July Eats

Womp, I started to suspect that my sinus issues, which are related to my globus issue, had something to do with dairy consumption. Which I knew there was a connection between dairy and mucus production, I just wasn't connecting that with me and the mucus in my head and the volume of greek yogurt that I generally eat in a week. I pretty much don't eat dairy except greek yogurt, but that I eat a lot of. So I stopped eating it right in the middle of a quart and gave away an unopened quart, and thought I was sort of feeling better, and then I thought I would use up the opened quart in a nice batch of koldskal, peaches and koldskal, mmm. Which brings me back to womp, I do believe dairy is a thing for me now. Again. I mean it used to be, and then it wasn't, and now it is again. Like I feel like I'm choking and my head is exploding simultaneously. Sigh that's so too bad, greek yogurt has been so easy full stop. And such an easy way for me to get protein and probiotics, oh well. I will figure it out. In the meantime, I have gone back to just almonds and strawberries for my breakfast bowl:

my #breakfastbowl is like that episode of TNG where wesley accidentally disappears the rest of the crew: first it was greek yogurt, jam, banana, strawberries, and almonds, then jam disappeared, then banana went missing, and now it's down to #strawberries and #almonds still #goodeats #kindadrythough #nofilter

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A great discovery for lunch, though: The Kitchn's 5 Salad Bases That Last All Week in the Refrigerator, I can confirm that the kale-radicchio combo did indeed last all week and was delicious! I dressed it with a slightly tweaked version of A Beautiful Mess's lemon miso dressing and toward the end of last month was topping it with hardboiled eggs, avocado, and cherry tomatoes. This month though, I'm trying it with pan-roasted chicken breast:

yumayyyyy #kale #radicchio #lemonmisovinaigrette #panroastedchicken #cherrytomatoes #avocado #goodeats

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I bought that mixing bowl to keep in the kitchen at work, and we have a million of those serving spoons from times we've catered things.

I'm still working those dinner bowls, and working on a new ground meat recipe for my collection viz., persian ground lamb:

no real news here, i just need the.pic for my blog. i'm working on a lamb version for my ground meat collection. this is not lamb though, this is turkey. i didn't want to experiment on expensive lamb. this second attempt is edible, which could not be said for the first attempt. not loving the turmeric in this, i must say. third time's the charm? the veg though is #panroasted #kalestems, they're quite good! #dinnerbowl #goodeats

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Recipe TK!

On gym days, I eat dinner for lunch, bring a bottle of tart cherry water to the gym, and then have a smoothie when I get home from the gym, I have already developed a dairy-free smoothie that does the job:

#goldensmoothie #rosegold jk i just had the tail ends of a bag of #frozenstrawberries and a bag of #frozenmangos to use up ...actually this is really good #goodeats

A photo posted by Pauline Pang (@allapoppy) on Jul 5, 2016 at 5:20pm PDT

Der schweetums cooks Friday dinner! I taught him how to make miso soup:

der schweetums gets a cooking break for summer, too. friday night dinners he makes #misosoup and gets maki from the jewel #notpicky #goodeats #nofilter

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