Summer

It's been a while again since my last post. It's been a busy summer. With working quite a bit of overtime, we went to bluesfest and got to see a lot of amazing bands like Bryan Adams, Greta Van Fleet, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews Band, Beck, Colin James, Dear Rouge, Three Days Grace and Rise Against. It was a lot of fun but we were so tired and exhausted. We had taken the first week of July off, and we did things around the house. I did a lot of de-cluttering, we did a bit of shopping, and the Thursday night it was Bryan Adams, the following week we were back at work and saw all those bands so it was a bit of a tough week.

My cousin came down our second week we took off over the summer, the week of August 6th. We went to the Highland games, and went to check out the Mosaic here in Gatineau

The highland games was a lot of fun, but it was very hot outside, so we went into the shade as much as possible. My cousin's daughters and a friend of theirs were with us as well. The Mosaic it was just one of her daughter's and the friend, and it was amazing to see, it was so beautiful there. Again a very warm day but it was harder to find shade. We went to cool down in the Rideau mall after and did some shopping. We went to visit my brother, did more shopping, saw a few movies, and they headed home, than I took some time to do more de-cluttering and doing things around the house.

I went to my brother's on Friday night for game night. I love that they have game night every Friday. It was a lot of fun and my niece did my nails as well, I have a light pink and I love it! Yesterday I had to do some overtime at work and did a few things at home and relaxed. Today I spent most of my time in the kitchen. I started off with making a potato salad, I love cooking the potatoes in the oven, they are a bit more crisp. I added green onions and celery, along with some cumin, paprika and some pepper. I did use mayo and a bit of dijon mustard.  The next thing I did was try out a recipe I saw on Facebook, although I changed it up a bit.

I first started with my mandolin to slice the zucchini but it was to thick and didn't work as well so I than switched to a carrot peeler

It worked a lot better! So I greased the muffin tin with coconut oil, than added zucchini strips in each one like that first one I did, so it's kind of like the crust for the quiche.

Than I stuffed each one with a bit of red onion, tomato, mushroom, and some fresh basil. In a bowl I whisked 10 eggs with a big splash of almond milk, some salt and pepper and a bit of smoked paprika. I filled each cup with the egg mixture

Than topped it with a bit of herb goat cheese and put it in the over at 400 for 30 minutes

They turned out great! I haven't tried one yet but I'm sure they will be delicious! They really did smell really good!  The rest of the zucchini, I cut into bite size pieces and I'll be able to add them into salads. This  past Friday I put together a delicious bento box for my lunch

The Quinoa crackers were really good, well they were extra crispy but tasty. I topped it with the peppered goat cheese (top right container), just below that it was a mix of chicken and kielbasa, to the left of that a kale salad, and above cucumber and blueberries. It was a delicious lunch!!  I haven't had kielbasa in so long and it was on sale so thought why not.

So for the week, my muffin quiches will be my breakfast with either fruit or toast, lunch I am thinking more bento boxes with some potato salad, veggies, I'm thinking shrimp, or fish, and a salad. I am also still exercising, I'm doing spinning, some running, weight exercises and walking. Next weekend is the mud girl run, so I'll post something after to let you know how it went and share a few pictures.

The summer has really gone by fast, I know it's not done yet but we are getting towards the end of August already so going to keep enjoying the beautiful weather as much as I can.