Weekend Snap Shots

My Saturday lunch of radishes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, baby avocados, Mary's Gone Herb gluten-free crackers and Whole Foods hummus:

My (favorite!) Sunday morning breakfast of toasted brown rice bread, soft goat cheese, slivered red onions, smoked wild salmon and fresh chopped dill:

Attack of the Killer Muffins

This is what was waiting for me in the kitchen when I got to the office this morning. We have a ritual of buying donuts/bagels/other sweet & fatty treats for breakfast on Fridays. It's a really nice gesture but after checking the nutritional info, I think I better stick to my super high fiber grain cereal or an Omega-3 egg. Yeah, that's like having a tempeh patty when you really want a porterhouse, but I guess it's all about balance (remember the BLT I had yesterday?). So I passed on these today.

Muffin: "Eat me!" Pastry: "No, eat ME! I have more butter!"

Just to make it easier on myself (because these treats will be sitting on the counter for the rest of the day, calling out to me to just have a bite), I looked up the calories. The data was enough to send me running for the broccoli and cayenne-maple-water-cleanse hills, let me tell you.

Chocolate muffin: 700 calories; 36 grams of fat (7 sat. fat); 50 grams sugar

Apple danish: 600 calories; 32 grams of fat (14 sat. fat); 44 grams sugar

Blueberry muffin: 680 calories; 38 grams of fat (7 sat. fat); 44 grams sugar

Banana muffin: 740 calories; 38 grams of fat (5 sat. fat); 54 grams sugar

Blueberry danish: 600 calories; 32 grams of fat (14 sat fat); 42 grams sugar

Thanks, but no.

Breakfast for Dinner - a Quickie

Last night, I was craving a poached egg. That soft, pillowy exterior; the rich, golden yolk...there are few things I crave more than this. I toasted up some gluten-free brown bread, and layered the top with leftover grilled asparagus and plopped a beautifully poached egg right on top.

It's magically delicious!

The combination was a good one - the salty, peppery asparagus against the yolky, rich egg - and it made for a quick and satisfying dinner. OK, it's more snack-size, but I wasn't that hungry last night.

Sorry for the short post today...I shall post more tomorrow :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

P.S. My best friend Cat informs me that not THAT many people know the song, "Rainy Days and Mondays" by the Carpenters (bah!!). This is bad news for me, since the name of my blog and the tagline is a play off the song and its lyrics. SO, just to clarify, the said lyrics are: "Hanging around, nothing to do but frown, rainy days and Mondays always get me down."