What's on your Monday Menu?

No great advice but geez, that's a compounding week going on. Sorry your trip was impacted.

Oh no, what a bummer!

After a ****ty Friday with my car and part of Saturday being phone call after phone call I do believe we will have the car all taken care of without going through insurance. The damage was just the front bumper cover and the company who's driver rolled over it will pay for everything. It should be under $1000 and I won't have to get a rental. The bumper cover its self is only $250 new from Toyota and the rest will be the cost of paint to match the car. This is what I walked out of the store to Friday afternoon. Looked a lot worse than it is.

QOTD: I've had people come up to me thinking I was someone else and have been told I look just like someone they know.

Accountability was great this past weekend because I didn't eat on Saturday as I was still frustrated from Friday. Yesterday we ended up going to the garlic festival in Mystic and I was able to get 6 new varieties of garlic for planting. Should have over 200 plants next year for harvesting. Had 8 grilled chicken wings and 3 pepper poppers.

5am coffee with raw milk

B: Ham and eggs

L: Ground chicken stuffed zucchini

D: Grilled Eggplant with cheese

Tomorrow night my company is starting the Culture of Fit again which is an at home exercise and meditation series that goes for 2 months. I did well last year when I participated.

Sorry to hear about your car and hope it gets fixed soon. What are your thoughts on black garlic?

Funny you mention that. There was a vendor handing out samples of black garlic. Of course I thought it was garlic that you could grow, but after speaking with the lady it's just regular garlic that is "cooked" for several days. That is what turns it black. My husband and I thought it was pretty tasty.

There must be some variations of black garlic. I love garlic...but it was probably a bad idea to try a whole clove of it. Yuck, yuck!

It could have been the way it was cooked and possibly the variety of garlic used. There are some that are very strong garlics out there that could have caused it to be different tasting.

Ack! Sorry about your car but as you said, guess it's better than it looks.

Also...your menu items always sound amazing! Would love recipes for today's if you follow any!

I do a big garden every year so when I have lots of fresh veggies I make things up. The peppers are really just fresh hot or sweet ones that I put sliced cheese and deli ham in.

The hot cherry peppers I stuff with fresh made chicken salad.

The zucchini boats are made with either ground chicken or beef that I add onion soup mix, cheese and the innards of the zucchini chopped up. Cook it up then stuff the zucchini and grill on low to soften it.

I raise chickens for fresh eggs and meat. We did pigs for fresh pork. I also grow many different herbs and that is how I season everything to give it flavor. I still have a quart of fresh made garlic powder from last year and have a bunch to do this year. I don't like plain unflavored foods.

The eggplant I slice thin and use pork rinds in place of breadcrumbs. Sometimes I grill it and sometimes I use the big electric skillet to cook it. There is always several different kinds and types of cheese in the fridge as we love cheese. So what ever I feel like having is what I put on it.

I don't follow to many recipes more like experimenting with things.

Thank you- that's super helpful as a general direction. I totally get the experimentation and flavoring.

Your garden and animals sound amazing...but I bet that's a ton of work, too!