Day 8

Breakfast: Green smoothie containing mustard greens, collard greens, flaxseed, hempseed, almond milk, water, banana, strawberries, mango, blueberries.


So we were at Whole Foods yesterday, and there's been all this snow dumped on the DC area over the weekend, which nobody's used to, so the stores all got bought out of food before the storm hit, and weren't restocked yesterday. So pickings were slim. But I needed some green leafy stuff. And my usual kale was gone. All the varieties. So I thought what the heck, we'll try mustard greens for fun. So I got mustard greens and collards. I'd heard before that mustard greens were a little strong so to mix them with a milder green the first time you put them in a green smoothie. I am very glad that I followed that piece of advice, because I could TOTALLY taste those mustard greens this morning. My smoothie was still good, though. It just tasted like I'd gone and picked some weeds and threw them in there. Mustard greens taste like weeds. They look like weeds too. My husband said, "They are weeds." So if I purchase mustard greens again in the future, I will probably use them in smaller amounts, or in another application. But I'm glad to have tried mustard greens. Now I feel I've had the whole mustard greens experience and I can move on.

Lunch was a salad. A salad? For real? Yeah, with apples and balsamic dressing I made that is too vinegary. But oh well. The salad was still good. And then I had a little leftover Feijoada. I can't believe how much leftovers that recipe made. It should be gone by now. But it hadn't gone bad yet, and is good and filling.

Look, his and hers salads. Aw. My husband said, hey take a pic of both our salads. Ok, I said. Yah, mine's bigger.


You wanted a close up of my salad, didn't you? I thought so.


Dinner: Adzuki Bean Stir Fry over brown rice. Strawberries. An orange.

Here is the stir-fry with some brown rice.


The other thing we got at Whole Foods yesterday was adzuki beans, because I was planning on making this stir-fry. I was excited to buy them because I have never bought, cooked, or eaten adzuki beans before. I think they're really cool looking, and cute. They're a little smaller, I think, than black beans or navy beans. They're different and fun. I cooked them in the pressure cooker. They didn't have to be soaked first...nice.