Semi-Clean Eating Days 8 & 9

Before we get to the food review, a small movie review.
About Time: everything a rom-com should be. It make me laugh, cry, and got a little cheesy at the end
Secret Life of Water Mitty: I now want to go to all the places and see all the things and hang out with all the small children of random contries. So if you feel like feeling like that afterwards then see it. If you're suffering from severe wanderlust like myself it will only make things worse.

Now, Onto Day 8:

 

Sunday started out with a smoothie so of course I was a little scared. Thankfully it was normal and basically just blueberries and yogurt. I had a bit of it and then it started to separate shockingly fast. I didn't finish because of the "what on earth is happening" factor. 

Lunch was surprisingly good. It consisted of the leftover tomato sauce from Saturday's dinner cooked with some spinach thrown in (it called for asparagus but I swapped) and then you make two little wells to crack the eggs into and cook it covered for a few minutes and end up with something similar to this:

I did cook the eggs a little long so the very top layer was a bit rubbery but overall it was good! I'm not sure I'll ever have all the ingredients together again to make this but I may order it in a restaurant. I could have used some toast though to eat the extra sauce with. But alas, this pesky thing is "gluten free"....fun haters.....

I can't say I did very well with snacking. I did have the strawberries but I may have also had some m&ms. I'm a Colliander, you can't deny me chocolate.

Then came the brownest dinner of my life. And I've had some pretty darned brown meals before. Dinner was a bowl of roasted chickpeas, roasted cauliflower, and roasted eggplant all mixed up with hummus and then topped and mixed up with a combo of lemon juice and greek yogurt.

I forgot to take a picture of it before I mixed it all together because I was Skyping with Bobby at the time. Blame him for distracting me and the ugly picture. 

It was weird, and gritty, and tangy, and just wrong. I had had a couple bites but tried to avoid anything that had hummus or yogurt on it. Either I made this horribly wrong or the person who taste tested this had no taste buddies. So gross. I had ice cream for dinner to treat myself after going through the pain that was that dish.

Yeah, I didn't have the dates and two almonds either.

Now we're caught up to today, Day 9:

Today wasn't too bad overall. I was a little shaky on the execution but it went better than most days, which isn't saying a lot but it is saying something.

The apple omelette sounds weird but it was actually pretty decent. Thinly sliced apples cooked in the skillet then cooked with the egg and omeletted. Unfortunately I super suck at omelette flipping and it ended up more like very large chunked scrambled eggs. Whatever, the shape didn't change the taste!

It was sweet because of the apples but like strangely savory at the same time. If you're looking to shake things up at breakfast I suggest giving it a try, not bad!

Lunch today was interesting. Three wraps made with the leftover turkey meatballs from Saturday, sliced tomato and avocado, and mustard. The interesting part comes in when they got wrapped in collared greens. Raw collared greens.

Before I wrapped them up, obviously. 

At lunch I attempted to eat them with the wrap but the greens were just too leathery. They took some time to chew cooked so I don't know why they thought these giant leaves would make a good wrap. I guess they don't rip easily? I ended up unwrapping each one and just ate the innards and threw out the greens. Oh well!

Snack was supposed to be yogurt and blackberries but since I've had so many issues with the yogurt I went for carrots and hummus again. Executive decision = made

Dinner tonight was a stir-fry of sorts. Quinoa mixed up with sugar snap peas, mushrooms, scallions, and scrambled egg.

I quite enjoyed this meal! Ate the whole thing! Only thing it was missing was a shallot that I had forgotten to get on my grocery shopping adventure. I bet it would have been even better had I included it. It did also call for some of the tamari (fancy soy sauce) which I did add but I felt the bowl needed a little something extra. So I added a bit of House of Tsang sauce!

Thank you Heidi and Garrett for introducing me to the magical quality of this sauce

With a little bit of the tsang, my dinner was top of the charts yummy. This is something I could see myself making again, quick, easy and only one pan!

And as a reward for making it to the end, a picture of the always adorable Calvin!

He was hungry too