Quiche Lunch

Cost: $8

Prep: 20 minutes

The meal shows how flexible I am: something came up so I made our dinner for lunch! One thing I haven't commented on is brought to light by this post. My husband and I are both teachers. That means the three of us are at home for three meals a day for two months. Now, I don't go all out for lunch every day, but we can't eat grilled cheese and condensed soup every day.

So, tonight, there are plans to go to have a campfire, so dinner needed to be cooked. To make it more "lunchy", I added a handful of chips. Lol. No. I did that because I am pregnant and really want chips.  I am being honest.

I made mini-quiche. I needed to take something as an appie to our get-together tonight as well, so I managed two jobs at once.

I used organic non-sweet pastry shells as the crust. Inside, there was a bunch of yellow pepper, cheese, and crisp crumbled bacon. Add some milky whipped egg, bake 20 minutes, and you have lunch (or an appy, as I am bringing these cold to a baby shower soon too).

As an extra bit of health, I steamed some green beans and we had a hearty serving of these on the side.

Blue Fox

We have been wanting to try Blue Fox for a while. Many of our friends speak very highly of it. We have also been cautioned against going there and expecting a table right away.

However, it is Monday morning. We are heading out at 8AM; Matt doesn't need to be in today; I will be fine if I am in for 9. We head downtown with C to check out the hub-bub.

We get a table right away, but it is close. There are not many left even on this odd day at this early hour. The host bring us an acceptable high chair and offers crayons.

Our waitress, however, is not so baby adept. She bring water, but only 2. She does not ask if she can bring a side plate or anything for the little one; however, the host, again, checks on us later and bring said side plate. The service was also speedy, and if we were coffee drinkers, our coffees would have received many refills.

Matt orders an omelette: the Mexi-Omelette. It is HUGE. MASIVE. It looks great, and the main ingredient is pulled pork. He selects the raisin toast. This is the first time he isn't able to finish a breakfast, but the waitress packs it up for lunch. Although, generally satisfied, Matt thinks that pulled pork in an omelette is weird. The toast is the highlight, as is the tiny cup of preserve.

I order a benny: the Badger Benny. I have very little positives to share. I don't like the bagel. It is too tough and difficult to cut through. Also, Benny is heavy enough; I'm not worried about the calories (duh, butter butter butter sauce), but why add something to make you feel like you ate a brick? The sausage casing is stringy, and really should have been removed since it is dangling in the sauce like a (I edited out here what it was dangling like, as it was just too gross and expletive, but I will fill in the blank upon personal request). The tomato was over grilled and possibly over ripe, to the point of being mush. The hollandaise was good, but it was nothing to write home about, or pay $13 for for that matter. On the plus side, the eggs were perfectly done.

Anyway, the bill was $30 with no drinks. Although the food was mediocre, I will not write this place off. I wish I had had the Breakfast Salad or the Apples French Toast. If I have an opportunity to go back, that is what I will try, although I will not go out of my way to make an opportunity. I really think the draw here is portion size, and really, I would have have excellent flavour over anything else.

Breakfast Bookends

Cost: $4 (just dinner)

Prep: 15 minutes

If I had wrote this post any sooner it would have something scathing about Matt. But, because we have waited a few days, I have cooled off from Matt with his sad puppy dog eyes coming home in the middle of Charlie and I eating and saying, "That's okay you didn't make me any. I would have eaten it cold, but I just wont eat" or something to the like. Seriously!

Once I convinced him to go make himself some darn eggs, he asked me what heat to cook eggs at. Then I saw what his eggs looked like, and I realized the reason he doesn't come home and make his b for d is because he doesn't know how to make eggs.

So, anyways, we all ate b for d with the delicious rosemary foccacia bread from Thrify's and a pineapple that was too ripe and tasted like a pina colada.

I also wanted to talk about my lunch.

I wasn't so into dinner anyways because I had had a large lunch at school. Imentioned earlier in the week that I buy my lunch almost every day.

Today's lunch meal was a small salad (with far far too much dressing), spaghetti and meatballs with olive bread. Looks yummy? It was. I also had a yoghurt and an orange.

B for D

Cost: less than $5

Prep time: less than 10 minutes

Matt did not join us for dinner tonight; I had had a very busy, long day; Charlie enjoys pulling my wet shirts from the laundry and running around with the shirts over his face, regardless of walls in his way. So, anyway, Matt had rugby until 6PM and Charlie and I cannot wait to eat until then, so we had a quick breakfast for dinner. I didn't make for Matt, as it would have been cold before he got home, so he still hasn't eaten yet.

I tried to make this dinner healthier by serving it with a lot of fruit. We picked up a little water melon, about the size of a bocce ball, when we were at Walmart the other day ($2.50). We ate 1/2 of that, although it was difficult as I had to take it apart for C because of the seeds. We also shared an orange and a few grapes.

The bacon is the Natural Selections variety, even though I hear it is not actually any less full of nitrates than regular bacon. Still, it is really nice bacon. I like to broil it so it is flat.

I fried our eggs: 2 for me, 1 for Charlie. I like my yolk soft, and it was a little harder tonight, but C gets his completely cooked through. I'm not sure if I am supposed to feed him runny eggs, but I have no idea how he would manage to eat a runny egg anyway.

For our grain product, we shared an English muffin with light herb and garlic cream cheese. This was very satisfying, especially when combined with the bacon and eggs; it was almost like having a Hollandaise sauce or something.

Honestly though, I am still hungry and looking forward to a snack tonight...

Big Breaky

Charlie and I slept in this morning and woke ourselves up to a nice, big breakfast.

We had bacon, eggs, toast, strawberries, and hashbrowns.

The most important part, however, was the coffee. But, if you ask Charlie, it was the ketchup.

Goldilocks Cooks Eggs

Cost: $4

Prep time: 5 minutes

If Goldilocks made breakfast for dinner for the three bears, this is what she would have made them. And then they would have eaten her because it was not very filling. Unless, in Goldilock's good luck, they were not very hungry because they had eaten a huge, greasy, delicious, high salt lunch.

Oh wait, that was us. We ate super-crap at lunch, even the baby. So, we agreed, no salt for dinner.

The other problem was that a certain husband told a certain wife we were going to certain in-laws for dinner, so even though a certain family was at the grocery store that morning, there was no plan for dinner.

So, we did breakfast for dinner again: eggs, English muffin, and a whole cantaloupe.

There was a Daddy Bear sized portion, eggs scrambled.

There was a Mommy Bear sized portion, eggs soft fried (if that is a thing).

There was a Baby Bear sized portion, egg fried solid. Interestingly enough, he will eat an egg like this, but not scrambled.

Breakfast for Dinner

Weekend Leftover Breakfast

This is from last weekend, but I just wanted to share this idea for using leftover slow cooker ingredients. This easily could be paired with a side salad and served as a dinner.

I sauteed the leftover potatoes on the skillet, fried up some eggs, and toasted some focaccia bread. Seriously, focaccia bread is the best thing to happen to eggs since chickens.

We are going to try, eventually, to have a meatless night. We eat too much meat and can save some money this way. Not yet though. This week we eat steak. Stay tuned for meal plans.