Cleaning Out Fresh Foods

 My husband does the majority of the cooking, but seeing as how he has been working away from his home office the past couple of days due to needing to be at the client's office to install his code, I thought I would pick up the slack and see what was in our refrigerator that I could work with today.

 Gina at Skinny Taste, who's website I check out often, in fact I think I am subscribed for update e-mails, had a nice recipe today for Quick Cabbage Slaw, and having made a cabbage soup last week I knew I had a small amount of that head of cabbage in the fridge just needing to be used before it goes bad.  Wasting fresh foods it's something we do NOT like to do in our house.

 I also had a small red pepper and just a wee bit of red onion left, so her recipe was PERFECT as a side dish/salad to go with the chicken breasts that my husband will be grilling tonight.

 It took no longer than 10 minutes to slice up all of the ingredients, dress it with the apple cider vinegar and the EVOO, sprinkle with a bit of black pepper and red pepper flakes and get it chilling in the fridge.

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Always healthy meal option recipes each day.

Can't wait for dinnertime to get here!!

Heavenly Eggs

 We have had so many tomatoes this year from our garden, and like me, the neighbor wife does not like raw tomatoes, and like my husband, the neighbor husband loves a great fresh tomato from the garden.

 The neighbors have chickens, and were completely free ranging until a hawk or the local red fox took advantage of the situation, and the chickens had to be penned most of the time.

The laws of nature, don'tcha know.

 So, when we shared a number of our garden, fresh off the vine, tomatoes with them, they in turn shared eggs with us.

A carton of 18 goes a long way in this house... we LOVE eggs, and at $3.87 a carton at Wally World, it's nice to just be gifted by a neighbor and forget about putting dollars in the hands of the Walton family.  Yes, I shop there for my dry goods, and my eggs, but I mean... FRESH EGGS FROM THE FARM?  WOW.  These are great.

 So an egg on toast with a dash of hot sauce and fresh ground black pepper is a total treat the past couple of mornings.

Heaven.

Did I mention we are in heaven?

Another Delicious Day

 We had an unwanted visitor in the garden today, so while my husband dealt with that problem, I picked a few blackberries and raspberries that were growing wild on bushes next to the garden,  

 I picked just enough to toss a nice sized handful into the Ninja blender.

 It made quite a tasty, high energy smoothie around mid-afternoon when I find my energy needs a boost.

 It's really the one thing about summertime I like.

Fresh food from the wild and wooly outdoors.

Cheers!

To a berry beautiful Sunday!!