What a great day today has been. I'm feeling relaxed, refreshed, and accomplished. Steve and I slept in this morning (until about nine, which is really late for me, but it felt good to take it easy). We had oatmeal and tea for breakfast, and decided with our housemate to go for a snowshoe walk around our pond. It felt great to get lots of exercise, especially since we had to break the trail, and there were quite a few feet of snow in the woods. Plus, with the loads of snow we've gotten in the last week, I haven't gone for a run since last Monday. When I finally get home from work, I just want to read or cook.
This wasn't today's oatmeal, but I did eat this for breakfast earlier this week. More barley with banana, cashew butter, and maple syrup, but I added some canned pumpkin and cinnamon on top. I know the pumpkin may sound unusual, but I had been craving pumpking flavored foods, and it tasted a little like pumpkin pie for breakfast.
I made these delicious baked oatmeal snack bars tonight for dessert. I've wanted to try them out as an easy afternoon snack. Since I love oatmeal, and I love experimenting with different nuts and dried fruits, they sounded like a good treat. I made these ones with peanut, dried cranberries, raisins, and a drizzle of maple syrup before baking. I'd like to try them with lots of other items: coconut, dates, candied ginger, walnuts. (But not all in the same batch.)
An easy dinner tonight: Steve called them Mexican pizzas. We had a few tortillas in the fridge that I wanted to use up, plus just a tiny bit of tomato sauce left. Topped with the sauce, mozzarella cheese, portabella mushrooms, red bell peppers, and some onion, I baked them for about ten minutes in a 350 F oven. Along with steamed zucchini and baked sweet potato, it made for a wholesome meal.
On another note, if you're interested, you can read my most recent JCarrot post here. It's about Community Support Agriculture (CSA)...and no, we haven't decided whether to join a CSA yet. I think we'll wait for now, since the shares seem quite large, and I love going to farmers' markets.
2 comments:
Yum, yum and more yum! They all look so good. Even though pumpkin is not huge here in Australia (eaten mostly as a vegetable alongside meats) I love the flavour of pumpkin in sweeter dishes.
I have to ask- What are the green rolled up things in your blog header? I can't figure it out.
Joanne: Those rolled up things are called fiddlehead ferns, which start to grow here in the spring. They have a very short harvesting time, so you can usually only find them at the markets (or in the ground!) for a few weeks. They are a bit like asparagus in flavor.
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