{"id":11575,"date":"2010-07-19T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=11575"},"modified":"2010-07-19T11:53:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:53:49","slug":"switch-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/07\/switch-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Hi gang!\u00a0 How was everyone’s Sunday?\u00a0 Did you all have some lovely eats?<\/strong><\/p>\n

After my run and glorious shower, I had myself a lovely little bowl of yogurt with homemade granola, fresh blueberries, and some chocolate chips.\u00a0 If someone tries to tell you that chocolate and blueberries don’t belong together, they are full of lies.\u00a0 Because blueberries and chocolate go together like hippies and flip-flops.\u00a0 It just works.<\/p>\n

Scotty made it to bed crazy late Saturday night (read Sunday morning) so I knew he wouldn’t be up for a while.\u00a0 I settled in for some Food TV (or Food Network, y’all know what I mean) and my laptop.<\/p>\n

Do you all know about the new Cooking Channel?<\/strong> It launched over Labor Day weekend?\u00a0 Well they promoted it like it was going to be a channel featuring more shows that focused solely on cooking.\u00a0 Using up and coming foodies discussing techniques, recipes, travels, and experiences.\u00a0 I sort of thought that maybe it would turn into something great.\u00a0 Now I do like Food TV and I love me some Giada, Ina, and Guy (Yes I like Guy.\u00a0 Shut it.) but I’m also ready for something more from cooking shows.\u00a0 I also just want cooking shows.\u00a0 Food TV has turned down the road of MTV and VH1 where the main concept is lost to reality shows, contests, and challenges.\u00a0 Food TV has way too much of that now.\u00a0 I honestly could care less who can build a cake to look like a spinning Cinderella complete with diamond encrusted tiara.\u00a0 Gimme someone who can show me how to fillet a fish.<\/p>\n

Ok I’m rambling!\u00a0 Anyway, I was excited about this new Cooking Channel.\u00a0 Except that it’s owned and operated by Food TV.\u00a0 It started off showing these up and coming foodies but now it just shows older Food Network shows.\u00a0 What the wha?!\u00a0 Or at least that’s all I ever see, the Chefology stuff and then older Food Shows.<\/p>\n

Have you all seen this or have access to the Cooking Channel?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eventually Scott did get up for the day and after some lazing around on the couch chatting, I headed into the kitchen to make some Sunday Breakfast.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Fresh blackberries and cherries, both of which were on sale at Whole Foods.\u00a0 The blackberries are HUGE and delicious.\u00a0 I could have eaten the entire container!\u00a0 The cherries were just alright.\u00a0 Good but could have been better. \u00a0 Our breakfast continued to be berrylicious!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Double Berry Buckwheat pancakes!\u00a0 Basic buckwheat pancakes (vegan of course) with fresh blueberries and raspberries.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I dipped those bad boys into some maple syrup and there was chicken breakfast sausage on the side.\u00a0 One of the pancakes I buttered first!\u00a0 Buttering waffles and pancakes is something I never ever do.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 I never did it growing up and this is probably the second time in my life that I’ve done this.\u00a0 I always found it unnecessary.\u00a0 But yesterday?\u00a0 I wanted that extra little indulgence and decadence.\u00a0 I wanted the richness of that little smidge of butter and it was delicious!<\/p>\n

After breakfast I prepped everything for dinner later and then we headed back to the couch!\u00a0 Scott did some freelance work and I read my first Runner’s World<\/a> magazine.\u00a0 I got my first two issues in the mail last week and I finally had a moment to read one.\u00a0 It was fantastic!\u00a0 I love that it is full of helpful tips but also articles of real everyday runners sharing their own experiences with life.\u00a0 Amazing! And why I didn’t pick this up before I do not know.\u00a0 I currently also get Women’s Running but I don’t really care for it at all.\u00a0 It’s new so it has some growing to do but for me it focuses too much on diet and weight loss or how to run while you have kids.\u00a0 I’m not in either demographic so there’s no appeal for me.<\/p>\n

I had plans of grilling for dinner until we got slammed with a serious thunderstorm.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 Trees were blowing around like crazy!\u00a0 I figured it best not to sent Scott out to grill in the rain. ;)<\/p>\n

Instead, I had to switch tactics and cook our turkey burgers inside with a skillet.\u00a0 I didn’t feel like dragging out my grill pan.\u00a0 This worked great and everything tasted excellent!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We had a kale and golden beet salad with great northern beans I cooked earlier that morning.\u00a0 I love everything about kale and this salad fully delivered.\u00a0 It was cold, tasty, and had a nice chew from the kale.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We had what I am calling Southwestern Turkey Burgers (recipe upcoming) made with local turkey from the farmer’s market and a baked potato on the side.\u00a0 The burger was full of yummy surprises and topped with some pepperjack cheese.\u00a0 Yes I eat my burgers bunless.\u00a0 For the record I love bread! And I’m not a carb hater or a low-carber or any such other label.\u00a0 Bread just happens to fill me up and if I can fill my tum with more veggies or whatever instead of bread, then I’m kicking the bread to the side.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Look how huge that potato is!!\u00a0 I only had half that I topped with butter, cracked pepper, and my sour cream of choice, 2% Fage Greek Yogurt.\u00a0 So good!\u00a0 This meal was filling and completely satisfying!<\/p>\n

The rest of the evening was spent watching some TV.\u00a0 We watched Holmes (hooray!) and then we caught up on Deadliest Catch.\u00a0 Do you watch that show?\u00a0 Gosh that is some serious sad stuff right now.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dessert was some Chocolate Peanut Butter Silk Pie along with some white wine that I do not have a picture of.\u00a0 The pie was creamy and very rich!\u00a0 Then I hightailed it off to bed for some much needed rest!<\/p>\n

Tell me how your Sunday was!<\/strong><\/p>\n

This post was part of Homespun Sundays<\/a>. Want to join in?\u00a0 Just let me know! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi gang!\u00a0 How was everyone’s Sunday?\u00a0 Did you all have some lovely eats? After my run and glorious shower, I had myself a lovely little bowl of yogurt with homemade granola, fresh blueberries, and some chocolate chips.\u00a0 If someone tries to tell you that chocolate and blueberries don’t belong together, they are full of lies.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-30H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}