Perks

Posted: September 3, 2009 | Author: Katie | Filed under: Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: avocado, cookies, cottage cheese, roasted veggies | 13 Comments »

Everyone knows that teachers don’t make a ton of money. But there are some major perks to the job. This morning, I received this from a student’s mom who reads my blog:

That, my friends, is a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils.

How thoughtful, right? Jen, thank you so much for both your wonderful help in the classroom today and for your incredibly heartwarming gift! My bouquet sat on my desk all day and I smiled each time I looked at it.

I also got a little sweet teacher treat from another sweet girl in my class:

A blueberry scone! I ate this around 4pm. I derived incredible enjoyment out of each bite. I was praying that no one would walk in my classroom and see me with powdered sugar and crumbs all over my face/desk/lap.

But before the scone was lunchtime, and I came home this afternoon.

Looks simple and plain, right? Wrong.

This was so, so, so good that I am going to post it on my recipe page – despite how simple the ingredients are. I couldn’t stop saying “yummm, mmmm, yum” every time I took a bite. Meeker just stared at me with a “you- are-just- eating-cottage-cheese- settle down-look” on his face. But seriously, so dang. This will most definitely be a “go to” from now on.

Then, during the final minutes of my lunch break I tore into a delicious cookie and some cool, filling, refreshing milk.

With melty chocolate chips (it is so hot in our house that these cookies stay melty unless transferred to the freezer)

Ah, milk and cookies.

Because of my scone/cookie indulgences this afternoon, I decided on lots-o-veggies for din din.

I could subside on roasted veggies. No questions asked. I am absolutely positive about that.

You may be thinking, wow – a lot of veggies…planning on leftovers? Nope – we ate every single veg.

On these trays:

• 2 zucchini
• 2 small heads of broccoli
• 1 green bell pepper
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 small onion
• 2 tomatoes
• 2 carrots
• Drizzle of evoo
• Salt/pepper
• Cumin

I roasted the two trays for 30 minutes at 450* – rotating ½ way through. My goodness, they were phenomenal. I mean that. I can think of nothing that I love more than roasted vegetables. Try them, you will see.

I ate mine with some extra goodies:

½ grilled chicken breast, dollop of plain yogurt, wheatberries underneath.

I am so satisfied with my eating today. If I had the time/energy/funds/motivation – I would have this day of eating over and over again for the rest of my life.

Tomorrow is Friday! (Oh, my observation today was in my opinion, hilariously bad, however my observer said it went “really, really well” – I guess that is all that matters. Maybe she missed the two kids rolling around on the floor that knocked over the projector and bumped my laptop onto the floor, thereby erasing all the instructions that were being projected onto the board. But it was on video, so she will see it eventually. Until then, I am going to maintain that it went “really, really well” – her words).

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