I’m large and in charge!
Vegas is out of town – watch out.
That’s right. I’m without supervision this week. Not just because Vegas is gone though – I’m also hosting Jen’s What I Ate Wednesday!
And I made myself bacon.
Admittedly, it was hard to get out of bed. We just had the house cleaned. It was so peaceful and quiet.
No one would know if I just laid here for hours…
But it got a little lonely too. I miss Vegas when she leaves!
So I took myself out for a iced tea and did some work on the patio of a local coffee shop. That’s blood orange iced tea. So good! I brought the S’mores Quest Protein Bar
Blue skies smilin’ at me…
On to the WIAW deliciousness! Be sure to check out all the links below and add your own day ‘o eats.
Breakfast:
I had the usual morning cocktail and morning sludge.
Im still digging the new strawberry Growing Naturals protein. I made another one of my Strawberry-Acai Protein Bowls. This one used avocado rather than sweet potato to make it creamy.
Topped with peaches, strawberries, lychee, and Evoke Athlete Fuel Organic Muesli.
Snack:
In addition to the first Quest bar, I also had a Mint Chocolate Chunk Quest Bar. This is the new flavor, and it’s now in my top 5.
I’m not normally a mint fan, but this wasn’t over-powering. And holy chunks of cookie! I just bought one to try, but I’ll be buying more of these tomorrow.
Lunch:
Swordfish over a baby kale and lentil salad (extras from the dinner recipe below) with heirloom tomato. Topped with sautéed shallots and crimini mushrooms, them bacon sprinkles. Finished with a drizzle of truffle balsamic reduction.
Dear sweet Jesus, I love food.
Dinner:
I’ve always loved Sizzlefish, but I haven’t had it quite as often since I love by the ocean now. This dish reminded me I need to eat it more – I love their flavored options. I used the Korean BBQ Salmon here.
The base of this dish was an Asian-ish lentil salad with cabbage, carrots, and peas. I loved the veggies in it for the crunch! You could also do this with rice, but I like lentils better.
Asian Lentil Salad & Salmon
- 1 cup black lentils (or rice)
- ½ cup cooked peas
- 1 carrot, julienned
- 2 C shredded cabbage
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Juice of 1 lime
- 2 T rice vinegar
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1/2 tsp sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 4 pieces of cooked salmon*
- 1 chopped green onion, for garnish
- Salt & pepper, to taste
Cook lentils according to package. Transfer to a serving bowl and allow to cool slightly while you prepare the mix-ins.
Whisk together your lemon and lime juice, rice vinegar, mustard, sesame oil, and garlic powder. Taste and adjust seasoning as needed.
Add chopped veggies to the lentils and toss to combine. Pour in dressing and mix again.
Plate lentil salad, top with salmon, and garnish with green onions, salt and pepper. I added red pepper flakes to mine as well.
Serves 4.
*I used Sizzlefish Korean BBQ Salmon, but you could use your favorite here. A simple preparation with soy sauce, lemon, and pepper would be good here too.
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I know you’re all wondering… what are my other 3 favorite Quest flavors? Well, I’ll tell you: White Chocolate Raspberry, Cookie Dough, and *I think* Berry. That last one rotates. I love the Cookies ‘n Cream too, but it gets a bit sweet. These ate the important things I debate in my head…
What’s your favorite Quest flavor?
What was the best thing you ate yesterday??
I’m in charge haha! Aren’t you sort of always large and in charge???
Valid point… 😉
Loving that photo – my best thing yesterday was my new Gf waffle, eggs, cheese and turkey waffle-wich! Before the storm knocked out our power here…
This looks like a workplace I’d certainly enjoy! Oh lychee I haven’t had any in ages. It’s so funny to eat them. The consistency is so unique.
Ahh this salmon looks amazing, even at this hour of the day for me! Thanks for hosting the linkup today!
Thanks so much for hosting! When I try to add a link, it says I need a backlink, which I already have. I pushed to submit anyway. Do you mind checking this out? Thanks so much!
BTW- favorite Quest Bar… Cookies and Cream!
Inlinkz is such a pain sometimes… we got them worked out. Thanks for joining in!!!
I haven’t had salmon in forever and now I totally want some! Best thing I ate yesterday was a PB and banana smoothie. Classic, but it never gets old!
Totally agree – there’s nothing better than PB and banana… except maybe if you add chocolate. 😉
Ooh best thing I ate yesterday was some peanut butter cookie dough … didn’t make the cookies yet but the dough is delicious 🙂
Why bother baking them when the dough is soooooo good?
PS – i don’t know why but my link never shows up in the linkup:(
I’m dying to try the mint chocolate Quest bar, but something tells me it will be hard to find in Italy!
Still, I can’t feel bad for you. 😉
“No one would know if I just laid here for hours…” <- my thoughts exactly every Saturday/Sunday – when I was still living on my own. Temporarily moving back in with my parents is a bane at that. They're early risers and let me know what they think of sleeping in on the regular …
I'll take your salad minus the salmon, please and thank you.
Haha – the struggle.
The salad would be fine without the salmon too – or with some marinated tofu!
