Food has been GOOD

We've been eating pretty good lately. On top of eating a bunch of REAL food, and MOSTLY PLANTS, we've also enjoyed some vino...

Earlier this week we had some sauteed veggies with grilled sweet potatoes and baked flank steak topped with dry onion soup. My sister named it "snotty steak" as a child, and the name has stuck ever since. It's super good.






I'll be honest...I've been reading Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food". Real food, lots of plants. Oh yeah.

Earlier this week I had nothing defrosted, and no fresh meat, so I figured we'd finally eat that can of chicken in the cabinet. Well, we didn't have pasta, so another trip to the store was in order (we go about 3x a week on average between grocery stores - Vons, Albertsons, and Henry's, and Costco) for whole grain pasta (Barilla). I dig it.

We had a ton of veggies, so I figured we'd sautee' some zucchini, bell peppers, and red onion with garlic, then add in some baby spinach leaves and tomatoes and top some whole grain pasta.



YUM.

Tonight we had leftover pasta and chicken/veggie mix with some balsamic butter asparagus as a side dish. SO.GOOD.





Thanks to Michael Pollan's suggestion, I've advocated eating at the table for dinner. So far the last few days we've either been at the table, or had the TV off. It can't hurt, right? We spend all day chatting on IM or sitting in front of a computer, so some alone time without all of the modern "conveniences" has been a refreshing change. The only...bad? part is our neighbors having band practice at dinner time!