Breakfast has slowly become one of my least favorite meals. Maybe it’s Baby Cakes’ fault. Maybe it’s not.
Either way, I had a piece of toast before my workout this morning. Boring. Definitively not picture worthy.
Lunch was much better.
Spinach salad with cucumbers, pecans, raisins, and ½ a blended grapefruit as the dressing.
Plus the other half of the grapefruit on the side. I’m back on my grapefruit kick.
After lunch I had a ½ of a sticky bun. Let me explain…
I have a Food Network calendar hanging in my kitchen, and before I left for the grocery store this afternoon, I glanced at the calendar and happened to notice that today is National Sticky Bun Day. I didn’t think much of it until I went to the store and saw this on sale for $1.50 – I felt like I owed it to the sticky bun to buy it.
I ate half, and saved the rest. It was pretty delicious.
For dinner, I made a Meeker requested meal. When we were first married, I was a nanny and he was still in school. I was just learning how to cook, and I pretty much used Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Meals as my dinner-bible.
I used to make this recipe once a week because it was easy, cheap(ish), and yummy – and it’s one that we both remember fondly. Mostly, I remember Meeker studying in the living room, and me making a mess cooking in our tiny apartment kitchen in Boulder. I loved that year.
And I love this soup: Smokey Chicken Tortilla Soup
Check it out – it’s a good one.
Mmmmm…tortilla soup is the best! I’m going to check out that recipe right now. YUM!
Yum! That soup looks good.
Breakfast is by far my favorite meal but I hardly ever eat it for “breakfast.” I just have breakfast foods at all other times of day.
Including grapefruit, which I love.
YUM!!!
Soup is the BEST! 
mmm soup looks good! hopefully you’ll be able to start enjoying breakfast again soon!
I’m sorry breakfast has become your least favorite meal! Oh, Baby Cakes..
That salad looked mighty delicious though!
I love recipes that you make a connection to!
I hope I feel the same way with some of our meals that I’ve made in my husband’s tiny bachelor pad that we’ve made into our first married home.
I love a good tortilla soup, so I’ll be sure to check it out.
That soup looks really good – The first year of marriage comment made me smile. I’m in the thick of it riht now, and I can’t wait to look back and reflect like you!
I used to live by her recipes too. They never took me only 30 minutes though! LOL
Oh my goodness, I know! They ALWAYS take me longer than 30 minutes…haha.
That soup looks amazing! It’s 7:00 am here…soup for breakfast?!
National sticky bun day huh? I suppose there is a national day for everything huh? Glad you decided to partake
I learned to cook off of Rachel Ray too. And my mom. I still love several of the recipes I used to make.
Being a newlywed in Boulder doesn’t sound half bad
I’ll have to check those recipes out!
A BLENDED GRAPEFRUIT AS SALAD DRESSING?
that’s it. call the press. you’re a genius.
Some people hate on Rachael Ray, but I think she’s got some pretty good grub up her sleeves! This soup looks delicious!
blended grapefruit as the dressing? that sounds divineeee!
How did I miss National Sticky Bun day?! I’m loving these holidays lately.. National Drink Wine Day the other day and today happens to be Margarita Day!
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