This is a twenty minute meal from start to finish. It's a Tuesday night and I got home at 6:00, started cooking at 6:10 and we were sitting down at 6:30 to eat. I am not pulling your leg. Doesn't it look fantastic? (It WAS!!)
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I thought I would share with you my favorite breakfast smoothie recipe! It's creamy and delicious and full of protein to get you through the first part of your day.
We call this pasta bar based on a restaurant we used to frequent (I worked there when I met my hubby) which had a pasta bar and they would make your pasta in front of you. This is the recipe I would always make and now I continue to make it at home. My kids love it and I love that it's filled with great healthy protein and veggies in addition to the noodles that they love.
I thought I would share with you the summer pots I just planted and some of the things I think about while planting and arranging them. Here are my little helpers. They are great at holding plants for me and filling in the dirt afterwards.
I have found great luck with putting my herbs in my front window boxes which protects them from bunnies and deer and also doesn't allow some of the more aggressive herbs, such as mint, to spread. It also has the bonus of looking beautiful and projecting homey-ness and culinary prowess in my mind, which makes me happy.
I mix them with brightly colored pink geraniums which add color from afar. This year I grouped each herb together which I am thinking will be more successful than in the past when I spread them out for aesthetics. I am truly about function not form here, even though I still think they look very pretty. I hope this inspires you to plant some hers in window boxes or pots and cook fresh and flavorful food at home! In the back of the house we have a lot of tree coverage which means I need together a little creative to get color back there.
I used to do Impatiens but in recent years they've had fungus issues and last year we discovered that the chickens like to eat the buds which made them pretty useless for me other than a chicken buffet! I have also tried bogonia but they get very woody by the end of the season. Coleus come in so many pretty shades and I love to mix and match them to provide color even into the fall. They've always been my mainstay. I had fixed pesto pasta earlier in the week and had some extra pesto to use up, so why not mix it in with my eggs and veggies to bring some additional flavor to my breakfast plate?!
Incidentally, pesto is very easy to make if you have an abundance of fresh basil. Watch for my recipe this summer when the garden is blooming! If you have some leftover fresh ingredients from your Cinco de Mayo festivities, throw them together with a few hard boiled eggs for a fresh and healthy lunch!
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