I had a hard time returning from vacation today.  It felt like I had been gone from work for much longer than just 2 days.  I guess that’s good and bad-it means I had a good vacation but it also means that today was kind of difficult.

I forgot to photograph much of my food today too-opps!

The first thing I forgot was some yogurt with my Mom’s granola for my morning snack.  It basically looked just like this:

For lunch I had some lentil soup (from Trader Joes) with garlic naan also from TJs.

For my afternoon snack I had half a pear and 2 Ryvita crackers.  You didn’t miss much by me not photographing those 😉

I went to Whole Foods on my way home to do the shopping for this week.  I got out there for $88.21!!!  I usually spend $100 or more on groceries so this was huge.  In fact everything I bought (veggies, fruits, meats, canned goods, etc) was local except my bananas and my Larabars.  I even got local avocados!!!

When I got home I made veggies with pancetta over pasta.  I also got some beautiful salmon on sale that I broiled.

My favorite ingredient as of late?

Organic frozen veggies.  I use these all the time to boost veggies in Lucy’s meals and I’ve started to use them in our meals.  It make dinner faster and they are delicious!

Look at my beautius salmon!

I just covered it in lemon juice and salt and pepper and then baked in the oven for 10 minutes at 400*.  It was cooked perfectly.  Mr. Picky even said so 😉

The final product?

It was seriously delicious.  I added some sunflower seeds.  I thought they were pine nuts and when I put them on top, they turned out to be sunflower seeds.  It still tasted good :)  The pancetta (not surprisingly) was the star.  Shaun and I both gave it a 3. 

All I really did was cut up 2 pieces of pancetta and throw it in a pan with 3 cloves of garlic chopped.  Once the pancetta was browned I threw in some sliced mushrooms and some chicken broth and covered it for 3 minutes.  Then I added the frozen veggies and steamed them until just done.  I put it on top of pasta with some shredded asiago and nuts (pine nuts would be really good).  Dinner in about 15 minutes!