I love this week’s theme: nuts and seeds! Honestly, I eat a jinormous quantity of both and can’t imagine life without them. Nutritious, full of fiber, portable, easy…very few days go by without me eating nuts! And almost all of my recipes have them, because I’m such a big fan. So a big thanks to In My Box for hosting this week’s menu plan.
This week is much like week’s past–trying to balance all of the holiday excitement with the need for sleep! I’ve decided to do much less baking this year and I’m very glad. However, I’m still making rugelach, a chocolate orange cake, the Daring baker challenge (I almost hyperventilated when I read it), chocolate covered pomegranate seeds, peppermint meringues and fruit and nut bars. I guess I’m not taking it that easy.
Many of the nights we’ll be out, so I have little time to cook and so meals will be pretty simple:
Monday:
Nightshade skillet meal with broccoli
Tuesday:
Beef curry or beef in a Thai coconut sauce
Weds:
Roasted Tomato soup with caramelized onion (from my freezer) and an avocado
Thursday:
Leftovers
Friday:
Baked salmon and asparagus
To celebrate our weekly theme, I’ll be making a gingerbread out of almond flour…mmmm…..
Stumble It!
I eat TONS of nuts/nut-butters every single day – can’t get enough of those healthy fats!! 🙂
Well, if that’s LIGHT on the baking, I’d love to know what you made in previous years! 😉 (Oh, and can’t wait to see the DB Challenge)!
Oh man, all your treats sounds so amazing. Chocolate covered pomegranate seeds? Peppermint meringues??? GF gingerbread with almond flour?!? It sounds like heaven!
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Nuts & seeds! I love it! Ah the challenge…it was actually pretty easy – but I used sugar & soy, don’t know how I’d have done it without!
I love the nightshade skillet. I really avoided nightshades for a long time…maybe that’s why I broke my foot? Ha! Just kidding, of course. Broke my foot because I was in too much of a hurry!