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<\/a><\/p>\nSmall bowl of Greek yogurt with homemade granola and some dark chocolate chips on top.\u00a0 Because I’ve been having fresh fruit with the yogurt the past several weeks the chocolate chips have been missing.\u00a0 And boy have I missed them!\u00a0 I love that little Sunday treat to myself and having chocolate for breakfast is full of awesome.\u00a0 After breakfast I worked on my exercise recap post and Scott was pacing around the kitchen.\u00a0 He started rinsing out my yogurt bowl and wondered if there was more breakfast to be had.\u00a0 He thought that since I just had a bowl of yogurt that was my breakfast.\u00a0 I then reminded him that I just ran basically my own 1\/2 and that he’s not normally up at this time, so I always have a little something to tide me over.\u00a0 Plus that wee bowl of yogurt isn’t nearly enough to feed me after that kind of run.\u00a0 Gimme food! :p<\/p>\n
After I finished up my post, I headed into the kitchen to get crackin’ on Sunday Breakfast.\u00a0 Last Christmas, Scott bought me this amazing waffle maker.<\/p>\n
We also had fresh watermelon with breakfast.\u00a0\u00a0 After breakfast, I prepped everything for dinner later in the evening.\u00a0 Then we plopped down on the couch to see if we could finish Lego Star Wars since we are so so close!\u00a0 No dice though.\u00a0 We tried to kick it but we had to repeat a lot of things since we kept dying.\u00a0 Have I mentioned my great dislike for this game?\u00a0 Because it’s huge.\u00a0 I’m at the point where I’m not even sure I could replay it.\u00a0 It does a lot of dumb things AND there are way too many flying levels.\u00a0 I’m not a huge fan of the flying.<\/p>\n Eventually it was time to get down to business with dinner!\u00a0 We had some lovely ribeyes that we were saving just for this occasion!\u00a0 I rubbed them down with an awesome smoky cocoa-chili rub and let them hang out all day long.\u00a0 They hit the grill and smelled amazing!<\/p>\n So yummy!\u00a0 Still more food to be had, there were side salads to complete the meal.<\/p>\n A quick and easy balsamic honey-mustard dressing on top.\u00a0 I am in love with having these side salads with our meals!\u00a0 I can prep them ahead of time and let them hang out in the fridge until we are ready to eat.\u00a0 They are so cold by that point and such a nice refreshing treat during these hot summer days.\u00a0 It definitely might be something I stick with this summer.<\/p>\n I realized that as I’ve been posting these meal recaps, that every week you are seeing a meat product of some type featured for dinner.\u00a0 Clearly we are not vegetarians.\u00a0 In fact we don’t subscribe to any one diet in general, we eat what works for us. <\/strong> We actually only eat meat once a week and that just happens to be on Sundays! :p\u00a0 Throughout the week our meals are mostly vegetable based with at least one seafood meal in there somewhere.<\/p>\n Will you continue to keep seeing meat on my Homespun Sunday posts?\u00a0 Most likely since for meal planning purposes that is technically our “meat day”.\u00a0 I’m sure there will be a few times that pop up when we don’t have meat for one reason or another but for the most part you can expect that to be a typical thing seen for these posts.<\/p>\n We didn’t get a chance to watch Holmes on Homes last night because we just sat down to eat dinner at 8pm and forgot to tape it.\u00a0 Doh!\u00a0 Will definitely have to remember for this week though!<\/p>\n Last night’s wine was also a special one.<\/p>\n I forgot to take a picture of dessert! But it was some double chocolate-chip cookies I had previously made.\u00a0 I pulled a few from the freezer and warmed them up, making them the perfect ender to a perfect week of vacation.<\/p>\n How was your Sunday?<\/strong><\/p>\n Also for more Homespun Sunday<\/strong> fun, check out Clarice’s post<\/a>!\u00a0 She had homemade pizza last night!\u00a0 Whooo!<\/p>\n<\/a>It gets super hot and has removable grates that makes for easy clean-up.\u00a0 They are also reversible making the waffle maker into a sandwich press or a small griddle.\u00a0 The trouble is that I have yet to figure out the right batter proportions for the darn thing.\u00a0 Either I get waffles that are small and odd shaped or I use too much batter which then leaks out the side.\u00a0 Because of that, I’ve been sticking to making pancakes instead. I like them a lot and it goes quicker for me than the waffles.\u00a0 Yesterday though I decided to suck it up and pull out the waffle maker.\u00a0 I’ll never learn if I don’t practice, right?<\/p>\n<\/a>I made a really simple waffle batter using spelt flour and soymilk.\u00a0 Even though I still got oddly shaped waffles they turned out fabulous!<\/p>\n<\/a>I had two and topped them with:<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>I promise that the steak is not burnt or overcooked.\u00a0 The cocoa powder really penetrates the meat and darkens it to a very deep brown color.\u00a0 The rub I used on the steaks is very similar to the rub I used on these chicken thighs<\/a>.\u00a0 For the steaks I added in some smoked paprika, smoked sea salt, and a pinch of brown sugar.\u00a0 Steaks are local beef purchased from North Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a>I had half a steak along with some grilled eggplant that I picked up at the farmer’s market.\u00a0 The eggplant sat in a super simple marinade of:<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Red leaf lettuce and romaine topped with:<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>I won this bottle at last year’s Foodbuzz Festival<\/a>.\u00a0 Since we were celebrating a special occasion it was time to crack this bad boy open!\u00a0 It was a lovely deep and velvety merlot with a nice little kick at the end just to make sure you were paying attention that this is indeed a red wine.<\/p>\n