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One Day at a Time

Losing your job is about much more than losing your paycheck and losing that place where you go for 40+ hours per week. It’s figuring out what you do in the interim, both financially and to keep busy. It’s figuring out what your next steps are. It’s figuring out who you are–and not letting yourself be defined by your career. It’s about figuring out what you absolutely need to survive and what are luxuries you can put aside temporarily, and it’s different for everyone.

This past week has been an emotional rollercoaster. For every promising job or freelance lead, there’s another difficult decision that has to be made or a difficult situation that has to be figured out. So one day at a time.

But at least it’s forcing me to spend more time making food for myself. (I wouldn’t quite call this cooking.)

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For dinner last night, I warmed up one of my chicken burgers from the Market Basket, picked up when I was home this weekend, and put it over some spinach. (Not quite a salad, but I’m trying to try more salad-like things, per my summer body experiment.) I topped it with some pineapple salsa from Trader Joe’s. Do you see those sweet potato fries? Trader Joe’s is amazing. They came pre-sliced like that, and all I had to do was season them with some sea salt and pepper, mist them with olive oil and pop them in the oven for a half hour at 400 degrees.

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This morning when I woke up, I was craving the bagel thin French toast I saw on Monica’s blog yesterday, but by the time I ran a few errands, I had zero desire to cook, much less something hot, so I made some cookie dough oatmeal.

Stay cool out there. It’s a scorcher.

Back in the Groove

While I’m still missin’ my blogging buddies, I’m glad to be back home and back in the groove–especially since I’m leaving again this weekend. I’m heading to Outer Banks, N.C. for Memorial Day! I must admit, I sort of kicked ass at life today. I got a lot done both at work and with some outside-of-work projects. I’m definitely still riding the high of this weekend.

I caught up on some sleep this morning, so I headed to the gym after work for Barre Burn. I’ve really been loving barre classes like this (well, it’s not technically at a barre, but the movements are similar) and Physique 57 lately. They feel like a combination of strength training and yoga, so I feel strong and relaxed.

Since I’m only going to be around tonight and tomorrow night this week, I very easily could have gotten takeout, but I’m actually really getting sick of it lately. I only really want sushi these days, and I don’t ever want to get sick of sushi. (And, um, it’s not cheap.) So, really, I cooked tonight because there wasn’t anywhere I felt like ordering from. Whatever gets me to cook, right?

I made some whole wheat pasta with broccoli rabe and turkey sausage. And forgot to take the casing off the sausage. Oops.

Pretty pictures of food sort of give you the feeling that the food’s being served in some sort of perfectly neat kitchen, right? Well, take a look at when I zoom out. There’s the mess that awaits me right now.