Tonight we had a delicious dinner and it was so simple and easy. In fact it took just about 5 minutes to make...you can't get much better than that. Before I tell you what exactly we ate, I'll take you into our night a little more in depth. We had a long and busy day helping my sister de-clutter and clean out her place. The kids played outside nearly all afternoon and we dug deep into her mess. There was a lot accomplished and I only came home with three things from her place: a glass vase, a sparkly scarf and a Twilight book I had lent her. Super proud of myself and a high five to me! (I'm sort of a trinket/furniture/clothing/everything collector) Right after we got home, Aaron, my husband, and I were planning to go straight to IKEA to burn through this rather large gift card we had unfortunately aquired, thats not sarcasm....it's a long story. We were in a hurry because it's a school night and I like things to be smooth on school nights for everyone's sake. I quickly told the kids to grab a snack before we went because you know kids are incessantly hungry and the minute we get in the car it's always "Where's the water" or "I'm hungry". Needless to say, no one was hungry before we left so just Baby T and I had some coconut yogurt with a bit of granola and dried strawberries and we were off. We were actually there for almost two hours and the kiddos were really doing awesome....except for the marble incident where J bounced it so high that he almost broke a display of glassware and the IKEA worker gave us a serious glaring staredown....or when my darling husband had Baby T on the very top of a really high loft bed and one of the other worker came jogging towards us and sternly scolded him, loudly, for allowing a child up there. I just turned my head and pretended to read the prices of the beds....boys boys boys boys boys ahhhhh. Now to the dinner part. So it's 8pm and we are on our way home and I know everyone is more than ready for dinner so I ask Aaron to make tofu scramble because honestly that is the only thing he will ever cook other than canned soup. We do not eat tofu very often at all and this particular batch had probably been in the fridge for a couple of weeks so I knew it would be good to use it soon. I had to put Baby T to bed right away so Aaron got going on dinner and when I got out to the kitchen everyone looked at me with such sad faces. He had given them literally a bowl of crumbled warm soggy tofu; at least he tried. They needed some Mommy magic in the kitchen. I got out the sprouted wheat bread, toasted it, added Vegenaise, and fresh tomato and made these really delicious open faced sandwiches that *surprise* everyone loved. (Mommy 1 point--Daddy 0) Not that I'm really counting or anything......shhhhhh. On the side went some quinoa with chopped broccoli, cajun kale chips and a garnish of fresh red peppers because a meal isn't complete without something fresh. It was pretty, delicious, and a well balanced meal to fill their bellies before drifting off to sleep. Happy kiddos=happy mama.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Tofu Scramble on Toast with broccoli, kale and quinoa
Tonight we had a delicious dinner and it was so simple and easy. In fact it took just about 5 minutes to make...you can't get much better than that. Before I tell you what exactly we ate, I'll take you into our night a little more in depth. We had a long and busy day helping my sister de-clutter and clean out her place. The kids played outside nearly all afternoon and we dug deep into her mess. There was a lot accomplished and I only came home with three things from her place: a glass vase, a sparkly scarf and a Twilight book I had lent her. Super proud of myself and a high five to me! (I'm sort of a trinket/furniture/clothing/everything collector) Right after we got home, Aaron, my husband, and I were planning to go straight to IKEA to burn through this rather large gift card we had unfortunately aquired, thats not sarcasm....it's a long story. We were in a hurry because it's a school night and I like things to be smooth on school nights for everyone's sake. I quickly told the kids to grab a snack before we went because you know kids are incessantly hungry and the minute we get in the car it's always "Where's the water" or "I'm hungry". Needless to say, no one was hungry before we left so just Baby T and I had some coconut yogurt with a bit of granola and dried strawberries and we were off. We were actually there for almost two hours and the kiddos were really doing awesome....except for the marble incident where J bounced it so high that he almost broke a display of glassware and the IKEA worker gave us a serious glaring staredown....or when my darling husband had Baby T on the very top of a really high loft bed and one of the other worker came jogging towards us and sternly scolded him, loudly, for allowing a child up there. I just turned my head and pretended to read the prices of the beds....boys boys boys boys boys ahhhhh. Now to the dinner part. So it's 8pm and we are on our way home and I know everyone is more than ready for dinner so I ask Aaron to make tofu scramble because honestly that is the only thing he will ever cook other than canned soup. We do not eat tofu very often at all and this particular batch had probably been in the fridge for a couple of weeks so I knew it would be good to use it soon. I had to put Baby T to bed right away so Aaron got going on dinner and when I got out to the kitchen everyone looked at me with such sad faces. He had given them literally a bowl of crumbled warm soggy tofu; at least he tried. They needed some Mommy magic in the kitchen. I got out the sprouted wheat bread, toasted it, added Vegenaise, and fresh tomato and made these really delicious open faced sandwiches that *surprise* everyone loved. (Mommy 1 point--Daddy 0) Not that I'm really counting or anything......shhhhhh. On the side went some quinoa with chopped broccoli, cajun kale chips and a garnish of fresh red peppers because a meal isn't complete without something fresh. It was pretty, delicious, and a well balanced meal to fill their bellies before drifting off to sleep. Happy kiddos=happy mama.
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Your pictures are beautiful!
ReplyDeletethanks Steph! I have fun taking them :)
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