First Day

This morning Bob and I woke up kind of late and the fridge was mostly cleared out. I had a fried egg over easy and Bob had two for breakfast. Then we went to Sprouts to stock up on food for the next few days. We bought more eggs and some chicken for tonight's salad. For snacks we picked out mixed nuts, pepita seeds, and baby carrots. It probably goes without saying we got a bunch of vegetables. Sprouts had bins full of hatch chilies. Bob was very excited about that. We grabbed some medium-heat hatch chilies and some hot! I am very curious to try these!

I just roasted some of the brussel sprouts we bought today with garlic and olive oil. Roasting is the most delicious way to cook vegetables in my opinion. If you are not a big veggie eater or if you haven't liked a certain vegetable since you were a kid -- because your mom would boil the shit out of it until it was mush and the thought of it today makes you dry heave -- try roasting said vegetable with olive oil and garlic! I swear you will probably change your mind!

For my brussel sprouts, I cut the nubs off and cut them in half. I sliced a few garlic cloves. Tossed them together with a generous amount of olive oil, garlic powder, fresh ground pepper, and a little bit of pink Himalayan salt. Baked them at 425 degrees for 25 minutes. Easy as pie! But way healthier!

Tonight we are making salad, which is one of our go-to's, because we forgot to take some meat out of the freezer yesterday to thaw. We have one pound of ground elk and one pound of ground venison thawing in the fridge, because tomorrow Bob is going make his amazing tomato sauce. He usually uses ground beef or turkey, but we thought we would use some exotic meats for a change. Sprouts has a pretty good selection of exotic meats, including wild boar and antelope.