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Sunday, February 20. 2011

Sunday Lunch

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It’s been a while since I’ve done a food post, but today I made the mostest yummiest lunch and I couldn’t pass up sharing.

Roasted Tomato Soup

I used this recipe as the base, and tweaked it just a little. I felt like it needed a bit more tomato flavor, so I added 2 Tbsp of tomato paste (I picked up the tomato paste in a tube, it’s so awesome. No more opening an entire can just for a little bit.) and used 1 cup of heavy cream instead of 3/4 cup. I also dialed way back on the amount of olive oil used in roasting the tomatoes & garlic because I thought the soup would end up being oily. I don’t know the exact amount, but I drizzled just enough to give them flavor & help the salt & pepper stick. I also pulled the skin off of the tomatoes before adding them to the pot. It was a bit on the spicy side with the cayenne, so maybe cut back if you don’t like a little kick to your soup.

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Homemade wheat bread courtesy of Josh’s bread machine.

Smoked gouda cheese.

Josh’s. Ooey, gooey cheesy goodness.

I wanted to get my veggies in, so I added some baby spinach to mine.

Scout tried valiantly to eat a piece that fell on the floor, but she just couldn’t do it. It took me almost 37 years to like spinach, so maybe one day, Kitty.

I’m not exactly a food stylist, but here’s my attempt at a fancy outdoor shot of my lunch.

Garnish with parsley and enjoy. I did. Smile

Sunday, February 20. 2011

‘Twas a Good Day

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It was a busy Saturday for us starting with a 6:25AM “service x is down” alert from Josh. He fixed that in a jiff, and promptly took a nap on the couch. Once I’m up, I’m up, so I drank coffee and trolled the intarwebs for a while, until I got bored and decided to go for a run.

It was about 17 when I headed out and, thanks to the summery temps earlier in the week, the roads were icy. Scary icy. I decided that I’d like to keep my 41-year-long streak of not having any broken bones and elected to head back home after a mile. However, I noticed that while the salt trucks didn’t get to the cross streets, the up & down streets were perfectly bare. Hello impromptu hill session, I’d forgotten how much you hurt! Actually, it really didn’t hurt as badly as I thought it was going to. I think that’s due to the bike trainer Josh got me for my birthday. I’ve been trying to get at least two 45-minute rides in per week and I think it’s really increased my fitness level because when I got to the top of my hill, I only sorta felt like puking. Last year when I did hills, I really felt like puking. Improvement!

When I got home, Josh was still napping on the couch so I decided to wake him up by doing a kettlebell workout. Nothing jolts you off the couch more than the possibility of a 10-pound kettlebell hitting you in the melon. Once he extracted himself from the couch, we were off and running. We poked around downtown at various stores and went to lunch at 5th & Elm Coffee House (they have a new location in Houghton and their lunch fares are so yummy). Hop over to Josh’s blog to see what he had because I didn’t think to take a pictures of my tuna sandwich & tomato basil soup. We looked at a few houses on the market and then decided to head out to McLain State Park to take some pictures.