Day 1: Smells like cabbage

Day 1                                                                                          

Sleep: 8 hours (gotta love the weekends!)

Exercise: 30 min. fast walk on inclined treadmill (easing back into it)

Breakfast: Coffee (black of course... and strong). Herring Snacks (that explains the fish smell) two eggs cooked in coconut oil and reheated butternut squash sprinkled (or covered... because I'm a little heavy handed) with Cumin.  Cumin is my favorite spice and if you have never tried in on squash or sweet potatoes, you are missing out. Also, don't tell husband I ate Herring in the apt. He hates that I eat "smelly" foods. But he was still sleeping, so maybe he wont notice...the cats sure did. "No kitty, my Herring Snack!" 

Lunch: Pad Thai and banana with sunbutter! So I love love love Pad Thai but sadly it's made with noodles and peanuts and soy sauce, "Oh my!" so it's a no go. Until, that is, I found my savior of interesting Paleo foods, Melissa Joulwan, author of Well Fed and one of my favorite Paleo bloggers. She has a recipe in her book for "Sunshine Sauce". I hate her for it. I wish I'd never heard of Sunshine Sauce. Now I eat Pad Thai weekly...maybe more then that. Her book is amazing because she has all these great Moroccan and Middle Eastern spice mixes that make me not miss non-paleo foods. Seriously. The Pad Thai is so amazing, I don't miss that old stuff. Damn her and her delicious sauces! Anyway... here is the link to the recipe on her page: 

http://www.theclothesmakethegirl.com/2009/07/21/sunshine-sauce/

It turns out that I like my Pad Thai on the lazy side of things. So here is my cheat/lazy version of Pad Thai sauce.  

1 T. of Sesame Butter (you can buy this at a regular grocery store, but I get mine at Whole Foods. Make sure there is no added sugar!)

Pour in some Coconut Aminos (Better then Soy Sauce, I promise...and also bought at Whole Foods)

add a pinch of ginger

sprinkle in some garlic powder

crush in some red pepper flakes

Mix.

Call it a day.

Yeah, I don't usually measure the sesame butter either. I just spoon some into a bowl. I don't measure because I enjoy the added suspense of maybe adding too many pepper flakes and making it too spicy. What can I say, I walk on the wild side.

I love to mix the sauce with cabbage cooked until tender in coconut oil and shrimp. For the record, pre-shredded cabbage or broccoli slaw that you can buy in the produce section save my sanity. I go threw a few bags a week. No washing, cutting or shredding makes cooking fast dinners so much less messy and faster!   Maybe throw in a few handfuls of spinach into the pan while when you add the shrimp in until it wilts. And you end up with this lovely creation:

Oh yeah, looking good! See, I don't even miss peanuts...or delicious creamy Skippy peanut butter... eaten right out of the....ummm.... that was awkward. I might have lied when I said I didn't miss peanut butter.

Well, this afternoon husband and I traveled down to Best Buy since he has been hording gift cards for a year from there. We went to peruse the Blue Ray collection and I suggested that we go glance at new TVs since he has been wanting a new one forever. I figured we would just price some TVs and get and idea of what we might want down the line.  TRANSLATION: We bought a 60" LED TV. IT'S HUGE! I mean our apartment is only two rooms. The couch is literally four feet in front of this giant wall of a TV! And as we're setting it up husband says, "See, we have more room. We could have gotten the 80 inch."  (insert my deadpan stare)

Moral of the story is, we now have life sized people on the TV in our living room.

Dinner: We had dinner with my parents in Greenwood at our favorite sushi place. I had sushimi (raw fish). No rice.

In honor of our first movie night with our personal at home movie screen I made my favorite movie snack: Kale chips. Delicious and good for you too! I think he owes me watching a chick flick tonight.

Tomorrow is weekly cook-up Sunday so stay tuned for some cooking madness!