A Golden Dinner for One

My splurge at Whole Foods yesterday included a handful of hauntingly beautiful chantarelle and royal trumpet mushrooms, a half dozen blue hand picked chicken eggs from free range chickens (that eat bugs, not corn), and some wild salmon among other things.

Dinner tonight:

Melt a tablespoon of good butter in a pan over medium low heat. Add a handful each of sliced mushrooms (I, of course, used my Chantarelles and Royal Trumpets) - slice the stems into coins and the tops into strips. Saute until golden and aromatic - not more than 5-6 minutes. 

Keeping the pan hot, add a little more butter and put in 4oz salmon, skin up. The pan was big enough for me to crack one of my nice eggs in next to it. Sprinkle both with a little rosemary and white truffle oil. Flip over after 2-3 minutes (or however done you like your fish and/or eggs). 

Plate some fresh spring greens, a sliced tomato, and top with the mushrooms, salmon and fried egg. Be sure to drizzle the leftover butter-rosemary sauce from the pan over the greens. 


HEAVEN. Wish I had my camera for a picture. Beautiful. And the mushrooms.....and that egg....I've never had yolk so rich or mushrooms so flavorful. Twas a good splurge. 

xxoo

PS - Two weeks Paleo and going strong. I don't miss packaged food when I'm at home, and when I think about dinners like what I just ate I don't find it difficult to pass up the giant cookie frosted with melted candy bars and topped with chopped up candy bars sitting in the break room at work. 
A cheap candy bar has nothing on the buttery earthy wholesomeness of real food.

The Bagged Lunch Dilemma

To bring, or not to bring? The classic question. Why do we feel so much freedom regarding dinner, and so limited regarding lunch? Many workplaces have access to both a refrigerator and a microwave. Even if you have neither - you are not relegated to a PB&J with a bag of doritos!

My happy accident today: I have no food. Well, very little. Literally: old potatoes, lettuce, some tofu, the bottom of the almond butter jar, and frozen fish, plus random pantry items. So I sadly decided I would have plain oatmeal for lunch. But wait - are those unsweetened coconut flakes? 
::brain wheels turning...::


I ended up with a tupperware with the following dumped into it: piece of frozen salmon. 2 tbsp almond butter. 1/4c unsweetened coconut flakes. A dash of garlic powder. A dash of sriracha chili sauce. A dash of soy sauce. A splash of water. ::fingers crossed::  ...microwave x4 minutes. 
Viola.  Thai Coconut Salmon.
Delicious, wholesome, nutritious, very fast, lunch. That was not plain oatmeal. And took less time to do than a pb&j. 


Bottom line - get creative with your lunches. There is no excuse to eat pre-packaged garbages that do nothing for your body and eat away your soul! I'll write more on this topic later and try to come up with some quick delicious bagged lunch meal ideas. 


"When you already know you're on the right track, all you have to do is keep walking."