooms?

I love that there are a million types of peppers there.  My family used to have one garden that was JUST peppers, where my dad and one of my brothers would plant all sorts of crazy things.

The red in the middle of that picture is peppers, not tomatoes.  We had to pick one up before we realized it 🙂

Mmmm zucchini.   I don’t have to share it… Mmmm…

And how crazy are these?  It was some sort of squash-on display, not for sale.   No idea quite what they are.  But pretty.

We came home with peppers, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, summer squash, nectarines (oh my god these are sooo good-we tried some), eggplant

When we got home I made a pizza thang on a flat out.  Full of basil.  Loverize the basil.

We’re using the peppers for dinner tonight-we’re going to slice them the long way and put rice sausage and some of the tomatoes in them.  I think I’m going to have zucchini too.  Mmmm.

What’s your favorite thing from the farmers market right now?  Mine is the fruit-especially peaches and nectarines!  We end up paying a little too much for them… But soooo worth it!

Salad by the Pound…

First of all, I’m glad to see that I wasn’t the only salmon/fish hater growing up!

I was a hungry lady by the time the fiance finally was up and alive today so  I ate this while he had some oatmeal.

Whole wheat toast with some avocado smooshed on

Followed by tuna + mayo + pickle + onion (not as mayo-y as it looks.  I fail at draining tuna well, so it’s extra moist.  Moist is kinda a gross sounding word)

And a lettuce hat!  I have a thing with the wet parts of a sandwich having  to touch the bread… Not such an issue if I make a real sandwich, but for an open faced one it presents a problem.  The fiance stared like I was a crazy lady.  I don’t think it helps that tuna, onions, and sometimes avocado can all kill you dead.  (Please note he eats avocado later in this post.  Hypocrite.)

We went on a Whole Foods adventure to get out of the house and to eat lunch.

There were cheese samples

Lots of cheese samples

More cheese.

Not going to lie, my favorite was the normal cheddar.  I’m easy to please.

I was jonesin for a monster salad.  Just about a pound of all that is delicious.

Weird, the fiance didn’t want any.  Romaine and spinach topped with grilled yellow squash, fallafel, corn salad-y stuff, crasins, blueberries, beets, zucchini, hummus, a pineapple coconut spinach salad, red cabbage, crunchy chip things, and kale.  My tummy was happy.

The fiance wanted a picture taken of his food too.  He said it’s salmon avocado rolls.  Sushi is actually one of the only foods he loves that I’m not such a fan of.  Give me enough sake and I’ll eat it….But otherwise, it’s not my favorite.

We had zevia, which is soda made sweetened with stevia.  I got the orange.  It was pretty good!  The fiance is really intrigued at things made with stevia, so he always wants one of these when we’re at Whole Foods.

Know what we never do at Whole Foods?  Buy groceries. We wander, eat samples, stare at things, and sometimes buy some prepared food, but we almost never buy actual groceries.  Do you do any real grocery shopping at Whole Foods?

I think we’re doing a date night tonight.  You know you’re old and married when you schedule date nights. Happy Saturday night!