I love that you’re “without supervision”….that made me laugh out loud. Let the shenanigans ensue! I finally ordered a box of the Quest chocomint. I like it. It reminds me of Andes mints baked in a brownie….bake sale creation that is D. Licious. I have too many favorites to pick one. But my tops are Cookies&Cream, Chocolate Chunk, and White Chocolate Raspberry. Though this new mint flavor and Smores are awesome. Basically, if it’s got chunks of something smashed in there, it gets a thumbs up from me. 🙂
Dude. If you hung out with us you’d understand. LOL!
You’re so right about the Andes! And the chunks… except I hate the word chuck due to it’s correlation with blowing.
Ha! I too don’t love the word….maybe I’ll describe them as “giant nuggets of awesome” instead.
LOL! I can support that.
Hi Laura! Thanks for hosting the party. And you won’t believe this … but I’m one of the few people in the world who has never actually tried a Quest Bar. I bet I would love them. What else do I love? All the fish you eat! I’m a big seafood gal too and could eat it at nearly every meal. Yay for salmon. The hubs has been grilling salmon for me lately (he doesn’t like it), and I think the skin is the best part! Yay for What I Ate Wednesday! 🙂
Really?! You have to try one! Get a cookie dough one and bake it. Trust me. 😉
Hi Laura! Thanks for hosting the link up for What I Ate Wednesday this week. Salmon is one of my favorite foods and yours look fabulous. Have a great day!
BTW – my link came up in error and said there was no backlink recognized. Please take a look when you get a chance – just thought you should know. Thanks!!
I’m having this INSANE obsession with cooking everything asian themed! Obsessed!
Me too! So weird… I usually never crave it!
I still haven’t gotten my hands on a mint chocolate chip quest bar! My favorite is cookie dough & chocolate. Just bought some today 🙂
Thanks for hosting WIAW!
The cookie dough is my favorite one to bake – so good!
Hey Laura! Still can’t add my link for some reason! It says I have no backlink! But I do….
Happy WIAW! Thanks for hosting! I LOVE your pictures! Seriously, could you come over and cook for me?
Haha! Totally. Wouldn’t being an in-home chef be so much fun?
The best thing I ate yesterday was BY FAR the molten chocolate cake I split with a friend for dessert at Not Your Average Joes. Perhaps not the healthiest item, but delicious nonetheless.
Also, I linked up my (very first!) WIAW post, but it doesn’t seem to be showing up yet. Check it out on my blog if you’d like! Thanks so much for hosting!
Welcome to the WIAW party! The link up technology can suck sometimes, but we worked it out. Thanks for being patient! 🙂
you want me to come visit and bring the salmon skin balls? LOL! sexy.
*Barf*
I mean… I’ll save those for GiGi…
Bacon & Sex… Not or. Are you kidding, we need both to make this absolutely greasy!
Excellent point… I feel so silly now.
You’re making me wish I had some quest bars! I think I like the brownie or lemon flavored ones best.
Your sizzlefish looked so good! I have also never been a mint chocolate fan, however that quest bar was something :).
Thanks! I’m so obsessed with Sizzlefish.
I’ve actually never tried a quest bar! But out of the ones you listed my guess is I would like cookie dough the best.
I’m seeing that others have had the same problem today, but when I tried to add my link it was saying there is no back link. Thanks for hosting!
Favorite Quest flavor is Coconut Cashew, I just love coconut everything.
That’s Vegas’ favorite!
I’m large and in charge tonight too. Also a little sickly but whatever, you can’t have everything. It’s nothing a little booze won’t kill.
Oh salmon, let me count the ways! I LOVE salmon so much, it was the one food I missed more than any when I tried to eat plant-based full time. Anyway, this recipe looks great! My tummy can’t handle the lentil love, but I’ll be trying this out sans legumes and seeing how it goes. THANKS LAURA, hope your new location is treating you well. Great updates!
I did the same thing… I missed eggs the most though! And bacon. 😉
Thanks Heather!
I love that you can work outside! Whenever I try that I can’t see the screen and get super distracted.
Since I’ve only ever tried two Quest flavours I have a top one – cookie dough. Cookies and cream didn’t make the cut 😉 I have 10 hours in Miami next week though and 10 hours in NYC in August, maybe I should go on a hunt… I mean quest.
Hahahah! A quest. I see what you did there. 😉
Oh, you could have taken all my Mont Flavor Bars. I don’t like the and the CrossFit people hated me for bringing them and forcing them to eat them 🙂
I need salmon! It looks so good, and I love it.
Don’t forget to feed the birds! And learn them the Schlumpf sentence. So they can speak Swiss German with me when I’m there in Dec.
You didn’t like it?! I’m shocked.
I fed them like a champ. No German yet, but my littler sister is visiting and trying to teach them to say “I love Madison.” Dork.
What a fun linkup! And that swordfish over kale looks amazing.
I’m also having the same problem as some others here. When I try to link up it says I need a backlink, which I do have. I clicked to add anyway, but I don’t see my link there. Just letting you know!
Thanks for hosting!