Fire Up That Oven!

I finally slept in a little bit this morning. I actually woke up at 6:30, but laid around in bed until 8:30. NICE! I decided to go the strawberry banana route with my breakfast today...

-1 cup water

-1/3 cup Sunrise Blend w/ quinoa

-cinnamon, vanilla, salt

-banana

-strawberry banana jam

-strawberries and a dried banana as toppings

This turned out to be dessert for breakfast! YUM! Here's a closer look at the jam I used. I bought it yesterday and although it definitely has sugar in it, there are very few ingredients otherwise...
And here's an up close of the dried bananas...

I really liked these! You all know that I love the taste of banana, but not the mushiness of them. These were full of banana flavour and more chewy than anything. I'm glad I decided to buy some to try.

I enjoyed a very laid back morning and even got some baking done. I reasoned that it was raining out and the temps were cooler so it would be OK to fire the oven up. I made these cookies from a recipe on the Hungry Girl website. They're PB cookies but I added a few carob chips and used PB&Co. Mighty Maple PB in place of regular.

Soft and delish! The recipe is for 6 cookies, but I got 7 of them. I also baked up the kobucha squash along with the big green zucchini from yesterday's adventure's. How on earth do you girls cut the squash on your own? I had to get my hubby to do it and even he struggled! I roasted it at 400* for 40 minutes. It made an appearance at dinner time.

DD had a friend over for part of the day and DS was at a b-day party so it was quiet in the house. A definite rarity around here. I didn't leave until 2:30 and only because I had to get the grocery shopping done. I had a light lunch around 1pm. I wasn't terribly hungry but I didn't want to be grazing all afternoon either so I made some pumpkin yogurt (equal parts NF plain yogurt and pumpkin puree with cinnamon and a squirt of agave) and sprinkled it with some dorset cereal for crunch;This is also the point where I enjoyed one of the above cookies! :)

I bumped into a friend at the grocery store so shopping took a lot longer than usual. We were busy gabbing! By the time I got home it was time to get dinner started. We grilled up some pre marinated pork tenderloins and I served mine with some baked zucchini, tomato & feta salad and a wedge of kabocha that I just sprinkled with salt & pepper...

I really liked the kabocha although I wouldn't eat it as "dessert" per se. Next I'll try it with some sweetness added, then I may change my mind! For dessert I ate a cinnamon bun that I bought yesterday;
I ate this half, then went back for the other! :) YUM! I'm off to the neighbours place now. They have a pool and the kids have been invited for a dip. There seems to be another rain cloud moving in, though so I hope they actually make it in the pool!

Bye for now!!